Shocker: Obama Spent Majority of First Two Years in Office Outside of Washington, 3 Months on Vacation

It's an amazing thing to watch liberals stumble all over themselves to defend President Obama's actions and failures.  One is his inordinately high vacation time.

The left will scream that President Bush spent so much time on vacation.  They'll say that President Obama plays much less golf than Mr. Bush did (even though President Bush gave up golf in 2003).  But here's something they cannot deny:  from January of 2009 to January of 2011, President Obama spent a mere 48% of his time in Washington, D.C.

This timetable is specifically from January 20, 2009, the day Mr. Obama assumed office, and January 3, 2011, the day Mr. Obama returned from a vacation in Hawaii.  That's 713 days, and the President spent 342 of them in our capital.

From 2009-January of 2011, President Obama enjoyed 70 days of foreign travel, 176 days on domestic "trips," 35 days at Camp David and 61 days on vacation.  On top of that, he played 57 rounds of golf (which the MSM calls "mini-vacations"), which took up approximately half of a day each and therefore constitutes almost another month of vacation time.  Add them together and President Obama enjoyed 371 days away from his job in Washington.

In fact, the number may actually be higher, as it does not count fundraisers nor correspondent/private dinners that Mr. Obama attended in Washington.

Hard at work

Can you imagine a job where you could choose not to go for most of the days?  Apparently, the leader of the free world can.

Even worse, President Obama has decided that his time as a hard-working President is going to be over for some time now.  Today he announced that he's aiming for $60,000,000 in fundraising in the coming economic quarter.  That means a lot more time campaigning and getting money and much less time doing his job.

The numbers for 2011 haven't been tabulated quite yet, but the trend will almost certainly continue and will likely increase.  But then again, it might not be all bad:  at least when he's out of Washington, he can't screw as many things up.

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