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http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/08/everyone-now-officially-banned-whining-about-presidential-vacations-foreverEveryone Is Now Officially Banned From Whining About Presidential Vacations. Forever.
By Kevin Drum
| Thu Aug. 14, 2014 10:59 AM EDT
Yes, yes, yes: sign me up as a charter member of the movement to STFU about presidential vacations. Both sides do it. Bush got hit with criticism from Democrats. Obama gets it from Republicans. Clinton got it. Reagan got it. Fine. We're all guilty. Now let's just stop.
No more golf mockery. No more charts showing how many days Bush took off compared to Obama. No more whining about how this weekyes, this very week!is the worst week ever in history for a vacation because the world is in crisis. You know why? Because there's always a crisis somewhere in the world.
So that's it. Don't argue about it. Just stop. Right now. It is officially the stupidest thing in the world.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)communicate from to others.
bigtree
(86,005 posts). . . and to provide leadership needed to halt the police intimidation and violence in Ferguson. That presser took at least 30 minutes, give or take; and that's without answering any questions.
Yes, since this reporter says stop, by all means we should stop our whining as you pretty much told me on that thread where I was asking where the President was and why he hadn't spoken out publicly during the three days of violence there.
Glad he found the time to do that . . . I can't even imagine what a vacation must be like since the last time I visited a beach was during 9-11 - that's right, the last time I could actually afford to be away on 'vacation' was the day of those attacks.
But, many thanks to you and this reporter telling me to stop whining.
(btw, I know what the job of president entails, and I also know that Bush was 'on vacation' when he was supposedly on the job, including the incredible number of days he actually spent away from the job. Reagan was at the ranch a record number of days, but he wasn't really 'all there' anyway, was he?)
babylonsister
(171,079 posts)You shouldn't take everything so personally; bad for your blood pressure, I suspect.
bigtree
(86,005 posts). . . for your concern for my health.
2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)And I don't think both sides are the same. Bush wasn't even there when he was there. It's not the same. But I sure am glad we have someone to inform us on what we will now think and do from now on, aren't you?
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Oh, wait.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Reagan and Shrub, on the other hand, were never at work, regardless ...
he didnt just pop up and give a speech. he has, no doubt, been watching and working.
who sent doj and the fbi? boehner?
and who wrote the speech?
There are no real vacations for the President. Maybe for the kids and the FLOTUS, but the President isn't really getting a real break. Maybe from planned events, but not much else.
conservaphobe
(1,284 posts)I'm sick of people debating how something looks, rather than what's actually occurring.
betsuni
(25,593 posts)about presidential vacations. You know why? Because "okay, you've covered your ass" is among the many reasons why. Kevin Drum is officially the stupidest thing in the world. Just stop. Right now.
Romulox
(25,960 posts)MissDeeds
(7,499 posts)showing how many days Bush took off compared to Obama. Those charts should be posted every time Republicans whine about Obama taking a vacation or a few days off. Bush outpaced Obama four to one on days off.
former9thward
(32,064 posts)Presidents get national security briefings every morning no matter where they are at. They never get "a day off". The national security apparatus goes with them wherever they are at. There is a member of the military a short distance away with nuclear codes no matter where they are at. So go put up your "charts".