You might wonder why I’m bringing up old news about our Vacationer-in-Chief. For the record Bush took 487 days at Camp David and 490 days at his ranch, the equivalent of almost 2.7 years in his 8 years in the Oval office. That works out to around ONE THIRD of his entire Presidency.
Well this is why (from CNN): Obama is is taking fire from CNN for daring to take a three day trip to Maine.
(CNN) — President Obama and his family left Washington Friday for a weekend getaway to Maine, but along with a little rest and relaxation comes criticism that the president is taking it easy with the Gulf of Mexico oil crisis in a critical phase.
The Obamas plan to spend the weekend on Mount Desert Island, home of Acadia National Park. The trip marks the president’s third vacation since the oil disaster began in April. […]
Our liberal media strikes again!
Hey, I know, you know, and Obama knows that criticism over trial crap like this it comes with the territory but do you remember a big uproar about Bush in the media having spent the entire month of August on vacation after 9/11 happened? I sure don’t.
And I sure don’t recall a website by the Democratic National Committee devoted to attacking Bush for his many vacations — ever, much less one pointing out the time the time he took off to cut brush while his ignoring his national security experts were warning that Al Qaeda was poised to attack the United States. It was only a story that got much play in the liberal blogosphere and then not until 2004.
Yet that is precisely what the Republican National Committee has done. They created a website devoted to criticizing Obama for his leisure activities.
The Republican National Committee launched a website blasting what it considers Obama’s “leisure activities or missteps” during the oil disaster, like playing golf, attending concerts and vacationing in Asheville, North Carolina; Chicago, Illinois; and now Maine.
I’m not providing a link for that site by the way. Search it out if you like fallacious and nonsensical information about our “lazy” Democrat President from the party who gave us this man to lead the nation:
And for good measure here’s another video to remind you that Bush praised his appointed head of FEMA, a man not qualified to umpire a T-Ball game for five year olds, after his administration’s utter failure to help the people of the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina:
Amazing isn’t it? You have to give it up to Karl Rove. He convinced the Beltway media (with the help of Fox News of course) that Bush was a hard working guy, always in touch with the people of America, and always in control of the “War on Terror” even as he took more time off from his job as Commander-in-Chief than any other President ever — by a wide margin.
Meanwhile, the oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico, a crisis that was caused in large part by the deregulation of the oil industry and the corruption of the Mineral Management Service that the Republicans ushered in under Bush and Cheney, is being used to attack the most effective President we’ve had since LBJ in terms of getting his agenda passed by Congress.
It’s enough to make your blood boil at the hypocrisy and deceit the Republicans and their lap dogs in the media are perpetrating, isn’t it?
Democratic strategist Jamal Simmons said the Republican criticism is “galling,” considering Bush’s frequent trips to Camp David and his home in Crawford, Texas.
“Barack Obama is working as hard as any president that we’ve had in recent history and certainly harder than the most immediate previous president,” he said.
Jamal Simmons is right. Not that anything is going to change. The majority of the press will still go after Obama 1000 times harder than they ever went after Bush because of what too many of them have allowed themselves become: mouthpieces for Republicans, conservatives and corporate lobbyists always willing to publicize the talking points which criticize Democrats in order to prove that they do not have a “liberal bias.”
Well I can assure then that after watching their performance during the Bush years, and the first 18 months of the Obama administration that is the one concern our media elites no longer need to worry about.
