Lavish Obama vacation in time of economic turmoil
 

Apparently another Republican investigation... :winkwink:

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Good point.

The president of The United States and his family should stay at the Red Roof Inn and
eat oat meal and water for every meal.

Idiot.

Saw an article last week.
Obama has spent $31 MILLION tax payer dollars on vacations and Golf in 18 months.
They showed Bush spent 16.8 million in tax payer dollars on vacations over 8 years.

As Bill Clinton used to say "I feel your pain" Mr. President!

If you have a link to that that would be great.

He's the fuckin' Pres. of the United States. Don't you think that position comes with a few perks? It's not like he's working the counter at Taco Bell like Demon.

I don't really care what she does in regards to vacations, POTUS either. They are the First Family, they can get special treatment every now and then. However, it does look bad and if they want to do things like this they should be prepared for the backlash. At a time when many people are having trouble making rent, nobody wants to see in the headlines that the First Lady is enjoying a fancy vacation in a country that many people dream of visiting.

Using the tax money many self-employed people are having a hard time paying....

they should have spent the money on Vacation in the gulf.

Presidents have been doing this for ever and I don't have a problem with that, but damn our president is always throwing parties and vacationing

31 million in 18 months, does he have a fucking clue?

You have links for this? Because I cant find anything.

Sounds like our ousted PM Kevin Rudd.

In 2007 Kevin Rudd campaigned on the phrase Kevin 07. He took so many trips he became known as Kevin 747. Funnily enough Obama described Kevin Rudd as his closest political match on the world stage. Hopefully Obama goes the same way...

Sorry guys, it's Bush's fault!

you have a link right?

i heard bush took a lot of vacations to crawford and had 400+ vacation days over 8 years of presidency.. and that's before the shit hit the fan

ah I did find some new articles saying he spent $10 million on personal parties in 09.

I think they are both pretty heavy on the vacations, LOL. I never really minded Bush having vacations and I don't mind Obama playing golf. Everyone needs "me time", and if that's what they enjoy and helps them recharge, then that's what they should do.

Though the public will be critical of such vacation time either way. Bush got hammered on it, I'm sure Obama will get the same.

Queen Obama has taken an avg of 10 tax payer paid vacations per month since the King took the throne.

It's good to be King, yes? :)

A weak distraction.

Anyone see Boehner on Meet the Press this week? His half a wit was working overtime as he avoided answering whether or not tax cuts pay for themselves. 5 times asked, zero times answered. Heck of a job, brownie.

needs to be repeated a few times .. then some bloggers will pick it up and turn it into a FACT ! ... :1orglaugh

How do you take 10 vacations a month?

Most of this is public outcry and bad perception. When we talk about the federal budget, $31 million over 18 months is nothing. That is a tiny little miniscule blip of a blip.

There are larger problems that need to be worried about.

In one thread here on GFY some pictures were shown of a lavish work place that
everyone loved and thought it was cool to provided employees with a comfortable environment with the goal of better production.

I guess it's ok when someone else is paying for it :upsidedow

It has to be a very stressful job being president of the united states and the burden that job places on his family.

I have no problem with them doing something like this. Staying at a five star hotel for it's security and privacy makes sense to me.

I believe the location was picked because Mrs. Obama had some personal business with a long time friend there. We pay him to do a job and we pay to protect him while doing it. The president and his family have a life too and I don't have a problem with them living it.

http://indiedesign.typepad.com/2010_...eck-crying.jpg

Here come the conservative hypocritical crocodile tears...

Try sourcing your comments, like this:

His first year in office, Obama spent 26 days on vacation, compared with:

Reagan = 42

Bush Sr. = 40

Bush Jr = 69

Carter = 19

Clinton = 21

Source: FactCheck.org

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As if July 17th, Obama's vacation days totaled 65 days, as compared with Bush Jr's 120 vacation days over the same timeframe.

Source: Chicago Sun-Times

I could go on, but my point is that if you are going to throw out numbers as facts, at least provide a source for us to consider the validity of the information (or disinformation) which you are trying to disseminate.

ADG

per month ?????

lol .... repeat again, shake, repeat again, put in oven at 350 for 10 minutes= a brand new fact !!!

But I agree that in these hard times for the USA, restraint should be applied ... It does not LOOK good and is not good. :2 cents:

Ok, must have been a bad source. I read it on a few different websites, both left and right.

NO matter what any president does or doesnt do people will bitch

thanks for dropping some facts on us!
:thumbsup

Let them eat cake!



Or any other variety of leaven desserts.

Pfffff... facts

You're using Media Matters and Chicago Sun-Times as your source of information? Did you purposely look for biased news or do those sites represent your political views to support your agenda?

Richer people live more richly. It's not surprising.

http://www.factcheck.org/2010/01/pre...vacation-days/

President Obama has spent all or part of 26 days "on vacation" during his first year as president, according to CBS News White House Correspondent Mark Knoller.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FactCheck

some of you are fucked in the head.

Actually, I used FactCheck.org as the source for the number of days the various recent Presidents had taken while in office, not Media Matters.

As for the Sun-Times numbers, here are the same numbers from a few weeks ago listed on the Fox News Insider. Happy now? :winkwink:

http://foxtracker.files.wordpress.co...bama-cone2.jpg

To answer your question(s), I gather information from a variety of news sources, conservative and liberal, US and international, to formulate my opinions.

I don't think I have an agenda, per se.

ADG

Poor bastard has less holiday time than me :disgust

I am against black people going on vacation. There I said it... /s

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Don't listen to that, our "Messiah" is different and is going to change all the "destruction Bush has created".

http://www.tobydials.com/redstate/fixing.jpg

He is a millionaire and is not unemployed. I expect his family to take vacations similar to those they have become accustomed to.

When/if he gets voted out in a little over two years he will still be a millionaire, probably have even better opportunities and take even better vacays.

Wait a second, everybody here knows that there is no such a thing as a "vacation" for the President of the United States, right? His closest advisers are still with him, he still has meetings, he still makes the big decisions he always makes. They just happen to relocate the White House to wherever he is.

It's not like the President is a data entry clerk that is losing productivity. All the position calls for is making decisions ... and those decisions can be made anywhere.

There is a BIG difference between DAYS and MONEY spent.
Also the numbers you showed do they include the First Lady???
That was what the Thread was started about her Lavish spending of American Tax dollars in another Country!!!

Oh, and I do believe the BUSH vacations we at a Ranch he owned, who knows...

Ok, most of what I said was what I HEARD,
I do want to know if Ms Obama is using Tax dollars?

I believe every President should take Vacations, Very stressful job!
But come on, keep it in your own country at times like these!

if i was president id have vacations as well.

I think Obama has had Very Little Vacations, most was Christmas Holliday time! It is this current one of Mrs Obama, that gets to me! I "heard" it was costing Tax Payers $75K a DAY...
Think we will see transparency on the bill????

Weak. Distraction.

What was she wearing? Who did her hair? What other breaking news happened with her wardrobe or dinner? We're hanging on every word. It's important.

Anyone see Charlie Rangels rant today? That was pretty kick-ass.

Wait, did michelle obama fart? no fucking way omg.

While I don't care if she takes a vacation or not, I do think it is somewhat in poor taste to tell people here in the US that they should consider vacationing in Florida and the gulf coast to help out those economies and then run off to Spain. She should have followed her own advice.

http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-...0081003122.jpg

While right wing anti-Obama wags are trying to stir up hate and discontent about the First Lady's vacation, the President is at work today on a $26 billion jobs bill which should save over 140,000 to 160,000 jobs for teachers, police and firefighters:

Source: US News and World Report

ADG

Amen to that.

I'm glad someone here other than me knew this and pointed it out before me. Rancho Del Cielo was not called the White House of the West for no reason same thing goes for Prairie Chapel Ranch in the south.

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library lists 21 foreign dignitaries to visit Rancho Del Cielo including Margaret Thatcher, Queen Elizabeth II, and Mikhail Gorbachev.

Bush for example had all these foreign dignitaries out to his ranch.

* Russian President Vladimir Putin, November 2001
* British Prime Minister Tony Blair, April 2002
* Saudi King Abdullah, April 2002, April 2005
* Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan, August 2002
* Chinese President Jiāng Zémín, October 2002
* Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar, February 2003
* Australian Prime Minister John Howard, May 2003
* Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi Jun'ichirō, May 2003
* Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, July 2003
* Mexican President Vicente Fox, March 2004, March 2005
* Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, April 2004
* Spanish King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofía, November 2004
* Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, March 2005
* Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, April 2005
* Colombian President Álvaro Uribe, August 2005
* German Chancellor Angela Merkel, November 2007
* Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, February 2008

However most of the number still include all of these meetings as vacations even though they where working vacations.

Another huge scam by Barry and his band of Corruptocrats, why not use part of the 421B left over from the last 700B stimulus package for this. Easy answer, hes is appeasing the teacher unions for votes they so desperately need coming up in 85 short days.

I'm not that smart but im pretty sure 421B - 26B = 395B.

Print More Money!

"Fed gave its most bearish outlook in more than a year, saying the economic recovery is weakening."

By pulling a lot of money from the food stamp program, a lot of the House is rather upset that the administration's first suggestion for cuts was the food stamp program.

I wouldn't mind knowing more about that bill. Were the unions asked for concessions or is it a total bailout bill? I read an article a while back about the teachers union in Milwaukee... the school board needed some benefit cuts in order to save a few hundred teachers jobs. Instead of the union going to the teachers with the proposal, they straight up said no and went running for bailout money. Now not every situation is like that, but I'm sure more are.

LMAO

I call bullshit until I see a link

Of course if he didn't save the teachers jobs, he would be ripped apart for it. If you have 421b left over, it makes no difference were the new money comes from, it's not like they ever actually printed 700b worth of money in the first place and then just left 421b laying around.