Obama's Golf Nowhere Near W's Vacation Time
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obama-golf_1214027c Catty Tweet of the Week award goes to CBS' Mark Knoller, who yesterday proclaimed, "Today - Obama ties Pres. Bush in the number of rounds of golf played in office: 24. Took Bush 2 yrs & 10 months."

Call me crazy, but it sounds like Knoller is attempting to paint President Obama as a flippant layabout, worse even than his notoriously sluggish predecessor, Dubya. Funny, the veteran reporter must be forgetting his January 19, 2009, piece, "President Bush by the Numbers," in which he wrote, "It’s difficult for any of us to convey an objective assessment of the Bush presidency - but numbers come close to offering a bit of unbiased insight." He then went on to detail Bush's vacation days, all 1,020 of them (that's more than two years worth).

By contrast, 10 months into his tenure, Obama has taken one vacation, for a week.

Either Knoller needs to get off the presidential leisure time beat, or he needs to check his selective memory at the newsroom door.


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