Clearing brush from the former shrub...This Sunday, the Obamas begin an eight-day vacation at Martha's Vineyard. So, what about Bush? Let's go back to the first 8 months of Bush's first term and remind the media:
A White House On the Range
Bush Retreats to Ranch For 'Working Vacation'
by Mike Allen
The Washington Post
August 7, 2001
CRAWFORD, Tex., Aug. 6 -- By the time President Bush returns to Washington on Labor Day after the longest presidential vacation in 32 years, he will have spent all or part of 54 days since the inauguration at his parched but beloved ranch. That's almost a quarter of his presidency.
Throw in four days last month at his parents' seaside estate in Kennebunkport, Maine, and 38 full or partial days at the presidential retreat at Camp David, and Bush will have spent 42 percent of his presidency at vacation spots or en route.
Many of those days are weekends, and the Camp David stays have included working visits with foreign leaders. But administration officials, who initially believed that regular trips to the Texas ranch enhanced Bush's image as a rugged outsider, are acting like they may be worried about the perception that he is loafing.
Responding to criticism from Democrats and their fears of long-term damage to Bush's image, his advisers have piled on so many activities for this month-long vacation that the president is likely to feel he is marooned at an overly ambitious summer camp. The White House held a briefing today to announce that Bush had run four miles early this morning, held a 45-minute meeting with four senior officials here and talked by telephone with national security adviser Condoleezza Rice about Macedonia.
Bush will "spend a good portion of the time working," spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters today.
3 comments:
Bil, Like you said in an earlier post, the Presidency for the Gerbil was like Disneyland. So true, every day was a vacation.
Yep, when you are just a figurehead President, you can be on vacation all the time.
The real question is how much vacation did President Darth Cheney take? And his Veep Rove?
Cheney is a business man. Shrewd business men like Cheney don't take Disney-like vacations like the Gerbil. I am sure that when he went overseas that he mixed his own business agenda with WH business. But, it is good question to ask. I don't think Cheney taken a lot of vacation. He had too many secret business meetings.
Let's face it the last 8 years were a big party and Disneyland for the Gerbil.
It's hard to take a vaction when you are the Supreme leader with two wars going on etc...So Ayatollah Darth was never see and he put the distraction (Gerbil) out to press conferances after all the handlers worked with him.(distraction to the press etc, I mean so Supreme Leader the Ayatollah Darth and his Ayatollahs, e.g. Ayatollah Rove) could stay busy with business.
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