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Bush goes on vacation a lot. Liberal wackos will ask why he keeps going on vacation. But, how often did Clinton, GHWB, Reagan, and previous go on vacation? If they didn't do it much, then Bush obviously can't hadle much stress. If they did a lot also, then maybe being president is harder than we thought.

If you can give me proof either way from a credible site...

A man needs his space. simple as that.

but its reported he took something like 50 something percent is way too much time to vacation.
this post doesnt answer your question at all. i know

Well of course being President is a hard job. You have to keep your citizens happy by lying to them and consciously knowing it. You have to stick to your agenda no matter what. You gotta do things that'll have history turn it's back on you. You must meet strangers everday. You must wake up at different times everyday. You must travel to different places everyday. You must be the representative of the United States. You must control the world's most powerful military. You must keep the world happy.

Now I'm sure Bush is a victim of all this. But the fact that he doesn't change policies and doesn't admit mistakes and try to change things for the better is the reason why I don't think he should remain a President.


eh, my two cents

I got these from Yahoo. http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/20031001.html

George W. Bush took 250 vacation days as of August 2003.
Bill Clinton took 152 vacation days.
George Bush Sr. took 543 vacation days.
Ronald Reagan took 335 vacation days.
Jimmy Carter took 79 vacation days.

Well, the Clintons vacations were a tad different then Reagan's or Bush's as the Clintons were, in actuality, rather poor. Not Lincoln poor ... think Nixon poor.

It's why they would often poll the American people and ask them where to go.

I got these from Yahoo. http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/20031001.html

George W. Bush took 250 vacation days as of August 2003.
Bill Clinton took 152 vacation days.
George Bush Sr. took 543 vacation days.
Ronald Reagan took 335 vacation days.
Jimmy Carter took 79 vacation days.


Huh? Those figures can't be right, there is no way Bush 1 took off 543 days in 4 years as president!?

The only explanation is that they are counting the vacation he took as VP for 8 years under regean. Unless of course Bush 1 was the most collassally lazy man of all time, which of course he wasn't. I hate misleading statistics like that.

I got these from Yahoo. http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/20031001.html

George W. Bush took 250 vacation days as of August 2003.
Bill Clinton took 152 vacation days.
George Bush Sr. took 543 vacation days.
Ronald Reagan took 335 vacation days.
Jimmy Carter took 79 vacation days.

Oh yea, they got nothing on Clinton. Seriosly though, if Clinton took a lot of vacation days, conservatives would have already told the world about it. So it was expected that the number of vacation days Clinton took was low.

Remember 152/8 years, not 4 years. That brings to about 19 days of vacation a year.

Huh? Those figures can't be right, there is no way Bush 1 took off 543 days in 4 years as president!?

The only explanation is that they are counting the vacation he took as VP for 8 years under regean. Unless of course Bush 1 was the most collassally lazy man of all time, which of course he wasn't. I hate misleading statistics like that.

Bush Sr. was lazy as fuck and left everything to his advisors. The same thing Bush Jr. is doing.

Good proof. That's exactly what we need here.

The only explanation is that they are counting the vacation he took as VP for 8 years under regean. Unless of course Bush 1 was the most collassally lazy man of all time, which of course he wasn't. I hate misleading statistics like that.

Not so much lazy ... just very wealthy. If you look back, the rich Presidents - Bush Sr., Bush Jr., Kennedy - took quite a bit of vacation time. Rich people do that. However, the poorer Presidents - Clinton, Carter, Nixon, etc - took way fewer vacations.

Reagan was somewhat of an enigma. Not wealthy in the Bush sense, but not poor in the Clinton sense, but he had his fair share of Hollywood lifestyle.

The numbers do seem accurate to me. People don't stop being themselves just because they're elected President.