Bush and Clinton Prove That A President Never Really Does Go On Vacation
This montage of Kerry vacation photos made me wonder how the press will handle the coverage of the candidates’ vacations this election year. If President Bush takes his annual month-long vacation this August at the ranch, get ready to hear the howls from all the usual suspects about how he is lazy and not doing his job. Democrats (and many in the media) whine and moan every time Bush takes a vacation, despite the fact that when Bush has “vacationed” in the past he has:
- hosted foreign leaders
- received daily national security and other policy briefings
- been in constant communication with Washington
- participated in and responded to questions surrounding national policy debates
- given Presidential addresses to the nation
- flown to Iraq to visit the troops (Thanksgiving, not August, of course)
- traveled all over the country to rally support for policy initiatives
- traveled the country to campaign for congressional and gubernatorial candidates
I think most Americans see enough of Bush in the news during his “vacations” to realize that a President never really goes on vacation. However, many Democrats still like to compare Bush to Clinton, who they say worked long hours and took few vacations.
Hmmm. Bill Clinton did work many late nights in the Oval Office, but we now know he was having his own little “Girls Gone Wild” college spring break style vacations right there at home. Some of Clinton’s Oval Office vacations involved pizza parties, phone sex, cigar “handling” and other forms of relations with “that woman”. But to be fair, if Monica is to be believed, he was not really completely on vacation then, either. On at least one occasion, he was multi-tasking by discussing Bosnia on the phone with a Congressman while otherwise engaged. Yeah, I guess it is true. A President never really does go on vacation.
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