Posted on 04/18/2010 5:59:59 PM PDT by autumnraine
A massive volcanic plume covering most of Europe forced President Obama to cancel a Sunday trip to Poland to attend the funeral of the nation's president. But the last-minute change left an opening in his schedule, so the president headed to the links for a round of golf instead.
On a cool but sun-drenched Sunday, the president and three golfing companions went to Andrews Air Force Base to play 18 holes. It is the 32nd time Mr. Obama has played golf since taking office Jan. 20, 2009, according to CBS Radio's Mark Knoller.
After canceling the Poland trip on Saturday, the White House announced that Mr. Obama had no public schedule for Sunday. He was to have arrived in Krakow in the morning, attend the 2 p.m. funeral and leave for home by 5 p.m., arriving back at the White House after midnight.
Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife, Maria, along with dozens of top Polish government officials were killed April 10 when their airplane went down in heavy fog after clipping a tree on approach to Smolensk, Russia.
Mr. Obama has not gone to the Polish Embassy in Washington since the accident, but Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. both have. There, they signed a condolence book.
Mr. Obama was not the only world leader to miss the funeral because of the expanding volcanic ash cloud. French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel also canceled.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, flew by plane from Moscow for the funeral.
Other foreign leaders used different modes of transportation to get there. Slovenian President Danilo Turk decided to drive the 500 miles to Krakow. Romanian President Traian Basescu traveled to northwestern Romania by helicopter and then continue by car through Hungary and Slovakia.
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No, really. I think we should dwell on this one for weeks and just watch the voters come flocking to our side. They’ll see things our way if only we just hang on like pit bulls. This is the incident that will put us over the top and we’ll never lose another election. The cause of freedom and liberty will be secured forever if only we point out that Obama played golf instead of honoring the death of the Polish president.
I couldn’t even write down on here what some are saying in Europe about bozo and his wife, nothing racist but they really do not like him and his misses gets a lot of flack for her arse, angry face and style of clothes.
It was reported when she met the Queen of England she charged in like a bull in a china shop and some thought she was a wrestler looking to provide entertainment .
Wow! Thanks for the wikipedia site. I learn something new every day.
When the revolution comes, we may have to go after the lawyers second. The media is making a case to be first on that day.
Hence my tagline....since 2006.
It’s high time that the GOP called the MSM out as much as possible for their corrupt bias.
The left when on FOX or other outlets always call fox out and the GOP should do it on their outlets and giving speeches now because this trying to suck up to the media and staying silent on their corruption is not working.
They only have to ask the likes of Maddows as to why are you not asking about this or why are you not telling your viewers about that, why have you twisted the story to give the white house good coverage.
We all know that the media is every liberal survey after survey has shown this and the MSM has no low numbers from the public so why do you persist in this blatant bias.
It is criminal that they are doing and this is akin to NAZI Germany or communist Russia which I might add was both lefty’s
But seriously - my American FRiends - don’t get offended, but your current president is a total a**hole.
Thanks God it’s only 2 more years to go.
Do you know how the Poles call the current U.S. President today?
Burak Obama - with “burak” pronounced like “boo-rak”, which means a beetroot in Polish and is used as an offensive phrase for a person without manners.
All things considered, the Polish people are too kind. ;)
Works for me.
Yes. Too bad today’s teachers do not teach the truth about history, so that more people would recognise what is happening. Another wonderful book to read that parallels what is happening in the USA today, is the story “Tortured for Christ”...about Richard Wormbrand who was sent to prison by the communists in Romania for preaching the gospel.
http://www.torturedforchrist.com/
But really, it is Bush’s fault. Bush has ruined our reputation overseas so badly, that nothing Obama could do would matter anyway..../sarc
We know and we are not offended.
I think that would have been a gracious and heartfelt gesture to staunch ally, which is why "commander zero" didn't do it.
Isn't golf the sport of rich White men? "Whiteman's greed runs a world in need".
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