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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 01:21 AM
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President Obama, take a week off (not a month or two), and have fun!
I just bet this raging argument about health care reform will still be ongoing.

And that's a good thing.

When you get back, let's get it done!
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GreenTea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 03:21 AM
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1. Obama is not Bush, who vacationed more than any president...Obama certainly deserves a long break...
Relax, enjoy the family, the fresh air & the beautiful get away, and RELAX...it'll all be over too soon and nothing will have changed except more lies about public option....We'll win this.

"Bush has spent more than a year of his presidency" at his ranch in .... The most rested president in American history.... According to an August 2003 article in the Washington Post, President Bush has spent all or part of 166 days during his presidency at his Crawford, Texas, ranch or en route. Add the time spent at or en route to the presidential retreat of Camp David and at the Bush family estate in Kennebunkport, Maine, and Bush has taken 250 days off as of August 2003. That's 27% of his presidency spent on vacation. Although to be fair, much of this time is classified as a "working vacation."

Bush isn't the first president to get away from his work. George Bush Sr. took all or part of 543 vacation days at Camp David and in Kennebunkport. Ronald Reagan spent 335 days at or en route to his Santa Barbara, California, ranch during his eight years in office. Of recent presidents, Jimmy Carter took the least days off -- only 79 days, which he usually spent at his home in Georgia. That's less than three weeks a year, which is closer to the average American's paid time off of 13 days per year.

What about Clinton? As of December 1999, President Bill Clinton had spent only 152 days on holiday during his two terms, according to CBS News. A former staffer noted Clinton was such a workaholic that "it almost killed Clinton to take one-week vacations during August." In 2000, Clinton cut his summer vacation short to just three days, so he and his wife could concentrate on her Senate race and fundraising for Democrats. While we couldn't find the exact tally for Clinton's last year in office, it's reasonable to expect he didn't increase his vacation rate. And in barely three years in office, George W. Bush has already taken more vacation than Clinton did in seven years.
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Jennicut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 07:08 AM
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2. Georgie needed lots of vacation time, it was just too much for him to handle.
Boy, Clinton and Carter barely took time off in comparison.
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