Obama’s golf game displaces Army wedding

The Hill ^ | December 29, 2014 | Martin Matishak

[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.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Imagine the outrage if this were a same-sex marriage ceremony that Obama messed up!

[onedoug]

With the man, you mean.

[Blue Jays]

It never occurred to President Obama to simply play to the fifteenth hole, bypass the sixteenth hole, and resume play for the seventeenth and eighteenth holes?
It is not that difficult and would have made for good media coverage after-the-fact. Are his handlers truly that obtuse?

If he did not make a complete spectacle of himself people would simply assume he is another player out on the course for a game on a beautiful Hawaiian vacation. My goodness that man is so darn self-important.

[VRWC For Truth]

This POS should be crushing small rocks at Leavenworth.

[1rudeboy]

Why not play up to the sixteenth, and crash the party? That’s what I would’ve done, if I was the CinC (and I would have “won” the politics of it all).

[MeshugeMikey]

Obie should be CRUSHED BY small rocks......at Leavenworth

[mountn man]

Obama: It's not gay, so I will play.

[matginzac]

Read about this event more deeply...
The happy couple had no problem with it and even asked O’bozo to the ceremony...
Feel sorry for them now?

[Blue Jays]

Very good point, 1rudeboy. President Obama could have briefly "visited" the wedding party, posed for a few photographs, and gone on his merry way.
Would have been good for a few memories, elicited laughs from people of ALL political stripes, and no harm done.
For all his yammering about inclusion, diversity, and similar...he simply does not know how to be adaptable to normal people.

[Carry_Okie]

I would make a good sized bet that Zero knows and revels in the idea that Mr. Mallue is white.

[BigEdLB]

Edward and Natalie

[DJ Frisat]

"What a total POS!

I’ll confess. I didn’t read anything more than the title."

Don't feel like The Lone Ranger. Anytime I see a story that starts out with 'Obama', I think the same thing you did...

[Made In The USA]

Barry hates our military, so it comes as no surprise that he felt no compelling reason to change his plans. The dumb bastard plays more golf than most of us will in a lifetime. If it wasn’t for the damage he’s done to our country, his time spent on vacation would be his greatest legacy...

[Dogbert41]

If a Republican President had ever done this, there would be no end to the outrage in the silent media.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Are his handlers truly that obtuse?

No, that arrogant. And why shouldn't they be? They get away with it every time.

[Marko413]

Apparently, the couple had alternative options already planned and they claim the option they went with was better than the golf course. Also, most surprisingly, when Obama got wind of their rescheduling, he personally called them and apologized... which isn’t what has typically happened in the past. Maybe all the arrogance reports are finally catching up to the WH staff.

[SZonian]

"The Army couple actually invited Obama to their wedding,..."

Sorry, this action alone eliminates any sympathy I may have had for this couple.

[Ann Archy]

Can you IMAGINE if this had been BUSH???? OMG!!

[PATRIOT1876]

Democrats:

“Never was so much destroyed by so few to so many”

[Ann Archy]

They WORK for Obama....he’s their BOSS!!