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Secret golfing life of Barack Obama
ESPN ^ | Oct 3, 2012 | Don Van Natta Jr

Posted on 12/27/2017 8:43:52 PM PST by Frankusa

It is the first Sunday morning in May 2011... It is Barack Obama's 66th round of golf as president, and as usual, the media and the public aren't invited. Like nearly all of Obama's previous outings, the only witnesses are his playing partners -- a trio of White House staffers -- and a platoon of Secret Service agents...

The press corps is forbidden from following the president from hole to hole or even taking his photograph on the course...

No president has done more to keep his game a secret. During the 104 rounds Obama has played as president, photographers have been permitted only five times.. Even then, they've had to use telephoto lenses from 40 or 50 yards and only for a few moments. Reporters accompanying Obama are usually banished far from the first tee; at Andrews, they are quarantined inside the base's food court. The last golfing president to ban photographers was John F. Kennedy....

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KEYWORDS: firstgaypresident; golf; golfing; obama
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1 posted on 12/27/2017 8:43:52 PM PST by Frankusa
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Maybe he didn;t want his picture taken on a golf course owned by Donald Trump.


2 posted on 12/27/2017 8:46:20 PM PST by rovenstinez
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To: Frankusa

If you played and scored like him, you’d probably want to keep it secret too.


3 posted on 12/27/2017 8:50:57 PM PST by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: Frankusa

Do not want his excursions into the whispering bushes to be recorded.


4 posted on 12/27/2017 8:50:57 PM PST by doorgunner69 (No video seems to happen a lot when they shoot somebody..........)
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To: Frankusa

No witnesses to the cash changing hands.


5 posted on 12/27/2017 8:54:16 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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I find it problematic that Obama is appropriating white culture.


6 posted on 12/27/2017 8:55:35 PM PST by bagster (Even bad men love their mamas.)
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To: Frankusa

I’m assuming that only black balls were used...That evil “whiteness “ factor is everywhere...


7 posted on 12/27/2017 8:55:47 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: Frankusa

Well, duh. He didn’t want anybody seeing his 1,188 consecutive holes in one. No wonder Little Rocket Man is so pissed at us.

November 2008, Obama: “I think that I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. I’m a better political director than my political director. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m the best golfer who ever lived.”


8 posted on 12/27/2017 9:10:56 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: bagster

If he used black balls, I wonder who he had to borrow them from?


9 posted on 12/27/2017 9:16:15 PM PST by txeagle
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To: SuperLuminal

Clinton was a frequent cheater. Why even keep score if you’re going to lie about it? Clinton would drop balls etc... a cheat.

Golfing is a game of character.

Obama is a duffer. He probably would love to play a better game, but he just can not stomach someone telling him what to do (i.e. a golf pro) so he continues in his attempts at self improving his game - but it ain’t workin’ never really has worked. So... a duffer he will remain.


10 posted on 12/27/2017 9:18:02 PM PST by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancakes, just as every culture has its noodle.)
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If he used black balls, I wonder who he had to borrow them from?

He kiped em off that American hooker that's marrying the ginger price of England. She had some red ones sittin' around.

Just a touch of black spray paint, and bingo.

11 posted on 12/27/2017 9:20:01 PM PST by bagster (Even bad men love their mamas.)
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They’ll acknowledge that he played 104 rounds as president. Which makes me wonder how many rounds he really played.

How many hours/days does 104 rounds constitute?


12 posted on 12/27/2017 9:25:43 PM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: Frankusa

These “golfing” outings were used for Barry’s homosexual frolics with his revolving foursome of gay staffers - everyone in the DC press corps knew what was up, and that’s why they cooperated with the “no coverage” dictates of the White House.


13 posted on 12/27/2017 9:27:27 PM PST by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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If the press didn't get to take pictures of Obama on the golf course, then assuming these are APPROVED snaps, well, Oh my...


14 posted on 12/27/2017 10:04:15 PM PST by DoodleBob
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To: bagster

Wow,you are very anti-American. Why don’t you go live in England if you like that country and it’s inbred monarchs better.


15 posted on 12/27/2017 10:12:23 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Wow,you are very anti-American. Why don’t you go live in England if you like that country and it’s inbred monarchs better.

What are you talking about, psycho?

16 posted on 12/27/2017 10:15:58 PM PST by bagster (Even bad men love their mamas.)
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To: Frankusa

According to CBS News White House Correspondent Mark Knoller, Obama played 333 rounds as president. Obama’s last round came on December 31 while on vacation in Hawaii. Knoller tweeted it was Obama’s 46th round of his final year in office.

http://www.golfchannel.com/article/golf-central-blog/obamas-final-tally-333-rounds-golf-potus


17 posted on 12/27/2017 10:26:36 PM PST by deks
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Also I think I’m Tiger Woods . . . there that should explain it.


18 posted on 12/27/2017 10:31:33 PM PST by t4texas (If you can't run with the big dogs . . . STAY ON THE PORCH!)
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19 posted on 12/27/2017 10:39:58 PM PST by caww (freeen)
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To: DoodleBob

He’s just nasty.


20 posted on 12/27/2017 11:08:54 PM PST by FrogMom (The education system: The ongoing fundamental transformation.)
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