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?
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Bammy has the world,s weakest Laser beam.
That question answers itself.
“He’ll go down in the history books as an example of what NOT TO BE as President!”
You’re wrong on that. Liberals write the history books that are used in schools. Obama will get important pages simply as the result of being the first “peep of color.” There won’t be a mention of the debacle of his reign.
Will there be “history” when the Messiah of Israel sets up his one-world government here on earth?
And that’s not too far off. Most of the people alive today, and who survive the coming disasters, will see that happen right in front of their eyes.
I hate to disagree, but it seems to me that America is at it’s safest when Obama is out playing golf.
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