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Just more proof that when idiots like Rush Limbaugh, etc. repeat that exact phrase enough times, it will eventually stick in the minds of those whocan'tthink for themselves.
Nice job Rush !!!
Rush is paid very, very well to sustain a perpetual sense of outrage in his listening audience.
I know it's hard for you to admit that things were ever good during the Bush years, most liberals have a really hard time with that. Thanks for playing right into that stereotype.
It was good for a lot of folk during the Bush years.
It's been good for a lot of folk during the Obama years.
Bush obviously purchased it in 1999 to avoid Washington DC as much as possible, if he were to become president.
Otherwise, why would anyone buy such a large property in middle-of-nowhere Texas right at a time when they are running for an office which would require them to move to DC if they were elected?
In the area where that ranch is located, it's not a large property comparatively. Why do you care how big it is and at what point would it have been small enough to satisfy you? 100 acres? 25 acres? 2 acres? This entire premise is pathetic to say the least and the Bush derangement syndrome has obviously not worn off one bit with some special folks.
What was he doing during his August 2001 5 week vacation in Crawford, when he should have been conducting meetings about the threat from Al Qaeda?
Apparently chopping wood.
Bush obviously had more important matters to attend to than meeting on Al Qaeda while he was on vacation in Crawford, in August 2001:
The head of the CIA (George Tenet) was seriously worried all summer 2001 that we were about to be attacked.
And Bush's chief terrorist expert (Richard Clarke) was pressing him to hold meetings on the threat of Al Qaeda.
So what does Bush do?
He goes to Crawford ... and doesn't conduct a meeting until he returns!
And 9/11 happens one week later.
Ok. This post wins for most hypocritical.
We are nearly 5 years into this presidency and nothing is O's fault. Yet you blame Bush for something that happened 9 months after he takes office. Yup. His complete fault. Because it took those terrorists all of only nine months to plan and train for that monumentous exercise in terror.
Maybe we should ask Obama to repay the $5.2 million that was spent on his Ireland "business trip" that turned into a 2 day mini-vacation.
Maybe Obama should be made to reimburse the government for putting his MIL up in hotels, transporting and feeding her taking her on his vacations and "business" trips?
How do you know he has not?
How about kicking back to the government some of the cost of his tours along with the family in Africa?
How do you know he has not?
And how do you know that the government did not pick up the tab for safari when the Bush family vacationed in Africa.
How about he reimburse the government for using government transport for his weekend golf games?
Did you demand the same from all past presidents? How about Congress? Your own governor?
Here's a list of Obama and/or family vacations. I wonder what they would add up to.
If you can say that Obama works while on vacation, then it's safe to say that GWB did as well - and did so from his compound and not from an IPad.
No president is ever fully on vacation.
I think at the end of Obama's term and all the accounting is completed, more than likely Obama will come out ahead in the spending category.
We'll never know because expenses for prior presidents are estimates.
And you keep telling yourself that Obama is making the same sacrifice that he is asking you and every other American to make.
I was not aware that Obama asked me to make a sacrifice. Did I miss this?
I am amazed that anyone is willing for run for president given the personal attacks on them and their family.
If you read through these boards, that's the standard liberal/progressive defense when someone says anything negative about Obama's policies. They either have to blame it all on Bush or call the detractors racist.
Apparently, there are many posters who believe a black president does not deserve even a third of the vacation time and expense than the other presidents got.
I'm shocked that it took this long for someone to throw the race card, I applaud the left wing nut jobs for showing restraint in here for as long as you all did. I know that must have been really tough.
I'm shocked that it took this long for someone to throw the race card, I applaud the left wing nut jobs for showing restraint in here for as long as you all did. I know that must have been really tough.
Why can't Obama have at least as much vacation as Bush?
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