Posted on 06/16/2014 4:25:44 PM PDT by kristinn
Last weekend Barack Obama played his 175th and 176th rounds of golf as president. He played first at Sunnylands, the famously private course on the Rancho Mirage, California estate of the late billionaire Walter Annenberg. Obama next played at Porcupine Creek, the equally private course on the nearby estate of the very-much-alive tech billionaire Larry Ellison.
The White House said Obama received regular briefings on the worsening crisis in Iraq during his golf weekend. "The president directed [National Security Adviser Susan Rice] to continue to keep him apprised of the latest developments," said spokesman Josh Earnest, "as his national security team continues to meet through the weekend to review potential options."
Earnest's report was the latest in a long tradition of presidents trying to assure the public they're on top of things even as they hit the links for a leisurely round, sometimes in fabulously luxurious settings. Presidential golf can be a sensitive subject, especially if there is an international crisis at hand. Nevertheless, Obama continues to play, even as fears grow that events in Iraq, Syria, Ukraine and elsewhere have brought the world to a very dangerous point.
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Obama has never made the golf missteps Bush did, in part because he would never allow the public a good look at him playing what some still consider a frivolous, rich guy's sport. "Like JFK, he had downplayed his love of golf during the [2008] campaign for political reasons," wrote sympathetic journalist Jonathan Alter in The Promise, a book about Obama's first year in office. "Obama barred cameras from the course when he played. Wrong Image."
Now, perhaps more than ever, it's still the wrong Image. Will the president keep playing while his – and the world's – problems mount?
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Do you think he will blame the Christians, while he fiddles, like Nero did? We might as well just start calling him Nero, he is trying to burn down America.
He loved golf before becoming president?
Could uh fooled me.
He sucks at it.
Again, Obama plays with his putter and his balls while thousands die because of his stupidity, cowardice and treason.
Just another day of creating hell, by pajama boy.
Please read the entire article to find out.
Among others. She’s the chief string puller and coordinator.
Its not a muslim holiday. Why would he celebrate it?
when asked why he was golfing while the middle east burns, obama said “I’m not the president of the middle east.”
Her jump shot in college?
She comes from a long line of Apparatchik?
Just as the clown planned. he has no care for anyone but himself and communists that he works with.
“Do you think he will blame the Christians, while he fiddles, like Nero did? We might as well just start calling him Nero, he is trying to burn down America.”
Since Nero rhymes with Zero, we could come up with a great bumper sticker.
“Nero and Zero, fiddling around while the world burns.
Nero fiddled while Rome burned;
Zero golfed while Iraq burned;
Blame the Christians and GWB!
Anybody else notice a pattern here? Hmmmmm..?
Do commies play golf?
Only if they can cheat and bend the rules so they win every hole.
However, his dem base, the media, the latino ‘citizens in waiting’ all sing his praise...
We love him, we love him, we love him,
and what he says we’ll swallow, we’ll swallow
“the bear is loose!” lol!
Golf-—the American media would buy it.
Golf is 0bama’s security blanket.
“You just let me know what’s up. You got this, right? Alright, I’ll be on hittn’ the links if you need me!. Later!”
Obowma, slacker in chief.
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