Barack And Michelle Take Air Force One on Joy Ride to New York for a Date

Silly FA folks. Sacrifice is for the peasants, not the royalty.

Rich, got a link that proves Bush flew to his ranch every month? I’m betting no.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/01/16/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry4728085.shtml

Not quite every month. 77 visits in 96 months comes to about every 1.25 months.

Of course, that doesn’t count the 149 visits to Camp David…

I expect almost any time to hear that the Obamas are vacationing at their dachau on the Black Sea.

Lord knows after what Obama and his fellow dems did to the NY economy, I’m glad he’s giving something back. I don’t begrudge him the trip to New York. I only note the hypocrisy of the press and the democraps in not castigating him as they would have a republican in similar circumstances.

@Rex: From all indications I’ve gathered, President Bush looks to be far more studious than President Obama. It could be a misperception on my part; but it’s ridiculous to suggest that Bush was doing nothing but loafing around Camp David or couch potatoing it at the ranch. He often brought work with him. Furthermore, President Obama has a bad habit of being unfashionably late to everything. President Bush, on the other hand, was obsessively punctual.

Nor would he approve of “casual dress M, T, W, Th, F” like a certain President O.

Folks: That was brought to you by John Ryan…the drive-by one comment wonder.

I think that the “number of trips” metric is misleading. Let’s talk about days.

His predecessor spent all or part of 490 days in Crawford.
His predecessor spent all or part of 487 days at Camp David.

I’ll certainly agree that many, if not most, of those days had some elements of “work” (Presidents don’t get a true vacation), but that’s still 977 of 2920 Presidential days spent outside DC – right at 1/3 of his Presidency.

In light of that, I’m not going to begrudge this guy the occasional night out. Complaining about this ranks right down there with the folks griping about the fact that he had a beer at a basketball game.

I don’t begrudge the guy for a night out. But how many times does your employer pay for your night out? Plus, the thing about the Obamas is that they claim that they are just so much more in touch with the people (*cough* peasants) than past administrations. So why then would they do something like this that they know would bring so much media attention to themselves? My guess, is that they really don’t care. They think they deserve this treatment, and that they are above what they preach to others. It’s hypocrisy in it’s finest.

And for Bush going to camp David and to Crawford…I think that many, many times he was at both locations with other world leaders. He was concerned with our nation and many of these trips were working trips that just happen to be outside of the White House. He didn’t parade he and his wife in front of the camera’s while spending hundreds of thousands of dollars for a “date” to NYC when thousands of Americans are unemployed.

I can only say to those who have nice excuse for Obumble: You are all fools.

These two posers that live in the White House are living proof of the ignorance of American voters…over 60 million of them…well, maybe over 50 million…ACORN probably resurrected over 10 million with their illegal activities. That won’t be investigated until we have some adults back in charge. At any rate, we’re in for a horrible 4 years of Carter’s second administration.

I blame Ross Perot for all of the bad that’s happened in the past 17 years. Without him, Clinton goes onto the ash heap of history, foreign policy doesn’t allow the rise of terrorists like bin Laden, no 9/11, no “wall of separation” between CIA and FBI, no Monica Lewinsky scandal, no Hillary Clinton, no Barack Obumble and his nasty wife in the White House.

Maybe we’d even have had no Iraq war or GWB as President…that should make the left even more in agreement with me on this. LOL.

I too don’t have a problem with any sitting president having some down time, even the Obamas. I’m a big believer in productivity via avoiding burnout, albeit I could suggest lesser expensive means.

What I do have a problem with is the in our face lack of leadership. Anyone with at least a few business brain cells knows that everything, absolutely EVERYTHING starts at the top.

Over this past year I personally have witnessed some extraordinary integrity minded CEO’s who, before cutting staff and benefits, cut at the top first, starting with their own executive perks. One CEO told me, “How could I ever expect my employees to take cuts when I don’t lead the way by example?” To him it was a no brainer; incomprehensible to not make sacrifices along with his staff, but to also be the first in the company to take a hit.

As for Bush, most/many of his vacations were “working vacations”, even many of his weekends at Camp Daivd. He also stopped playing golf once he sent troops to Iraq, proving my initial point.

So let’s face it. As long as we have a printing press that prints money, the Obamas and all other WH Staffers who feel so entitled, can live as large as they like. Consequently, it continues to validate, by ‘living proof’, that global warming is a farce and President Obama, by his actions, is all about “President Obama.” It would also be appreciated if Michelle Obama would just stay home rather than show up for her “food bank photo ops” in her $500.00 sneakers. Who does she think she’s fooling?

I really try to keep respect for the office of the POTUS, but to be honest, it’s getting pretty darn hard. I’ve yet to see one bit of evidence of ANYTHING President Obama has sacrificed for this country.

“Rich, got a link that proves Bush flew to his ranch every month? I’m betting no.”

49 trips to Crawford during Bush’s first 55months in office or 1 trip every 1 month and 3 days during the first term and 7 months into the second term:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002417607_crawford03.html

The Secret Service and the military cost the same whether George Bush or Barack Obama are cutting brush in Crawford or shooting hoops in the basement. When the president goes to New York, New York picks up the tab. “Law and Order”, Barbra Streisand, St. Anthony – New York will shut down a street for pretty much anybody. Nobody notices. Traffic is really that bad.

Mike,

Frankly wesmorgan1 In his statement on #18 Has this right….

Yes, Bush was in office for 8 years… wesmorgan1 has the number of days correct too…

Did you get on Bush W’s case for all those days off??

I doubt it.. Do you have a double standard here??

I would certainly say you do!

Did you get on Bush W’s case for all those days off??

Much of those were working vacations. Somehow I don’t think the Obamas’ night out was a “working” date.

A more comparable comparison to find would be whether or not Bush and Laura went out on a date at taxpayer’s expense after telling the nation we have to tighten our wallets and cut back on carbon emissions for the sake of the planet.

Hell, I’d like to see Congress leave town more often. When they’re all out of Washington DC it’s that much less time they have to screw-up the country and “F***” us over.