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Well all that is pretty obvious and is something we are all aware of. What you don't seem to get is that it cost several hundred thousand dollars or more for each one of those stump speeches, depending on where they are.

And 4 million is a ton of money for a vacation. Lol. I can't believe you actually said that.

wouldn't that be sweet. We would get out of debt real quick

The cost associated with his vacation is why he should reconsider the length and location of it.

There are worse things to about. The President and his family can/should vacation where they want. The cost of security for his family is worth it.

The $4 million needs to be taken into context that the President has to take all his business, portions of his staff, security, of course his family and everything he needs to work from a satellite location.

As much as I know that the US will face another recession in 2013 and I feel Obama will not be able to successfully negotiate falling off the cliff - even the President should be able to go home to Kenya..... Whoops - I mean Hawaii.

I think the difference is Obama takes vacation while calling it "work" while Bush would actually take his vacation at his ranch.

Face it, Obama doesn't treat being President like a job, he has no idea what a job is anyway.

When you're the President of the United States, a vacation is just working in a place with better weather. There's no sillier thing than arguing about a president's vacations, no matter who's president.

Not only that, in 4 years when our country is further in the crapper, does anyone think that Obama will take the blame or do you expect the Democratic Party and the biased media to still blame Bush? It's a rhetorical question, we all know the answer already. Hopefully, the Obama Administration can turn things around so he doesn't have the opportunity to blame Bush.

Actually our economy has continued to improve at a steady rate under Obama. Unemployment down to 7.7

We'll see.

This^^ For all they talk about people getting entitlements, they get the most, and then they act like they've done something to deserve it.

No, but it is still Bush's economy that he inherited. Let's say for teh sake of argument, your mom tells you to clean your room. Your brother was just in there and he took all your clothes out of the closet and threw them on the floor, emptied your trash onto the floor, and generally fucked it up. You start to clean the mess that your brother made and your mom comes back in and starts yelling at you that your room isn't clean, then she leaves and comes back 5 minutes later and yells at you again that your not cleaning your room. You say "my brother made this mess and I'm trying to clean it up" But that's not good enough for mom, she wants it cleaned yesterday and says "boy you've been cleaning this room for 15 minutes and it is NOT clean" Is it your fault or your brothers that the room isn't clean??

Edit: my bad, that was a little OT. I shoulda read through the thread and your entire post

The economy will NOT be better in four years than it is now...fact. Time will prove me right.