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President Obama ties George W. Bush on Golf (as much in 9 months than Bush in 34 months)
politico ^ | 10/26/09

Posted on 10/26/2009 6:15:48 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

President Barack Obama has only been in office for just over nine months, but he's already hit the links as much as President Bush did in over two years.

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To: All

Remember all of the FrontPage shots of Bush playing Golf?

If we ever actually have a shooting Civil War, it is the media that deserves the first volleys.


101 posted on 10/26/2009 8:03:55 AM PDT by rbmillerjr (It's us against them...the Establishment RINOs vs rank and file...Sarah Palin or bust)
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To: rbmillerjr

I wonder how the media will report a civil war....


102 posted on 10/26/2009 8:05:37 AM PDT by GregNH ("Dc Rally from the Ground" by me http://gwgjlm.blogspot.com/2009/09/dc-rally-from-ground.html)
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To: manc

“we have to get the message out as much as possible and all honesty it really isn’t hard if we have the will to beat this bozo.”

Thank you.

I always also mention that I have laid off all of my staff (true). I say it in a calm manner, of course.

I think it is good to do this because, even tho the person on the other end of the line is just a ‘lowly’ clerk/inside sales rep, they are usually pretty young and I think they need to experience, first-hand, the impact that a weak economy has directly on them; my small business is struggling, so I can’t order from them.

I actually had one young lady ask me when she should call me back and I told her, “Oh, I’m sure you’ll be following the news and will hear when President Obama has sent bailout checks to all of us small companies, so when you hear on the news that President Obama is sending money to small business owners then be sure to give me a call”. She chuckled and said, “I hear you”.

My family (we are family-owned) has heard me do this schtick so many times now that they just roll their eyes when I launch into it :)


103 posted on 10/26/2009 8:07:16 AM PDT by Happyinmygarden (Yes, actually, I have pretty much seen and heard it all before...)
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To: GalaxieFiveHundred
That's definitely not the best picture for that caption. The pilot there is obviously holding good, solid, opposite rudder pressure to maintain that knife edge. Perhaps a picture of a lomcevak would work better.

HF

104 posted on 10/26/2009 8:08:27 AM PDT by holden
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To: SoFloFreeper

Really? I hadn’t seen any stories on this. Bush’s golf outings were widely reported. Wonder why Obama’s aren’t? I also wonder how he can swing a golf club with the media’s collective heads up his ass.


105 posted on 10/26/2009 8:08:46 AM PDT by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: SoFloFreeper

www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-kass-25-oct25,0,1374049.column

chicagotribune.com

Chicago Way czar needed to keep outlanders in check

John Kass

October 25, 2009
Quantcast

Any day now, President Barack Obama will be calling me with an offer I can’t refuse.

I can just feel it. He’s going to make me czar of the Chicago Way.

“Look, let me be clear, dude, you’ve got to help me,” Obama will say, if he ever does call me, probably at about 3 a.m. “Every time I read the paper or watch Fox News when Rahm and David let me, somebody is throwing around ‘The Chicago Way’ like they know what they’re talking about. And it’s all your fault.”

Me?

“Yes, you. You started it. I read in the Tribune that you’ve mentioned it in at least 120 columns. Now they’re all using it. The Wall Street Journal, blogs, puff pieces in magazines, bed-wetting liberals, red-meat conservatives. That guy on Fox News was doing the baseball bat scene from ‘The Untouchables,’ for God’s sake. They don’t know jack about Chicago. You started it! You stop it! STOP IT!”

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106 posted on 10/26/2009 8:11:33 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-kass-25-oct25,0,1374049.column


107 posted on 10/26/2009 8:12:27 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: Dinah Lord

“You do have a point there, Retro. I’m hoping he’ll have all the time in the world to hit the links in 2012.”
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He is after all only a tender young lad, I prefer that he not have to wait nearly so long.


108 posted on 10/26/2009 8:17:36 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Trying to reason with a leftist is like trying to catch sunshine in a fish net at midnight.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

It just shows how much more organized President Obama is than GWB was and how Prez O has mastered delegating responisbility of running the country to all of the czar’s he has appointed to do his job for him. And by not wasting his time making decisions on things like ‘troops in Afghanistan’ he has more time to play golf, basketball, and have “night’s out” with the missus.


109 posted on 10/26/2009 8:19:47 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Politico is doing exactly what Obama wants us to do: become distracted from Obama's policies, while focusing on him personally.

Obama's problem is that we won't be diverted. We are focusing on the policies.

110 posted on 10/26/2009 8:21:49 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (If Dick Cheney = Darth Vader, then Joe Biden = Dark Helmet)
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To: SoFloFreeper

When you are a puppet, you don’t have the brains for anything beyond golf.


111 posted on 10/26/2009 8:24:29 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (I love it every time a POS dies at the hands of a victim.)
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To: ArtyFO

Having been in the Army in Washington, when Saddam invaded Kuwait, I’ll defend GHWB. The afternoon of the invasion, there were study teams put together at DIA and the old Army ITAC. The next morning a dozen of us from ITAC reported to the Army Operations Center intel watch to reinforce it. The AOC was in full operation with planning, logistics, and reserve callup sections active.

Units were being notified for deployment and a brigade of the 82nd Airborne was on the way to Saudi Arabia within 72 hours of the invasion. With modern communications, Bush gave the order to mobilize and it was carried out. There was no need, other than ‘show’ for him to rush to DC to appear to be in charge.

And I’m also a “former Arty FO.”


112 posted on 10/26/2009 8:26:48 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: manc
the two wars are getting worse economy is getting really bad and has got bad now. Iran and N, Korea acting up as is Russia. Dollar losing his value spending and debt out of control we have already had tax raises country going down hill fast

Yes, everything is going according to Barama's and Soros' plan.

His wife has to be the laziest First Lady ever and it seems this man is up there to.

I'm not too sure about that. I think I'd have trouble keeping up with her gallivanting/sightseeing vacation/tour she is on.

113 posted on 10/26/2009 8:28:58 AM PDT by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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To: rbmillerjr

Maybe that explains these double digit disapproval numbers...

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll


114 posted on 10/26/2009 8:38:49 AM PDT by Typical_Whitey (I will not be silenced so I guess I will see you in the gulag.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I thought Bush quit golf after 9/11?


115 posted on 10/26/2009 8:43:23 AM PDT by cookcounty (Obama: ---Despiser of the Honduran Constitution and contemptuous of ours.)
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To: VeniVidiVici

I have heard the Bush’s golf games were played as quickly as possible while the zero strolls leisurely around and takes his time.


116 posted on 10/26/2009 8:45:58 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The Second Amendment. Don't MAKE me use it.)
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To: Brown Deer
"He declares a National Emergency and then goes out golfing?"

war is peace
hate is love
emergency is vacation

----The Orwell-Obama Dictionary.

117 posted on 10/26/2009 8:47:30 AM PDT by cookcounty (Obama: ---Despiser of the Honduran Constitution and contemptuous of ours.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

The idiot has probably golfed more since he became pres than he did his entire life before. Same with the first wookie, she’s doing shit she never would have done if not for someone else paying the bill. Community organizers...dont ya jest love em.


118 posted on 10/26/2009 8:52:47 AM PDT by Snurple (VEGETARIAN, OLD INDIAN WORD FOR BAD HUNTER.)
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To: manc; All

The only “church” Obama belongs to is the church of Alinsky.

I read Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” back in August. If there ever was a destestable work, it would be that.

It even had a dedication to Lucifer, if you can believe that.

In the book (which is the BIBLE of scumbag “Community Organizers”) Alinsky states that you need to integrate and ingratiate yourself into a community. If you don’t belong to a church, join one.

To Alinsky, Obama and others like him, religion is a tool to be used, no if’s, and’s or but’s about it.

Interestingly, the dedication to Lucifer was removed in later printings (through the Sixties and probably the Seventies) because he didn’t want the church to reject the book on the basis of that. The copy I got from the library was an even later edition printed in the 1980’s, and they apparently thought it was then okay to put the dedication to Lucifer back in.


119 posted on 10/26/2009 8:52:56 AM PDT by rlmorel (Obama, The Flatulence of One Thousand Black Dogs After Eating Boiled Eggs Be Upon Him...)
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To: SoFloFreeper
How 'bout the economy? Afghanistan? Iraq? Deficit? North Korea? Iran? Nope...no time...he's gotta hit the links.

Nah.

Time to spend some vacation time in his dacha on Chesapeake Bay.

120 posted on 10/26/2009 8:56:02 AM PDT by CDB (Obama dithers. The world withers.)
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