“Four more years” is a bit of a misnomer. Notwithstanding the question as to whether he’s really “the Decider” when he is actually in the White House, Bush has spent over a year on vacation. At 418 days, he’s set to beat Regean’s vacation time record of 436 days in the next year. One might think that excess vacation would be a trait of a non-wartime president, but Clinton took 152 days off and Carter, “the worst president ever,” took only 79 days off, about 1 week per year longer than the average American’s paid time off.

I’ve heard it been said that even when the president is “on vacation” he’s still working. That may be so, but was Bush elected President in order to work on clearing brush out of his ranch? But seriously, I think it would be truthful to question whether he is really working as president when he’s not on vacation. I take it as indicative of our never-ending campaign culture that Bush was reading to kindegardners when America were attacked on 9/11. Setting aside the fact that he continued to sit there and do nothing for 7 minutes even after he heard the words, “The country is under attack,” can it really be said he was “working” as “president” that day? Of course not, he was campaigning for women’s votes that day.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/mason/5042364.html