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bhunt70 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-04 07:51 AM
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can someone repost the article about presidential vacations? (nt)
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bhunt70 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-04 08:46 AM
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-04 09:43 AM
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The article was in the Washington Post on April 9th. I've not registered there for some reason so I can't provide a link but Josh Marshall at http://talkingpointsmemo.com posted a link and wrote the following. . .

(April 09, 2004 -- 01:06 AM EDT // link // print)

From a Friday Washington Post story on the degenerating situation in Iraq ...

This is Bush's 33rd visit to his ranch since becoming president. He has spent all or part of 233 days on his Texas ranch since taking office, according to a tally by CBS News. Adding his 78 visits to Camp David and his five visits to Kennebunkport, Maine, Bush has spent all or part of 500 days in office at one of his three retreats, or more than 40 percent of his presidency.

and this ...

Bush spent the morning watching national security adviser Condoleezza Rice's televised testimony to the commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, then toured his ranch with Wayne LaPierre Jr., chief executive of the National Rifle Association, and other leaders of hunting groups and gave an interview to Ladies' Home Journal. He is not scheduled to appear in public until Sunday, when he will visit nearby Fort Hood, the home base for seven soldiers recently killed in Baghdad.

Vacation gibes are usually unfair. But with the situation in Iraq so critical, shouldn't the president be at the White House? It's a full-time job, comes with a decent salary.
-- Josh Marshall

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