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Biden: Obama Wants to Golf in Ireland, But I Don’t Want To Take Him (Gaffin' Joe Rides Again!)
Washington Examiner ^ | November 18, 2012 | 8:07 pm | Joel Gehrke

Posted on 11/19/2012 2:41:56 PM PST by drewh

Biden: Obama wants to golf in Ireland, but I don’t want to take him

Joel Gehrke Commentary Writer The Washington Examiner

@Joelmentum Joel on FB Popular in PoliticsTraveling abroad, President Obama dons a traditional Indonesian Batik shirt Petraeus chose 'Jackie Kennedy' package for wedding Obama in Burma: ‘I cannot just impose my will on Congress, even though sometimes I wish I could’ TSA issues holiday warning to ‘Opt Out and Film’ privacy rights activists Jeb, Christie on top for 2016 President Obama wants to go on a golf trip to Ireland, but Vice President Joe Biden doesn’t want to take him. Biden recounted his conversation with the president during a pit stop in Hoboken, N.J., where he has been surveying the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy.

“I turned to him, I said, “Barack, now that this election’s over, I’m going to Ireland,” Biden told the patrons of Benny Tudino’s Pizzeria, per the pool report. “You know what he said to me? He said, ‘would you take me with you? I want to play golf.’ I said, ‘I’m not so sure. But I’m going. I’m going to see where my mother is from and my mother’s father and my mother’s mother.’”

Obama has played over 100 rounds of golf as president. The habit became so pronounced that Republicans turned it into a running joke, to the chagrin of a golf lobbying group.

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1 posted on 11/19/2012 2:42:00 PM PST by drewh
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To: drewh

What does that even mean? He referring to the homeboy?


2 posted on 11/19/2012 2:43:55 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: GeronL
I guess the two homeboys aren't so tight after all.


3 posted on 11/19/2012 2:48:14 PM PST by drewh
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To: drewh

“...Jeb, Christie on top for 2016...”

Oh, H-E-double hockey sticks, No!


4 posted on 11/19/2012 2:53:19 PM PST by Southern Magnolia
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To: drewh

He should go hunting with Dick Cheney instead . . .


5 posted on 11/19/2012 4:53:07 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: drewh
That well may have been the smartest thing that Joe ever said.

Regards,
GtG

6 posted on 11/19/2012 8:30:29 PM PST by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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To: drewh

Malarkey!


7 posted on 11/19/2012 8:34:54 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: drewh

Malarkey!


8 posted on 11/19/2012 8:36:08 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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