Posted on 09/07/2014 10:01:59 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
Washington (AFP) - US President Barack Obama now admits that his decision to play a vacation round of golf immediately after addressing the murder of US journalist James Foley by Islamic State, was a mistake.
"I should have anticipated the optics," Obama said in an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday.
The president said that he had been forced to hold back tears when he spoke privately to the family of Foley, who was beheaded, but added that there was always the prospect of a "jarring" contrast between world events, and his own efforts to carve out a semblance of a normal life through recreation.
And he also admitted that sometimes his own performance in some of the more public rituals of the presidency was lacking.
"Part of this job, is also the theater of it.
"It's not something that always comes naturally to me. But it matters. And I'm mindful of that," Obama said.
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The old “I’m sorry if anyone was offended” non-apology.
He regrets being caught. The man child narcissist.
Why? Tears make for great optics.
His chief regret is that he played several strokes over par.
Not that it excuses his boorish behavior but explains it.
Yeah right.
The pResident and his boyfriends were playing a big round of golf for $2000 of your tax dollars. At the eighteenth green Barry had a ten foot putt to win the round, and the $2000.
As he was lining up his putt, a funeral procession started to pass by. He set down his putter, took his hat off, placed it over his chest, and began to wait for all the cars to pass. After it passed, he picked up his putter and returned to lining up his putt.
One of his toads gushed, “That was the most touching thing I have ever seen. I can’t believe you stopped playing, possibly loosing your concentration, to pay your respects.”
“It was just one of our reporters, a guy named—well, I forget—but he was wacked by some Brothers due to my feckless job as president on the WOT, uh, like those Benghazi guys.”
“So I wanted to anticipate the optics. Double the bet, with the usual requirement that I only gotta get within five feet of the hole?”
He doesn’t regret playing golf-he regrets how it made him look. That’s exactly what he said.
he had been forced to hold back tears.....
BULL! He was seen laughing and smiling and golfing minutes later!
I remember that video of Clinton laughing with someone at a funeral. As soon as he noticed a video camera pointing his way, he started pretending to cry while wiping away fake tears. Clinton was all about theatrics. Obama can’t get anything right, not even the theatrics of pretense.
He should anticipate a different sort of optics, actually. Something around 4x magnification seems to have been used previously.
One, distance.
Two, doubtful that there will be another inauguration.
Always had fun on golf courses. My first business endeavor was fishing golf balls from ponds and streams. Then selling them to golfers. Oops. Hope the IRS does not read that. Heck, probably did not even have a ss number then.
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