{"id":16477,"date":"2010-01-05T03:58:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T08:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=16477"},"modified":"2010-01-05T04:00:35","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T09:00:35","slug":"presidential-vacations-and-the-media-from-outrage-to-pity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=16477","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Vacations and the Media: From Outrage to Pity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of the many things President Bush was criticized for was the amount of vacation he took as President.<\/a><\/p>\n

Here<\/a> is another article from the end of Bush’s Presidency along the same lines.<\/p>\n

Contrast these attacks on President Bush with this article<\/a> from the AP in regards to Obama’s holiday in Hawaii.<\/p>\n

Here are some excerpts:<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON \u2013 President Barack Obama<\/span> returned Monday to the White House<\/span> he never really escaped.<\/p>\n

Obama and his family took an overnight flight from Hawaii<\/span>, capping an 11-day holiday vacation sure to be remembered more for the botched attempt to blow up a Christmas Day<\/span> flight than the hours spent on golf courses or at luaus. The failed terror attack<\/span> refocused the president’s trip from R&R on the island of Oahu<\/span> to a river of memos from homeland security<\/span> aides.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Even though it was called a vacation, the trip to Obama’s childhood home was hardly the holiday most people seek. Between golf outings, he phoned his homeland security secretary and counterterrorism adviser for regular updates. Rather than restaurant recommendations, the president was handed thrice-daily updates from the White House Situation Room. And an attack that killed seven U.S. intelligence officers put him on the phone with the CIA director before heading to the island’s North Shore for a party with high school friends.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Its almost like the author of this article is more pissed off at the fact that the President’s vacation was interrupted than the fact that Al Qaida tried to murder hundreds of Americans. A President is never really on vacation. Everyday he still has to get briefs and is followed by literally tons of comm gear that enable to run the country from anywhere. It doesn’t matter if he is in Washington, Camp David, Hawaii, or Siberia. He still runs the country and he is still accountable for what happens, vacation or no vacation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Of the many things President Bush was criticized for was the amount of vacation he took … Presidential Vacations and the Media: From Outrage to Pity<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":607,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/607"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}