Posted on 08/03/2013 10:12:38 AM PDT by kristinn
President Obama on Saturday celebrated his upcoming birthday on the golf course with friends from nearly every stage of his life.
The president who turns 52 on Sunday - invited a group of 12 to Andrews Air Force base for the round.
Included in the group are Obamas high school pals from Hawaii, Greg Orme, Bobby Titcomb and Mike Ramos. Wahid Hamid and Laurent Delanney, who attended Occidental College with the president, also made the trip.
The presidents graduate school days in New York are represented by Hasan Chandoo, while Martin Nesbitt an Eric Whitaker know the president from his time in Chicago.
And some friends from the White House made the cut - the presidents former and current body men, Reggie Love and Marvin Nicholson will golf on Saturday, as will Obamas senior policy advisor on nutrition and the executive director of Lets Move!, Sam Kass.
A White House official said Obama was briefed on the potential terrorist threat emanating from the Arabian Peninsula before departing on the golf outing. He will continue to be updated through the weekend, the official said.
After golfing, Obama will head to Camp David for the evening and will return to the White House on Sunday.
Some guy who sold weed around the corner from the apartment he resided in according to unsubstantiated lore.
How much does this asshole cost taxpayers each year?
After four-plus years of presidential lying and deception, Obama has only a very tiny iota of credibility left, which will soon be destroyed — unless, either:
1) Al-Qaeda causes something enormously destructive to ‘’go down’’ in the next few weeks, as the Obama administration is warning us of; OR, 2) the Obama administration PREVENTS Al-Qaeda from carrying out its plans and captures the would-be perpetrators, presenting them for public view and show trials.
It’s hard to believe either of these things will happen. In fact, if this entire dire-threat/embassy-closing situation is not a hoax, the last thing Obama would be doing now is playing golf.
If Obama truly fears that world-wide Al-Qaeda attacks are imminent and knows the CIA is searching for ways to prevent them, he would be closely monitoring the situation from the White House; it would be like the climax of a thriller novel which he wouldn’t be able to tear himself away from.
But he’s on the golf course, and so — it’s 99.5% likely — should everyone else be at least metaphorically.
Other presidents have used the time on the golf course to negotiate legislation and work towards national policy aims . . . golf is great for deal-making . . . past presidents have golfed with leading legislators, ambassadors, business tycoons, etc. Obama golfs with low-level staffers and old college buddies. This says a lot about how focused he is on governing.
God forbid he should stay near the situation room or anything like that.
Actually, I’d just as soon he spent the next three years golfing and never showed up to “work” at all...
And gay lovers.
Too late - it's been done. Linus Pauling won two "unshared" Nobel prizes, one for Chemistry in 1954 and the Peace Prize in 1962. Marie Curie, John Bardeen and Frederick Sanger also won two Nobel prizes each, but at least one for each was shared with others.
betch we all did
He gives people stupid, useless gifts too. (*cough* DVD-set *cough*)
“Take off yo’ clothes & git on da’ flo’! We gwine make a’ Obammy Sammich!”
You mean it’s not something golfers use on their drivers? Whoa!
Barry “Lucky Pierre” Soetero: Queen o’ the Links
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