Jarhead
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With all due respect, TexArcher...WHEN you take vacation is more important than how much vacation you take. I'm a manager. If I take my vacation when everything is running smoothly I don't expect to hear any criticism about doing so. If, however, I take my vacation when things are at a crisis level and the company is in trouble then I would fully expect to get heat over doing so. Bush took a lot of vacations when our economy was doing fine. Obama takes a lot of vacations when it's doing terrible. If I were the employer of the two of them I'd be having a "come to Jesus" meeting with Barack Obama asking him if he was really committed to the position he held because you don't take off when things are bad. I think most Americans understand that concept. Barack Obama either doesn't...or he doesn't care.
Or maybe there is not much that he can do right now with congress out of session.
The timing is not an issue in this case in my eyes.
When should he vacation? When congress is debating healthcare? Stimulus?
I understand your point....but in this case, there is absolutely noithing he could be doing to better our economic situation.
Now...if Irene hit and he left for vacation the next day?
That would be a different story.
But my guess is he will returnto the White House the day after Irene devastates the east coast...just a hunch....but I would bet my house on it.
He's the President of the United States, Jar! If there are things to be done...and I think we all agree that there are...then he should have told Congress that he was staying until we had a coherent jobs strategy and he was asking that they stay as well. I'm sorry but this whole "what can I do?" line coming from Obama is getting tiresome. Either come up with solutions or admit that you don't have any and allow those that do to come forward.
I agree that he should have told congress to put off their vacations and stick around...and he should have as well.
But the halls of congress are empty.....and there is little he can do to help the economy right now....
Actually, as we have seen, there is little he has the ability to do to helo the economy regardless of WHO is around.
But that is for another thread.