ntwrkguy1 said:
If Harry Truman were alive today, he would probably prefer to drop the next A-Bomb on Washington, D.C.
what!
you advocate nuking an American city?!
that is crazy, even in jest...
Truman would never do that...
koo-koo
this is while he initiated 2 wars, reeling from 9/11 and was spending us into bankruptcy...
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.
8.26.2005
President Bush is on pace to spend more time on vacation than any other president in modern times.
Today is the 342nd day he has spent at least some part of the day at his ranch, which means he's spent almost an entire year of his four and a half years in office at the ranch. That doesn't include time he's spent at his parents' place in Kennebunkport, Maine, or at Camp David.
If he stays at his Texas ranch until Sept. 3, as expected, the five-week stint away from the White House -- the 49th vacation he's taken at the ranch -- will surpass President Nixon's monthlong trip to Florida 36 years ago as the longest presidential retreat in the modern era.
Bush isn't the first president to take a lot of time off. His father, President George H.W. Bush, spent 153 days in Maine and 390 at Camp David; Dwight Eisenhower spent 222 days for 29 golf outings in Augusta, Ga., during his eight years in office; Harry Truman spent 175 days in Key West, Fla., over seven years; and Ronald Reagan famously loved his vacations, spending all or part of 335 days during his eight-year presidency at his Santa Barbara, Calif., ranch
16.1.2009
He will likely miss the place: According to CBS News White House Correspondent Mark Knoller, today's trip marks Mr. Bush's 149th visit to the presidential retreat. The planned three-day stay, during which the president is being joined by family and former and current aides, will bring his total time spent at Camp David to all or part of
487 days.
Yes, that's 487 days. And Camp David is not even where the president has spent the most time when not at the White House: Knoller reports that Mr. Bush has made 77 visits to his ranch in Crawford during his presidency, and spent all or part of
490 days there.
he spent 33% of his 8 years on vacation...most of us get 4 weeks or 7-8%
but it's wrong when Obama does it...and he's doing it much less
