From HuffPost: Who's Running the Country?

[ginnyinWI]

08.05.2005 Cenk Uygur

Who's Running the Country?
Who takes a two hour exercise break in the middle of the work day? Who takes five week vacations? Who takes over 350 vacation days in less than five years? Who refuses to work at night and on the weekends? Third graders … and apparently, our president.

Can you imagine if you asked your boss if you could take off 70 days this year? That’s more than two months, even if you included the weekends. What are the chances your boss thinks that’s a good idea? What’s the likelihood he’s going to think you can still effectively carry out your job?

Now imagine if you’re running your own business and you decide you are going to take off 20% of the days you’re supposed to be working and take vacations instead. What do you think would happen to your business? It would sink like a rock (or maybe like Iraq).

The President has already taken off 319 days and counting in less than five years. He is in the middle of his annual five week vacation on his Crawford ranch, which will put his vacation days at over 350 when he’s completed this stretch. He will soon surpass President Reagan’s record of vacation days in the modern presidency – 335 days. Reagan took eight years to get to that total. All of this doesn’t even include the days Bush was in Camp David or Kennebunkport. He has taken 20% of his work days off, even without counting vacations outside of Crawford. This is simply a stunning amount of vacation time.

more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/cenk-uygur/whos-running-the-country_5178.html

[Spinzonner]

1. He's very efficient. He's running the country

into the ground with only a fraction of the time and effort a lesser pResident would take.

[grytpype]

2. I'm glad he takes so much vacation!

The less he works the less he can screw up! He provides nothing of value, let him take all the vacation he wants!

[corkhead]

3. nobody has to be driving to run a car off of a cliff nt

[punpirate]

4. Imagine what shape...

... we'd be in if he were really working at it? :scared:

[Kahuna]

5. Ya'll don't get it. Prez'dentin is hard work.

:puke:

[teryang]

6. And he doesn't have to supervise his subordinates either

...because they are so effective. When your subordinates are this competent, you can delegate your responsibilities and rest easy:

They allowed the country to be attacked by terrorists on 911.

They haven't caught bin Laden.

They haven't found the conspirators behind the anthrax attacks.

They driven the government and the country into astronomical debt never seen before in American history.

They've allowed virtually the entire manufacturing sector of our economy move to foreign countries.

Huge job layoffs are still taking place in the most anemic "recovery" recorded since the great depression.

Our well being is now resting in the hands of foreign holders of American debt.

He's losing a major armed conflict to which he has committed the national treasure and core power projection capability of the nation.