Payback: Was Bill Clinton Rejected As An Augusta National Member?

George Bush apparently never took a do-over. For him, it was more important to put the game out of its misery; he once bragged that he raced through 18 holes in 1 hour, 42 minutes.

I've seen him golf. He was invited to the Pebble Beach Pro-Am after he was no longer President. He also told the most outrageous Clintonesque lie. He said on camera, "Getting invited to play here is the greatest thrill in my life." He's been on a winning Presidential ticket three times, victor in a spectacular war and his greatest thrill is a golf tournament? I don't believe it.

On a glorious spring day in May, Mr. Clinton appeared incapable of getting the kinks out of his swing on the first tee at the Andrew Air Force Base course. He took one mulligan. Then another. And then another. Each shot was spectacularly ugly, zig-zagging this way and that. Finally, the President was satisfied with his fourth shot, which managed to land in the fairway.

Bwahahahaha. It sounds like I'm a better golfer than he is and I play maybe once a year.

Ike said that his greatest thrill was the hole-in-one he made at ANGC........

He's been on a winning Presidential ticket three times, victor in a spectacular war and his greatest thrill is a golf tournament? I don't believe it.

Ike said that his greatest thrill was the hole-in-one he made at ANGC........

Hmmm. Interesting. Difficult to believe, but slightly more plausible. Pebble Beach is littered with Hollywood riff-raff, but the Augusta National course is golf heaven.

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I can't imagine that the call that let him know that we had taken the beaches at Normandy wasn't his greatest thrill...

Hmmm. Interesting. Difficult to believe, but slightly more plausible.

I can't imagine that the call that let him know that we had taken the beaches at Normandy wasn't his greatest thrill...

I would have thought it would have been either hearing that the Germans surrendered or the Japanese surrendered ending the war.

How would you answer the question? I tried to last night and couldn't. Would it be something I did in sports? Something social like getting married/having a first child/grand-child? Something professional? I can't answer it for myself, I just don't know.

Maybe Ike was just tired of all the killing. How many good men did he send to their death in the invasion of Normandy? No matter what the cause, it had to bother him if he had a conscience.

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