Posted on 04/13/2005 5:37:25 PM PDT by nypokerface
WASHINGTON - Golfers Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player showed off the President's Cup that they will be vying for this fall to the president himself Wednesday.
President Bush, honorary chairman of the 2005 Presidents Cup, posed for photos with the two golfers and the gold cup in the Oval Office.
Nicklaus and Player are returning as captains for the 2005 Presidents Cup, giving them a chance to settle last year's tie. Nicklaus is leading the U.S. team and Player, who is from South Africa, is heading the international team.
The Presidents Cup is scheduled for September at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, Va., where it has been played every time in the United States since the matches began in 1994 between the Americans and an international team from everywhere in the world except Europe.
You can bet that if Bush is down there hobnobbing with the pros, that if a urgent phone call comes through from his National Security Adviser saying there are armed planes on the runways in the middle east waiting to take a shot at our enemies, he is going to drop everything and take the call.
Read "Dereliction of Duty" by Lt. Col Robert Patterson (who was the carrier of the "Nuclear Football") When Clinton was hobnobbing with the golf pros at the Presidents Cup golf tournament in September 1996, he got a urgent call from Sandy Berger saying we had armed aircraft with pilots in the cockpits waiting on the runways for orders to strike targets with a window of opportunity. Clinton refused to take the call, even when asked three times, and became irritated at the intrusion.
What a bastard.
Indeed. I met Buzz at a book signing with his book and John O'Neill's UNFIT FOR COMMAND. Both class gentlemen.
You know, my wife is not a conservative per se (but is not a liberal either) and she thinks I am extreme to read these types of books (ONeill and Patterson)
My dad was a 30 year Naval Vet of three wars, buried in Arlington, I spent 4 years in myself. When these military guys speak, to me, it REEKS of the truth. I buy it hook, line and sinker. See my web page at: http://homepage.mac.com/rlmorel/iMovieTheater49.html for the MSNBC O'Donnell meltdown, and how O'Neill handles it!
I've had several conversations with John O'Neill, including one today. Uncleshag and I have offered the SwiftVets the use of ONE FINE SOLDIER from our CD if they want to use it on their website to help fundraising. www.rightwingparodies.com
Yeah. All Americans owe the Swift Boat Vets and POW's a debt we will find difficult to pay. They saved our country this past election, and I don't feel that I am being melodramatic by saying so.
God Bless those men, all of them. I would consider it a high point of my life if I had the opportunity to meet them and shake their hands.
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