Obama has been working for 5 months Non Stop! Hell, I'll pay for their Dinner and Play!

The RNC are nothing but giant ass Hypocrites!
Taxpayers paid each time Bush went off on vacations,
and it was often!

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.

Here's a chronological account of Bush's vacation in just 2001!
If you go to the link, each date provides an actual article to back the date up!
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_W._Bush:_The_War_President_is_Missing_in_Action_(External_Links)
Sonya Ross, "Bush invites Blair to Camp David," AP, January 27, 2001.
Kelly Wallace, "Bush calls world leaders from Camp David," CNN, February 3, 2001.
"Bush, Blair discuss Iraq sanctions" (at Camp David), AP, February 23, 2001.
"Bush, Blair conclude meetings at Camp David," CNN, February 24, 2001.
Judy Keen, "Family, friends, staff fill Bush's overnight list," USA Today, May 16, 2001: "A list of 152 people who have spent the night at the White House or Camp David since President Bush took office includes nine of 214 elite "Pioneers," who raised at least $100,000 for his campaign. However, four of those Pioneers are Bush's relatives, and four are friends from before he entered politics. The ninth is Labor Secretary Elaine Chao." See Bush's Rangers.
"Bush To Receive Musharraf At Camp David," PNS, June 7, 2001.
"Bush, Japanese prime minister forge relationship at Camp David," CNN, June 30, 2001.
Ron Fournier, "Bush heads to family retreat in Kennebunkport," AP, July 5, 2001: "The president is the second Bush to turn the stone-and-shingle oceanfront home into a summer White House. His father golfed, raced his speedboat and jogged during Kennebunkport stays. ... The last time Bush came to Kennebunkport was in June 2000, when he and his siblings converged for a birthday party for their mother."
Lawrence L. Knutson, "Bush returns to Maine family home for brief vacation," AP, July 6, 2001.
Ron Fournier, "Bush arrives in Maine for birthday weekend with family," AP, July 6, 2001.
Laurence McQuillan, "White House to move to Texas for a while," USA Today, August 3, 2001.
Scott Lindlaw, "Bush flees White House - again - for a month in Texas. But his staff calls this trip a working vacation," AP, August 4, 2001: "President Bush seems to bolt from the White House every chance he gets. He begins a month-long vacation on his Texas ranch today, and by the time he returns he will have spent nearly two months of his presidency there. ... And that doesn't include the many weekends he's spent at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains. ... He has spent 14 weekends at Camp David, bringing paperwork and an aide or two along. ... Bush also logged a long weekend last month at the family's Kennebunkport, Maine, compound, throwing horseshoes, playing golf, fishing."
Tom Carver, "Bush's holiday mission," BBC/UK, August 6, 2001: "Inside the White House press room there was an end of term mood last weekend. ... Washington is turning out the lights for August and Mr Bush is leading the way. For the next month the world's superpower will be run from a farm seven miles down Prairie Chapel Road in Texas. ... Rest assured, the president will be receiving his daily intelligence briefings from the CIA but not much else."
Editorial: "W's vacation chronicles II," madison.com, August 7, 2001.
Mimi Hall, "Many Frown on Bush's 30-day Leave," USA Today, August 7, 2001.
Mike Allen, "A White House On the Range. Bush Retreats to Ranch For 'Working Vacation'. President Bush confers with aides Monday at his ranch near Crawford, Tex.," Washington Post, August 7, 2001.
"Bush vacation puts spotlight on tiny Crawford," CNN, August 7, 2001.
Jim Puzzanghera, "Bush's break is longest in a generation," San Jose Mercury News, August 8, 2001.
"The vacation president. Bush can take as much holiday as he wants," Guardian/UK, August 9, 2001.
"Bush's 'Excessive' Vacation,", Cyberalerts, August 9, 2001. Links to here.
"Could a vacation reform bill be next on Bush's agenda?," Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, August 11, 2001.
John Balz, "Bush's earned vacation: 6 1/2 days," Washington Journal, August 12, 2001: "Barely six months into his first term and George W. Bush is taking the longest presidential vacation in history: a month. If Bush was like any other first-year federal employee, his work schedule wouldn't be quite so accommodating."
Gene Collier, "President's extended stay at his Texas home isn't vacation as usual," Pittsburg Post-Gazette, August 12, 2001.
Barton Wong, "Bush In Crawford: And Other Reflections on Texas,", Houston Review, August 12, 2001.
"Vacation Time. The big news last week was not that President Bush has finally made his stem cell decision (what was it again?), but that he announced it during the middle of his 31-day vacation," Newsweek, August 13, 2001.
Reg Henry, "Don't beat around the bush for R&R," Pittsburg Post-Gazette, August 14, 2001.
Francine Kiefer, "No grocery, $5 haircuts - and the Bush ranch," Christian Science Monitor, August 14, 2001.
Jay Carney, "A Vacationing Bush Works Hard for His Photo-Ops. No one expects a President to ignore a good photo opportunity. But do Bush's recent choices make him look caring -- or cynical?," Time Online, August 16, 2001.
Major Garrett, "Resignation of Bush's faith-based program director," CNN, August 17, 2001: "Major Garrett is a CNN White House Correspondent. He joined the chat room from Crawford, Texas where he is reporting on the president's activities during Mr. Bush's vacation."
Will Durst, "Bush Goes From a Nap to a Coma," AlterNet, August 21, 2001.
"President Bush makes most of golf vacation," golfweb.com, August 23, 2001.
"Bush's vacation limps toward a conclusion," StAugustine.com, August 23, 2001: "The president and Mrs. Bush originally planned to stay at their ranch through Labor Day but announced last week they would leave Aug. 31 and spend the Labor Day weekend in Washington. Bush didn't elaborate on why the first lady wanted to head back to the White House even earlier."
Chris Sutton, "Is Crawford Heat Making Reporters Pout?," Accuracy in Media, August 24, 2001.
Derrick Z. Jackson, "While Bush Talks to Cows, Workers Get Milked," Boston Globe, August 29, 2001: "The Washington Post recently calculated that Bush has spent 42 percent of his first eight months as president at vacation spots. By the end of this week, only eight months into his presidency, he will have logged about 50 days alone at his range in Crawford, Texas."
"Quibbles and Bits. President Bush's vacation," polkonline, August 25, 2001.
"When presidents take a breather," The Week, September 1, 2001: "President Bush says he will gain valuable perspective from his 31-day 'Home to the Heartland' vacation at his Texas ranch. How have other presidents escaped the heat of Washington politics?"
"Camp David Serene, Bush Hard at Work" (cache file), AP, September 15, 2001.
Elaine Sciolino, "Bush Warns That Coming Conflict Will Not Be Short" (at Camp David), New York Times, September 15, 2001.
"Bush retreats to Camp David as reserve call-up set to begin," ABC News (Australia), September 16, 2001.
Elisabeth Bumiller, "Part Timer: For a President at War, Refuge at Camp David," New York Times, November 5, 2001.
"Bush Marks Thanksgiving at Camp David," AP, November 23, 2001.
Michael McGuff, "Crawford, Texas. A look at the President's second home," ABC13.com, November 14, 2001.
Scott Lindlaw, "Weighty issues will fill Bush vacation," SouthCoast Today, December 27, 2001.
George W. Bush, Transcript: "Bush Press Conference at Crawford, Texas Ranch," December 28, 2001.

and know how to have a life. It must drive the wingnuts OUT OF THEIR MINDS.

:toast:

and loving misery!

is bound to help NY's tourist economy!

Eat your heart out, Las Vegas!

:spray:

I'd go to see Santana, but not my nephew who's getting married in Sept in LV. Or we might! This is 'the one'!

to say. It's really sickening. I guess I better get used to it...unfortunately.

the one he deliberately ignored.

and leave the rest of us to fend for ourselves.

around in the sky somewhere while RG took his place as a leader.
And Dick was in hiding and laughing with his buddies.

He and Laura always drove there in golf carts, remember?

about it. Washington Square must bring back some good memories of his early campaign speeches there.

To me it's evidence that Bush hotfooted it out of DC because he was frightened by the threats in the PDB and split town to get out of harm's way. Why spend a month on vacation in his first term? The entire administration got out of town. They knew DC was going to be hit. When he inevitably had to return he stayed for a day or two before heading to Camp David, and then FL, where he to school children about a Pet Goat. They knew, they flew.

Unlike Dumbass who took a vacation every other month.

eom

should only be used as an opportunity to showcase the gop's hypocricy and jealousy of a our healthy vibrant POTUS and FLOTUS.

If they weren't whining they wouldn't be heard from at all.

(would love to have those figures) or Cheney was out shooting his friends.. I cannot believe that the right has the nerve to try and bring something like that up

Valentine's Day, I think.

It's so hypocritcal - and funny - that the Republican Bush-lovers are trying to complain about the President and his wife's night out to a play. Bush, the King of Vacations!