Posted on 12/19/2016 2:11:47 PM PST by COUNTrecount
Well, this is what one would call bad political optics.
With the dual breaking news events surrounding potential terrorism and a foreign diplomat being shot to death, White House pool reports showed that President Barack Obama headed to a country club in Hawaii near his rental house, where he is vacationing.
The first email shows that Obama has directed his staff to keep him updated on the situation in Turkey regarding the assassination of the Russian Ambassador.
From the White House, per Principal Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz:
“This morning the President was briefed by his National Security Team on the assassination of the Russian Ambassador to Turkey in Ankara today. The President directed his team to provide updates as warranted.”
Meanwhile, at 10:10 a.m. in Kailua, the press van prepares to depart the rental house where we’ve been holding.
In a following email, we are informed that Obama is leaving the rental home to go play golf.
The President and his motorcade departed the Kailua neighborhood where the First Family rents a vacation home at 10:21 a.m. Spectators on the street threw shakas and recorded photos or video on cell phones as the motorcade made the 10-minute drive to Mid-Pacific Country Club, where the President will be golfing under cloudy skies.
The times listed are local Hawaii time. Obama’s motorcade left his vacation home at 3:21 PM ET.
Currently, the news is dominated by both the assassination in Turkey, which could have large-scale implications on foreign policy and relations, and multiple deaths in Berlin via a truck driving through a market in an incident reminiscent of the Nice terror attack.
Needless to say, there will be a lot of negative attention given to Obama playing golf in the immediate aftermath of these horrific, and potentially history-altering, events.
Clown Prince nobama will do anything to avoid spending any time with his purported “family”. What a dysfunctional lot of losers and smug losers.
And the Press goes after Trump for essentially doing the same thing with Intel Reports.
“”Michelle (and the two teenagers) usually DO go someplace else.””
At other times during the year but they always go to HI together in December. Why pretend it’s a family vacation if the bozo is on the golf course all the time? I think the only time they haven’t gone to HI and returned together was the year she stayed in HI to celebrate her 50th birthday with FRIENDS? He returned to DC from HI one year because of the whatever budget crisis that no one knew about all year; it caught them by surprise - ahem - and then flew back to HI after he worked his magic.
What did you think he’d do? Of course (no pun intended originally) he’d head for a golf course. He just loves to play with his balls and putter in a crisis. And those are the only holes he’ll get anything into.
What a piece of Marxist, racist shit.
No he did respond. The tough talking wordsmith told them to “cut it out” or he would “do stuff” to them
Why? Its appropriate for the fake president to return to his fake place of birth.
The update was......’Berlin and turkey both successful, can’t be traced back to us’.
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