The weekend marked President Bush’s 124th visit as president to Camp David, the Maryland retreat where he has spent all or part of 386 days of his presidency. His preference, according to former Chief of Staff Andrew Card, remains the ranch in Crawford, Texas, where Bush has spent all or part of 416 days as president.
President Reagan still reportedly holds the record for Camp David stays — 186 visits and all or part of 517 days.
Bush sees each retreat, according to author Kenneth T. Walsh, as a “tool of the presidency.”
It will be interesting to see whether Bush spends more or less time at the White House as his term winds down and his time to define his legacy runs out.
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Sheesh, this guy misses more work days than Brownback. Replace Bush with an illegal immigrant and at least we’ll get some hard working person in office who speaks better English.
Time that Bush spends away from DC is time he’s not screwing something up. (or starting a war someplace)
Bush should take a long vacation- for about the next 2 years and take Cheney with him.
I guess not working really IS a republican value. Witness sam brownback and shrub.
“Define his legacy”. Not hard. He’ll rank just below Jimmy Carter and his daddy. The one thing the dumb one wants is to be remembered as a great president. But he will only be remembered for the great disaster of Iraq.
Somebody’s got to clear the brush, couldn’t get the cheap Mexican labor bill through!
It doesn’t matter where the President is, anything can be done from anywhere. The oval office is merely a symbol.
We will probably one day have a President that doesn’t even use the White House, prefering their own surroundings, who only visits for formal events of State etc..
It’s unfortunate, but he is just as capable of screwing up this country at Camp David, or Crawford Texas, as he is from the White House.
What a perfect example of CON speech!
Vacation is really a tool of doing your job!
Great. I’m going to use that: “Boss, I need more time off so I can do my job better. You know, just like George W. Bush.”
Vacation is doing your job.
War is peace.Ignorance is strength.Slavery is freedom.
“…he has spent all or part of 386 days at Camp David, according to records kept by Mark Knoller of CBS News in Washington, considered an authoritative source on such statistics. Only President Ronald Reagan spent more days there. . . .
“But Camp David is not quite the top getaway destination for Bush. That would be his ranch in Crawford, Texas, where he has spent all or part of 416 days since the start of his presidency, according to the White House — roughly a month more than at Camp David.”
Let’s see, that’s 802 days in one place or the other over the course of 2359 days of the Bush presidency — or one out of three.
As outrageous as his behavior is while in the nation’s capital can you even imagine what he’s like in his secluded hideaways!??
Must see….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB6PNTKM2xg&watch_response
I’m in!
Seems like a peaceful way for the people to revolt!
How many boxes do you think have been received at OUR country’s White House?? Could we see a news story on this?
Stupid premise, designed to get Libs to react like Pavlov’s dog. They don’t disappoint do they? Truth is, of course, that the President does not have to be at the White House to be working.
And please stop slobbering.
Oh my….
Way to go Eagle.
I guess this is what? Thread number 1038 of general Bush bashing for the foaming at the mouth liberals?
It is fairly obvious to any rational, intelligent thinking person that Camp David is not a “vacation” in the traditional sense.
The President is fully capable of working from Camp David and does.
It is rather funny though, watching the typical liberal response of stupidity.
Perhaps this is the WE Editors idea of a joke?
I might hope so, but it was Rhonda posting it. So I am tipping to the side of her being stupid, not funny.
Nathan, can Brownback have permission to use that argument during his campaign?
The White House is a building, not a prison for the President, get over it.
“October 16, 1998Clinton Set to Double Presidential Travel Record He’s Already Set Records for Trips, Days, and Pace of Overseas Travel. Many people have wondered: What will be President Clinton’s legacy? How will history remember him? Considering his foreign travel record, Clinton is likely to be better remembered by geography than by history. He already holds every presidential record for international travel -despite being not yet midway through his second term. Likely, by year’s end he (in six years) will have fully doubled the presidential foreign travel record. When Bill Clinton was running for office in 1992, he attacked President Bush for being the “foreign policy president,” but since then, President Clinton has become the”foreign travel president’ [see attached graph, Clinton's International Travel]. Even using a conservative count:Clinton holds the record for foreign trips by a U.S. president: 32;days abroad: 154; and rate of foreign travel: 27 days per year. It is not as though America is free from problems at home. We face an agricultural crisis, and the need to reform Social Security, Medicare, and our tax system. Too bad that while there are important issues at home, we have a President who is too often not. Clinton’s Bulging Passport: Record-breaking 32 Trips In 1992 then-candidate Clinton excoriated President Bush for taking 25 trips to 60countries during his tenure, sanctimoniously stating, “It is time for us to have a president who cares more about Littleton, New Hampshire than about Liechtenstein: more about Manchester than Micronesia.” Once in office, however, Clinton seemed intent on breaking the Bush record, and did so with his 27th trip abroad (according to the 11/21/97 Christian Science Monitor) to Canada on November 22, 1997.To date, President Clinton has taken a record-breaking 32 trips to 78 countries (including 51 different ones) with trips to South Korea, Japan, and Malaysia planned for later this year.Evidently, Clinton’s solution to President Bush’s travel was to visit not only Littleton, New Hampshire, but Liechtenstein -and everywhere else in between.Clinton Shatters Presidential Foreign Travel Record: 154 Days In just this year’s foreign travel so far, President Clinton has visited 11 countries and spent 41 days overseas. He has chalked up a grand total of 154 days of foreign travel. And this is a conservative estimate (we use as our source White House figures for 1993-97, and for 1998, for which White House figures are not yet available, we rely on press reports; we note that press reports from the 1993-1997 time period we accumulated account for 8 more days abroad than did the White House).How does this stack up with the foreign travel of other presidents? It establishes another Clinton record [see graph, U.S. Presidents' International Travel]. President Clinton’s foreign travel is likely by year’s end to double that of President Bush, the same president he attacked for traveling abroad too much.Record-breaking 26.8 Days per Year Exceeds Bush Travel by 25 Percent Comparing the travel of one president to another, as above, obviously covers different time-frames, but even looking at days of travel per year, Clinton shatters the record. President Bush averaged 21.5 international travel days per year, compared to 26.8 for Clinton [see graph,Average Days of International Travel Per Year].Aesop’s fable about the tortoise and the hare examines the two elements of a race:consistency and speed. In the case of President Clinton and foreign travel, he’s both tortoise and hare -traveling abroad at a consistently accelerating pace. In 1993-94 and 1995-96, Clinton’s 41 days and 39 days abroad put him roughly on President Bush’s pace. Then, in 1997-98, Clinton’s 74 days (to date) puts him at almost double Bush’s pace. Clinton’s 27 day-a-year travel pace is 25 percent greater than was Bush’s. What Compares to the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Gulf War? Any way you count it -trips, days, or pace -President Clinton holds the record for presidential foreign travel. White House spin-doctors might claim that this was in response to pressing international events. Compare the events then with those of the Bush presidency: during the Bush Administration’s first two years, the Soviet Union and communism in Europe collapsed-the Berlin Wall fell on November 11, 1989; during the Bush Administration’s last two years,the Persian Gulf War was planned, fought, and won -Desert Storm began on January 6, 1991.These two international events rank among the most significant of the last generation, if not the last half-century. Compared to the historic events that marked the Bush presidency, what foreign policy events have occurred to justify President Clinton’s record-breaking foreign travel?Clinton’s Presidency: More Postcards than Proposals. If Bill Clinton needed a passport to handle the agricultural crisis, had to pack a bag to address Social Security, needed a plane ticket to cut taxes, or had to cross time zones to deal with managed care reform, maybe he would have tackled these tasks.If foreign trips were home runs, Bill Clinton would be Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa rolled into one . .. and perhaps Ruth and Mantle as well. When the year is done, but the important business of America isn’t, it should be no wonder that President Clinton could not work on all the important issues at home: He was hardly here. Staff Contact: Dr. J.T. Young
At least at Camp David he is in the United States. This is to easy I have to get something constructive done today. Sheeple give it up. For every slur you throw at Bush we can throw more back.
I am disappointed in Bush’s immigration stance. I wish more was being accomplished in Iraq. Have you ever said Clinton made one wrong move.
It was only about sex.So he got a BJ in the oval office.He only lied to protect his family (it would have been great if he had done this before the deed).”
The excuses you have go on and on. Bush is in a goverment owned retreat/office. Why would anyone find that wrong?
It probably matters little where the President is, he is still the President, and I would imagine, vacations aren’t vacations as you and I would enjoy. It doesn;t matter who the president is, it’s still the same. While time away may offer a few less hours of demanding face time with politicos, I would imagineThe rest goes on Of course, I could always be wrong. Just what I think since I have no REAL idea.
It is funny that the bushites jump in with their excuses and comparisons when most of the ones who disagree with bush on mostly everything want him gone more, not less. Guess the bushies read this as criticism of their boy. Go figure. They do offer comic relief to their idiot in charge.
Hell, all I got was a lousy three weeks . . .
Look closely at the photo of bush accompanying this thread. Click on it and make it larger so you can see it better. Does that man look relaxed? He doesn’t to me. He looks like a sick sad old man. He probably needs a vacation; a looooong vacation.
The White House is the Presidental office and if you are not at the office, you ain’t workin!
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Each of the above YEA’s are equally responsible for the war in Iraq:
October 11, 2002, 12:50 AMOn the Joint Resolution (H.J.Res. 114 )
Measure Title: A joint resolution to authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against Iraq.
Vote Counts: YEAs 77 NAYs 23
And the bill/motion the vote was on???
Ah you were posting the answer while I was posting my question.
I’m not as concerned NOW about that vote as the number of total wuzzes who won’t cut the funding and get us out! I’m very disappointed, and planning to add to my BOHICA file so I don’t forget when I go to the polls.
America will never again be able to fight another war. The American people do not have the intestinal fortitude to fight a protracted war.We are too busy with cable tv, cable internet, video games, and the ballgame to concern ourselves with such ugly things. Our enemies know this. They know you. They know me. They serve a cause so fermently that they are willing to strap 20 pounds of explosives to their chests and blow their bodies to bits to further it. They serve a god who will give them special treatment in heaven for their noble cause. Americans cannot comprehend this. Neither can I.But their determination will not stop when we withdraw from Iraq. This is too ugly a truth for Americans to even face. And let me make thisclear: I agree we should withdraw from Iraq. But not because we cannot win. But because America does not have the will nor the patience to fight a protracted war. If congress WANTED us to win, we would win. But as a twenty-one year veteran and retired Marine, there is one fact of life I know very clearly. Believing equals receiving. If you don’t believe you can win – you absolutely never will.
It’s sad we did not learn the real truth about Vietnam. After the North Vietnamese launched the Tet Offensive, the bloody battles covered America’s mostly black and white television stations. We lost a lot of life. Many vietnamese civilians were killed and displayed on TV. But our military fought back and won the battle, but lost the war. The north has now admitted they were ready to seek a peace treaty following the loss at Tet. Until, that is, the three American television networks broadcast the blood and guts. It was all too ugly for Americans to face. And we lost faith and lost the war.
So let’s get the troops home – tomorrow. I’m sure those who have sworn to Allah to annihilate the United States will just go away. All we have to do is change the channel. Turn on a ballgame and “forget about it.”Where there is a will there is a way. The enemy has the will.
Bring the boys home. Enjoy another Vietnam. Did they all die in vain?
But Gawd bless me, I will fight with all my strength to ensure we NEVER commit American men and women to combat again. Our nation cannot stomach it.
GySgt USMC(Retired)
Had the press of today been around in 1776, we would not have just celebrated the 4th of July.
We’d be bowing down to the King of our country – enslaved to a foreign land.
The Islamic Extremists, when they blow-up a couple of US cities like San Francisco and New York with dirty bombs, will scare Americans into complete surrender.
Eagle Beak is right, we no longer have the will to fight to defend our freedom.
And to pretend that we no longer need to fight wars to defend American and to defend freedom, is to ignore the history of man.
And what exactly did Iraq have to do with the War on Terror(ism), Max?
Answers – zip, nada, nothing, zilch.
Just surrender already Clark.
Al Qaeda has declared Iraq to be the frontline on the war with the west.
When you and the libs have America surrender in Iraq, you really think the war will be over?
And what exactly Clarkbar does your comment have to do with anything in today’s world? You are off the wall or uninformed. Did you not hear or read the latest statement from the Al Queda number two?
You must live under a mushroom.
Yawn. What a pantload.
You guys are apparently not fully clued in to what really happened in 2003. The war’s start was fatally flawed. Flawed so badly that it only had the moral authority for Shock and Awe. It was so screwed up at the very beginning that it never stood a snowball’s chance of garnering American support for occupation and “nation building.”
That, my friends, is 100% the fault of George Bush.
I guess you guys have also forgotten that Augustus Stupidus has chosen to fight this war without a military draft. See, the draft doesn’t make a perfect army, and it damn sure don’t make a “fun army” for the most motivated to fight in. But one thing it does really, really, really well.
It will find the moral authority to wage war, or it will demand we stop fighting. Implicit in an army built through conscription is the idea that everybody’s sons participate (maybe daughters, too, one way or another). And that level of American participation is:1) What lends the US the will to win a just war (or end an unjust one), and2) Missing now in Iraq.
Pendant, you are totally clueless. Having served my country in the military for twenty one count them f-years – you have not the slightest idea what a conscription army would do for America. I can tell you, it is not a good thing. If you want details ask. But don’t spout off cr**. If you have served, you would never speak such nonsense as you posted above. Now, regarding 2003. It no longer matters in today’s world. The bad guys have stated Iraq is their goal. So what you gonna do about it?
It amazes me how the Libs still keep attacking GW Bush and blaming everything on him.
Guess what guys, GW IS NOT RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT in 2008!
You Libs have the power now in Congress, so if you don’t want to be in Iraq DEFUND the war.
You all voted for the Dems in 2006 to DEFUND the war right? They have really let you down.
Dang, blame GW for making the Dems fund the war. Poor Dems, just have no backbone.
A conscription army is the ONLY thing that will allow us to “win” a nation-building exercise.
You are 180 degrees off course, EB.
The point that you missed, Eagle Shit and Max, was that Iraq was NOT the central front in the War on Terror(ism) nor was al Qaeda a presence in Iraq UNTIL George W Bush decided to invade without provocation.
By his own admission, Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, according to George W Bush.
So, answer, Eagle Shit and Max, why are we there?
60 votes in the Senate, Max. Hell, you gotta have ‘em whenever a filibuster is THREATENED, much less put into motion.
Hard hurdle to get over.
That’s funny Pendant, I remember the Dems complaining about Republican inaction from 01 to 06 and the Repubs gave the same excuse.
The Dems didn’t acknowledge the fillibuster excuse for 6 years, so how can they use that now?
Max,
I think this Pendant fella is missing a few bolts. Not sure his elevator stops at the top floor. The draft army was full of drugs, criminals, and anyone a judge gave a choice to. I was there and it was not pretty. Motivation? The next high. Discipline? Only to the dealer, not the sargeant.
And why does he keep talking PAST tense? I don’t care who shot JR. The point is the bad guys are in Iraq now and want it as their spearhead.
He is so full of hate bush, that he cannot see clearly. I’m not sure he could write anything without the tape recorded message from the left anyway.
Coulda, shoulda, woulda Clark Boy.
The USA is IN IRAQ NOW!
Why you still living in the past?
Iraq is NOW the frontline on the war with Islamic Terrorists.
And YOU want to surrender.
Say American surrenders, then what Clarkie?
No point in arguing with trash tonight EB.
Clark won’t relate to this, but I have to go as a sexy woman is attacking me now, so I must sign-off from cyberlife for now and get back to the real world.
“Iraq is NOW the frontline on the war with Islamic Terrorists.”
Bullshit! Even the Pentagon says that less than 5% of the forced aligned against the American troops are associated with al Qaeda.
What Bush has done is provide a training ground and recruitment poster for al Qaeda.
Sorry, Max, as usual, you are full of shit.
How much air did you have to pump into that sexy woman, Max?
Me two. I have to git to bed so I can make it to work tomorrow. I have to make lot’s of money to support the illegals on social security, the food stamps for the lazy, WIC for the stupid (easy)pregnant single women, and income tax for the UNearned Income Credit redistribution of wealth. The blogs belong to the unemployed beggars late night.
Hell, you guys bitch because not enough keyboarders’ll get angry enough to use all-caps, and so I tell you the solution: a draft.
You want participation, then you want a draft.
Necessary, but not sufficient.
The truth which [US President George W] Bush, [US Secretary of State Condoleezza] Rice and [US Defense Secretary Donald] Rumsfeld hide from you is that the only way out from Iraq is immediate withdrawal, and any delay in this decision will only mean more deaths and more losses.
If you don’t leave today, then you shall inevitably leave tomorrow but after scores of thousands of fatalities and double that number of disabled and wounded people
Iraq will be muslim and from it will spill the destruction of the evil western world.
“The north has now admitted they were ready to seek a peace treaty following the loss at Tet.”
Eagle Beak, this is a right-wing canard that never dies no matter how many times it is refuted.
Ollie North, convicted liar, said that one General Giap wrote this in his memoirs.
General Giap never said it. He never wrote any memoirs.
Here’s what http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/a-list/2004w13/msg00058.htm says–
The claim that Gen.Vo Nguyen Giap said that if it weren’t fororganizations like Kerry’s Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Hanoi wouldhave surrendered to the U.S., is a lie.On February 10, 2004 NewsMax.Com ran a story entitled, “Gen. Giap:Kerry’s Group Helped Hanoi Defeat U.S.”
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/2/10/222651.shtml
The story claimed that “In his 1985 memoir about the war, Gen.Vo NguyenGiap wrote that if it weren’t for organizations like Kerry’s VietnamVeterans Against the War, Hanoi would have surrendered to the U.S. -according to Fox News Channel war historian Oliver North.”
The Giap quote is a lie. According to WashingtonDispatch.com columnistGreg Lewis , who researched the alleged quotation, “no such volumeexists.”http://www.washingtondispatch.com/article_8268.shtml
Lewis wrote, ” A few weeks ago in a column about Kerry, I referred to what has turned out to be an “urban legend.” Specifically, based on a “news” item that appeared on NewsMax.com, I repeated a reference to avolume of memoirs supposedly published by North Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap in 1985 as the source of an assertion by Colonel Oliver North. After a reader requested a reference to Giap’s 1985 “Memoirs,” Idid research that convinced me no such volume exists. For that matter, I haven’t been able to verify through Fox News that Colonel North actually made the comments he is said to have made and which I repeated.”
The bogus Giap quote has been repeated as gospel in numerous articles,blogs, commentaries and pseudo-news reports criticizing John Kerry. In the past General Giap is also alleged to have made similar statements about Jane Fonda and Walter Cronkite, though there is no evidence that he did. ”
Eagle Beak, your assertion that “liberal traitors lost the war for us” is a variation on the following:
“The Dolchstoßlegende or Dolchstosslegende, (German “dagger-thrust legend”, often translated in English as “stab-in-the-back legend”) refers to a social mythos and persecution-propaganda and belief among bitter post-World War I German nationalists, that lay blame for the loss of the war upon non-Germans and non-nationalists.
“Many Germans who supported, fought in, or had otherwise known people lost in the enormously costly war, believed the causes for the German/Austrian involvement in the war were justified. They had hoped it would bring a restoration of past glory and a unified German nation-state. Instead, the war caused the deaths of 1,770,000 German soldiers and 760,000 German civilians, devastated the economy, and brought losses in both territory and national sovereignty.
“Conservatives, nationalists and ex-military leaders sought others to blame. The common scapegoats were Weimar Republic politicians, socialists, communists, and “international Jewry” — a term referring to Jews with a perceived excess of wealth and influence. These “November criminals”, nationalists alleged, had “stabbed them in the back” on the “home front,” by either criticizing the cause of German nationalism, or by simply not being zealous-enough supporters of it. In essence the accusation was that the accused committed treason against the benevolent and righteous common cause.
“Due to the highly potent imagery of a “stab in the back”, and the common perception amongst political conservatives that politically hostile homefronts defeat otherwise winnable wars, the stab in the back legend is a common legend in a number of modern societies. In particular, the stab in the back legend is often used by conservatives to explain the defeat of the United States in the Vietnam war. In the context of the US involvement in the Vietnam War the stab in the back legend is part of the Vietnam Syndrome complex.”
You’re right Linda, the photo makes Bush look like an older man than his dad, even. He looks old and sad. I say let’s retire him to the outer santum. It is way past time. Once we do….
Happy days are here again, the sky above is clear again, Happy days are here again…
Don’t ya get it Clark
They hate youThey hate your son or daughter tooThey come in the nightYou told your daughter not to wonderShe’s no longer in your sightYou turn around and she’s goneYou hear a screamShe’s crying ClarkShe’s crying Clark
Don’t take meNo! No! No!You can’t do thisYou CAN’T do thisOh GOD!This must not be happening to meIt can’t be happening hereNo I didn’t do anythingDad don’t let them take meGod help me
You see him ClarkNow you see himAnd he’s looking right at youHolding a gunAnd a bombHe’s giving you that knowing look ClarkHe’s smiling at youHe’s laughing at youNothing you can do about it nowHe’s got your daughterWhy? Why? Why?
Hate is not rationalWhy doesn’t matterSome Americans hate you ClarkBut they don’t kill youNot even youThough you make them hate youIt’s not your faultIt’s the way you areIt’s not their faultThey’re too weak to kill youIt’s that way for all Americans
Muslims are different Clark
Hate for you is strongHate for all Americans is strongThey will make you fear themThey will prove they are worthy to AllahThey will make you think they are evilThey will make you think they are PURE evilThey ARE evil!They will do terrible things to your sonThey will do terrible things to your daughterThey will do this thereThey will even do this here
They hate you!They hate you!They HATE YOU!They will bring pure terror to your soulAnd they will kill your sonThey will kill your daughterHere or there it doesn’t matter to themThey hate youThey hate your sonThey hate your daughter
They don’t care if they die in their causeThey have nothing to live for nowAllah will save themAllah will reward themAnd you and yours will die!
You might save yourselfYou might save your daughterYou might save your sonSurrender to AllahBend down and confessBegin to worship AllahBecome MuslimAnd save yourselfOr you will dieOr you will die
In today’s world of instant communication, wars are fought with propaganda. A suicide bomber is probably the least efficient way to kill an occupying force, but it is highly effective as a recruiting tool and proof of faith and commitment. It is a propaganda weapon.Any conventional occupation force is going to, in the course of doing it’s business, provide it’s enemies with the tools to bring it down. We provided Abu Graib to them on a platter; we provided them with horribly mutilated babies in Falluja, and countless other incidents.We cannot win this kind of war with strategies of the past. We either learn to fight this type of war in full view of the world, or we lose it. Most likely, we lost this war before it was started, because we ignored the earlier lessons of fighting in the Middle-East.