What the fuck? I thought we were at war? We are at war? Aren't we? And the guy pretending to be president is on vacation. Not just a mini get away, a little wind down let loose time, he is on an unprecedented FIVE FUCKING WEEK VACATION! Well everything about this guy is unprecedented but who am I to complain when we are at war. You wouldn't know we are at war by this guy's behavior.

I pick up the paper and there's president photo op riding a bike. He's riding a bike with Lance Armstrong. He's riding his bike on his "ranch". He's riding his bike, isn't that nice...I wonder how many times he has fallen off?

It is funny when the asleep at the wheel fourth estate started reporting that this guy has surpassed the other puppet president that was on permanent vacation, the illustrious actor turned politician, Ronald Raygun, who held the previous record at 338 days for an eight year term. Now do the math. In eight years, Ronnie took 338 days. This guy passed him up in five years. That's determination and integrity for you, republican't style.

So president "photo op" catches some heat for his endless vacations and what do the spin doctors at the corrupt White House do? "He's not really on vacation" it is a "working vacation"... hmmmm. If you call shilling for this BS war with rah-rah brown shirt rallies in Utah and Montana work? Then I am John Holmes. These rallies are really fronts for raising money for the RNC in the process, at taxpayer expense, remember when this was a big deal with wingers? Oh, never mind.

So what does this mean when the supposed "most powerful man" in the world, during a time at "war", is on a five week vacation? It means he is irrelevant. It means he is nothing but a front man. A puppet. Five week vacation, in a row, this is a farce.

I was watching Bill Maher on HBO last week, and he had this clone of Ann "what's her face" or "farce" I should say, as a guest named Kellyanne something or other. She stated and I kid you not "American's don't know how to vacation", they go on "working vacation" and they don't know how to relax.... You silly bitch.

NO silly girl. WE DON"T GET FUCKING VACATION in this country. We as a nation get the least amount of vacation than any other western nation in the world. I work for myself, so if I take time off, I don't make money. If I don't make money, I can't pay the bills. So we choose our time off accordingly. But this is not the president's fault, it is mine.

My friend has been working at his factory job for over three years and he gets, get this, one whole week. It took him a year to get this working full time on the graveyard shift, and after three years he gets one week.

My wife has been working at her corporate headquarters for 11 years and she gets only 2 weeks vacation. Two weeks! You see, she used to get 3 weeks after working there 6 years, but they laid her off and waited two years to hire her back after working for months as a temp, and she lost all her seniority, vacation and piece of mind... They started her over again with two weeks, which was prorated so she only got 6 days for the year 2004. Had she not been laid of, she would be looking at four weeks.

So now she has two weeks, but she cannot take more than a week in a row off because her time there is too important for her to be gone more than that. My wife is in fashion and creates original print pattern artwork for little kids based on concepts the design team she works with develops. She is always stressed. So my wife is more important to her company than the president is to the US of A. What a sad day when my wife, who draws cute designs on a computer is stressed and has to take her vacation in drips and drabs and the president of the United States of America is relaxing during a time of war.....

I think it is time we give president "do nothing" a permanent vacation. The 2006 election year is upon us and if we show the nation and the world that we care and show up this time next year, we could elect real leaders (who know how to balance the nations check book) who will show him the door in 2007, through impeachment.

He could clear all the shrubs, and ride his bike all he wants after that. I doubt any nation will pay him to come speak at their universities and symposiums...