First my right-wing friend...

...posted a rant on Facebook about President Obama's Hawaiian vacation and now my own mother has joined in. Don't all presidents take vacations? What is going on here? Consider this (my emphasis):

As of August of this year, President Obama had taken 61 days of vacation, a number that paled in comparison, at the same point in their presidencies, with George W. Bush's 180 days at his ranch, and Ronald Reagan's 112 days at his. The Daily Kos estimated George W. Bush's Crawford ranch trips to cost taxpayers about $226,000 a trip in flight costs alone ... so do the math. At the very, very least, the pricetag for Bush's vacations to Crawford cost us $17,407,544 -- and that's before factoring in the costs of security detail, press corps, staff and the like.

What causes such otherwise normal people to come completely unglued whenever the subject turns to this president? To paraphrase Dana Carvey, above, could it be ... Fox?