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Which
is all total bathwater. Don’t know where they got their numbers
(Dan Rather?), but they’re wrong. All total, Barack
Obama has spent more than 400 days on some type of absence from
Washington. Sometimes calling them “trips”, or “visits”, in our
neck of the woods we call them vacation days. Obama and the MSM
are good at excusing Obama as they are now by calling his present
absence a bus tour. It’s a campaign tour, period.
Additionally he’s played 57 rounds of golf since taking office (29 of
them in 2010) and gone on 28 basketball outings (20 of those coming in
2010)
In fact he’s spent more than half his time as President outside of
Washington on various “tours”. Additionally C-BS isn’t
counting the 35 days Obama has spent at Camp David, whereas Bush’s
Ranch was actually considered a working vacation with his staff. [C-BS
Get’s Obama’s Vacation Days Wrong]
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By the sheerest happenstance we ate dinner
last night watching CBS Evening News (the last channel Mo-Sup watched).
As usual— when such insults
occur, I watched slack-jawed; applesauce and porkchop drool
cascading, as Pelley droned on about the vacation kerfluffle.
About how Obama had only taken taken just 61 vacation days after 31
months in office (while Bush and Reagan took about 10,000).
This was misdirection by
Pelley, so he wouldn't have to talk about what a complete muck
we're mired in. Still, it was
a challenge. I knew Pelley's figures were wrong for two reasons—
1) This was CBS; 2) the
numbers did not comport at all with my sense of things. I mumbled
something about "what they call
vacations?" and "why in hell
do you even watch CBS?" to MoSup (who responded "IT
WAS ON THAT CHANNEL! WHY DIDN'T YOU CHANGE IT!?").
I'll take this guy MacRanger's
data at face value, because it at least sounds reasonable, and
somewhat researched. And, unlike everyone mimicking Pelley's numbers
today, I have no reason to think MacRanger is filthy liar. In fact, I'm
pretty sure he is not. Point-Set-Match!
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