Obamas to spend holidays in Hawaii at $4 million cost to taxpayers (Palestinians, middle east)

[freemkt]

I would be willing to spend $4 million of taxpayers' money for a one-way trip to Hawaii and a paid tropical retirement.

[LordBalfor]

Originally Posted by Some_Random_Guy

I'm open for better sources, but from what I could find...

Bush's travel cost source

Using Boehner’s Logic GOP Owes Taxpayers $124 Million for Bush Vacation Travel - Democratic Underground

Obama's travel expense source

Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion on Obama family last year | The Daily Caller

LOL
Some GOP activitist writes a book and we're supposed to take it as "gospel".
Sorry, it's BS.

Robert Keith Gray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ken

[Some_Random_Guy]

Originally Posted by LordBalfor

LOL
Some GOP activitist writes a book and we're supposed to take it as "gospel".
Sorry, it's BS.

Robert Keith Gray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ken

I hope its not true, but still, you haven't exactly taken the initiative to debunk whatever algorithm he used to calculate that number.

That aside, Obama eats his own farts. I know this.

[LordBalfor]

Originally Posted by Some_Random_Guy

I hope its not true, but still, you haven't exactly taken the initiative to debunk whatever algorithm he used to calculate that number.

That aside, Obama eats his own farts. I know this.

No one KNOWS "what algorithm" the guy used...

...probably because there ISN'T one. He likely just made it up.

It's a bunch of bull.

Ken

[softblueyz]

Originally Posted by LordBalfor

Why don't we let the folks who voted Bush into office pay first.

"...Bush took the longest single vacation — 5 weeks — of any President in 36 years....
...President Bush spent 32% of his presidency on vacation..."

Obama’s Vacations? Of Any President, Bush Racked Up the Most | P365

Ken

Was the country about to go over a fiscal cliff when Bush took his vacation? Was the country close to having to discuss the debt crisis?

Bush addressed the issues that needed to be addressed before taking a vacation. He didn't skip off like a little boy, giving his finger to people who wouldn't play by his rules, and say **** it. And that is exactly what Obama is doing.

Obama should be addressing the issues of this country. Oh, wait. He's the president and he won't be getting another term - not to worry, just make the best of the taxpayers money while he can.

[Factsplease]

LOL...this again? I remember something like this a couple of years ago. Michele Bachmann started some crazy rumor about Obama costing tax payers $200 million/day on a trip to India. Why is it that every time this president does the same thing that others do, it's such a big deal? If the man didn't get so many death threats, the cost of security would probably be a little lower too. Yet the same people who complain about this never take issue with the idiot preachers who pray for his death or the fools who post about it on social media websites. More faux outrage.

[softblueyz]

Originally Posted by LordBalfor

WHO's been in charge as we've gradually dug out way out of that hole?

You may want to look behind you because that hole is going to get a whole lot wider and deeper. It sure wouldn't look good to people who are in it to see the president taking a $4 million vacation while you are digging your way through survival.

[LordBalfor]

Originally Posted by softblueyz

Was the country about to go over a fiscal cliff when Bush took his vacation? Was the country close to having to discuss the debt crisis?

Bush addressed the issues that needed to be addressed before taking a vacation. He didn't skip off like a little boy, giving his finger to people who wouldn't play by his rules, and say **** it. And that is exactly what Obama is doing.

Obama should be addressing the issues of this country. Oh, wait. He's the president and he won't be getting another term - not to worry, just make the best of the taxpayers money while he can.

Really?

"In an effort to "prevent Palestinians from attacking towns in southern Israel with missiles," Israel today undertook its third day of offensive military airstrikes in the Palestinian territory of Gaza, raising the death toll to more than 300. The Palestinian casualty numbers have been described as the highest over such a brief period since the 1967 Six-Day war. Scores of Israelis have been wounded -- and at least one killed -- by rocket attacks fired by Palestinians. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak called the situation "all out war."

While Bush has been briefed on the situation by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, he has opted not to interrupt his final vacation as president to make a public statement on the crisis. For someone who has enjoyed the most vacation days as sitting president -- including days spent relaxing in comfort during Hurricane Katrina and in the lead-up to 9/11 -- it shouldn't come as a huge surprise that Bush prioritizes vacationing over crisis management"

Bush Enjoys Vacation As Middle East Crisis Escalates

At 4:00 PM on Sunday, August 28th, "National Hurricane Center Meteorologist Chris Lauer said Katrina was still on track to hit the New Orleans area as a devastating Category 5 hurricane as its eye comes ashore" on Monday morning, August 29th, Gordon Russell wrote in The Times-Picayune.

Also, on Sunday, August 28th, Max Mayfield, still "worried about Hurricane Katrina ... even talked about the force of Katrina during a video conference call to President Bush at his ranch in Crawford, Texas."

"In his first extensive interview since resigning as FEMA director" on September 12th, Michael D. Brown "declined to blame President Bush or the White House for his removal or for the flawed response," New York Times' David D. Kirkpatrick and Scott Shane wrote September 15, 2005.

"But Mr. Brown's account, in which he described making 'a blur of calls' all week to Mr. Chertoff, Mr. Card and Mr. Hagin, suggested that Mr. Bush, or at least his top aides, were informed early and repeatedly by the top federal official at the scene that state and local authorities were overwhelmed and that the overall response was going badly," they wrote.

Caught on Tape

The Associated Press reported March 1, 2006, that film footage it had obtained, "along with seven days of transcripts of briefings ... show in excruciating detail that while federal officials anticipated the tragedy that unfolded in New Orleans and elsewhere along the Gulf Coast, they were fatally slow to realize they had not mustered enough resources to deal with the unprecedented disaster.

"Linked by secure video, Bush expressed a confidence on Aug. 28 that starkly contrasted with the dire warnings his disaster chief and numerous federal, state and local officials provided during the four days before the storm."

"In dramatic and agonizing terms, federal disaster officials warned President Bush and his homeland security chief that Hurricane Katrina could breach levees, put lives at risk in New Orleans' Superdome and overwhelm rescuers, according to video footage," AP reported. "Bush didn't ask any questions during the final briefing before Katrina struck on Aug. 29, but he assured soon-to-be-battered state officials: 'We are fully prepared'.

George W. Bush: Hurricane Katrina - SourceWatch

Ken

[LordBalfor]

Originally Posted by softblueyz

You may want to look behind you because that hole is going to get a whole lot wider and deeper. It sure wouldn't look good to people who are in it to see the president taking a $4 million vacation while you are digging your way through survival.

We'll be FINE. Despite the hype, the "fiscal cliff" is not a "cliff" at all - it's a slope.

Ken

[theunbrainwashed]

Am I the only conservative that is getting tired of other right-wingers just plain bashing the president? Give it a rest already! Obama is from Hawaii, is it his fault that he's not from ****ing Maine? Would liberals start to bash me if I was elected president and I decided to spent the holidays in my Caribbean hometown?