Leadfingers, the media uproar over Obama's "vacations" would be laughable, in view of the record # of "vacation days" GWB took during his 8 time in office, if it the media-consuming public weren't so easily led around by the nose.

All Presidents are, of course, "at work 24/7/365" in the sense that they're always "on call" and usually do conduct some government business during their "vacation" days (unless, like SC Gov., Mark Sanford, they decide to "hike the Appalachian trail" in So. America w/o letting their aides etc., know where they are).    But Dubya was often not really on top of things (e.g., on the morning of 9-11-2001).   The Republicans have got a lot of chutzpah (and not in a good way) criticizing Obama every time he plays a round of golf or spends a couple days with his family away from the White House.