Posted on 08/08/2014 6:26:20 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
“Obama is believed to be an honest scorekeeper, which perhaps should reassure us”
If you seriously believe that this, if even true, translates in any way to his credibility as president, you’re nuts.
Lord I wish we could do a mulligan on this Presidency.
I’m no great golfer, but golf demands some concentration. I think Obama plays golf so he doesn’t have to think about being President. That is escapism. A little bit is OK, but he’s up to 200 golf days since he took office. Putin and ISIS know that he’s running away from the presidency. Dangerous times for the entire world when the US President can’t deal with reality. But, we elected a known Choomer.
That's racist!/s
I suspect some day the media will report that he went out and hit 18 holes in one.
Caddy:...."You teed up on an addled duck egg"
ROFLOL! I have seen his swing. For a guy that spends that much time on the golf course, his swing sucks.
> Obama is believed to be an honest scorekeeper
When you’re watching.
I’ve heard the only thing more deeply classified than Baraq’s LSATs are his golf scores.
In five and a half years of slashing his way through courses from Maryland to Hawaii, the president has managed to turn this most gregarious of games into an intensely private obsession, one he has shared almost entirely with the handful of close friendsmany of them old high-school pals from Hawaiiand White House aides he asks into his foursome. Mostly, he plays with junior White House aides. So Obama spends most of his time with golf partners he not only doesnt have to persuadehe doesnt even have to talk to them. An exhaustive record of Obamas every golf game over the past five and a half years compiled by Epstein and another POLITICO colleague, Carrie Budoff Brown, showed that the presidents most frequent partner, by far, has been Marvin Nicholson, the White House trip director (theyve played together 117 times), followed by David Katz, the 29-year-old White House senior policy adviser for manufacturing, and Eric Whitaker, Obamas old Chicago friend. Not far behind in frequency is Ben Finkenbinder, a young White House press staffer. Even Bill Clinton, while he usually played the game for fun, also used it as a venue for talking politics privately with fellow big-shots (D.C. power lawyer Vernon Jordan, among others).
.... Instead, Obama has, again and again, demonstrated that he relies on a set of advisers that is as narrow as his selection of golf partnerstrusted consiglieres like Valerie Jarrett and Denis McDonough (who as deputy national security adviser could sometimes be found conferring privately with the president to the consternation of McDonoughs boss, first-term national security adviser Jim Jones, a big-name former general who never had the key to the Obama inner sanctum). The same held true for his response to the economic crisis. Even after the biggest economic setback since the Great Depression, progressive economists found themselves cut out, or invited to the White House once or twice for pro-forma dinners but never againan experience not unlike Obamas one-off golf game with Boehner.
And finally, from the article, concluding paragraph:
“The problem is that this president doesnt seem to possess the skills or the desire to get enough votesfull stop. He certainly hasnt tried very hard to woo wayward members of the opposite party, as many presidents before him have done. And hes certainly not going to make much progress by spending five hours a day addressing a little white balland no one elseon Marthas Vineyard.”
“In Obamas case, this has given rise to the caged bear meme that his staffers use to describe his eagerness to get away from his crushing schedule.”
Crushing schedule? The only crushing thing he has is his crush on Reggie Love.
Gimme a break! He gets up at 10 every day, maybe reads some national security notes from the briefings he never attends, has lunch, maybe has a meeting with sycophants who will stroke his ego, hosts a dinner for some celebrity or attends a fundraiser, and then goes to bed. Crushing schedule, my --
“Our Lonely First Duffer” is an empty suit puppet of his hard left handlers. He simply carries out their orders. He has loads of free time between orders.
Maybe he’s crushing grapes for all the whining he does?
How do we even know if he's really playing golf? Maybe he is driven to some other location.
“a mediocre golfer”?
Come on man, this is crappola from one of obammy’s people.
Mud man swings like an 8 year old girl.
mediocre? how about pathetic???
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