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Mark Hickey wrote:

These days it should be pretty obvious that you don't actually have to
be in the office to get anything done

Politics is about face-to-face.

In a perfect world, yes. But this is a big world, and the vast
majority of people Bush or any other president meets with are NOT in
the same room. Those meetings aren't affected by Bush being in
Crawford.

Crawford ain't D.C.

Neither is Camp David.

So, take those two, and figure out that yes, indeed, Crawford is a
vacation. Maybe not compared to *your* vacation, but a politician's
vacation.

Get real.

Like any of us could handle the "vacation workload" a president
manages... ever notice how presidents (all of 'em) age at 2-3x the
rate the rest of us do? Must be all those "vacations", huh?

Mark Hickey
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