Posted on 04/05/2012 10:31:52 AM PDT by ColdOne
The White House’s spokesman said Thursday that the president believes that a golf club in Augusta, Ga., 551 miles from the White House, should change its membership rules and admit women as members.
The golf club in question is the Augusta National Golf Club, which is hosting the high-profile Masters tournament this week.
“It is obviously up to the club to decide, but his personal opinion is that women should be admitted to the club,” Obama’s spokesman, Jay Carney, said in response to a question from a reporter.
The private club does not invite women to be members. Feminist groups are pressuring the club, and its corporate sponsors, to change its long-standing rule.
However, Obama is trying to bolster support with feminist groups, partly because he’s trying to maximize favorable turnout among women in the November election.
Obama “believes Augusta should admit women. We’re kinda long past the time when women should be excluded from anything,” Carney said.
The new announcement reflects Obama’s view that the administration should play a larger role in the nation’s economy and civil society.
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““It is obviously up to the club to decide...”
Then shut the hell up.
Election-year pandering. “Bathhouse Barry” can’t keep his piehole shut about anything.
I’m sure this is exactly what James Madison and the other Framers had in mind when they created the office of President, that the President would step in to rectify outrages like a private club deciding who their members should be.
The club would gain a lot of support if it specifically excluded anyone named Obama..
There’s a dispute?
"Partly"??? There is nothing this man does that isn't fully to maximize favorable turn out amongst some group that's part of his coalition.
How many times has he made himself look like an a$$ - just this WEEK??
And the Pinocchio President sticks his already mile-long nose out of the realm of his own personal opinion smack dab into the public square .... again.
Just put it into a Presidential EO, dummy.
Obama is a No Limit Narcissist.
I guess he thinks that Augusta “acted stupidly.”
Is there any controversy small enough to be beneath his notice?
He must be a regular DU poster and sometimes just has to say it with the power of the pres. ;)
This is just another attempt to bolster his campaign that the Republicans are against women. His way of changing the subject about the economy and jobs and stirring up non controversies for political gain.
OK so Jay Carney knew...OFFHAND...how Obama feels about this very specific subject?
You can NOT tell me that it was not a PLANTED QUESTION.
Just yet ANOTHER pre-arranged moment for Obama to PANDER to WOMEN.
Nothing is below his pay-grade!
Women own half the money and all the *****, and they want is more, more, more.
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