President Obama Deserves A Vacation

First family’s second consecutive summer vacation has provided Republicans a chance to criticize President Obama’s ability to handle state affairs. President Obama along with his family, landed on island off Cape Cod for a late-summer vacation last week. According to The Washington Post, his political opponents are not happy with his decision to take a-few-days-long break. They are arguing if the President deserves a vacation?

The Republican National Committee has even referred the President to the “Chevy Chase” character in National Lampoon's "Vacation" movies by calling him “the Clark Griswold president." The U.S. unemployment rate is surging higher once again. The Republicans are hoping that their criticism will get enough response from the nation amidst economic and political turmoil.

However, there is a small problem if we look at the statistics. President Bush spent far more time on vacation than Obama, has at this point in the administration. Obama took 9 vacations since he took charge as the President and spent 48 days off. On the other hand, Bush took 14 vacations at the same point in his presidency, spending 115 days away from the White House at his Crawford ranch in Texas. The Democrats too complained about Bush’s vacation by calling him a “chronic vacationer”.
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President Obama will spend 9 days on the island with his family. Most of his time will be spent on playing golf, reading fiction, and hanging out with his family.

I personally think everyone needs a break. As the White House advisers said that “A president, especially a wartime president overseeing a country in the grips of economic distress, is never really on vacation”, so even if he has left the White House for nine days, he can’t take his mind completely off the hot issues such as reaction to his remarks about the mosque near Ground Zero back home. So give him a break people. Let him have fun and get rid of the ties for at least nine day.