And may I remind that he was working on all those days. He was not out there playing candidate. He took his work with him. And he did make decisions on those days. What has Zero done on his vacations so far. No work, that is for sure. He has barely done any work since he was inaugurated.
Besides Zero is president now, unfortunately for the country. He has decisions to make and policies to set in motion. You know, doing what presidents are supposed to do. Hollywood wrote On 12/05/2009 06:29 PM: > dick, > > <<Sigh>>> Shall I once again list how many days of his Presidency > George Bush was away from D.C. and/or taking "vacation days"? God > forbid a politician actually leave Washington,D.C. and see for himself > what's going on. Why shouldn't he be "campaigning"? You clowns have > been "campaigning" against him and feverishly planning for the 2010 > mid-terms and 2012 national elections since the day he took office. > > On Dec 5, 4:42 pm, dick thompson<[email protected]> wrote: > >> God forbid he stay in DC and actually do something that will make the >> jobs report more than a set of numbers of how many jobs were lost. No, >> he has to do some more campaigning instead and hope that somebody is >> minding the store. >> >> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/05/us/politics/05obama.html?_r=1&th&em... >> >> December 5, 2009 >> >> In Speech, Obama Calls Jobs Report a 'Hopeful Sign' >> >> By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG >> <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/sheryl_g...> >> and JACKIE CALMES >> <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/jackie_c...> >> >> ALLENTOWN, Pa. --- President Obama >> <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_o...> >> came to this aging factory town in Pennsylvania's Rust Belt on Friday to >> promote his efforts to revitalize the American economy, and wound up >> with an early Christmas present of sorts in the form of the report >> showing an improving employment situation. >> >> "This is good news, just in time for the season of hope," Mr. Obama said >> in a speech at Lehigh Carbon Community College in suburban Allentown. >> "I've got to admit, my chief economist, Christy Romer, she got about >> four hugs when she handed us the report. But I do want to keep this in >> perspective. We've still got a long way to go." >> >> But if Obama administration officials were exchanging hugs, they were >> also keenly aware that Friday's report, which showed that 11,000 jobs >> disappeared in November, as opposed to the six-figure job losses many >> economists had expected, is only "moderately encouraging news," as Mr. >> Obama himself said here. >> >> Democrats in the administration and in Congress said the report would >> not slow their immediate plans for further stimulus measures. The White >> House and Congressional Democratic leaders proceeded Friday with plans >> to allocate as much as $170 billion to aid those without jobs and to >> create new jobs. >> >> The House and Senate have agreed to add roughly $100 billion in extended >> emergency benefits for the long-term unemployed to the final spending >> bill for this fiscal year, which they hope to send to Mr. Obama before >> Christmas. >> >> The unemployment measure would extend provisions in the $787 billion >> economic stimulus package >> <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/u/united...> >> that otherwise would expire at the end of the month, and leave an >> estimated one million people without compensation in January. It also >> would extend food stamp benefits and a subsidy to help the unemployed >> keep their health insurance. >> >> Separately, House leaders are moving a bill providing roughly $70 >> billion for additional building projects and aid to local and state >> governments so they are not forced to lay off teachers and first >> responders. The bill would also expand lending to small businesses, >> which say credit lines from banks remain frozen. >> >> To offset the cost, Democrats propose to use unspent money from the $700 >> billion bailout >> <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/c/credit...> >> fund for financial institutions, and the White House has agreed to go >> along after initial hesitance. Republicans on Friday objected that the >> bailout balance should go toward the deficit. They said little about the >> jobs report, however, in contrast with past months when they were quick >> to seize on rising unemployment to claim that Democratic policies had >> failed. >> >> As both parties head into next year's midterm elections, the jobs issue >> will be front and center. But Friday's better-than-expected new jobless >> figures gave Democrats hope that the coming election year would not be >> as bad for the party as many had feared. >> >> "If the trends continue --- and I underline 'if'--- the economy will >> soon be producing jobs rather than shedding jobs, and the debate will >> shift," said a senior administration official, speaking anonymously to >> discuss strategy. This official said Democrats hoped to put Republicans >> on the defensive with language like "You handed us an economy that was >> shedding 700,000 jobs a month, and we managed an economy that finally >> started to produce jobs." >> >> Geoff Garin, a Democratic pollster, said Democrats could win even if >> people were dissatisfied with the economy, so long as they thought it >> was getting better. "The more we can move people from the 'dissatisfied >> and not getting better' category to the 'dissatisfied but getting >> better' category, the better off Democrats will be for 2010," Mr. Garin >> said. >> >> Mr. Obama is facing his own pressures. His fellow Democrats have been >> grumbling for weeks that he has seemed disengaged from the nation's >> economic woes as he grapples with Afghanistan and health care. The >> administration is now renewing its focus on the economy. Mr. Obama held >> a White House jobs summit on Thursday, and on Tuesday, he will unveil >> proposals to help businesses expand hiring in a speech at the Brookings >> Institution >> <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/b/b...>, >> a liberal-leaning research group. >> >> The Allentown swing, the first of a series of trips that the >> administration is billing as a "White House to Main Street" tour, was >> intended to humanize the effort. The president spent Friday >> hop-scotching across the city memorialized in the 1980s Billy Joel >> <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/j/billy_jo...> >> tune as the place where "they're closing all the factories down." >> >> At Allentown Metal Works, a complex of cavernous aging red-brick factory >> buildings, he met with men in hardhats who are working on components for >> the transportation hub underneath the new World Trade Center in Lower >> Manhattan. He ate a cheeseburger and fries (his standard average-guy >> lunch) at a local diner, where he chatted up local business leaders. >> >> At a career counseling center, he encouraged unemployed workers to keep >> looking for jobs, telling them, "I just want you to know I'm thinking >> about you every day." He wrapped up his day at the Nestl� Purina pet >> food factory, where he arrived between shift changes to shake the hands >> of more than 180 employees, clad in blue work uniforms and ball caps, >> who lined up single file to greet him one by one. >> >> In his speech at the community college >> <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/c/commun...>, >> the president tried to personalize the issue, saying his own family was >> not immune. >> >> "I know times are tough," he said. "Michelle and I were talking the >> other day --- there are members of our families that are out of work. >> We're not that far removed from struggling to pay the bills. Five, six >> years ago, we were still paying off student loans >> <http://www.nytimes.com/info/student-loans/?inline=nyt-classifier>. >> Still trying to figure out if we pay this bill this month, what do we >> have to give up next month. 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