Revealed: How Obama was playing golf until 20 minutes before Navy SEALs began mission

Daily Mail ^ | 11/6/11 | Daniel Bates

[Nachum]

In the official photograph, he looked every inch the commander in chief. Strain etched on his face, Barack Obama watched as the raid to kill Osama bin Laden played out on a television in front of him. According to a new book, however, the President was not nearly that engaged – and was actually playing golf until 20 minutes before the operation began in earnest.Only then did he down his clubs and return to the White House to watch what he later trumpeted as a great success of his presidency. A new book claims the official account was

[Nachum]

Full title: Revealed: How Obama was playing golf until 20 minutes before Navy SEALs began mission to take out Bin Laden

[Nachum]

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[43north]

Somehow I am not at all surprised by this.

[Inyo-Mono]

The only thing missing from your montage of photos is the pic of Obama hanging curtains.

[Spunky]

Daily Mail is late to the party. Us Freepers knew that the very day.

[Dogbert41]

The article does not say how long Seal Team 6 waited on the tarmac in Afghanistan waiting for the fearless leader to finish his beauty sleep and golf game while deciding to give the green light.

Perhaps when he finally did, he thought his friends in Pakistan already cleared out the compound...

[rabidralph]

GMTA!

[plain talk]

you left out the girl’s bike photo which is certainly special

[Spunky]

"In the official photograph, he looked every inch the commander in chief"

LOL! He looks like he is cowering down into his jacket.

[43north]

To me he looks like he just realized he crapped his mudslime underpants.

[Mountain Mary]

And him riding the girlie bike in his Mom jeans.

[FortWorthPatriot]

To me he looks like he doesn’t want to be there. Like he’s lost in thought on other pressing matters: “Maybe I should have used a 7 iron on that last hole...”

[STARWISE]

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[SpaceBar]

In the official photograph, he looked every inch the commander in chief.

What a ridiculous opening to the article. No he didn't. He looked precisely like he'd been golfing just minutes before and hurriedly threw on a sport coat to hide his polo shirt for a stupid photo op.

[visualops]

Yep. He looks scared sh*tless.

[gaijin]

I found them and have added them to my post for next time:

[Spunky]

"The only thing missing from your montage of photos is the pic of Obama hanging curtains."

[maine-iac7]

In charge? Looks like a little boy told to sit in the corner and watch - notice he couldn't get out of the room if he tried.

the real story?

"Obama Overridden by Military and Intel Officials in Takeout of OBL?"

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/05/skulking-towards-bin-laden-obama-overridden-by-military-and-intel-officials-in-takeout-of-obl.html

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[maine-iac7]

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