In the news today - President Obama goes golfing

From The Hill:

Obama hits links for 52nd golf day
President Obama hit the golf course Saturday for what, by CBS News's Mark Knoller's calculation, was his 52nd such outing since taking office.

According to the White House pool report, Obama went golfing Saturday with his usual partners: trip director Marvin Nicholson, press aide Ben Finkenbinder and the Department of Energy's David Katz.

Holy crap -- the guy has spent 38 days on vacation as well as 32 days at Camp David (working vacation) for a total of 70 days away from the White House. Yes, President Bush at the same point in his first term spent 102 days at his Crawford Ranch but that Ranch was a mini-White House. Bush was meeting with dignitaries (including Putin) and had full communication with the White House. Obama was just away. (source here: CBS News) If we take his inaugural date of January 20,2009 and work through to today, it has been 630 days that he has been in office. Take the 70 days away, add the 52 golf games and we have 122 days away from the White House -- this is almost 20% (19.36%) of his presidency that has been spent away from his job. Yes, I know that some of the golf games were played during his 70 days of vacation, I do not have the numbers so the figure will be somewhat less. Even just 70 days away is still over 10% (11.11%) Still an abysmal performance record. If my work performance was this shabby, I would have been talked to the first month and fired the second month.