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Barack Obama's decision to play golf on Memorial Day was disrespectful and hardly presidential
The (UK) Telegraph ^ | May 31st, 2011 | Nile Gardiner

Posted on 05/31/2011 4:59:13 AM PDT by radioone

Can you imagine David Cameron enjoying a round of golf on Remembrance Sunday? It would be inconceivable for the British Prime Minister to do so, and not just because of the usually dire weather at that time of the year. Above all, it would be viewed as an act of extremely bad taste on a day when the nation remembers and mourns her war dead. I can’t imagine the PM even considering it, and I’m sure his advisers would be horrified at the idea. And if the prime minister ever did play golf on such a sacrosanct day he would be given a massive drubbing by the British press, and it would never be repeated.

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: golf; memorialday; obama
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1 posted on 05/31/2011 4:59:14 AM PDT by radioone
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My sense (during the memorial laying of wreath/speech) was that Obama was itchin’ to get to the links.


2 posted on 05/31/2011 5:02:22 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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But.....but.....but.....Present Stroker did say that our military is “ONE of the finest” in the world.

Is this article a racist rant?


4 posted on 05/31/2011 5:10:59 AM PDT by Howie66 (I can see November (2012) from my house.)
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5 posted on 05/31/2011 5:11:44 AM PDT by FrankR (A people that values its privileges above its principles will soon lose both.)
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It's obviously quite disrespectful for someone who is supposed to be Commander in Chief to play golf on a day set aside for remembering the dead of the forces under his command.

However, because millions of private citizens were doing the exact same thing on Memorial Day it will never be an issue.

6 posted on 05/31/2011 5:17:58 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: radioone

10 minutes on the ground with tornado survivors at Joplin

One hour at a funeral speech to bolster street cred as a “consoler in chief”

One hour at sacred Arlington to lay a wreath and lecture everyone that the troops “deserve good leaders”

Four hours on the links


7 posted on 05/31/2011 5:18:25 AM PDT by silverleaf (All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is that good men do nothing)
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Four hours on the links........................ You left out “Priceless”


8 posted on 05/31/2011 5:28:58 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (The storm clouds of war are on the horizon, 1939 is again approaching us.)
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To: radioone

Actually, I have no problem with this. It’s the constant vacations that are really the issue, IMO.


9 posted on 05/31/2011 5:29:20 AM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: radioone

Extremely bad taste that’s Obama.


10 posted on 05/31/2011 5:34:54 AM PDT by Vaduz
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Does this clown of a President ever actually work? Remember when Bush was President, and those girly-men in the media whined 24/7 every time he took a day off? With Our Dear Leader...

Crickets.


11 posted on 05/31/2011 5:35:23 AM PDT by Pravious
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By now the fact that the President of the United States lacks a sense of propriety should shock no one. But it still does.


12 posted on 05/31/2011 5:36:54 AM PDT by Melchior
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To: radioone

Bet he wanted to play golf at Arlington.


13 posted on 05/31/2011 5:39:02 AM PDT by BulletBobCo
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However, because millions of private citizens were doing the exact same thing on Memorial Day it will never be an issue

The President of the United States of America has vast power, privilege and RESPONSIBILITY that the average American citizen does not have.

It won't be an issue because this complicit press will not make it an issue.

14 posted on 05/31/2011 5:41:25 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages.)
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15 posted on 05/31/2011 5:47:39 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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"However, because millions of private citizens were doing the exact same thing on Memorial Day it will never be an issue."

No, because the Lame Stream Media has their collective nose docked in Present Stroker's posterior, it will never be an issue!

16 posted on 05/31/2011 5:49:52 AM PDT by Redleg Duke ("Madison, Wisconsin is 30 square miles surrounded by reality.", L. S. Dryfus)
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The story has not been reported so far in a single US newspaper, but was made public by veteran White House correspondent Keith Koffler on his blog.

17 posted on 05/31/2011 5:50:44 AM PDT by They'reGone2000 (They'reGone2010)
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To: KeyLargo

Man! Those two pictures tell it all!


18 posted on 05/31/2011 5:50:49 AM PDT by Redleg Duke ("Madison, Wisconsin is 30 square miles surrounded by reality.", L. S. Dryfus)
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To: radioone

Everything this obozo does is disrespectful and hardly presidential...unless it involves muslims.


19 posted on 05/31/2011 5:57:20 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again for our justification)
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Barack Obama's decision to play golf on Memorial Day was disrespectful and hardly presidential....

Name me one thing that Obama has done in office that would qualify as presidential.

20 posted on 05/31/2011 6:01:45 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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