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"He's going off for 17 days in Hawaii. He'll be playing a lot of golf," Romney said.
Romney used similar language in a new fundraising letter that asks for $18 - one for each hole on a golf course.
Obama recently announced plans to spend Christmas in his native Hawaii, a family tradition. It soon appeared likely the trip would be shortened because of Congress's struggle to pass important tax and spending legislation TaylorMade R11 Irons

"We are going to stay here as long as it takes to make sure that the American people's taxes don't go up on January 1st," Obama told reporters Thursday. If Congress fails to meet its deadline, he said, "maybe we'll have a white Christmas here in Washington."
Obama spokesman Jay Carney told reporters, "I don't remember Gov. Romney having a hard time or complaining about this president's predecessor taking his family on vacation - spending, I believe, far more time on vacation than this president."
Other presidents, including Dwight Eisenhower, were sometimes accused of devoting too much time to TaylorMade R11 Irons
. Bush had at least one controversial moment involving the sport.