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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He cannot triumph.
You think there's three remaining acts?
Obama doesn’t do the liberty thing!
There are a lot of red foxes in the rough at Andrews. Does O stay in the fairway? Just sayin...
Once again the Kenyan chooses to strut like a runway hooker, his glolbis head tilted up high and his swerving hips struting towards the green or whatever. What a BITCH he is. Not only is Obummer_unt a disgrace, he is no where near being a MAN.
In the last few months he’s spent more time on the links than Tiger.
Just another European snub... we like them Muzzies now, to hell with freedom loving Europe.
The list, ping
as for this present Hussein Obama...hurry up 2012.
I have nothing nice to say...there fore I'll keep quiet!!!
Perhaps seven.
Well not so sure ... the whole MSM seems to be in the tank with him ....
The volcanic ash is merely a harbinger of the much more dangerous cloud of darkness that is spreading over the world.
True, and the night of his acceptance speech with those fake columns behind him ... no wife, no kids ... just him ... man am I freaked out about him ... well, end of month heading to Australia for a flight job so maybe I won’t hear much of him down there ....
Like you, I hold American mainstream "news" media in pure contempt. Tune in to the top-of-the-hour news report on ANY station, even your local "conservative" radio station or Fox News -- they never rerport what's really going on. Today, they may mention the Polish funeral, but they won't mention Obama is playing golf and they won't mention that leaders in Europe see this as a snub and indicator of ineptness.
When the horrific health care take-over "passed," (oh how I wish it would), top-of-the-news reports on all networks only reported that it passed with maybe a clip from Pelosi or someone about how great a thing it was, with ZERO reference in a purported news report to the fact that at least half of Americans are totally against it and that tens of thousands of people have taken to civil protests to express it. The MSM is bereft of honor because it ignores true news.
If news editors and news readers and journalists and reporters had any HONOR, they'd report what was really going on. My contempt for the MSM knows no bounds.
he cant fdly air force one the gig is up the republic is restored
Unbelievable...he should have gone with Michelle and paid his respects in a very formal way. He is the head of state, he represents our country.
He revolts me every day more and more.
It’s a blessing for the Polish Nation, really.
I believe he’s heading there with his family for a much needed vacation. Stealing from the half of the country that pays taxes can be quite exhausting, dontcha know.
Seriously, I think this is inevitable because in decency and normal courtesy born of human empathy, Obama is a blank slate. There is zero there; he has zero conscience. He cannot project what he cannot conceive.
This is not the behavior of a psychologically healthy individual.
It's the behavior of a "seriously disturbed 'toon," to quote the money line from "Roger Rabbit" (an oddly fitting movie for today's chaos).
The first behavior of Obama that showed to me how deeply twisted he is, was when he actually accused doctors of amputating feet and limbs of diabetics just to raise their bottom line. Regardless of political ideology, no DECENT, balanced, civilized American adult holds his or her doctors in such low regard because these doctors are real people they know and trust. For Obama to put forth the notion was weird and terrifying in its revealing his true nature.
Just a sudden thought that came through to me from the pic. Maybe wishful thinking ... I hope premonition.
Slow Joe Biden is looking better every day.
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