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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: formerlurker on April 18, 2010, 07:58:30 PM
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Mr. Obama has played golf far more often than former President George W. Bush. In his eight years in office, Mr. Bush played just 24 times. His last time as president was Oct. 13, 2003.
He said in 2008 that he gave up golf "in solidarity" with the families of soldiers who were dying in Iraq.
"I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf," Mr. Bush said in a White House interview Saturday with the Politico. "I feel I owe it to the families to be as — to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal."
He stopped playing after he received word of a deadly attack in Iraq while playing golf during a stay at the family ranch near Crawford, Texas.
"They pulled me off the golf course, and I said it's just not worth it anymore to do," Mr. Bush said in the interview.
Since Mr. Obama took office, 397 soldiers have died in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. Another 151 have died in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/apr/18/obama-skips-polish-funeral-heads-to-golf-course/print/
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I hope he golfs better than he bowls.
Chump.
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State funeral in Poland today. Obama played golf.
figures.
no class at all.
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State funeral in Poland today. Obama played golf.
figures.
no class at all.
Poland is noted of late for going to extraordinary lengths to throw off the chains of Socialism. The MessiahnFuhrer surely couldn't condone a nod to such counter-revolutionary reactionism from his regime.
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I hope he golfs better than he bowls.
Chump.
Or throws a baseball....
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I wonder if Obama is going to invite Phil Mickelson to the W.H. after he won the Masters Golf Tourney. If Tiger had won, you know that would have already occured.
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I wonder if Obama is going to invite Phil Mickelson to the W.H. after he won the Masters Golf Tourney. If Tiger had won, you know that would have already occured.
Yeah, he would have been slobbering all over Tiger. Or maybe not. :-)
The President doesn't usually invite the individual golf champions to the White House, no matter what the party of the President. Traditionally, the White House will host the Ryder Cup team of Americans every two years. There's an amusing story about when Bill Clinton invited the team in the mid-90's. I'm sure it is google-able.
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He must need some time to think that's why he is out their or is Poland some place he needs to worry about kissing their ass
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What? Is everyone afraid to make a hole in "ONE" joke.....