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.
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Nonsense - it is OK for democrat presidents to do as they wish. Any endeavor they choose would be frowned upon for a republican to enjoy.
You’ve been here since 04 (and probably not a troll), so why post this crap?
Better golfing than crawling up their hineys from Langley, micromanaging the entire thing al la’ Carter and Desert One.
That was exactly what Teddy Roosevelt did while the Marines recued the school teacher from the King of Siam. What do people expect the CIC to do?
Only person he’d drop to his knees in front of would be George Soros...you know...that’s who bought this 4 yr vacation for him and his butchy wife.
3-4 times a week is normal here, but of course we aren’t the President. Then again IKE played a lot of golf too, but he was a real President.
O’s golf games will not decide the outcome of 2012, his recent “Mission completed”, and the manipulation of gas prices that will drop before election time will be more of a deciding factor. The drop will be temporary, once re-elected they will go up again. That’s how I see it, but who knows??? I’m more worried about the GOP, they are not giving us a candidate with fire, its all smoke so far.
Sleeper troll
I watched on CBS news last night as one of their talking heads said that Obama played only 9 holes of golf yesterday as opposed to the normal 18 holes, so this event even affected Obama’s schedule yesterday. Yes, they actually said it as if to imply that it was so important that it actually interferred with Obama’s schedule to play 18 holes of golf. Well, I’m certainly impressed that even Obama made some sacrifices yesterday to see the mission was successful......../spewing sarc
What can't he do!
... and this is news?
“It is the opposite any POTUS would do”.
So if everything else the Grand Zero does.
You're not obama.
Elbows, knees and forehead pressed to the ground, please...
There is that too.
Gotta give the President his due...he got ‘em. Like it or not, it was on his watch. In the famous words of Carville, “this changes everything”
But, but....
To be fair; Obama only played 9 holes.
Instead of the usual 18.
~smirk~
If this changes everything for you about Obama then you don’t know very much about him and his anti-American agenda. Either that or you agree with it??
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