bush used Air Force One for his personal campaign plane more than Clinton

[bermudat]

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A30173-2004Mar27?language=printer>
Republicans used to complain that President Bill Clinton used Air Force One as his personal campaign plane, taking many official presidential trips that had no real purpose other than to raise reelection funds or drum up votes.

But President Bush has been on the go even more than his predecessor, according to an analysis by Brookings Institution visiting scholars Kathryn Dunn Tenpas and Anthony Corrado and research intern Emily Charnock.

In his first three years in office, Bush took 416 trips to 46 states, compared with Clinton's 302 trips to 40 states during a similar period. Virginia was Bush's most visited state (not surprising, since presidents often take day trips across the Potomac for public events).

More notable, the scholars found, was the heavy proportion of Bush travel to "swing states" -- those where the vote margin in the 2000 election was within 6 percentage points.

Tenpas and Corrado found that 39 percent of Bush's trips were to swing states, compared with 28 percent for Clinton. Bush, for instance, took 27 trips to Pennsylvania -- more than to any state other than Virginia and California. Next up was Florida, the most swingy state of all last time, with 24 Bush visits. Texas, Bush's home, was fifth, and Missouri, Maryland, Michigan, Ohio and Georgia rounded out the top 10.

[Lindacooks]

1. Typical Repuke hypocrisy

If they ever really thought about that hypocrisy, their heads would explode. God, I hate them.

[donhakman]

2. I witnessed air force 1

do 2 entire laps around that silly Nascar race at its minumum altitude ~1,400 feet, 35 minutes minutes before Bush came to the microphone to start the race.

[swinney]

3. Bush vacation

WP historian who tracks activities of presidents wrote that--in the first 18 months Bush spent 42% of his time on vacation.

While Al Qaeda planned to attack.

I cannot wait to get his 4 year report on how Bush spent his time.

Vacation time=
Campaign time=
Remainder=10%

No question--This has been Worst administration in history.

[tom_paine]

4. Of course he did. As Emperor, Bunnypants can do what he wants...

:puke: