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Report: Golf courses nixed President Obama
The Politico ^ | September 10, 2014 | Kendall Breitman

Posted on 09/10/2014 2:12:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Some of New York’s most exclusive golf clubs would not let President Barack Obama play over Labor Day weekend, according to a report.

The Trump National Golf Club, Winged Foot and Willow Ridge rejected requests to let Obama tee off, which may have required the clubs to close their doors to regular members, WNBC reported.

White House staffers allegedly gave just a day or two of notice to golf courses in the area where the president was scheduled to stay on Friday evening after attending fundraising events in New York and Rhode Island.

Representatives of all three golf courses declined to comment to POLITICO. The White House did not immediately respond to POLITICO for comment.

Labor Day weekend is one of the busiest times for golf courses, and courses may not have wanted to inconvenience members, who can pay $100,000 a year or more in initiation fees, it was reported.

WNBC noted that while the president was scheduled to stay in Westchester County, N.Y., for a wedding the next day between MSNBC host Alex Wagner and White House chef Sam Kass, the White House told the media on Aug. 28 that Obama would not be staying in New York overnight. Instead, Obama spent Friday evening in Washington, D.C., and flew back north on Saturday afternoon.


TOPICS: Local News; Outdoors; Politics; Sports
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; golf; newyork; obama
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1 posted on 09/10/2014 2:12:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama was teed off.


2 posted on 09/10/2014 2:13:15 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

good for them !

why should they close the course to the members for this jackass


3 posted on 09/10/2014 2:14:56 PM PDT by Reverend Wright (the Obama Presidency: if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesnÂ’t make them Kobe Bryant)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Will the Tyrant send Holder to incite racial war
against the whites there?

OR will the Tyrant sic the IRS to audit them all?

OR will the Tyrant quarter illegals with tuberculosis
and Enterovirus D68, there?

OR all three?


4 posted on 09/10/2014 2:16:15 PM PDT by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

obama should try long island national, they went bankrupt last year

http://patch.com/new-york/riverhead/bankrupt-golf-course-sold-for-6-million#.VBDA0EvlfwI


5 posted on 09/10/2014 2:23:16 PM PDT by Reverend Wright (the Obama Presidency: if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesnÂ’t make them Kobe Bryant)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Also here:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3202557/posts

-and here:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3202454/posts


6 posted on 09/10/2014 2:24:25 PM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzlims trying to kill them-)
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To: Diogenesis
The Trump National Golf Club.

The Donald is already audited so many times. The Emperor and his Jester Eric the Holder already watch everything he does. Not much they can do to him. I bet THE DONALD loved pulling Emperor's chain.
7 posted on 09/10/2014 2:24:48 PM PDT by BigEdLB (IMG SRC=ow there ARE 1,000,000 regret.s - but it may be too latkebabe.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Three privately owned courses refused to disrupt an entire day of use by those who actually paid for it in order to cater to the whim of an entitled clown who spends every spare moment attacking those who are members.

The horror! The horror!!


8 posted on 09/10/2014 2:37:58 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (Hoaxey Dopey Changey)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The way the Kenyan plays so badly, he’d have to file an environmental impact study after play.


9 posted on 09/10/2014 2:38:55 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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I read people speculating why He went back, from Illness. to a National crisis. All it was the the boy did not get his way, of course no thought of cost are inconvenience to others.
10 posted on 09/10/2014 2:43:19 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They have a responsibility to their members. Most of which are likely conservative (as are most golfers). Letting that idiot on the course would’ve resulted in nothing but negative results for the club.


11 posted on 09/10/2014 2:46:25 PM PDT by albie
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This has to be “rasis”! Hrumpf! Hrumpf!


12 posted on 09/10/2014 2:49:16 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't just stand there! Help fight political correctness!)
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To: Reverend Wright
The members are producers and most are white. Obama hates them. So why should the clubs let him play?
13 posted on 09/10/2014 2:57:25 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Not only is he a self-important ass there’s no way obama is a good enough golfer to play at any one of those courses.

He’d probably shoot about 150 at Wingfoot.


14 posted on 09/10/2014 3:00:58 PM PDT by Bullish (You ever notice that liberalism really just amounts to anti-morality?)
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<*snort*>


15 posted on 09/10/2014 3:04:28 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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Guess which country clubs will be visited by the:

EPA. - Those ponds...what? Water hazards? No, they’re ponds, see the definition. Where’s your revised environmental impact statement showing compliance with EO10092014? Don’t have it! Shut the joint down til you get approval.

There’s a couple of folks from Dept of Interior want to talk to you. Said something about a polyester spotted owl darter being found here. Endangered species act violation I’m guessing.


16 posted on 09/10/2014 3:22:25 PM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Who’d a thunk this was the reason for the “rapid” return to the WH in the middle of a fundraiser trip. It sure WASN’t national security. He don’t answer that phone, at least not for any one other than the brutha hood.


17 posted on 09/10/2014 3:29:09 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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It is really sorrowful when you read ANYTHING about this clown (sorry Clowns) and you have to check to see if it is satire.

I am not referring to the fact that PRIVATE BUSINESSES wouldn’t cater to his whims but the fact he made a 600 mi round trip AT OUR EXPENSE because he couldn’t get his way.

I am surprised he hasn’t made a statement along the lines of ‘knowing how his ‘people’ must have felt back in the day’ when they were denied access to ALL WHITE CLUBS or some BS along that line.


18 posted on 09/10/2014 3:37:05 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98) If you can't convince them, confuse them.)
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RACISM!!!!! :)


19 posted on 09/10/2014 3:38:55 PM PDT by armydawg505
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his problem is so easily solved!

They should make me a consultant and then I’d get to cash in like those tax leaches.

First of all, whenever HE travels, they fly TWO 474’s. And then there are at least 8 - 12 support aircraft for vehicles, etc. And don’t forget the royal dog aircraft. It’s a lot on planning and expense.

And so, when it is somebody else money, i.e. the taxpayers, why worry.

Let’s create the mobile presidential golf course!

The Saratoga is on it’s way to Texas to be scrapped. Now wouldn’t that make a great golf course that could be sent ahead to any coastal area the prez was going to visit?

Complete privacy. A little expensive but who’s counting as long as the entitled are catered to.


20 posted on 09/10/2014 3:51:17 PM PDT by x1stcav (Leftism is like rust. It corrodes twenty-four hous a day.)
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