Imagine the trepidation he must have felt, finishing his putt, knowing that on the other side of the world, a major event was going down that could shape the future of the GWOT. Imagine the excitement of being dragged off the course ear-first by a huffy, out-of-breath Valerie Jarrett, when you were teeing up on the 15th hole. The heartbreak of being told that "playing through" wasn't the same as "steadfast resolve". The disappointment at the lack of cool phones or dramatic SEAL raid soundtrack playing in the Situation Room. Lame!
It must have been a terrible strain. Not knowing moment to moment if they had remembered to save your game of Tiger Woods Golf that you had left playing on the Tandberg VTC terminal. Yeah, they wanted to use it to watch SEAL TV, but jeez boring, right?! Obama could have cracked under the pressure of being more than 15 feet from the nearest teleprompter. The cameraman was there, taking his picture constantly, and that must have been a relief. Little consolation if he had missed The Voice, which was on next.
Yeah, I mean technically it was a recording from earlier in the week, but Obama had already planned to watch it, and who trusts recordings anyway? What if you don't watch it on time, and it just assumes you don't care and deletes itself? It's a terrible risk to take. All so Gates and Hillary can hog the TV with their stupid boring helicopter show. The only one that blew up was cuz it ran into a wall. Ghey.
Obama is a hero for enduring all this. A lesser man would have broken under the strain. I don't know where we would have found a lesser man, but if he's out there, somewhere, he should sleep well, knowing that Obama shouldered the whole epic burden himself.