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White House defends Obama's golf outings during crises
Yahoo! News ^ | 8/22/14 | Steve Holland - Reuters

Posted on 08/22/2014 6:26:07 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

EDGARTOWN Mass. (Reuters) - President Barack Obama delivered a somber statement on the death of American journalist James Foley after a video emerged showing Foley's grisly execution by Islamic State militants. Then Obama proceeded directly to a golf course to play 18 holes.

That juxtaposition of events on Wednesday drew Obama a fair amount of criticism as he tries to juggle the U.S. response to rapidly unfolding world crises while taking some time to relax during a two-week August vacation that has been frequently interrupted.

"Bam's Golf War," blared the cover of the New York Daily News, showing a picture of the smiling president behind the wheel of a golf cart, while Foley's parents grieved over their son in a smaller photo lower on the page.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: defends; fore; golf; golfwar; obama; outings; whitehouse
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1 posted on 08/22/2014 6:26:07 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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White House: That round of golf after the Foley video was released doesn’t show the depth of Obama’s grief
2 posted on 08/22/2014 6:28:24 PM PDT by EveningStar
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Game ON!!


3 posted on 08/22/2014 6:29:00 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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To: NormsRevenge

He is just flipping the bird to white America! It is just another “I won” moment. Partie on!


4 posted on 08/22/2014 6:30:24 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 ((VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!))
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To: NormsRevenge
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5 posted on 08/22/2014 6:30:32 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: NormsRevenge

There is no defending this feckless coward.


6 posted on 08/22/2014 6:30:39 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Please $upport Free Republic.)
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To: EveningStar

LOLOL Thanks!


7 posted on 08/22/2014 6:32:26 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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I think he’s in so far over his head and it’s now dawning on him. He can’t deal with the pressure of being POTUS every day so he runs away to the golf course to try to deal with it. Just like a little kid that gets overwhelmed and hides under his bed for a while.


8 posted on 08/22/2014 6:34:55 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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while taking some time to relax

Relax from WHAT? Certainly not form overwork or stress.

9 posted on 08/22/2014 6:35:10 PM PDT by doc1019
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To: Red_Devil 232

That’s exactly right. And he picks the whitest game from the waspiest enclave on the planet. No coincidence.


10 posted on 08/22/2014 6:36:37 PM PDT by BillyBonebrake
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To: NormsRevenge

-— Bam’s Golf War,” blared the cover of the New York Daily News -—

Pure tabloid poetry.

The Soulless One certainly deserves it.


11 posted on 08/22/2014 6:36:54 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To honor James Foley, Obama did not take any Mulligans after returning to the course to finish the round. He was quoted as saying “It was brutal, but I had to do something to show some respect for Foley’s sacrifice.”


12 posted on 08/22/2014 6:42:54 PM PDT by TruthFactor (Tag-free, for now.)
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I think he’s in so far over his head and it’s now dawning on him.

Affirmative action runs into the Peter Principle wall.
This happened at Columbia and Harvard ... that's why his grades and attendance records are not available. Obama is a failure at every endeavor he's undertaken ... yet thru the enthusiastic support of the liberal media he managed to achieve the highest political office in the land.

13 posted on 08/22/2014 6:49:55 PM PDT by BluH2o
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To: NormsRevenge

For every ‘slice’ by ISIS, Obama returns 10!


14 posted on 08/22/2014 6:53:19 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Bammy is a Choomin’ Slacker. AS ALWAYS.


15 posted on 08/22/2014 7:06:52 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: BluH2o

ValJar is busy flailing as POTUS.


16 posted on 08/22/2014 7:08:49 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: NormsRevenge
as he tries to juggle the U.S. response to rapidly unfolding world crises while taking some time to relax during a two-week August vacation that has been frequently interrupted

... most notably by an expensive two-day return trip to Washington to attend a stag* party.

17 posted on 08/22/2014 7:12:44 PM PDT by mikrofon (* Details TBD)
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To: NormsRevenge

When the muslim boy Hussein talks about the ‘19th hole’ it ain’t about the golf course’s COCKtail lounge...........................IT’S REGGIE’S!!!


18 posted on 08/22/2014 7:23:41 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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19 posted on 08/22/2014 7:40:08 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

I have to ask this;

What is the long game with this clown and his posse? This bunch always has a long game, and I am trying to figure out what that is.

I suspect that impeachment is what he is driving for...and once impeached he can then foment CW2 to drive martial law.

This may be a bit of a tin foil hat stretch, but you have to look at the long game...where are they trying to go, and how are they going to get there.

We know that they hate the USA, they detest the Constitution, they hate white people, etc.

The R’s have already stated that impeachment is off the table, so he figures that like a child he can gain the attention if he misbehaves badly enough. If they don’t do anything about it, then what the hell.keep going.


20 posted on 08/22/2014 7:52:35 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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