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Yeah Obama golfs like Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
Seems the Narcissus-in-Chief is quite the duffer:
President Barack Obama has played a remarkable 41 rounds of golf since becoming president, easily outpacing his predecessor and possibly damaging his ability to portray himself in 2012 as a populist advocate of average folks.
With the excursions lasting on average at least five hours, the president has devoted a total of more than 200 hours to golf, not counting time spent on the White House putting green. That’s the equivalent of twenty five eight-hour work days, or five work weeks spent smacking golf balls.
OBAMA..... 200 HOURS OF GOLFING.... 7 VACATIONS.... 41 ROUNDS OF GOLF..... TRIPS TO THE GULF?... TRIPS TO ARIZONA?..... TRIPS TO INSPECT THE BORDER? - Patriotic Resistance (http://www.resistnet.com/forum/topics/obama-200-hours-of-golfing - broken link)
Oh come on ALL the presidents take vacations like normal people do.
When this one takes 1/3 of his presidency for vacations I'll complain.
Gee,...you're easy. Most "normal people" I know have two-three weeks of vacation a year,....something like 10-15 working days. Guess more of us need to hang out with your kind of "normal people".
How about what my family gets? ONE two-week vacation, after 24 years with the same company. And during that vacation, 1 full day on a phone conference call. And several days calls to deal with business problems.
This is what life is like for those charged with managing a plant that produces energy. No paid overtime despite 80-hour weeks, no pension at all, and a 401K that locks us into the Las-Vegas style stock market, subject to the whims of the Wall Street and CEO robber-barons.
The President of the US is treated like a GOD, and his decisions affect the lives of over 300 million Americans. Frankly, I think a responsible President would go without a single week-long of vacation for the 4 years he's leading the nation. Many Americans with responsible jobs don't get to take vacations, and they don't affect the lives of millions.
It's amazing how little we expect of those who have EVERYTHING (riches, permanent security, celebrity, luxury like no King in history ever had), and how much we expect of those who actually keep the country running. If we ever rewarded our productive people, and gave to the parasites only what they actually earned, we'd have taken a giant step forward in human evolution. Of course, our President believes in the exact opposite.
You raised some excellent points. Not only do Obama's decisions affect over 300 million Americans, but he is the leader of the last remaining super-power and arguably the most powerful person in the world. To be taking as much time off for vacationing, golfing, campaigning, etc as he does is simply inexcusable and irresponsible.
Enough with the "Well, so-n-so took more days off than Obama so it's okay". You can't justify bad behavior by pointing to other (perceived) bad behavior.
Gee,...you're easy. Most "normal people" I know have two-three weeks of vacation a year,....something like 10-15 working days. Guess more of us need to hang out with your kind of "normal people".
Since you're counting overnights and weekends for Obama; I certainly hope you're counting weekends for the average worker bee, too. That would be about 52 holidays they get a year on top of those few weeks.
Thought you wanted different.........not the same ole' same ole.' Ugh!!!! Obama supporters complained like hell when President Bush did it, but they just keep comparing President Obama to President Bush and to think you voted for CHANGE!! All we will have is change, when Obama is done being the HOPE you all voted for.
Thought you wanted different.........not the same ole' same ole.' Ugh!!!! Obama supporters complained like hell when President Bush did it, but they just keep comparing President Obama to President Bush and to think you voted for CHANGE!! All we will have is change, when Obama is done being the HOPE you all voted for.
Since Obama hasn't taken 1/3 of what Bush did, it is different.
Somehow the Rs want to say that Obama is taking more holiday than Bush. Bush took 96 days holiday during the same time Obama took 36.
You do see the difference, don't you?
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ALL the presidents take vacations like normal people do.
