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[Flashermac]

Done Googled it:

 

<< President Obama has spent all or part of 26 days "on vacation" during his first year as president, according to CBS News White House Correspondent Mark Knoller.

 

Knoller, who has covered every president since Gerald Ford and is known for keeping detailed records on presidential travel, counts the following among President Obama’s "vacations" in 2009:

 

- A four-day holiday weekend in Chicago in February where the president played some basketball and treated First Lady Michelle Obama to a Valentine’s Day dinner date.

 

- An eight-day stay with his family at a rented house on Martha’s Vineyard in August.

 

- A trip out west to the U.S. states of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and Arizona that combined both business and pleasure. The president held town hall meetings on health care during the trip. And he went fly fishing and took trips to Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Canyon with his wife and two daughters.

 

- An 11-day stay in Hawaii where the president and his family celebrated Christmas and New Year’s Eve.

 

Some of the president’s recent predecessors, however, have spent more days  either entirely or partially  away from the White House "on vacation" during their first year in office.

 

President Reagan, in 1981, spent all or part of 42 days away from the White House "on vacation" at his home in Santa Barbara, Calif, according to Knoller. President Reagan and his wife, Nancy, also spent three or four days around New Year’s Day each year in Palm Springs, Calif., at the home of philanthropist Walter Annenberg. (In 1993 the late Mr. Annenberg founded the nonpartisan Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, which is FactCheck.org’s parent organization.)

 

President George W. Bush spent even more time away from the presidential mansion in the nation’s capital than Reagan. Of the 77 total "vacation" trips the former president made to his Texas ranch while in office, nine of them  all or part of 69 days  came during his first year as president in 2001, according to Knoller.

 

Bush’s father, President George H.W. Bush, spent less time "on vacation" during his first year than his son, but spent more days than President Obama. According to travel records provided to FactCheck.org by the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum, the former president took six trips  spanning all or part of 40 days  to the Bush family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1989. The archivist at Bush’s presidential library told us she didn’t have a list of all vacations but did have the Kennebunkport visits.

 

But at least two recent presidents  by Knoller’s count  took less "vacation" time during their first year than President Obama  Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.

 

According to Knoller, Carter spent just 19 days "on vacation" in 1977. Most of that time, Knoller says, the former president spent at his home in Plains, Ga. President Clinton took all or part of 174 days of vacation during his eight years as president  most of that "vacation" time was during the summer, according to Knoller. But Knoller says Clinton only took 21 "vacation" days during his first year.

 

It’s worth mentioning that President Obama has also made 11 trips  all or part of 27 days  to Camp David, the presidential retreat in Frederick County, Md. Knoller, however, says he doesn’t count trips to Camp David as part of any presidents’ "vacation" time. But for the sake of comparison, President George W. Bush, made more trips to that country residence than Obama. According to Knoller, Bush made 25 trips  a total of 78 days  to Camp David in 2001.

 

But no matter how much time a president actually spends away from the official residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Knoller says that the commander in chief is never really off the clock. "I have long held the view that a US president is never really on vacation," Knoller told FactCheck.org in an e-mail. "The job - and its awesome powers and responsibilities - is his wherever he is and whatever he’s doing."

 

–D’Angelo Gore >>

 

 

http://www.factcheck.org/2010/01/president-obamas-vacation-days/

 

 

p.s. Who pays for the flights the prezzies make "on vacation" in Air Farce One?

 

[LizardKing]

Funny how once again, the Dems are the responsible ones. Will the proles ever learn? Of course not.

[Flashermac]

26 days is less than 25% of 69 days?

 

 

[Flashermac]

I don't see all that much difference between the Dems and Reps. It's just a matter of degree as to how much the politicians are screwing us. I come from what was once a yellow dog Democrat family. My mother and sister are the only ones still Dems. The rest of us stopped believing in the virgin birth of US politicians long ago.

 

 

[chuckwoww]

Well Obama isn't a racist. Glenn Beck admits it so that should be the end of that one. Of course he's still a muslim nazi communist and a British agent.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100829/pl_yblog_upshot/glenn-beck-regrets-calling-obama-a-racist

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11122587

[Old Hippie]

While working at WPGC, Beck met his first wife, Claire.[17] The couple married and had two daughters, Mary and Hannah. Mary developed cerebral palsy as a result of a series of strokes at birth in 1988.[17] The couple divorced in 1994 amid Beck's struggles with substance abuse. Along with being a recovering alcoholic and drug addict,[18] Beck has been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.[19][20]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck

 

 

 

"...By 1994, Beck was suicidal, and imagined shooting himself to the music of his fellow Washingtonian, Kurt Cobain.[19] However, he cites the help of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) in his sobriety and attended his first AA meeting in November 1994, the month he states he stopped drinking alcohol and smoking cannabis.[19] After getting clean, Beck would claim that he had gotten high every day for the previous 15 years, since the age of sixteen.[11]..."

 

Explains a lot.

[chuckwoww]

Beck is no fool. He knows his target audience and he gives them what they want. I often wonder how many liberals watch him for entertainment.

[Old Hippie]

I do! Just like I used to watch Jim Bakker defend himself daily! I watch O'Reilly as well.

 

 

[Flashermac]

Beck say he's a Mormon. Maybe he'll become a prophet next.

 

From your description of him, he sounds like the perfect man to run against Jerry Brown for governor.