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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMittens accused Obama of 'jetting' around using the oval office as 'excuse' to see world!
This guy is Nuts! He already is running a mean campaign and anything Obama does in return he deserves:
"I would not be jetting around the world and using four years in office to see the world, but instead I would consider the four to eight years in office as a time to get America back on track," Romney told Cunningham.
Most of any president's vacations are working ones, with daily intelligence and national security briefings and a large staff, CBS News's Mark Knoller reported in 2010. He found that other presidents, including Presidents George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan, had taken more vacation than Obama did during the first year of his presidency.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/20/mitt-romney-obama-vacations-gsa_n_1440496.html
Camp David, Mittens? which one of your many houses will you go to?
Skittles
(153,160 posts)unless it involves WAR
Kingofalldems
(38,458 posts)DCKit
(18,541 posts)to a team of underlings. He'd be on vacation from day one, with too little to do. As we all know, idle hands.... Look what happened when W* and the Dick had too much time on their hands. All their NeoCon plans had been written during the Reagan administration, they brought their team with them, and they only had to set things in motion.
Then there's Ann - a security nightmare. Is the Secret Service going to have to lock down the National Mall or Hain's Point every time she wants to go riding, or helicopter her ass to some secure facility? And don't even get me started on the logistics of protecting such a large family - five sons and their wives, and more than a dozen grandchildren (and counting).
Barack and Michelle Obama didn't grow up with a sense of entitlement. Compared to several recent past Presidents, he's shown incredible restraint in traveling and vacationing at our expense. However, both Romney's did grow up with a sense of entitlement, and they can't help but flaunt it. What kind of outrageous services are they going to expect the taxpayers to provide for them, should he win the WH?
I'm thinking they'd put Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos to shame.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)the political calculation is that the rubes are jealous of people that fly in airplanes.
Rambis
(7,774 posts)The tea baggers don't like the french or your church so you are stepping in it again.
catbyte
(34,386 posts)Peregrine Took
(7,413 posts)Does he think he can actually walk this crap back after he, officially, wins the nomination?
He must really think the general public is stupid.
TrogL
(32,822 posts)...and as backup, compare what they actually accomplished on the trips.
I'm reminded of somebody's comment in "Yes, Prime Minister" about a trip being a "working funeral".
otohara
(24,135 posts)rich folks think they can talk down to everybody, including the POTUS.
GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)who lives in his SON'S basement.
RDANGELO
(3,433 posts)He is looking for Anything to bring down his favorables, since his are so low.
GoCubsGo
(32,083 posts)The stupid. It hurts!
gateley
(62,683 posts)about. I think that about his trips to Hawaii -- I'm thinking even while body surfing his mind is on the j.o.b.
kskiska
(27,045 posts)than people like George W. Bush or Sarah Palin. He came from Hawaii, had llived in Indonesia, and visited Pakistan even before graduating from college.
Blue Owl
(50,373 posts)Get a clue!