Jack Cafferty is either a liar or an idiot

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say both. Yesterday he did a piece that was posted on cnn.com. The link is here.

Here's the first paragraph:

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Russia invades Georgia and President Bush goes on vacation. Our president has spent one-third of his entire two terms in office either at Camp David, Maryland, or at Crawford, Texas, on vacation.

I stopped reading after that. The fact that Jack says he spent 1/3 of his presidency away from the white house is true, but not surely not accurate. Jack knows as well as I that those are working vacations and not true "off the grid" vacations which he is hoping most of his readers will think. This seems to be a common tactic these days used to lie, but not really lie. Lie by omission.

Dan Froomkin of the WaPo says:

"Bush's aides go to great pains to point out that even during his frequent getaways from the office, he continues to do some, if not a lot, of work. He receives daily national security briefings, signs documents and sometimes holds teleconferences."

So can we really call this a vacation. No, these are not true vacations because the President is still working. He's just telecommuting. I wonder if Jack every telecommutes?