Gone Fishin’
If you're President Bush, the perception of your vacation is far more important than where you go and what you do.
USA Today;
This year, Bush is cutting his down time to only 10 days — the shortest summer break of his presidency — against the backdrop of the Middle East in crisis, Baghdad beset by violence and Cuba in flux.
They say the president doesn’t want to be in Crawford at his ranch when the anniversary of Katrina comes up. I think that’s smart. Why allow a bunch of undeserved criticism from last year’s five-week vacation, when you can squeeze three or four times that much unfavorable press into a mere ten days? And accomplish it worldwide.
The president, of course, is just as effective in Crawford as Washington. Some pundits claim he would be equally effective from Dick Cheney’s ‘undisclosed location,’ but that's punditism, just another rock thrown by the cheap-shot specialists. The facts are, that every president travels with the full capabilities of the Oval Office and is equal…