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President Obama Takes a Break at Camp David

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.......after "blasting" Congress for not working hard enough....

..... and refusing to meet with Republican Leadership to hammer out a deal on the debt ceiling.....


.....well, I guess holding SEVEN TIMES as many Fundraisers as President Bush had at this point in his Presidency can really take it out of a guy...


... I mean, he's so busy, what with his golfing.... and his vacations.... and more golfing..........


Look, Ma, No Sense of Shame Irony

President Barack Obama will be taking a break for the Independence Day holiday weekend.

He'll travel to Camp David in western Maryland Friday afternoon, following some morning meetings....
 
I recall that liberals criticized Bush for many of the same reasons, ie that there's a lot of **** going on, and for the fact that he spent time at Camp David. I will call this topic Exhibit A when I present my argument that hardly anything matters beyond party affiliation.

In a few years we may have a Republican President and you'll be defending him/her every time they go to Camp David or take a break.
 
I recall that liberals criticized Bush for many of the same reasons, ie that there's a lot of **** going on, and for the fact that he spent time at Camp David. I will call this topic Exhibit A when I present my argument that hardly anything matters beyond party affiliation.

In a few years we may have a Republican President and you'll be defending him/her every time they go to Camp David or take a break.

My thoughts precisely
 
I recall that liberals criticized Bush for many of the same reasons, ie that there's a lot of **** going on, and for the fact that he spent time at Camp David. I will call this topic Exhibit A when I present my argument that hardly anything matters beyond party affiliation.

In a few years we may have a Republican President and you'll be defending him/her every time they go to Camp David or take a break.

Presidents need a break, it's true. However I would like to point out two things. First Obama's detachment from any leadership role, any work on our economy etc.. It's not like the guys been pulling all nighters with his Cabinet about job creation for the past month and doing double duty at the negotiation table with Republicans on the debt ceiling. Let's put things into perspective here.

Second, the mans priorities have clearly been on re-election during arguably, the worst economic crisis in the U.S. since the 1930's. His other priority seems to be golf - which optically, looks very bad and is indefensible again, when so many millions are unemployed, more millions are losing their homes, we're involved in 3 wars one of which Obama's Admin is being sued by the Congress (not sure if "sue" is the right word but you know what I mean).
 
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Presidents need a break, it's true. However I would like to point out two things. First Obama's detachment from any leadership role, any work on our economy etc.. It's not like the guys been pulling all nighters with his Cabinet about job creation for the past month and doing double duty at the negotiation table with Republicans on the debt ceiling. Let's put things into perspective here.

Funny how the wingnuts are only concerned with Obama's working schedule and not Congress'

I guess the rightwingers forgot how they whined when the Dems took control of the House and forced them to work 5 days a week. Meanwhile, the republicans are working hard to set a new record for laziness


Congress is voting less this year, but is it actually working less?

At the height of the worst recession and soon to be depression in 75 years, how many weeks of vacation did our Congress grant themselves this year? 23 1/2 weeks of vacation. But they don't call it vacation. They call it non-legislative periods. They call their time off "work periods" for meeting their constituents and raising campaign funds.


Here's a thought. If you want to meet your constituents, consider that a cost of doing business. Americans should not be paying Congressmen and women to hang out in their home state shaking hands any more than I should get paid for waving at homeless men at the Walmart stoplight.

Can't wait to see how upset you get at the 23 1/2 weeks of vacation your republicans reps took. My guess is you're only poutraged about Obamas' ONE day of vacation. The 163 days your repukes took is A-OK, right? :roll:

PS - Speaking of leadership on the economy, how many jobs bills have to republicans passed? Have they gotten past ZERO yet? :lol:
 
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Funny how the wingnuts are only concerned with Obama's working schedule and not Congress'

I guess the rightwingers forgot how they whined when the Dems took control of the House and forced them to work 5 days a week. Meanwhile, the republicans are working hard to set a new record for laziness

You're clear indication you do NOT want to discuss facts is evident, so I'll just bypass rest of your ignorant words. Your attempt to curve the spotlight off of Obama and onto Congress may work other places, but 400+ congress people are not playing golf 13 weekends in a row and are NOT taking vacation at Camp David.

I'd say "nice try" but it was actually a feeble try.:coffeepap
 
.......after "blasting" Congress for not working hard enough....

..... and refusing to meet with Republican Leadership to hammer out a deal on the debt ceiling.....


.....well, I guess holding SEVEN TIMES as many Fundraisers as President Bush had at this point in his Presidency can really take it out of a guy...


... I mean, he's so busy, what with his golfing.... and his vacations.... and more golfing..........


Look, Ma, No Sense of Shame Irony

President Barack Obama will be taking a break for the Independence Day holiday weekend.

He'll travel to Camp David in western Maryland Friday afternoon, following some morning meetings....

Watch out, CC will swoop in here and terminate you for using his word. :lol:
 
You're clear indication you do NOT want to discuss facts is evident, so I'll just bypass rest of your ignorant words.

Translation: You can't refute anything I said, so you won't even try. Instead, you'll just immaturely post some personal attacks even though it's against the rules to do so.

Your attempt to curve the spotlight off of Obama and onto Congress may work other places, but 400+ congress people are not playing golf 13 weekends in a row and are NOT taking vacation at Camp David.

I'd say "nice try" but it was actually a feeble try.:coffeepap

Just as I predicted, you have no argument; just childish name-calling.

Again, Congress has taken 163 vacation days which is more than Obama has taken. The repukes in congress work only Tues-thurs (ie 3 days a week) and reducing the deficit is a job for CONGRESS, not the president.

Can't wait to hear you complain about the GOP's 3 day working week. (I can't wait because it will never happen)
 
I recall that liberals criticized Bush for many of the same reasons, ie that there's a lot of **** going on, and for the fact that he spent time at Camp David. I will call this topic Exhibit A when I present my argument that hardly anything matters beyond party affiliation.

Bush didn't go to Texas unless Congress was out. The Senate is staying behind in an EMERGENCY session because of the debt ceiling. If a Republican President skips town to take a few days off under these conditions, yeah, I would be critiquing.
 
Translation: You can't refute anything I said, so you won't even try.
You're right. I can't refute "wingnut" and "rightwingers". Sorry you had to pull Obama defense duty this weekend...

Instead, you'll just immaturely post some personal attacks even though it's against the rules to do so.
When you get some better comebacks for 13 straight weekends of golf, and the lack of leadership that even the Democrats do not like, let me know.

Joe Manchin seems to agree with me.

Democrat Joe Manchin Still Doesn't Think President Obama is Showing Leadership in Shutdown Standoff - The Note



And that's not new... we saw the lack of leadership through the healthcare debacle, which everyone agrees is severely lacking because Mr. Obama decided to let Reid and Pelosi create the bill. Obama was on the sidelines - just like he is now on the Debt Ceiling. At least he's consistent.

Al Franken lays into David Axelrod over health care bill - Manu Raju and Andy Barr - POLITICO.com

But then again, Mr. Obama has stated he'd meet with foreign leaders with ties to terrorism without preconditions, yet not the Republicans in Congress. You're defense against that is, Alinsky type attacks and accusations with claims victimization claims that I am "name calling". Bored already... the typical loud, abrasive, outraged liberal (or is it progressive?) outrage and rhetoric is boring to me. You're type of "discussion" is a dime a dozen on any political forum.

Tell me when you have something substantial to discuss with some intellectual honesty... :coffeepap
 
You're right. I can't refute "wingnut" and "rightwingers". Sorry you had to pull Obama defense duty this weekend...

The post you're responding does not contain the word "wingnut" or "rightwingers". Your posts are so weak that you have to make up stuff in order to have somethibng to say.

I do not support Obama, nor did I vote for him. Again, if you didn't make up stuff, you'd have nothing to say
 
The post you're responding does not contain the word "wingnut" or "rightwingers". Your posts are so weak that you have to make up stuff in order to have somethibng to say.

Funny how the wingnuts are only concerned with Obama's working schedule and not Congress'

I guess the rightwingers forgot how they whined when the Dems took control of the House and forced them to work 5 days a week. Meanwhile, the republicans are working hard to set a new record for laziness

:2wave:

I do not support Obama, nor did I vote for him. Again, if you didn't make up stuff, you'd have nothing to say
If you cannot be honest about what you already said, (as I just pointed out you were not), any you expect me to believe your next sentence which is you supposed political support? You just spent approximately 6-8 responses in two different threads defending near indefensible actions. So you're being adversarial for no good reason or ... ?
 
Presidents need a break, it's true. However I would like to point out two things. First Obama's detachment from any leadership role, any work on our economy etc.. It's not like the guys been pulling all nighters with his Cabinet about job creation for the past month and doing double duty at the negotiation table with Republicans on the debt ceiling. Let's put things into perspective here.

Second, the mans priorities have clearly been on re-election during arguably, the worst economic crisis in the U.S. since the 1930's. His other priority seems to be golf - which optically, looks very bad and is indefensible again, when so many millions are unemployed, more millions are losing their homes, we're involved in 3 wars one of which Obama's Admin is being sued by the Congress (not sure if "sue" is the right word but you know what I mean).

0bama record, 14.7 million officially unemployed with 15.8% total unemployment, 4 trillion added to the debt, double digit misery index, 1.8% GDP growth, record budgets, no leadership skills at all, 29 fund raisers, 76 rounds of golf. Yes, that is leadership and a record to be proud of.

We all know that this is a President with zero leadership skills as a leader can never delegate responsibility but that is all Obama does. Truman said "the buck stops here" but with Obama he never sees the buck or passes it to someone else.
 
0bama record, 14.7 million officially unemployed with 15.8% total unemployment, 4 trillion added to the debt, double digit misery index, 1.8% GDP growth, record budgets, no leadership skills at all, 29 fund raisers, 76 rounds of golf. Yes, that is leadership and a record to be proud of.

We all know that this is a President with zero leadership skills as a leader can never delegate responsibility but that is all Obama does. Truman said "the buck stops here" but with Obama he never sees the buck or passes it to someone else.

As Obama's mantra of "Hope and Change" identifies, I already know the "HOPE" part is dead and buried. I'm wondering if this President can "CHANGE" or if he's going to put his own interests of re-election above a suffering country and it's people. Were I a betting man, I'd bet the farm on the latter.
 
:2wave:


If you cannot be honest about what you already said, (as I just pointed out you were not), any you expect me to believe your next sentence which is you supposed political support? You just spent approximately 6-8 responses in two different threads defending near indefensible actions. So you're being adversarial for no good reason or ... ?

If you can't read with comprehension, there's no point in responding to your delusions.

Again, the post you were responding to did not contain the words "wingnut" or "rightwinger". That was in an earlier post. You're so bereft of a factual argument, that you had to go digging through earlier posts to find something you didn't like, and then pretend it was something I had said in my most recent post.

And, in case you've forgotten, the topic of this thread is about Obama's vacations. And, because you don't seem able to read with comprehension, I'll point out that I haven't defended ANY presidential vacations. I merely pointed out the hypocrisy of those who complain about Obama's ONE vacation day, while remaining silent (as you continue to do) about how republicans have taken more 160 vacation days.
 
If you can't read with comprehension, there's no point in responding to your delusions.

Again, the post you were responding to did not contain the words "wingnut" or "rightwinger". That was in an earlier post. You're so bereft of a factual argument, that you had to go digging through earlier posts to find something you didn't like, and then pretend it was something I had said in my most recent post.

And, in case you've forgotten, the topic of this thread is about Obama's vacations. And, because you don't seem able to read with comprehension, I'll point out that I haven't defended ANY presidential vacations. I merely pointed out the hypocrisy of those who complain about Obama's ONE vacation day, while remaining silent (as you continue to do) about how republicans have taken more 160 vacation days.

When you're caught in a lie, the honest thing to do is admit your mistake and move on.
 
As Obama's mantra of "Hope and Change" identifies, I already know the "HOPE" part is dead and buried. I'm wondering if this President can "CHANGE" or if he's going to put his own interests of re-election above a suffering country and it's people. Were I a betting man, I'd bet the farm on the latter.

Anyone who believes a politician (of any party) will put the good of the nation before their own re-election is a deluded partisan.
 
I wonder what the talking point would have been if Obama worked on the 4th...
 
As Obama's mantra of "Hope and Change" identifies, I already know the "HOPE" part is dead and buried. I'm wondering if this President can "CHANGE" or if he's going to put his own interests of re-election above a suffering country and it's people. Were I a betting man, I'd bet the farm on the latter.

There is no indication that this arrogant President will ever change. His tone was combative, arrogant, condescending at the news conference with everything everyone else's fault, not his. John Thune got it right when he said that if we are ever going to get a meeting with the President Republicans will have to schedule a tee time close to the President's
 
I wonder what the talking point would have been if Obama worked on the 4th...

Well this being their first 4th of July, seeing how it's the first time they've been proud to be Americans, I'd say it would take special consideration.
 
I wonder what the talking point would have been if Obama worked on the 4th...

If he worked with Congress (both D and R) I for one would have given him props. That would have been the first time he's REALLY shown leadership and the willingness to put American's before himself, or politics.
 
I never complained when Bush took vacation. I don't care that the house is on vacation, and the senate could be too. It's the 4th of July weekend, they should be on vacation. People complain about how our government officials are less than stellar, then they start throwing out bull****, whiny stuff like this, which would make any sane, worthwhile person not want a job in government, that is part of the problem. There is no excuse for this kind of ****. I am honestly embarrassed for some people right now.
 
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