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Obama played golf as US special forces prepared to kill bin Laden
Telegraph UK ^ | May 2, 2011 | By Harry Mount

Posted on 05/02/2011 7:06:29 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

President Obama, it turns out, is by far the most golf-mad of all the Presidents in history. Yesterday, the President was playing the 66th round of his presidency, and his fifth round in five weeks, as US special forces prepared to move in on bin Laden.

There’s nothing wrong in all that golf. The odd thing about being President is the amount of time you have on your hands, punctuated by sudden moments of extreme tension, requiring great decisiveness – like the correct and admirable decision to attack bin Laden’s bunker.

What is unfair – not that this is Obama’s fault – is the criticism meted out to President George W Bush for his golfing. He only played 24 times in all eight years of his presidency, but was cast as the country club plutocrat for his love of the game. Michael Moore mocked him in his documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11, for condemning “terrorist killers” on the golf course in 2002, before adding, “Thank you. Now watch this drive.”

None of this is either to attack Obama or praise Bush – just to say that it’s OK for presidents, both Republican and Democrat, to swing a club from time to time.

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: golf; obamagolf
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1 posted on 05/02/2011 7:06:35 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I would have been on my knees praying for my forces and their success and safety.


2 posted on 05/02/2011 7:08:01 AM PDT by MagnoliaB
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

3 posted on 05/02/2011 7:08:07 AM PDT by Blue Turtle
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why did we respect his religious burial ceremony?

Why risk lives of seals when they were to shoot him in the head and not use a drone?

All that info he had on where the money goes, future attacks, where his number two is has gone.

If he had been there since 2005 then why not watch him and find the other leadership and then take them all out at the same time?

Obama you cannot take credit when you had all of this and if Bush had done it this way then the media would be asking for proof


4 posted on 05/02/2011 7:09:29 AM PDT by manc (Shame on all who voted for the repeal of DADT, who supported it or never tried to stop it. Traitors)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Obama is a coward.


5 posted on 05/02/2011 7:10:49 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: MagnoliaB

wow. just wow. someone should tell the msm that’s where he was...they are reporting that he was holding his breath in the situation room awaiting the outcome...I’m sure they will be embarrassed when they realize they got it wrong...oh wait...never mind...


6 posted on 05/02/2011 7:10:53 AM PDT by dixiebelle
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I’m glad 0bama was playing golf (just like normal). I would not have wanted anything (like a change in activity) to give away the secrecy of the operation.


7 posted on 05/02/2011 7:11:34 AM PDT by reg45
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But you see.....it was a cunning plan all along. Now he can say, "Hey, look.....I can play golf and still conduct serious business. Leave me alone."

/sarc

Yes, I'm being sarcastic....but don't be surprised to hear this mentioned by MSM and admin sycophants.

8 posted on 05/02/2011 7:11:50 AM PDT by edpc (Tagline under construction: Your American Recovery and Reinvestment Act dollars at work.)
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To: MagnoliaB

I can not believe he went to play golf,,,,,

You are correct to say he should have been on his knees ...waiting for news of those troops safe return.


9 posted on 05/02/2011 7:13:16 AM PDT by 3D-JOY
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Once again, leave it to the Brits to report the truth about this pResident.

US MSM is the DNC.

10 posted on 05/02/2011 7:13:22 AM PDT by Jane Long (2 Chron 7:14)
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It was all part of his intricate plan to lull Osama into a false sense of security.


11 posted on 05/02/2011 7:13:42 AM PDT by skeeter
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to understand the difference... GWBush played 24 times in 8 years... or 6 in two years.

0bama has played 66 times in 2 years.

11 times more

any time lefties say anything, just tell them they are bullsh*t lairs and their only effort is to politicize any event while covering for their own

and remind them of president genius and how well he’s done


12 posted on 05/02/2011 7:13:54 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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I also recall the crisism layed at George H. bush feet for going on a fishing trip during Gulf War I. The media had a field day with the fact taht he was not at his desk during such a crisis.

Did anyone in their right mind not realize that he was in constant contact with his aids?

13 posted on 05/02/2011 7:15:21 AM PDT by verga (I am not an apologist, I just play one on Television)
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you are right...wow...LOL

They will never correct themselves!


14 posted on 05/02/2011 7:15:25 AM PDT by 3D-JOY
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

a good tee time is a terrible thing to waste


15 posted on 05/02/2011 7:15:51 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

He was undercover.


16 posted on 05/02/2011 7:16:15 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: sten
to understand the difference... GWBush played 24 times in 8 years... or 6 in two years.

I think W stopped playing golf altogether when military operations began in Iraq.

17 posted on 05/02/2011 7:16:30 AM PDT by Moonman62 (If gullible, uneducated and uncivilized people didn't exist, politicians would create them.)
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BOTH OBAMA AND OSAMA HAVE/HAD
FRIENDS WHO BOMBED THE PENTAGON

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From HumanEvents.com, April 29, 2008:
"By all accounts, he [Obama friend and associate, Bill Ayers] was a ferocious, violent, revolutionary Marxist in his halcyon days as a Weatherman leader. He and his Weatherman bombers were enamored of Ho Chi Minh, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Mao Tse-tung -- indeed, all the murderous heroes on the Left. Referring to the Weatherman members in August 1969, he said (according to the FBI): 'We’re revolutionary Communists.'

He got off on the group’s multiple explosions, too, and discusses them rather lovingly in his memoir.

Ideal Bombing Weather:
'Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,' he writes (although he concedes it was really a group effort). 'The sky was blue. The birds were singing. And the bastards were finally going to get what was coming to them.' (p. 256 in the 2003 edition.)

Article: Obama and His Weatherman Friends
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26243
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Pentagon attack, Sept 11, 2001

18 posted on 05/02/2011 7:16:41 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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when they realize they got it wrong...oh wait...never mind...

It is very possible that DoD/CIA influenced the potus to make a very public spectacle (out playing golf) of himself while the operation was in progress. It is the opposite of what a normal POTUS would do, and it has the second advantage of getting him away from effective communications so that the operation can be completed without interference, unlike Carter and the Hostage Rescue attempt in '79

19 posted on 05/02/2011 7:16:49 AM PDT by Dustoff45
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BOTH OBAMA AND OSAMA HAVE/HAD
FRIENDS WHO WANTED TO BOMB FORT DIX

From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
March 6, 1970: "three members of the Weather Underground accidentally killed themselves in a Manhattan townhouse while attempting to build a powerful bomb they had intended to plant at a social dance in Fort Dix, New Jersey -- an event that was to be attended by U.S. Army soldiers. Hundreds of lives could have been lost had the plot been successfully executed."
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6808

"The bomb was intended to be planted at a non-commissioned officer's dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey.
The bomb was packed with nails to inflict maximum casualties upon detonation."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_(organization)#Chronology_of_events
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2007 Fort Dix attack plot

A group of six radical Islamist[1] men, allegedly plotting to stage an attack on the Fort Dix military base in New Jersey, United States, were arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on May 7, 2007. They were subsequently charged with planning an attack against U.S. soldiers. The alleged aim of the six men was said to be to "kill as many soldiers as possible".[2] Their trial began on October 20, 2008. [3]

Opening arguments were presented on October 20, 2008.
Assistant U.S. Attorney William Fitzpatrick said the defendants were inspired by jihad saying "Their motive was to defend Islam. Their inspiration was Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Dix_plot

20 posted on 05/02/2011 7:17:19 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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