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This from today's Washington Post (4/9/04):

"This is Bush's 33rd visit to his ranch since becoming president. He has spent all or part of 233 days on his Texas ranch since taking office, according to a tally by CBS News. Adding his 78 visits to Camp David and his five visits to Kennebunkport, Maine, Bush has spent all or part of 500 days in office at one of his three retreats, or more than 40 percent of his presidency."

And this from Howard Finman's latest essay over on MSNBC:

"Remember the picture of the president in the classroom, being told of the attack by chief of staff Andy Card? The American people thought they were seeing a man suddenly thrust into a grave challenge no one could have anticipated. That won him enormous sympathy and patience from the voters. But what if he was literally on vacationóat the ranch in Crawfordówhen he should have been making sure that someone was ringing alarm bells throughout the bureaucracy?"

40% of his job has been spent on "vacation?" Wouldn't it be nice if the average American got five months of paid vacation time per year?

To be fair, all presidents bring their work with them on vacation, but that Washington Post article above continues:

"Bush spent the morning watching national security adviser Condoleezza Rice's televised testimony to the commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, then toured his ranch with Wayne LaPierre Jr., chief executive of the National Rifle Association, and other leaders of hunting groups and gave an interview to Ladies' Home Journal. He is not scheduled to appear in public until Sunday, when he will visit nearby Fort Hood, the home base for seven soldiers recently killed in Baghdad."

Let's face it, our president, like his father during his term, is out of touch with the country that he is supposedly leading. And in these troubled times, we cannot afford that luxury.

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