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Originally Posted by Ed O
Can you give a link to anything supporting this? I don't have my John Adams biography in front of me, but I believe that he spent a massive amount of his presidency at home in Quincy.
And if I remember correctly presidents like Madison went home to Virginia in the summer to avoid getting sick in the city.
I'd hate to just think you're making something up or parroting something because you don't like Bush.
Edit: As I suspected, Adams/Madison and Jefferson were out of town a lot, too. And they didn't have anything better than letters to do their jobs, either. I somehow doubt this will stop the "more vacation than any other president in U.S. history" nonsense, though.
http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/8-7-2005-74403.asp
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Maybe I should have said "taken more vacation than any president in the last 100 years." Either way - it still doesn't change my point. Talkhard implied that Bush is doing everything possible to protect the American people. My retort was that he clearly is not and cited his affinity for vacationing in Texas. Clearly the guy is entitled to vacation, and probably more than most of us deserve, but c'mon. Are you seriously arguing that the amount and length of the guy's time off is reasonable?
Need I remind anyone of the Katrina debacle when Bush refused to cut his vacation short to visit the Gulf Coast?
Get real, Ed O. The fact you even cited Adams and Madison is laughable.
-Pop