During the whole dustup over the Olympics the only thing that really caused me to scratch my head was wondering why Obama would spend 9 hours out and 9 hours back flying time to get 2 hours on the ground at the Olympic committee.

Today I heard another story that made me wonder.

Last night the President was in New York City for a Democratic fundraiser.

(Let me make it clear here I’m not debating the whole ‘how much time should a politician spend at fundraisers versus doing the job issue).

He flew back to DC and according to the official record arrived at the White House at around 11:30pm.

Today he was in New Jersey campaigning and fundraising for Governor Corzine, arriving around 5pm.

The question for me is, if he got home at midnight and was back in New Jersey the next afternoon, why didn’t he simply stay in New York the night before ?

I’m sure he could work from there without much trouble, or that they could have scheduled the two events as lunch and dinners. To be fair perhaps there was something he had to do at the White House today. I don’t think it’s worthy of any major scandal or anything.

Just seems odd to fly in to New York, back to DC and then in to New Jersey.