If I'm not mistaken, President Obama will have gone three weeks without a day off

[FightingIrish]

by the end of the coming week. It seems like Bush couldn't go three weeks without taking a vacation. Does anyone know where you could find a day by day accounting of Brarack Obama's presidency paralleled with Bush's. That would be great yardstick for comparing the two.

[Mira]

1. Counting his time at Camp David and the fake Western White House Ranch Bush

took off every THIRD day of his pResidency - if memory serves, and it usually does.
Fuck Bush.
Sorry, just had to say that.

[Phx_Dem]

2. I think he actually enjoys working, he's a little like Clinton

in that way. Maybe he's just trying to get out of scoopin the Bo poop? lol

[Politicalboi]

3. Yes Clinton and Obama

Wanted to be President, unlike Bush who felt like he was doing us a favor running us into the ground.

[PurityOfEssence]

4. He's a LOT like Clinton, for good and bad

It IS very notable that they both seem to work their asses off, although Clinton seems to easily have the edge on that count; he REALLY put his shoulder to the plow. Much as I have many problems with Clinton's policies and personality, he was and is a truly curious type of smart person, and he took the concept of "public servant" quite seriously, learning as much as he could about things that were unfamiliar and really putting out the heat.

For all my problems with Obama, he certainly has moved on just about all fronts, and is not just slacking off.

As for the incredible laudability of working three weeks without a day off, there are many of us who do the same and have often done that and more for our professions, and it shouldn't be viewed as some kind of herculean achievement that thus grants the individual with some kind of immunity from criticism. The job at hand here is probably the most important job on earth, taken at a time of worldwide crisis, so in the recurring words of Joe Gideon in "All That Jazz": "It's showtime".

This job is a huge trust and responsibility; if done properly, it's a killer, and it saddens those who admire the individuals to watch how fast and severely they age in the process. That's the job. For all his calumnious ugliness and evil, perhaps George W. Bush's greatest betrayal of us was his feckless and extreme laziness; he literally phoned it in long-distance, and that's just inexcusable.

[Odin2005]

6. IMO Barack and Bill are very similar personality-wise.

http://www.personalitypage.com/ENFP.html

[Clio the Leo]

5. He can take the day off on Jan 21, 2017.

Until then .... no rest for the weary.

(but to answer your question, MOST weekends he hasn't had any "events" other than economic/security briefings)