When I was in Indiana over the summer visiting family, one of my relatives raised the Republican talking point that “Obama has taken more vacation days than any other President,” as evidence that the President was lazy or disengaged or something. This argument is, of course, one of the many Bizarro Republican memes that takes something for which George W. Bush was criticized and applies it to the President, no matter how outlandish. I don’t blame my relative as he undoubtedly heard the lie repeated hundreds of times on FOX News. And now, Presidential candidate Mitt Romney just raised a similar criticism by attacking the President for playing “too much golf”. Link
For the record, at this point in their presidencies:
Obama: 11 vacations, totaling all or part of 70 days. 22 visits to Camp David, totaling all or part of 54 days.
Bush: 28 visits to his Texas ranch, totaling all or part of 207 days. 72 visits to Camp David, totally all or part of 228 days.
Bush had taken nearly FOUR TIMES as much vacation at this point in his Presidency as Obama has.
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