Posted on 03/05/2011 8:56:53 PM PST by Bigtigermike
Well, the mercury has crept back up above 60 degrees here in Washington, and so it’s time once again for President Obama to head out to the golf course.
This is the president’s 60th time golfing as president, meaning Obama has spent two months of his presidency on the golf course.
The rounds usually take about five hours, including motorcading back an forth to the course.
According to statistics compiled by CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller, who keeps close tabs on the president’s activities, Obama played 30 rounds in 2010, 28 rounds in 2009, and two this year, including today.
George W. Bush gave up golfing in 2003, explaining why he did it in a 2008 interview with POLITICO.
“I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf,” he said. “I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.”
(Excerpt) Read more at whitehousedossier.com ...
One of those outings was right after supposedly visiting with his oh so dreadfully ill grandmother for all of half an hour.
Ok, so that round was before the election but it is all very telling.
Obama: "I want for the mom whose son may have recently died fighting illegal, racists wars to see the commander in chief playing golf. Playing golf during these unjust wars of American imperialism sends exactly the right signal.”
And yet the MSM still fixates on how Bush played golf as president.
Par for the course.
Prior to dumbo’s election i read in Ebony/Jet Magazine online a profile of him the wookie.
she is quoted as saying (prior to the election & if he became prez)”We’re going to be moving into an entirely different universe”-meaning-within the context of the article-”they would have it all”. I tried re-finding the article but it seems to have disappeared or scrubbed. If someone else would give a search it would be appropriate to post those results here.
Life is good for them-but our country has not fared well at all under this admin. I hope he can be impeached.
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POTUS’ golfing buddies today include Ben Finkenbinder of the press office, Marvin Nicholson, the president’s trip director and David Katz, a Dept of Energy staffer.”
Interesting. I wonder what it is about these “young staffers” that the POTUS finds so appealing?
I hope he can be impeached.
He won’t be so forget that. I hope he can lose the next election. That is what we should concentrate on.
He’s such an atrocious _resident that it would be a vast improvement for America if he golfed all the time.
Obama the Sheen of D.C.
My state is broke they are holding tax refunds after robbing us to begin with for 45 days. I got a notice from my small town bank that their fees are going up. I heard that there will be debit card charges. I have been laid off twice. I will need to get two jobs to pay for gas to GET to work.
W T F? They want us all broke and homeless? on welfare?
His foreign policies are beyond scarey and this cat Obama goes freaking mother freaking golfing?
WTF?
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