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Obama Plans 20-day, $4 million Vacation

Last you heard? Where did you hear this?

In any case, Bush is no longer President. It's time to move on.

Every time the right wing brings up a slew of articles on how terrible Obama is for the vacations he is taking there is a a slew of counter articles comparing his vacation history to that of George W. Nobody really cares when their guy is in office and when he is out they make the same argument you are making above. So I'm not sure why it matters. It is pretty much the pot calling the kettle black.
 
And as far as I remember Bushy usually went to his ranch, not some lavish resort.
His ranch? You mean the phony multi-million dollar stage prop? Do you have any idea of the taxpayer dollars that had to be poured into that pretense of a place to make it ready for prime time in terms of security and communications? Bush meanwhile easily holds the all-time record for most total days on vacation, and next in line come more Republicans by the way. Bush also holds the title for highest percentage of days in office being on vacation. Obama by comparison is far down the list. When he has vacationed at all, it has been during the August and Christmas recesses when Congress is not in session. In fact, most of Washington is not in session during those time periods. Bush was apt to wander off at any old time, and not just to so-called Crawford. He spent as much time at Camp David and let's not forget the "family compound" in Kennebunkport.

And of course it is still true that -- just like you -- all Presidents and First Ladies pay out-of-pocket for the costs of their residence, food, transportation, shopping, and entertainment while on vacation or other personal travel. Whatever place they choose to stay is on their dime meaning you have no horse in that race at all.
 
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Every time the right wing brings up a slew of articles on how terrible Obama is for the vacations he is taking there is a a slew of counter articles comparing his vacation history to that of George W. Nobody really cares when their guy is in office and when he is out they make the same argument you are making above. So I'm not sure why it matters. It is pretty much the pot calling the kettle black.
I think the point is over yet more patent hypocrisy from the right-wing in railing against Obama's low rate of vacationing given the extreme rate of his predecessor that resulted in total silence from them.
 
Last you heard? Where did you hear this?

In any case, Bush is no longer President. It's time to move on.

When I see that I can't help but think... "Ignore what OUR guy did... we want to pummel YOUR guy!"

Now a word about Bush's 'ranch'. He was doing a poor imitation of Reagan with his ranch 'work'. Fact is BushII has retired to a nice city home in a nice suburb of Dallas, the Big D as we call it. I doubt he will ever set foot on his 'ranch' again for any length of time...

I would opine the real cost of where the President goes is more the security, communications, and salaries of those who hover in waiting, be it a ranch in the middle of no where so all the electronic support had to be one-off installed or a hotel knee deep in sophisticated support services.
 
His ranch? You mean the phony multi-million dollar stage prop? Do you have any idea of the taxpayer dollars that had to be poured into that pretense of a place to make it ready for prime time in terms of security and communications? Bush meanwhile easily holds the all-time record for most total days on vacation, and next in line come more Republicans by the way. Bush also holds the title for highest percentage of days in office being on vacation. Obama by comparison is far down the list. When he has vacationed at all, it has been during the August and Christmas recesses when Congress is not in session. In fact, most of Washington is not in session during those time periods. Bush was apt to wander off at any old time, and not just to so-called Crawford. He spent as much time at Camp David and let's not forget the "family compound" in Kennebunkport.

And of course it is still true that -- just like you -- all Presidents and First Ladies pay out-of-pocket for the costs of their residence, food, transportation, shopping, and entertainment while on vacation or other personal travel. Whatever place they choose to stay is on their dime meaning you have no horse in that race at all.

Was that in 4 years or 8? Bush sucked!!! Obama sucks!!!
And a link would be nice.
 
"When American families are cutting back on travel due to rising gas and food prices, President Obama should be considerate of the sacrifices millions of citizens are forced to make and adjust his travel plans accordingly. Statistics published by The Blaze note the Obama vacation to Hawaii last year cost approximately $4 million. Before the family trip to Hawaii, the Obama's had already spent $10 million dollars of taxpayer money traveling to Vail, Colo.; Martha's Vineyard, Mass.; and Spain".

President Obama's Lavish Vacations Are Under Scrutiny Again - Yahoo! News


From everything I can find on Bush he spent 20 mill over two terms so they seem to be about even. The difference is Bush flew home alot to get the Hell out of DC while obama takes less frequent but far more lavish luxury vacations. It is very telling of who these men are and the different way they see the world but dollar for dollar it is pretty even.
 
From everything I can find on Bush he spent 20 mill over two terms so they seem to be about even. The difference is Bush flew home alot to get the Hell out of DC while obama takes less frequent but far more lavish luxury vacations. It is very telling of who these men are and the different way they see the world but dollar for dollar it is pretty even.
Neither you nor Glenn Beck has found very much. Mr. Bush made 77 visits to the "Crawford ranch". Flight time from DC to Waco is approximatley two hours and ten minutes. According to GAO, flight costs for Air Force 1 are at least $56,518 per hour. Each trip was supported by at least one C-17 cargo jet. According to GAO, flight costs for a C-17 are at least $6,960 per hour. So that's ($56,518 + $6,960) x 4.33 x 77 = $21,164,200 just as a lowball estimate for the flight costs. Somebody is trying to gild the lily.
 
Sawyer-
BushII didn't fly home, he flew to a photo-op political stage, a faux ranch for faux Reaganesque down homie-ness... :roll:

You can 'at a time like this' any administration, BushII when the Dot.com bust hit, Katrina, as his trumped up excuses to attack Iraq fell apart and then as the attack fell apart and thousands of troops fought and died instead of being feted with candies and flowers...

He didn't fly 'home' to escape the E-Viles of DC, but rather having to answer the questions that arose over his 'decidership'.

seriously dude.... :roll:
 
BushII didn't fly home, he flew to a photo-op political stage, a faux ranch for faux Reaganesque down homie-ness...
It had been a turkey and hog farm until Bush bought it, but that wasn't such good imagery, so they tore all that stuff out and then arranged for some cattle owned by a friend to be brought over to graze in the background. Totally fake operation. The original hope had been that Bush could duplicate Reagan's galloping about the spread, but he had never learned to ride and looked like such a dork in the saddle that they decided to settle for "cutting brush" with a chainsaw as the manly part. No actual rancher would have done that, but so what.

Another reason why he went so often to "the ranch" was that he would have been so seriously unwelcome almost anywhere else. Same reason his foreign travel was so limited. At almost any other destination, serious rallies and protests against him would have resulted, meaning major increases in hassle and public safety costs for whatever local jurisdictions he was in. Bad press too. They tried those "remote" free speech zones for a while, but those didn't go over so well either. Best just to keep things to "Crawford", Camp David, and Kennebunkport.
 
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Sawyer-
BushII didn't fly home, he flew to a photo-op political stage, a faux ranch for faux Reaganesque down homie-ness... :roll:

You can 'at a time like this' any administration, BushII when the Dot.com bust hit, Katrina, as his trumped up excuses to attack Iraq fell apart and then as the attack fell apart and thousands of troops fought and died instead of being feted with candies and flowers...

He didn't fly 'home' to escape the E-Viles of DC, but rather having to answer the questions that arose over his 'decidership'.

seriously dude.... :roll:

Never said it was a working ranch but it was the Bush's home and looks like a fantastic place to get out of DC for some clear air and clear thinking.

Tour the Bush's Crawford, Texas, Ranch - Oprah.com
 
I noticed that too and thought WTF, I would retire there.

The Hill Country is one of the nicer parts of Texas. The 'hood he is in now though is a pretty nice part of Dallas with some really nice houses and huge lots.
 
The Hill Country is one of the nicer parts of Texas. The 'hood he is in now though is a pretty nice part of Dallas with some really nice houses and huge lots.

I edited my last post, I think Laura made the call. In the O video he seemed to really love the place, women sometimes just put up with places the ole man wants to live.
 
I edited my last post, I think Laura made the call. In the O video he seemed to really love the place, women sometimes just put up with places the ole man wants to live.

The woman usually get their way when it comes to houses.
 
Who claims that? Nearly all the taxes in PPACA are focused on the upper income brackets. But what happens for many borderline upper-income filers ($100K to $500K) re the Bush tax cuts will depend more on what at the same time happens to the AMT. Meanwhile, those Medicare surcharges are exactly the right policy -- a pressing financial need being met by those who can afford it most. We need more of that. The bubble-world of the mega- amd über-wealthy needs to burst, just gently enough so that they can have a soft-landing back on earth.
using your silly logic the top 1 percent should pay all the taxes until they have less than say the bottom 50%.

Why do I have a duty to fund the healthcare of people who are often too stupid, too lazy or too willing to make bad life choices to afford what they want other than the fact that such welfare socialism leads to votes for your democrat party masters?
 
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Got any links?

Also they paid for the secret service and the sweeps? Show us the receipts.

his posts tend to be good fertilizer. Its all about more power for his dem masters by using our money to buy the votes of the "needy" and the unable
 
I edited my last post, I think Laura made the call. In the O video he seemed to really love the place, women sometimes just put up with places the ole man wants to live.

Nawww Dubya is a city boy, no ifs and or buts about it. He is all hat and no cattle, FAR more at home in a suit and corporate office than jeans and sweat stained hat. I'll wager he is just peachy with the most Country he sees is at the Club from here on out. :)
 
Nawww Dubya is a city boy, no ifs and or buts about it. He is all hat and no cattle, FAR more at home in a suit and corporate office than jeans and sweat stained hat. I'll wager he is just peachy with the most Country he sees is at the Club from here on out. :)

sounds like another BDS Fueled post
 
Yet another highly biased and off topic post, adds nothing to the discussion.

But I doubt many expected anything else... sounds like another alcohol fueled post. :peace

I don't drink and there is nothing in my post that suggests that. But the chronic hatred of Bush by the progressive left is well documented
 
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