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On Tue, 03 May 2011 22:55:57 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 03 May 2011 18:46:07 -0700, wrote:

On Tue, 03 May 2011 21:29:31 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 03 May 2011 17:20:37 -0700, wrote:

He was on vacation for 1/3 of his presidency.

Does any president ever really get a vacation? The presidency follows
them wherever they go or I would really be worried about them walking
around natural disaster sites in Fumbuck kicking rubble.

He was sitting on his ranch enjoying himself. I'm sure he had lots of
interaction with all his policy makers and Congress in DC, at least in
between riding around his ranch and watching TV.

Feel free to defend him, but the fact is that he was AWOL and I'm not
talking about his "service" in the Texas Air National Guard.

It is just clear you do not understand how the president, any
president, travels. The White House comes with them.

It's clear that you're going to defend Bush no matter what. The "White
House" doesn't "come with them." They can do a bunch of stuff, but
it's not like you're on sight, talking to and meeting with all the
people.

What can't they do?

See previous. Sorry if you're having reading comprehension problems.

"meeting all the people"? Is that what you mean?
You can have a meeting without being in the same room.

Sure. Feel free to defend Bush's 1/3 term vacation. I guess you must
not understand how important it is to meet face-to-face with people.
Do you think he imported all the people to Crawford for an hour
meeting.

FDR ran most of WWII from a sanitarium in Arkansas.

I think that was a few years ago. I'm sure it's applicable somehow.

Yeah it was in a time when you either talked on the phone or you sent
a telegram.

Bush had video conferencing, the internet and a communication system
worthy of the starship enterprise.

Actually, even the White House itself is nothing like we see on TV.
There have been ongoing complaints that even the phones don't work, so
I don't know where you're getting this "inside" info.

Who was he going to have this meeting with that was could not be had
on a conference call?

Maybe you should talk to Obama.

You keep saying Cheney was running the country anyway.

And, this absolves Bush?

Who runs the country when Obama decides to take his wife to Chicago on
a date or he flies down to Alabama for a photo op next to a blown up
trailer?

Big difference isn't it, since he's not gone for weeks/months at a
time. But, of course, Obama is terrible and Bush was ok.

BTW in this regard I have always given Clinton credit.
Carter had to go back to Georgia for adventures with killer rabbits,
Bush and Reagan had to go to the ranch to clear brush but Clinton
could just slip out into the hall for a 5 minute blowjob and he was
back on the job, refreshed and ready to go, That was efficiency.

And, that's just terrible isn't it. Oh how the right loves to condemn
him. All from the holier than thou who were incredibly hypocritical.