This is sickening.
Congress needs to impose a "budget" for President vacations. Each term, the President should receive only $1M (including security) for vacation. Maybe less. I'm not sure how much security detail costs when you vacation WITHIN the United States.
There is no need for a President to take so many vacations.
This country is struggling. Our family hasn't had a vacation in over three years! Now we are expected to pay for this extravagant vacation? No thank you.
The Obama apologists all state that Lord Zero's "vacations" have all been "working vacations" and that they've been pretty short - usually over a weekend. I took a look at most of that and with few exceptions, it's true.
Then again, ANY president is on call 24/7. In reality, there is no such thing as a "vacation" when you're in that office.
That said, this Mumbai thing simply can't be defended. Even if the numbers are exaggerated, it's still beyond the pale.
Remember when GWB would just hop on AF1 and, without any fanfare whatsoever or announcement (due to security) he'd show up in Iraq and serve Thanksgiving dinner to the troops? Can you see Lord Zero doing that? That's the difference - GWB's excursions out of the country were not geared toward him, they were geared toward someone else.
