President Barack Obama, right, with Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., left, play golf on the first hole of the course at Andrews Air Force Base on May 6, 2013.Much ado about Obama vacations
When the haters can’t find enough fault with the Affordable Care Act (that more and more users are finding to be both affordable and useful) or can’t find enough differences in what the GOP vs. what President Barack Obama is already doing in Syria, Iraq or the Ukraine to keep the nation out of war, then they start harping about presidential vacations.
“He spent about a million in taxpayer dollars to fly back from Martha’s Vineyard on Air Force One to take a few pictures,” Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said of Obama’s stern message to terrorists after the beheading of a U.S. journalist. “Then it was back to vacationing and the golf course.”
Even normally reliable Maureen Dowd (look left on this page) is dissing the President’s vacation and golf time.
Funny, back in May of 2013, when the U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, our former mayor, was on the golf course with Obama, no one seemed to dismiss that game as wasted time. Though it must have been: we still had a sequester and government shutdown in the following months.
As of Friday, Obama had spent all or part of 138 days on vacation during his five and a half year in office, according to the White House.