Posted on 05/02/2011 7:17:45 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Capturing Sept. 11 terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden has been the nation’s top national-security priority for 10 years, but carrying out the final kill didn’t stop President Obama from playing golf on Sunday. In a tiny concession to his job requirements as commander in chief, Mr. Obama cut his golf game short by nine holes in order to get back to the White House to monitor the final moments as Navy SEALs killed bin Laden in Pakistan.
The plan to capture (or kill) bin Laden at his fancy compound in a suburban Islamabad neighborhood had been in the works for months. Mr. Obama gave final approval for the mission on Friday morning, April 29. The mission was planned for Saturday but was delayed by one day because of weather.
On Sunday, with the small team of Navy SEALs en route to the Pakistan compound, the commander in chief left the White House at 9:42 a.m. and arrived at Andrews Air Force Base golf course at 10:06 a.m. He played golf in the chilly, rainy D.C. weather until he finished the ninth hole. He departed the base at 1:39 p.m.
Mr. Obama has played 66 rounds of golf in the 27 months he has been president. He usually plays 18 holes with a foursome of White House aides, which takes him about four to five hours. The last time the president cut his golf round in half and played only nine holes was Aug. 25, 2010. (He played 12 holes on Dec. 28 at the private Mid Pacific Country Club in Kailua Hawaii because he started late in the afternoon and the sun was setting.)
While the president was playing golf, the highly-trained U.S. special forces were en route to bin Laden’s fortified compound.
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nobama, the great leader, does not need to come off the links. nobama leads. nobama is the ultimate loser.
But, but Brennen said at his presser today that Obama was the bravest president in his lifetime. (and he is an old man)
Same thing Teddy Roosevelt did while the Marines went into Siam.
Golf balls are the only balls Obama has. At least Osama went down fighting, not playing golf in Abbott & Costelloville.
Bin Laden’s favorite Broadway show: “A Hole in the Head”
His favorite song: “I ain’t got no body”
His last words: “WTF”?
When answering the knock on his door, Bin Laden asked “Who’s there”?
U.S. Seals: “Land Shark!”
Message left on the walls of Bin Laden’s home: “This raid has the U.S. Seals of Approval”
Last words of the U.S. Seal team - “Tag’em and bag’em”.
Post-script:
Somewhere in the ocean, a shark has diarrhea.
Brennen would suck a goat if it got him any approval as a toadie.
Patton would have had him shot as a cowardly asskisser.
So while the troops he’s sent into harm’s way are actually going into harm’s way, at that specific time, the President leaves for the golf course?
Geeeeesh.
Actually, it somewhat tarnishes the great General Patton for his name to be mentioned among the current “trash!”
Obama playing nine holes of golf is the gutsiest move I ever saw.
, Mav.
Since OJ is in prison, maybe nobama is helping him by looking for OJ’s wife’s killers on the links.
How do you go golfing when you are trying to take out the biggest target in the world? Bizarre
God Bless Our Troops
Perhaps this lends some credence to the theory that the mission actually took place days earlier.
bump
Cheers!
The GOP should nominate the OBL’s shooter for President, with KSM’s waterboarder as his running mate.
They didn’t want anything look out of the ordinary.
Heard he had to go out so as not accidentally to spill the beans.
Thank you Washington Times....
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