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The Golf Address
The New York Times (via Twitchy) ^ | 0823/14 | Maureen Dowd

Posted on 08/24/2014 1:43:29 AM PDT by jocon307

FORE! Score? And seven trillion rounds ago, our forecaddies brought forth on this continent a new playground, conceived by Robert Trent Jones, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal when it comes to spending as much time on the links as possible — even when it seems totally inappropriate, like moments after making a solemn statement condemning the grisly murder of a 40-year-old American journalist beheaded by ISIL.

I know reporters didn’t get a chance to ask questions, but I had to bounce. I had a 1 p.m. tee time at Vineyard Golf Club with Alonzo Mourning and a part-owner of the Boston Celtics. Hillary and I agreed when we partied with Vernon Jordan up here, hanging out with celebrities and rich folks is fun.

Now we are engaged in a great civil divide in Ferguson, which does not even have a golf course, and that’s why I had a “logistical” issue with going there. We are testing whether that community, or any community so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure when the nation’s leader wants nothing more than to sink a birdie putt.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; golf; iraq; isis; maureendowd; obama
Ms. Dowd is not a favorite here, but she really sinks a hole in one with this column.

I think she could have gone all Elin Woods and chased Obama down with a nine iron and it wouldn't have been more brutal.

1 posted on 08/24/2014 1:43:29 AM PDT by jocon307
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To: jocon307

I just read it — when even Maureen Dowd is making fun of Obama, instead of defending him, he is definitely toast.


2 posted on 08/24/2014 1:46:32 AM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: jocon307

He’s not golfing:

Obama’s Golfing Buddies
http://hillbuzz.org/is-barack-obama-gay/obamas-golfing-buddies


3 posted on 08/24/2014 1:48:54 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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Those hillbuzz folks are quite wacky. I hope Alonzo Mourning isn’t gay, even though he really has one of the prettiest names ever.

Do you think they’ll throw ALL IN with Hillary if she runs? I mean, they were anti-O because they were pro-Hill originally, if I remember that right, do I?


4 posted on 08/24/2014 1:55:25 AM PDT by jocon307
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No, I think they’ve been too “conservatized” to throw in with Hillary now, but stranger things have happened.


5 posted on 08/24/2014 2:12:24 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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Wow, wow, read the comments over there to understand why Obama still enjoys 40% approval.

This country really may be doomed.


6 posted on 08/24/2014 2:21:17 AM PDT by jocon307
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To: Innovative

LOL that’s what I have been thinking lately... Some of his staunchest supporters in the media have turned on him.
Late night comedians that loved to hammer Bush every chance they got, left Obama alone early on are roasting him on a regular basis now.

Funny watching his support go straight in the toilet! Even better show watching the supporters and many turned ex-supporters heads exploding... Could not be happening to a more deserving bunch of Hypocrites... Which reminds me, I running low on popcorn.

I am amazed how many people that were totally anti war when Bush was in charge, now calling for doing whatever is needed to take care of ISIS or ISIL or IS as now being refered to by Obama as he starts bombing them again, I assume to try to put some confusion out there so people don’t start asking why he is bombing the same people he just financially supported against Assad. I don’t give a damn what letters you call them by, these are the SAME EVIL Bastards that did exactly the same thing to Daniel Pearl.

Seems like Obama has been tested with that proverbial 3am call, more than a few times now and he has failed our country miserably every time...


7 posted on 08/24/2014 2:27:29 AM PDT by AzNASCARfan
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To: jocon307

MoDo is hostile to golf, for some reason I cannot fathom...

8 posted on 08/24/2014 3:12:00 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (Health Care Haiku: If You Have a Right / To the Labor I Provide / I Must Be Your Slave)
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They will all be back in his corner the day he gets back from vacay and starts Presidentin’ again.


9 posted on 08/24/2014 3:17:22 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (Health Care Haiku: If You Have a Right / To the Labor I Provide / I Must Be Your Slave)
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To: jocon307

It’s amazing how presidents serve their terms (8 yrs max) & on whims mess up a few countries in the process without being held accountable in the long run. Carter only served one term but won the ‘unnoble’ peace prize for at best his silence while tens of thousands of people were murdered. Irony is he is still permitted to run around giving foreign policy advice. Obama a double image of Carter in black. But at least Obama & his muscle-in, belligerent wife no longer pretend to be anything more than a couple who managed to fool people & hold high office to purely fulfill a very personal ambition. Shameful.


10 posted on 08/24/2014 4:19:14 AM PDT by odds
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Maureen, alone and weariing clothes totally inappropriate for her (old) age. No wonder she's as bitter at Obama as she is with Michael Douglas.

11 posted on 08/24/2014 5:07:25 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Ob)
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To: jocon307
Hello, Ball.
12 posted on 08/24/2014 7:58:54 AM PDT by Lockbar (What would Vlad The Impaler do?)
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And Imperitor Barack the Furst gallantly rode up astride his faithful golf cart, his shining golf club of justus waving in the sunlight amid his buttlecry of “may I play through you?” his peasant enemies mown down under his squibbly wheels...


13 posted on 08/24/2014 8:38:00 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee! First one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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