Posted on 07/29/2015 11:59:39 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said he is unlikely to hit the golf links any time soon with President Obama because people get “bent out of shape."
“The President has suggested, ‘Hey, do you think it is too much trouble to play golf again?’ ” he said in excerpts of an interview on the Golf Channel airing Monday.
“I have to look at him and say, ‘Yes, because everybody gets bent out of shape worried about what we are up to, when all we are really going to do is just play golf.’ ”
The avid golfer dished on his 2011 round of golf with Obama, when the two defeated Vice President Joe Biden and Gov. John Kasich (R-Ohio), who is now running for the GOP presidential nomination.
Obama invited the speaker to golf with himself and the vice president, giving Boehner the choice to pick a fourth. When he brought along Kasich, Obama decided to split up the Ohioans.
“The President and I whipped up on them pretty good and they paid up,” he said.
“As soon as we got in the cart I said, Mr. President, just remember something, this is just golf.”
To Boehner, golf is his “escape” to get out of the stresses of the job.
“It is an escape from all of the other things going on because when you are trying to hit that little white ball, you don’t have time to think about anything else,” he said.
He told his interviewer, David Feherty, that he wants to be remembered as “fair, decent and honest,” someone that treats members from both parties the same.
And as one of the most powerful people in Washington, he’s not willing to risk it all on a shot at the White House.
“You’ve got to either have a very special calling or be an ego maniac to want to [run for president],” he said.
“On top of that, I smoke cigarettes, I drink red wine, I play golf, I cut my own grass and I wash and iron my own shirts. I’m not giving that up to be president of the United States.”
“he wants to be remembered as “fair, decent and honest””
Well, he’ll have to settle for “treacherous, double-dealing, and deceitful.”
How many years has he been socializing with the president? Seems like forever. Why stop now.
Everybody wants to play golf with Baraq.
He’s so lousy it’s a guaranteed ego boost.
The only data more closely guarded than Baraq’s golf scores are his LSATs.
Some accomplishment, Bonehead.
And boners purpose is???
if I thought he was doing a good job and that bonding with the opposition was helpful I would love the fact that he golfed with the President but he is not doing a good job and the only use golfing with Obama is to provide propaganda for a President that is in the process of destroying everything that this country has stood for since world war two.
FU Crybaby Boehner. Geez, this guy just cannot be kicked out of his position fast enough. Support Meadows to get him out and some sensibility back to the rules of the house.
He acts like Obama is the only guy he can golf with-—aren’t there any other Repubs who’d like to golf with him? I mean, Graham (must have quite the handicap with that limp wrist)? McConnell?
I wonder why he is so thrilled about ironing his own shirts.
Did boner cry while making his statement? What a waste of oxygen.
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