Our President defends the double standard: Bush playing golf, bad for nation, Obama playing golf, good for nation. While paying close attention to his putter, actually he never takes his eye off his putter except to drive, our President is quick to point out that not all his time is devoted to golf; last week he attended a Washington Nationals game and three weeks before that he hosted a concert by Paul McCartney.
White House spokesman Bill Burton feels Obama needs time alone with his putter and feels that everyone in the country thinks the President needs putter time, he doesn’t…
“think that there’s a person in this country that doesn’t think that their president ought to have a little time to clear his mind.”
Even brilliant intellectuals feel taxed when they must come up with solutions one right after another, like figuring windmills will be the answer to the Gulf Oil Spill, sheer genius at work on overtime.
Bill Burton was quick to point out Obama’s recent achievements:
“And so after a week where the president was taking on the oil spill, got an historic agreement with BP to put aside $20 billion to pay claims; after a day on Friday when he strengthened lobby and ethics rules in the White House; after going to Ohio to talk about the economy and see the progress that’s being made and some of those stimulus projects that are happening around the country — all the different issues that the president is dealing with, I think that a little time to himself on Father’s Day weekend probably does us all good as American citizens that our president is taking that time,” Burton said.
You would think he could spend Father’s Day with his kids; but this presidency is about him and obviously his kids are about him also.
The illustrious leader of the Republican Party, Michael Steele, issued an Affirmative Action type condemnation of the president’s preoccupation with golf and mentioned the CEO of BP attending a yacht race.
“While it is fitting and appropriate to look at the yachting activities of the BP CEO with incredulity, it is equally incredible that President Obama finds himself on yet another golf course as oil continues to spew into the Gulf,” Steele said. “Until this problem is fixed, no more golf outings, no more baseball games, no more Beatle concerts, Mr. President. The stakes are too high for President Obama’s lackadaisical approach to both his responsibilities and the challenges we face.”
I personally think Mr Steele’s criticism is a little too lackadaisical, according to the responsibilities of the presidency that Mr Obama refuses to accept.
Actually, George Bush decided to quit playing golf while two wars were raging and our sons and daughters were returning home in body bags; of course he was never tested with a disastrous event like the Gulf Oil Spill, he only had to deal with 9/11 and Katrina.
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There were three things that lost my vote for Bush Sr. when he was running against Clinton. I voted for Perot.
1. His fishing trips to Kennebunkport Maine we were at war.. and it was a short war… he could have waited.
2. The fact that he’d never seen a bar code scanner. Anyone that hadn’t seen a bar code scanner by 1990 simply had to be out of touch with real people.
3. Read my lips… no new taxes
Obama doesn’t have to worry about losing my vote… he never had it and he’ll never ever get it.
But inquiring minds want to know: does Michelle kiss his balls for luck like Winnie Palmer did for Arnold? ( http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/kissballs.asp ).
Seriously, he doesn’t need to spend five friggin’ hours on a friggin’ golf course to relax. Spend 30 minutes on the stairmaster. 20 minutes on the heavy bag. Walk the dog. Clean up after the dog. Notice the similarity to his policies. I’m just sayin’ ……
If this unbelievably incompetent moron needs to spend more time with his putter and all the other clubs, he should step down and devote his remaining years to improving his game. That way he can golf without being interrupted by pesky and mundane items such as war, immigration, oil spills, economy… AND then we can get an adult to run the country (this excludes leftists, liberals and progressives – by definition)!!!
I remember all the comments about Bush quitting golf b/c of the war.
I think Barry just likes the job title and the perks.
I remember seeing couple a of videos that caught W on the golf course after people were claiming he’d “quit”. One was on Mother’s Day 2003; he briefly comments on his game, on terrorism, and ends with a “Happy Mother’s Day”. There’s also the “Watch this drive” video.
Steele apparently wants us to believe that Obama should be wearing a hair shirt and practicing daily flagellation until the BP spill is history. I think he’s full of it. The presidency is stressful job. People don’t function well unless they get time away from the stress. That was true for Bush’s golf, hunting, fishing, and mountain biking, and it’s true of Obama’s golf and basketball.
Come on Greg…either you don’t know enough about the subject and your just talking out of your ass to score some anti-Bush points or your just flat out lying. He never claimed to have quit prior to Mothers Day 2003 and most certainly not in August of 2002 before the war even started.
His last game of golf was Oct 13, 2003 and he later traced that decision back due to the Iraq War. He never said he quit golf before the war but that it was a decision he made after the August 19, 2003 bombing of UN headquarters in Baghdad:
Two months later he played his last round of golf while he was President.
Donald, It may have been one of the reasons you didn’t vote for him, but you were conned:
http://www.snopes.com/history/american/bushscan.asp
Putts. (sic)
Greg, looks like someone will have to explain something very basic to you yet again.
The media savaged Bush for golfing when they thought he shouldn’t be. Now that obama is being held to the same standard, hypocrites like yourself are whining and crying about it.
To paraphrase: Tough sh*t lefties.
Obama, of course, does play the game left-handed. Another obvious sign of his evil leftist intentions, no doubt…
Skookum – Did you say he spent time alone with his putter or his pud? Very strange either way.
I wonder if Sr. Carol Keehan caddies for him? Did he take lessons on cheating from Clinton? He should watch tennis, the left and right movements would be good excercise for his teleprompter reading. This man is a joke, he is a mouth piece for a group that is pushing an agenda that none of us want, but Mr. O has ascended the throne and he does not have to pay attention to us “small people” heck let them eat cake. The man is busy jetting all over creation and back making speeches and organizing! He needs a break now and then. Basketball, date night, golf, shopping with the kiddies, vacationing. Geez, he gets more time off than I do and he’s been on the job for less than 2 years…what great perks! But I digress…
@Greg:
That’s all you got Greg?
http://politipage.com/2010/05/28/obamas-days/
BTW, I’ve been to Peggi Sue’s in the mighty Mo. Check out the Reagan calendar in the link. snort.
And in the short time obama has been president, I understand he’s played more golf than Bush. I mean it’s not like we have a crisis going on or anything.
Obama’s jobs goal…. keep one caddy fully employed until 2012.
When Obama said “Plug the damn ho”, Joe Biden jumped up, ran down to the nearest gun shop and purchased the finest shotgun they had. He then raced back to the white house, burst through the door, and asked, “Where’s Michelle”
The issue isn’t how much golf he plays or how many concerts he hosts.
Obama clearly has smart advisors who are telling him it doesn’t look good to be so casual and interested in your own needs, when there are huge problems in the country.
He is aware of how unseemly it looks.
The problem is: he doesn’t care. He is not one of the small people. He is elite.
Not only does he not care, he has certainly gone against the advice of his closest advisors.
MinuteMan, the putter is a metaphor and the whole deal is strange no matter how you try to make sense of the man.
have any of you seen drudge where the dimocrats say there won’t be a BUDGET? I MEAN GEEZ WHAT DO THESE PEOPLE DO?
MinuteMan, I try to write everything with at least two different meanings, if I can get three, that is better yet. It’s a dedication I have to the works of Shakespeare, a shallow imitation actually. So if you are left wondering if the sentence could be misconstrued, you are probably right on! It’s great fun really and sometimes off color; but what the Hell we have a Black President; although, that can be argued from several different tangents.
Stodgie, if they come out with a budget, they will look like profligates right before the election; better to let people think you are a profligate than come out with a budget and remove all doubt. If any one has a better reason, other than they are short of paper, I want to hear it.
No Budget equals more evidence of a total lack of leadership.
DONALD BLY: hi, did he ever said” THE DOG ATE MY STICK?’, bye
some of the commenter are very funny too.bye
SKOOKUM: hi, did you say 3 , well if OBAMA play with his putter, I think it’s indecent on a golf course. bye 🙄
@Bees
Obama was overheard the other day lamenting about all the criticism concerning him being on the golf course so much. Obama complained “If people only knew how hard it is to finish a round of golf when the damn Dingo’s have ‘et my balls”
And all this time… I thought Michelle was in charge of his balls. Never trust a SheWookie with your balls. The dingo’s will get em every time!
Are you sure the hole he wanted to plug was not the golf hole?
ARE you guys trying to beat my 23comment?
DONALD BLY: what about the camper who had enouph and throw the boomerang, and look the other way?
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