Obama spent more time golfing than saving the economy?

[cthulhu_waves]

Now before you bitter clingers start criticizing the guy for devoting so little of his time to the most important issue facing the country today, I'll remind you that he needs to decompress after all his stressful activities.

Like having dinner with Beyonce and Jay-Z...

(from http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...-As-On-Economy)

According to a new report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Institute (GAI), President Barack Obama has spent over twice as many hours on vacation and golf (976 hours) as he has in economic meetings of any kind (474.4 hours).

The report, ?Presidential Calendar: A Time-Based Analysis,? used the official White House calendar, Politico?s comprehensive presidential calendar, and media reports through March 31, 2013 to calculate its results.

GAI?s findings may actually understate Obama?s recreational hours. Last year, Obama told CBS News that playing golf is ?the only time that for six hours, I'm outside." But instead of six hours, GAI counted a round of golf as taking just four hours. Likewise, for presidential vacation hours, researchers attributed just six hours of any day of vacation to leisure activity.

?Like most people, presidents still do work while on vacation,? said GAI President Peter Schweizer. ?So we really went out of our way to fairly and accurately reflect how the president spends his time.?

The study applied a similarly generous assessment to Obama?s time spent in economic meetings by counting anything on the official White House calendar even remotely related to the economy as an economic meeting. For example, ?Obama meets with Cabinet secretaries? and ?Obama has lunch with four CEOs? counted as economic meetings.

GAI?s new report dovetails with its presidential calendar analysis last July that found Obama devotes little time to economic meetings. Asked whether the latest numbers paint a negative portrait of presidential economic leadership, Schweizer says that is for others to decide.

?People understand that presidents have the most stressful job in the world and need a break from time to time,? said Schweizer. ?There will be some who will be encouraged by the numbers and some who will wish the president spent more time in economic meetings. As a government watchdog group, we just tabulate the numbers and let others decide how to interpret them.?

[Harmon]

[sperbonzo]

Now if we could just get the entire congress, senate and the white house to spend ALL of their time, all day, every day, only playing golf, we would all be MUCH better off!





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[2012]

what happened to all that basketball stuff ...hey he's just one of the guys playing basketball.... have a beer with him

[DWB]

Who cares? Take care of yourself and stop waiting for the government to fix your problems.

[Harmon]

Originally Posted by 2012

what happened to all that basketball stuff ...hey he's just one of the guys playing basketball.... have a beer with him

[2012]

Originally Posted by Harmon

[Harmon]

Originally Posted by 2012

[Wizzo]

Originally Posted by sperbonzo

Now if we could just get the entire congress, senate and the white house to spend ALL of their time, all day, every day, only playing golf, we would all be MUCH better off!

No doubt!

[pornguy]

I had no idea that he could single handed (ly) fix the economy? That would be an amazing feat

[Rochard]

They say this about all presidents.... Whatever. It gets really old after a while.

[CyberHustler]

Black people need vacations too

[Supz]

Originally Posted by Rochard

They say this about all presidents.... Whatever. It gets really old after a while.

exactly. george bush was doing the same shit, so was clinton etc.

[epitome]

throughout his time in office, President Obama has played 115 total rounds of golf and spent 86 days on vacation, for an estimated combined total of 976 hours.

Shame on him for playing a single round of golf every two weeks!

Edit: And shame on him for spending 0.5% of his time on working vacations.

Edit edit: Shame on people for falling for the creative wording of a report from a GOP funded organization ran out of a Tallahassee PO box...

[CT-Content]

Originally Posted by DWB

Who cares? Take care of yourself and stop waiting for the government to fix your problems.

Smartest response in the entire thread!

[epitome]

Originally Posted by sperbonzo

Now if we could just get the entire congress, senate and the white house to spend ALL of their time, all day, every day, only playing golf, we would all be MUCH better off!





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We finally see eye to eye on something...

[Scott McD]

Gotta keep that handicap ya know!

[J. Falcon]

Doesn't that happen with every US president?

[bushwacker]

Looks like he is in a pretty good position at the top of the swing.

[dyna mo]

does he even thrift?

[D Ghost]

I'd be golfing too while everyone else makes decisions for me, and show up as the face every now and then in some photos and press conferences!

[Some Guy]

http://obamagolfcounter.com

Obama's probably just phoning it in at this point. Not like he can run President again anytime soon. He's already going down in the history books as a two-term President. Now he can just golf his life away and party with superstars.

[Phoenix]

i wonder how good he is.
im playing in two days...hit the driving range this weekend.

who cares about obama..he isnt going to let us play with him anyway..lol

[glamourmodels]

You're presuming he wants to save it...

[Barefootsies]

Originally Posted by DWB

Who cares? Take care of yourself and stop waiting for the government to fix your problems.

[2MuchMark]

sigh.....

[Manfap]

You can do 2 things at once.. I walk my dog for an hour everday, but during that I come up with my greatest ideas.

[brassmonkey]

the economy just doesnt bounce back we're fighting several wars

[sperbonzo]

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

the economy just doesnt bounce back we're fighting several wars

I wish you Keynsian types would make up your minds. I thought wars were good for the economy, since more wars mean more government spending....

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(p.s. if businesses weren't so worried and uncertain about new taxes, new regulations, new healthcare costs, etc... the economy WOULD bounce back.)


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[J.R.]

He does alot of stupid shit