CLUBBING: President Obama, who is vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard this week, plays golf on the second hole at Farm Neck Golf Club in Oak Bluffs yesterday.
Posted on 08/25/2009 10:15:59 AM PDT by maggief
Adoring Vineyard vacationers largely seem to be fine with the Obama administration’s efforts to protect the first family’s privacy while out in public, though one expert said that runs afoul of Americans’ constitutional right to gawk at occupants of the White House.
President Obama’s aides have asked the press to lay off his young daughters during their Vineyard vacay, though Obama routinely trotted out Sasha, 8, and Malia, 11, for the press during the campaign.
The administration also has banned the pool of reporters covering the presidential visit from giving status updates on the Obamas’ activities, on pain of being kicked out of the pool.
Meanwhile, the Secret Service confiscated diners’ cell phones to prevent them from snapping photos at a Washington, D.C., burger joint earlier this month while first lady Michelle and her daughters ate there, according to the New York Post. Other news outlets made no mention of confiscations and reported excited patrons used camera phones, however.
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CLUBBING: President Obama, who is vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard this week, plays golf on the second hole at Farm Neck Golf Club in Oak Bluffs yesterday.
Is Larry Sinclair joining them?
One time at Band Camp.............
Government censorship of the press and not one complaint about it...
Says a lot about the current status of the American Press Corps...
In the tank and willing to accept censorship...
Wonder how Cindy Sheehan is making out?
Under what authority did they confiscate personal property in a public place?
“constitutional right to gawk at occupants of the White House”
Which clause is that??
You mean like they laid off Sarah's family?
Obama get’s “posed pictures”
Sarah gets altered pictures to try to make her look bad.
It’s hard to pray eastward—from what I heard—with interruptions.
Can we PLEASE have a Mulligan on the election?
“I had 4 lobsters for lunch. What did you have, you jive a$$ honky? “
Where are the photos???
....fiddling while Rome burns.
Interesting timing, what with this being the start of Ramadan—wouldn’t want to list attending Noon prayers or Friday Mosque, now, would we?
Under what authority did they confiscate personal property in a public place?
Gee, I never knew that the Fourth Amendment ended at a 100 foot radius from the POTUS!
That’s just as well.
Let them have their privacy.
And let us not hear a word about them.
Win-Win
It doesn’t sound like the duffer-in-chief is playing too well.
On the second hole, a neighbor described Obama shooting — at best — a triple-bogey, or three over par.
“He and his foursome were coming up the fairway and it must have been his — I don’t know — second or third shot. All I heard him say was ‘fore!’ and he hit a tree, but he was not too far from the green,” said Sally Fitzgerald, a year-round resident who lives next to the second hole.
“So, he chipped up — a pretty good chip, and then I think he had three putts to get in, but that’s a tough green.”
Later, as he was finishing up his 9-hole round, he left a putt short. It was close enough for him; the president picked it up as a gimme’ — as in give-me-a-break.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jRTo_nd_tMpSZHKRzYyztBBQBxZAD9AA1SK80
Side note: I played that course a couple times in June. Spike Lee has a compound next to the 18th tee. I was tempted to hook my tee shot his way but thought the better of it. He also flies a GIANT NY Yankees flag about 75 ft. in the air so you can’t miss it from over half the course, the asshat.Also if IIRC you can see the Chappaquidick bridge from the eighth hole. I may be wrong I’m going to check now.
Do we know if he’s fasting? Has he been spotted in a restaurant?
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