Posted on 12/29/2014 9:15:14 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
President Obama’s golf game on Sunday forced a pair of Army captains to move their nuptials to a different location, Bloomberg reports.
Edward Mallue Jr. and Natalie Heimel had planned to tie the knot on the 16th tee at Kaneohe Klipper golf course when management informed them that they would have to wait a day so the president could hit the links.
Kaneohe Klipper is an 18-hole championship course on the military base that offers views of the Ko’olau Mountains and Pacific coastline.
The episode is the second time the president’s golf game has caused a commotion since he began his vacation last week.
Over the weekend, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak had to defend his recent golf outing with the president after being criticized back home.
The Army couple actually invited Obama to their wedding, knowing he would be on the island. However, the president declined the invitation, wishing them happiness.
“It was kind of ironic they got the letter from them and then, within hours, they were told they had to be moved due to him,” Jamie McCarthy, Mallue's sister, told Bloomberg. “It was emotional, especially for her — she’s the bride and in less than 24 hours they had to change everything they had planned.”
The couple instead chose to get hitched on the lawn near the home of the base’s commanding officer.
After Bloomberg asked the White House about the scheduling conflict, Obama phoned the bride.
“He apologized and congratulated them,” McCarthy said.
And for bringing negative publicity down on The One, they can kiss their Army careers goodbye.
No one could ever accuse a liberal of having any class.
Imagine the 24/7 caterwauling that would have followed a Republican doing this.
Barry Soetoro is a worthless douchebag.
This would never have happened if it was Edward & Nathan getting ‘married’. Obama would have shown up and tried to officiate.
“He apologized and congratulated them,” McCarthy said.
And it never occurred to him to change HIS plans. *Rolleyes*
Yep that struck me too. This couple is a boy/girl couple. since nowadays you
Just can’t take that for granted.
I doubt Brian Williams will even mention it .... or the MSM for that fact.
Well,at least he didn’t claim first “ privilege” as their lord!
If it had been Edward and Stephen, Obama would have performed the ceremony himself.
What a total POS!
I’ll confess. I didn’t read anything more than the title.
Nothing can stop Obama. Not even love.
Well, maybe a winsome glance from Reggie Love. But I digress.
Douchebags the world over resent that remark.
I was about to give Obama the benefit of ignorance on this one, until I read that he had been INVITED to the wedding. SMH. Either he is a big time egotist or he is surrounded by incompetent schedulers. Maybe both?
What damn sham shame!
I wonder how much it cost taxpayers just for one day of golf, this guy is nothing but a selfish elite communist pig, we have to put up with him for 2 more years and then he will still be in our face many more years to come, I’ll bet the progressive liberal democrat communist media will cover him just as much after he’s no longer POTUS, maybe even more than the next POTUS. Grrrrrrr!
Get out of the way, Plebeians, the King cometh...
That ain’t class - that pure CRASS (1.
without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity; gross; obtuse; stupid: )
A real leader would have deferred to the officers and their brides, and also sent them a very nice gift.
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