Posted on 09/10/2014 4:00:30 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
....Obama was turned down at several top golf courses in Westchester while he was visiting the area over Labor Day weekend, sources tell NBC 4 New York. The Trump National Golf Club, the Winged Foot and Willow Ridge were among some of the elite courses that rebuffed the president's request to tee off there, according to several sources who were told about the president's advance team's calls to the club managers.
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Bingo. My first thought too. I hope their taxes are all paid up.
On Aug. 28, White House officials announced the president was changing his plans and that he would return to Washington Friday night instead of staying over in New York.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest explained the change that Friday as a last-minute decision by Obama to "make the late evening flight back here home to the White House."
"He can sleep in his own bed, do a little work tomorrow, spend some time with his family and then travel back to New York tomorrow evening to attend a private event," he said,
Holder’s civil rights division will be swarming at these courses like flies on horse$hit.
I think you’re right. Smart call on their part. Allowing bammy and his security to take over the course would have angered a lot of paying customers. Personally, I wouldn’t let bammy mow my lawn. Heck, I wouldn’t let him on my property.
I can’t speak for the others, but I’m very familiar with Trump National in Somerset County, New Jersey. Two of its most notable neighbors aren’t exactly big fans of Barack Obama. It’s right down the road from where Steve Forbes has lived for years, and Woody Johnson (the heir of the Johnson & Johnson fortune and owner of the New York Jets) can walk there from his estate.
“Personally, I wouldn’t let bammy mow my lawn.”
I don’t think he’d want to, anyway - he might get grass stains on his mom jeans.
These recalcitrant courses had better tee up for an IRS rectal exam.
Uh...Winged Foot CC does not need prestige. It already has it as host to several U.S. Opens and being ranked as one of the greatest courses in the U.S. There is probably a waiting list to obtain a membership at these clubs also, so what value does a presidential visit really have?
Oh, he might... But then he'd rapidly lose interest in the job, not realizing it actually meant work. So instead of finishing cutting the grass he'd...
Make speeches to the birds about how lawns were for "the rich" and somehow used to oppress them.
He'd try to organize the mulch beds against the grassy areas - create division since the mulch doesn't get weekly attention.
He'd quietly support the landscape rock areas and their desire to brutally take over and kill the living parts of the yard.
He'd alienate my friends and neighbors, while supporting the weeds trying to aggressively take over their yard.
He'd claim the problems with the yard are the fault of my last yard maintenance guy and demand more money for water and fertilizer. The budget of course would go to his "good friend" the paper boy...
No, maybe I don't want bammy mowing my yard.
LOL! That made my day.
I wouldn’t want him at my club. Maybe they didn’t want to close down for a busy holiday weekend Saturday or Sunday just so his highness - aka heinous - could get in a round. Eff him - he’s not king!
Where Obama goes, nothing grows.
Winged Foot doesn't need anymore prestige - they have hosted the US Open three or four times.
Golfers frisked as Obama unexpectedly arrives at Martha’s Vineyard club
Since the title includes the word rejected, my hunch is this is meant to be a sympathy piece.
I foresee a WHOLE bunch of IRS audits in the making
Any presidential visit is such a PITA that few businesses would want one. It would tie the course up for most of a day and pi$$ off the membership.
If he had any smarts at all, he would have played Bethpage Public - the Black course. A premier venue, host to two US Opens, public and it is the ‘Black’ course. What local official would have said, ‘no’?
Agreed. This is a BS story. There's no confirmation of any of this from anyone at all.
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