about bush's vacation's??

Question

what could he do in the whitehouse that he couldn't do on vacation using the phone , internet , video conferenceing , ect... i am just not understanding these "does bush take to much vacation " questions

so far 2 answers that are against vacation but no good theory on how vacationing effects his job

toota - for 1 that report was taken when he was governor , a much easier job . 2. part of his job is to be in the public , do interviews , go to schools . this report only hurts your point due to showing he is always doing something . I know when i go on vacation i turn off my cell , sit back and relax , i definately don't do anything business related

Answer 1

nothing at all

Answer 2

A reporter recently used Texas public information laws to obtain 900 pages of George W. Bush's governor's schedules and correspondence and discovered "a governor who works short hours and spends little time studying specific issues or working on executive matters. The schedules show that Mr. Bush typically had his first office meeting about 9 a.m., took two hours of "private time" at lunch for a run, and then wrapped up his last meeting by about 5 p.m. A large portion of the officially scheduled meetings were "photo opportunities," interviews with reporters, or meetings with school groups or other ceremonial occasions. Relatively little of the day was devoted to hard-core examination of the issues." NYT reporter Nicholas D. Kristof goes on to note that the schedules were taken from one of Bush's busiest periods as governor, 1997, a year in which the Texas Legislature met.

It's not just that Bush begins to lose focus earlier than most administrators in high pressure jobs, but his language breaks down and he sometimes becomes incomprehensible.

When reporters began writing about his language difficulties after the New Hampshire primaries, excuses were made by both Bush spinners and sympathetic reporters that he only made his language gaffes late in the day. Then it was late in the day and early in the morning. After that it was late in the day, early in the morning, and when under pressure. Then Bush began to schmooze with reporters on his plane and we were given stories that he didn't sleep well on the road and missed the comfort of his Austin bed. All of these explanations are true, but they don't really get to the heart of the matter.

Bush appears to be incapable of working long, hard, pressure-filled days, the kind of days common to the presidency, without suffering a loss of attention and an inability to clearly communicate.

Can we afford a president who works a six hour day and devotes little of those hours to "studying specific issues or working on executive matters"? Bush may want to do more, but his language and attention problems appear to prevent him from doing more. --Politex, 10/17/00

Answer 3

Neither do I. Although I disagree with Bush on most issues, the President is never really "on vacation", in the same way that most people take time off from work.

Answer 4

he is the vacation president.
No other presiedent in the history has ever taken this many vacation days
by the end of his first term he had taken a lot more vacation days than Clinton did in 2 terms and by now....
you can only imagine

Answer 5

All I care about is that my wife and I haven't had a motherfletchin vacation in 10 freegin years!!!!!, and don't see one in the near future.
Sure would be nice to be on permanent vacation like someone we know.
I am not a liberal

Answer 6

Well, he wasn't elected and doesn't get paid to golf while dealing with national and international affairs. Everyone else who works has to do it at their office. Isn't the president supposed to be an example for the rest of the country?

Answer 7

He doesn't really get a vacation, the job is his life. He probably hasn't had the privacy to scratch his @$$ in private since being elected.

Answer 8

Just a bunch of whack job liberals with nothing substantial to say. They said goodbye to rational debate a long time ago.

Answer 9

he should be in Europe or the Middle East working to stop this current crises from escalating to a large scale war

Answer 10

Since he is not the policy maker, what's the difference if he goes on vacation or goes to hell?

Answer 11

he NEEDS a vacation just like anyone else. Give him a chance to breath normal non liberal polluted air for a change