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theprof00 on 01 September 2012
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NightDragon83 said:
theprof00 said:
NightDragon83 said:

Wow, way to post an article from January 2010.

Newsflash... it's now September 2012.  Obama has golfed 4 times more in less than one full term as president than Bush did in all 8 years in office.  While Bush "vacationed" at Camp David and his own personal ranch (usually with several members of his staff whom he met with on a regular basis), Obama has gone and hobnobed with the elite 1% at a multimillion dollar estate in Martha's Vineyard during a recession for the past 3 years, only skipping out this year because of the incredibly bad optics during an election year.

(that compared first years of those presidents. Yeah, that's right. Bush had 71 days in his first year.)

I'm not going to address the rest of the spin you just wrote, since saying "golfed 4 times more", while still way way under the number of days taken by Bush ( 81% under), is probably the most openly desperate accusation, and I just can't take it seriously enough.

Like both Sam and Kasz said, the president is never really "on vacation", so that stat is completely meaningless and is only ever brought up by liberals to try to discredit Bush.  Reagan took a ton of "vacation days" too during his presidency, yet nobody ever brought it up, not even while he was in office.  But all of a sudden in 2001, the president retreating to Camp David or his own private residence became a crime.

The golf thing on the other hand is frequently brought up because during Bush's presidency he was lambasted by the left, particularly mockumentary filmmaker Michael Moore who prominently featured Bush's "now watch this drive" clip in his 2004 election propaganda piece Fahrenheit 9/11... despite Bush not having gofled once since the summer of 2003 after the media gave him shit for doing it while we were both in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Fast forward to today and Obama goes and plays more golf than any president since Wilson, and does so during two wars and an economic recession, and the same people who bashed Bush for it now give him a pass, even defending him by saying that the president deserves a little downtime for having such a stressful job and having to deal with so many things at once.  Awwww, poor, poor Obama.

Except that with both yourself and killerx, you have yet to prove to me that Bush was doing anything productive.

All I see is "some" liberals saying Bush was bad for playing golf, and you guys (not all republicans) saying that "oh, total days is more media lies, and golf is the real villain". Hilariously, it is the only thing Obama has over Bush, so I guess it's reasonable for you to portray the golfing as the worst possible part of the days off, concurrently saying everything else is lies and spin.