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Originally Posted by pocon1
When I travel to and from vacation, that time is counted against me. So it should be the same for Bush. Travel time is travel time. Plus, who in the real world gets even 13% vacation time in their first 8 months of a job? Even if the president were assumed to work a five day week, he still took 20.8 days his first 8 months at 13% vacation time. I expect a little more freaking work out of my president.
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You can complain about this when you sleep over your office, your commute to the office is a shorter distance than many of us walk our dog every day and your primary mode of transportation carries not only you but a communications officer and a significant number of journalists. The President (regardless of party) is one of the busiest men in the world on a daily basis and you can make the arguement that he is never truely on vacation. There are always members of staff nearby, members of his security detail and somewhere there is a guy handcuffed to a briefcase that contains the nuclear launch codes. Not my idea of a vacation.