Posted on 05/30/2011 12:50:25 PM PDT by Salgak
The business of memorializing our war dead done, President Obama headed out to the Fort Belvoir golf course today, finding his way onto the links for the ninth weekend in a row.
Obama earlier today laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and met with families of those killed in battle. But he emerged from the day’s solemnity to go golfing for the 12th time this year and the 70th time of his presidency.
The decision to golf on Memorial Day invites comparison with President George W. Bush, who gave up the game early in his presidency and said he did it out of respect for the families of those killed in Iraq.
Obama is out with the three younger aides he typically has in tow on his golf excursions, junior White House staffer Ben Finkenbinder, White House Trip Director Marvin Nicholson, and Energy Department staffer David Katz.
In a sign of his determination to play no matter what, Obama is golfing even though it is currently 95 degrees at Fort Belvoir and it “feels like” it’s 98 degrees, according to The Weather Channel.
You kidding? That European vacation to find his roots was serious business! The man needs to relax.
He is focusing on the pressing problems of the nation,
like dealing with that wicked left hook he’s developed.
At least when he walked on the cemetery grass in his golf shoes he helped aerate the turf!
I seriously believe there is more going on with these golfing occasions besides golf.
Regardless of the BC issue...this guy is NOT a cultural American.
He knows Hawaii and the east coast liberal culture...but as far as say...Kansas goes...to him it’s a rectangular state he and friends fly over.
It’s where a “naval corpseman” might live. You know, it’s one of the 57 states.
He’s not one of us and he can’t fake it.
“I seriously believe there is more going on with these golfing occasions besides golf.”
Such as?
>>I seriously believe there is more going on with these golfing occasions besides golf.
He’s just training us to accept it. Americans gave up royalty a couple hundred years ago and now he is getting us used to the idea of having “our betters” parade in front of us, dissplaying their wealth before our poverty. He’s no different than some King holding a perfumed handkerchief in front of his nose to mask the stench of the commoners that he is forced to smile and wave to.
Ever see his swing? He stinks.
later
Now that he has lost one his jobs to the autopen, he has more time to relax.
You think he plays a lot of golf now......just wait until 2011
GOTUS
Golfer Of the United States
The way I see it, the more time he spends on the golf course, the less time he has to make things miserable for the rest of us...
And what happens to all the other golfers while he plays?
He could at least have had the decency to visit the wounded at Walter Reed. I heard about 30 seconds of his “speech” today at Arlington - that’s about all I can bear - and it was full of “me” “I” “mine” etc. I just can’t stand him.
Sounds like an average summer day in Nairobi...
Honey, this IS 2011. I hope you mean 2013?
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