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Barack and Michelle Obama, speaking to People Magazine, of all disappointments, shared the disheartening news that they have experienced what they called racism. Barack, for example, apparently has had trouble, before he was president, hailing a cab in Chicago, to which an immediate thought might occur to anyone who has been to Chicago: Who hasn't? Also, Barack, at a black-tie event, when he, too, was in festive livery, apparently was asked by another guest if he would get them a cup of coffee. For her recollection, Michelle came up with a visit to a Target store as first lady. She...

Stimulating the economy at clubhouses across America... VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. (AP) — President Barack Obama has once again hit the golf trifecta as he vacations on Martha’s Vineyard. He spent more than two hours at Mink Meadows Golf Club on Tuesday, a semi-private, nine-hole club on the island’s north shore. It was Obama’s fourth outing since he arrived last week for a 10-day vacation. His golf partners included his friend Eric Whitaker and White House chef Sam Kass.

The White House says the country does not begrudge Obama some [vacation] time with his family, but it has been careful to allow no pictures so far of him at play on the golf course... The Boston Globe reported that when Obama [on Friday] approached "the eighth tee in a golf cart with friend and frequent golfing buddy Eric Whitaker," he "noticed three TV cameras and a Globe photographer across the street. Rather than stop and be photographed teeing off, the president skipped the hole."...

Barack Obama skipped the 8th hole rather than be filmed by TV crews at the Vineyard Golf Course on Friday. The Boston Globe reported: But it was later, at the Vineyard Golf Course in Edgartown, where the president’s recalcitrance was most evident. Approaching the eighth tee in a golf cart with friend and frequent golfing buddy Eric Whitaker, the president noticed three TV cameras and a Globe photographer across the street. Rather than stop and be photographed teeing off, the president skipped the hole.

Obama gets in a round of golf on Saturday By Jamie Klatell - 06/04/11 04:21 PM ET President Obama headed to the golf course at Andrews Air Force Base on Saturday for an afternoon game. Energy Department official David Katz, White House trip director Marvin Nicholson and staffer Michael Brush rounded out the president's foursome. Obama has a big golf outing coming in the near future. He and Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) will play together, a spokesman for the Speaker confirmed on Friday. The two will hit the links on Saturday, June 18, in Washington D.C.

The business of memorializing our war dead done, President Obama headed out to the Fort Belvoir golf course today, finding his way onto the links for the ninth weekend in a row. Obama earlier today laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and met with families of those killed in battle. But he emerged from the day’s solemnity to go golfing for the 12th time this year and the 70th time of his presidency. The decision to golf on Memorial Day invites comparison with President George W. Bush, who gave up the game early in his presidency...

While Southern states reeled from a massive tornado outbreak that killed several dozen people, Barack Obama played his 64th round of golf as president today.

The Second Amendment and court precedent guarantee an individual's right to bear arms, but improved and expanded background checks are needed to prevent gun violence like the shocking attack in Tucson in January, President Obama wrote in an op-ed Sunday. Writing in the Arizona Daily Star more than two months after the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others, six of whom died, Obama said he's "willing to bet" that responsible gun owners would support laws to "keep an irresponsible, law-breaking few -- dangerous criminals and fugitives, for example -- from getting their hands on" guns. "Most gun owners...

Impeachment would be too good for him.

ABC News' Tahman Bradley reports: President Obama just could not wait for spring weather to arrive. For the second week in a row, the most powerful man in the world stepped away from the White House to hit the golf course. Even as his administration and the U.S. military help Japan recover from a devastating earthquake, and as the world worries about Fukushima's nuclear reactor, the president could not resist taking advantage of the 48-degree weather in the Washington, D.C., area. The president left the White House Saturday afternoon for a short trip to Joint Andrews Base in Camp Springs,...

Pres Obama playing a round of golf this afternoon at Joint Base Andrews.

The president’s afternoon: A round of golf By Jamie Klatell - 03/12/11 02:33 PM ET President Obama is spending this cool and cloudy Saturday afternoon playing a round of golf at Joint Base Andrews Naval Air Facility in Maryland. Obama’s playing partners for the day are Ben Finkenbinder, a White House press office staffer, Marvin Nicholson, the president's trip director, and David Katz, a Department of Energy staffer. This is the second consecutive Saturday golf outing for the foursome.

Former deputy says Blagojevich hid in the bathroom to avoid talk with budget director. "Blagojevich worked in the office less than nine hours a week and had trouble focusing on legislation.." DOES OBAMA SPEND THIS MUCH TIME AT THE JOB OF BEING PRESIDENT???

(CBS) Pessimism permeates a CBS News poll released Tuesday, finding President Obama's overall job approval rating down three points, tying his all-time low of 44 percent. The survey also finds a gathering sense that the man in charge is not doing enough to alleviate Americans' worries, CBS News Correspondent Dean Reynolds reports. In Batavia, Ill., social worker Cherie Jones Das has a short wish list for the president. "I'd like to see Obama do more, yeah. I really would," said Das. "I'd like to see him do more to promote jobs." Indeed, in the poll, the economy is seen as...

President Barack Obama spent Sunday on the golf course at Fort Belvoir, Va., according to White House pool reports. The president was playing with regular links partner Marvin Nicholson and two others whose names weren't immediately known. First lady Michelle Obama is set to visit the Gulf region Monday for the first time since the BP oil spill began.

President Barack Obama spent Sunday on the golf course at Fort Belvoir, Va., according to White House pool reports.

Yep, its golf. Motorcade rolled from White House at 12:31 pm and headed to Fort Belvoir. Unfortunately press van number two was moved to the secondary motorcade for some unknown reason before we left, and so your pooler and the rest of his colleagues, along with the only White House press staffer in the motorcade, were separated from POTUS and the primary motorcade a block outside the gates, at 15th and Constitution.

Seeking to inject urgency into the push for an overhaul of the nation's immigration laws, President Obama on Thursday called on Republicans to join the effort, telling them he can't pass a bill without them.After pushing through an economic stimulus bill and health care with barely any Republican support in the first 16 months of his administration, the president said this issue is too dangerous to tackle — for Democrats and the GOP — without having both parties involved."I'm ready to move forward, the majority of Democrats are ready to move forward, and I believe the majority of Americans are...