Upstart muckraker Larry Connors took Barack "Air Force One" Obama down a few pegs on Thursday:
"The economy is a big issue and concern for folks," Connors said. "I mean, the unemployment, trying to make ends meet, gas prices, food prices going up. Some of our viewers are complaining, they get frustrated, even angered, when they see the first family jetting around, different vacations and so forth, sometimes maybe they think under color of state business and that you're out of touch, that you don't really know what they're experiencing right now."
I'm with this guy. The economy is a big concern, which is why we absolutely must know about Obama's economic policies vacations.
After Obama noted that he was raising a family and has no choice but to fly through Air Force One, Connors spliced to his own post-interview commentary in which he criticized the President for sidestepping his question. I mean, rude, right? (Of course, Connor didn't ask a substantive question, so I don't know why he expected a substantive answer.)
The non-scandal of Obama's vacation time comes up about once every six months, always with the same arc: somebody on the right WAAAAAAHHHHHHHs about how much vacation time Obama takes, a news organization actually takes the time to calculate his vacation time and compare it to that of previous presidents, and everybody realizes Obama has taken one-third of the vacation time that one George W Bush took (see CBS' semi-recent tally here).
So for the record: taking 180 days off while ruining the economy is fine, but taking 61 while fixing that ruined economy is indolence. Meanwhile, the Weekly Standard reran this story under the headline, "Obama Hammered for 'Jetting Around,' Taking Vacations While American Suffer," because the Weekly Standard is not a very good publication.
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