Is the sitting POTUS supposed to be endorsing a candidate and campaigning on there behalf?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op here-I am a newly arrived Immigrant from Europe-never really followed US politics. You guys are so rude!

Wow, you are pretty good though with the lingo! You called the President "POTUS" which isn't something a lot of foreigners who don't follow US politics would know. And, good job spelling "their" the way half of the US does! (-:

Yep. And you know what? If you want to javbe a conversation about US politics, do some reading first. Buy a basic US govt textbook. Middle school level.

If you can distinguish between the idiots and the people with actual knowledge, then I'd say just set aside some time and read through the posts in the political section.

Hint on finding the idiots: There are about a half a dozen people saying the idiot is an idiot, then a few people chime in saying the idiot is not an idiot, then even more people chime in saying the idiot is really an idiot and those saying the idiot is not an idiot are also idiots too.

Way more fun than any textbook.

[Anonymous]

Of course POTUS can campaign and endorse a candidate.

I just don’t understand why THIS POTUS would endorse THIS candidate.
She has brought such a stain to his presidency with all her scandal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It disturbs me to see how Obama has so much of a vested interest in endorsing Hillary. Shouldn't he remain neutral?

Are you serious right now? Almost every President has done this. Bush wasn't asked to campaign by McCain because he was so unpopuar; Gore didn't want Clinton campaigning because of his scandal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Of course POTUS can campaign and endorse a candidate.

I just don’t understand why THIS POTUS would endorse THIS candidate.
She has brought such a stain to his presidency with all her scandal.

Because a white supremacist is the Republican presidential nominee.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here-I am a newly arrived Immigrant from Europe-never really followed US politics. You guys are so rude!

OP - with all due respect, you posted on DCUM. 1 in 23 residents of DC are lawyers. We talk politics constantly. It would be very odd for someone to live in this region and not know this basic information.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Two things bother me about this.

1. Are the taxpayers paying for Obama to fly all over the place in airfare 1?

The long-standing policy is that the President or the campaign pays the cost of first class air tickets for all non-government travel. While the taxpayer still pays the bill for flying Air Force One around, any other way would just be unfair, because the President could not pay for one flight on Air Force One out of his own pocket, and it's not like he has any other way to travel.

2. Us normal people only get 2 weeks vacation per year, are we paying the president's salary while he travels around and campaigns for Hillary or does he have to take leave without pay or is he using part of his 2 weeks vacation?

The President has "vacations" but he works every day even on vacation. He gets daily intelligence briefs, meets with staff on urgent matters and takes important phone calls no matter where he is. And unlike most of us, he is on-call 24/7. He runs an organization of 2 million people for tiny fraction of a corporate CEO salary.

Weird post and weird response.

Well either it's a good explanation, or George Bush's 533 vacation days means that he owes the American people 453 days of work for unapproved leave. That's two full work years for anyone counting. Then again, perhaps that explains why everything was cratering by the end of his presidency.

One thought that comes to mind is that different presidents approach vacations differently. Both W and Obama don't appear to be workaholics.

On Aug. 8, 2014, Knoller tweeted that Obama had taken 19 vacations totaling 125 days so far while in office. Those numbers have risen a bit due to the Martha’s Vineyard vacation, but that’s still many fewer than George W. Bush’s 65 combined trips to his Texas ranch and his parents’ home in Kennebunkport, Maine, which totaled 407 days at the same point in his presidency.

Not included in this data are trips to the Camp David presidential retreat in western Maryland, which Knoller doesn’t count as "vacation." Knoller told Yahoo! News that, through Aug. 12, 2014, Obama had made 33 visits to Camp David for all or part of 84 days, while Bush had been there 108 times for all or part of 341 days.

Both W and Obama are two of the worst presidents ever.