03-26-2013, 08:56 PM
Thanks for the clarification. I thought Suzanne meant Pres. Obama was taking too much vacation, now I see she meant he is taking too little vacation.
$tevie wrote:
Here's how Mr. Obama stacks up against more recent Presidents, if he keeps pace with 168 vacation days over eight years. President George W. Bush took all or part of 297 days at his Texas ranch. Bill Clinton took 174 days at Martha's Vineyard and Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and Ronald Reagan vacationed 349 days at his California ranch over eight years.
President Obama is also not the first to cut a vacation short. Reagan did it in 1983, Clinton in 1993 and 1998, and Bush, in 2005, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. To be fair, no President really takes a vacation. "The job is there in the golf cart with him. It never really leaves him," says Knoller.
Their days off are still filled with briefings and other executive decisions, but maybe, they get to sleep in a little.
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/20509...-stacks-up