Q: Is it true that George W. Bush took more vacation days than Barack Obama? A: Yes.

[kpete]

Q: Is it true that George W. Bush took more vacation days than Barack Obama?

A: Yes. Before his two-week trip to Martha’s Vineyard in August, Obama’s count was 125 full or partial days and Bush’s total at the same point in his presidency was 407.

That's 13 months the White House press corps spent away from home attending to George W. Bush at the same point in his presidency. 13 months away from their kids, most of it spent in that hellhole at Crawford Texas.

And that's not all:

We last dealt with the who-took-more-vacation question in January 2010, at which point Obama had spent 26 days on “vacation” during his first year in office, fewer than the first year totals for Presidents Bush, George H.W. Bush or Ronald Reagan...

Bush’s total for his two terms in office is 533 days, which includes 490 at the ranch and the rest at Kennebunkport. For comparison’s sake, President Bill Clinton’s total is 174 days, and Reagan hit 390 (349 at his ranch and 41 in Palm Springs), according to Knoller.

Adding in Camp David visits would bring Obama’s total to date to 223 (that’s 83 days at Camp David) and Bush’s total for his entire time in office to 1,024 (491 days at the presidential retreat). Note that Obama still has more than two years in office to narrow the gap.

That's nearly 3 years the press corps spent with Bush on vacation during the 8 years of the Bush administration

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http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/12/whos-real-scrooge-here.html

[randys1]

1. Surely someone has a reason why these numbers dont really mean what they mean...right?

What would a con say to this?

They wish Obama was on vacation all the time so he cant do harm?

[sharp_stick]

8. The assholes at Faux Noise

have put out the memo that days spent at the shithole in Crawford weren't vacation days because shrubbo had an office there where he saved the country from terrorism between bouts of clearing brush.

Obama on the other hand spends his days away from the White House sneaking cigarettes and sleeping in.

[randys1]

9. Clinton and Obama are probably the two most engaged and hardest working prez of all time

George W bush was and is a moron, who was unable to do anything beyond very base level stuff.

He was and is a rich, spoiled brat without a brain in his head.

Sociopath as well.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

19. bouts of clearing brush...

Is that like bouts of drinking?

[TexasProgresive]

2. I calculate the he was vacant 2,920 days.

Perhaps he was somewhat present for 2 leap days.

[okaawhatever]

3. +100 nt

[Calista241]

11. Whatever. It takes some presence of mind to wipe out a segway as spectacularly as Bush did.

[misterhighwasted]

4. and who picked up the tab, again?

Too bad taxpayers can't designate where they want their $$$ to go.

[HockeyMom]

5. They don't like that Obama went to HAWAII

for Christmas because he went to a Tropical place. Well, that is where he is from so why wouldn't he want to spend the Holidays where he grew up? Did they complain when George and Barbara went to Kennebunkport? No, because besides that they were Republicans, it is also COLD there in December.

[Richard D]

15. The cons don't like Obama going to Hawaii . . .

. . . cause it ain't America.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

6. I still remember thinking in 2001, "WTF does he MEAN he's taking off AUGUST!?"

Little did any of us imagine just how 'off' he would be.

[Ilsa]

12. And I thought, "Maybe he'll have heat stroke in August in

Central Texas." The rest of us are trying to get out of Texas during August which is hell on earth. His going there reminded me of how stupid he is.

[hfojvt]

21. I still remember the joke I told at work.

I said "Considering that everything he does is evil, the more time he takes off - the better. Take the next three years off George."

I still think this is a mostly true statement of his terms "They never stop thinking of ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."

[ccarmenfrongillo]

7. with all the problems

we have who cares who took more vacation days.

I hope Obama has a nice relaxing vaca in Hawaii because there is lots of work to be done in the next 2 years.

[randys1]

10. Nothing will be done, in fact you better hope nothing is done, if the cons get their way

you will not be happy, unless you are a multimillionaire

[JoePhilly]

13. Imagine how much more damage Bush COULD have done if he worked more.

[hughee99]

14. I'm not sure what to do with this info...

Am I supposed to be pissed Bush wasn't "working" more? My biggest complaint about Bush wasn't that he "didn't do enough". Am I supposed to be upset that a press corps had to spend so much time NOT DOING THEIR JOB PROPERLY on the road instead of at home? Am I supposed to be feel bad that the press corps had to spend so much time in Hawaii?

[nxylas]

18. It's a rebuttal to a RW talking point

That the lazy negro in the White House spends all his time playing golf. Classic Rovian projection - they're really describing Bush.

[heaven05]

16. 3 years

vacationing away from the rigors of Wash. D.C.within an 8 year vacation. Cheney ran things along with the PNAC crowd, bushie jr. was a mouthpiece, a symbol of RW idiocy, nothing more.

[niyad]

17. will keep this handy, although I don't encounter too many of these idiots these days.

[spanone]

20. george, being the deep thinker he was, needed more recoup time for his teeny brain

[Scurrilous]

22. Boink!

[Major Hogwash]

23. Bush's epitaph: Worst President in the history of the United States . . . it wasn't even close.

Judging from the numbers in this article, what this means is that the infamous billboard of Bush asking the question "Miss me yet?", the one that was put up back in 2010, translates into "We didn't know when you were ever here!"

[Major Hogwash]

24. Remember this from just a few years ago?

The billboard from Minnesota --

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It actually should read --

Yeah, we tortured people. So what? C'ya.

[Enthusiast]

25. kpete, you know this is just more of the bullshit.

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