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On Sunday June 18,2012,Obama played his 100th round of golf,as President.What do you have to comment about this "milestone"?

Steverno~POTL~PWCM~JLA 2012/06/18 19:21:01
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President Barack Obama hit a major milestone as he marked his 100th time on the links during a Father’s Day weekend getaway in his hometown of Chicago.

Despite the fact that the 50-year-old Obama had never golfed before taking office in 2009, his love of the game is well known, and often subjected to criticism by conservative pundits and political opponents.

In April, presumptive republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who is not a golfer, told a conservative radio host that Obama’s love for the game displayed a poor work ethic, ABC News reported.

‘I scratch my head at the capacity of the president to take four hours off on such a regular basis to go golfing,’ he said. ‘I would think you could kind of suck it up for four years, particularly when the American people are out of work.’

On warm-weather weekends, the president frequently visits two courses in the Washington area, Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland and Fort Belvoir in Virginia, where he can relax outdoors away from the press corp.

Typically close friends or junior aides join him as partners, as was the case on Sunday when he brought Marty Nesbitt, a neighbor from the windy city, to the Beverly Country Club. His golf entourage also included long-time friend included Eric Whitaker and Marvin Nicholson, the White House trip director.

According to the right-leaning blog the White House Dossier, the president golfed 28 times in 2009, 30 times in 2010 and 34 times in 2011.



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  • Dwight-AFCL>dogsbody 2012/06/18 20:56:15
    America "spudders" while Obama "putters"....
    Dwight-AFCL>dogsbody
    +17
    Some Golf Pro once said something like, "Show me a business man with a good golf score, and I'll show you a guy whose business is in trouble."

    Sounds like Barry's Presidency to me.

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  • Linda Soundstorm 2012/06/21 19:59:50
    Linda
    I agree, but Obama has no control of how much security is involved. That goes for all past presidents also. They've all that had much security.
  • Soundstorm Linda 2012/06/21 20:04:45
    Soundstorm
    He might have considered the effect his presence might have on this troubled city. And that goes for his security detail as well.
  • wes h 2012/06/19 05:59:22
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    +5
    I recall President Bush promising to never play golf after 9/11, yet he played lots after that announcement. Plus, he's been in office almost 175 weeks, thats not even 66% of the weekends. Who cares what the president does for 4.3 hours out of a month. Find something better to do than rat on the president for something so insignificant. And don't reply "well Bush didn't play that much golf." And you'd be right, but he was on vacation WHILE the economy was tanking.
  • Stevern... wes h 2012/06/19 12:49:06
    Steverno~POTL~PWCM~JLA
    +2
    Give me a break.G.W.Bush kept his promise of not playing any more rounds of golf,as President.While there are troops,in harms way in Afghanistan and Iraq.He stopped at 24 rounds.Now that Bush is retired,he playing golf again.

    You're to have to do better then that to justify Obama's excessive numbers of golf games as President!
  • Linda Stevern... 2012/06/19 13:17:57
    Linda
    What is golf. Is that all the better you can do? Big major talking point. No bush did not stop playing golf.
  • Stevern... Linda 2012/06/19 13:26:58
    Steverno~POTL~PWCM~JLA
    +1
    I guessing facts don't get in the way of you making your points.....lol
  • Linda Stevern... 2012/06/19 13:37:31
    Linda
    +1
    You want facts, here:
    Bush Lied About Giving Up Golf: Video Proof
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com...
  • Space I... Linda 2012/06/19 15:47:19
    Space Invader
    +1
    HuffPo?? You better than that..how about the Daily Kos? Tell David Brock we said Hello..
  • Linda Space I... 2012/06/19 16:09:44
    Linda
    +1
    Show proof that bush quit. You can't. Bush said he'd quit in Aug 2003 yet he was vidieod in Oct. 2003. hun,,,,,
  • Stevern... Space I... 2012/06/19 16:58:20
    Steverno~POTL~PWCM~JLA
    I was thinking the same thing too.If the MSM could of verified the story of Bush lying about giving up golf.They would of run story after story about it!
  • wgossett99 Space I... 2012/06/19 18:03:37
    wgossett99
    +2
    Linda just gave y'all DOCUMENTED PROOF and yet you still won't accept the facts? How dumb is that?

    Even the conservative New Orleans Times-Picayune called Bush out about it.
  • BigFig#9 2012/06/19 05:34:22
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    +4
    Somebody needs a hobby besides counting rounds of golf.... Really don't care how much golf Obama plays or how much brush Bush clears from his ranch - it's a stressful job and if they can collect their thoughts and relieve stress doing wither more power to them.
  • Luv♥Luv 2012/06/19 05:33:17
  • jakep51 2012/06/19 05:29:16
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    Hey at least Obama is consistent. His golf game sucks as bad as his President game.
  • ♥dreamer-leigh♥ 2012/06/19 05:20:14
    America "spudders" while Obama "putters"....
    ♥dreamer-leigh♥
    +4
    Can he brag or add any other milestone?? Don't think so, in the meantime our economy is in the toilet, jobs are nowhere to be found and people are losing their homes because there is no work...welcome to socialism people...get used to it...
  • Omegaphenes 2012/06/19 05:07:52
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    Cool. I like golf, as well...and I smoke. So there we go, TWO things we share alike.
  • CUDDLY BUT STILL CRABBY 2012/06/19 05:05:11
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    +3
    PRESIDENT DOOFUS GOLFSALOT seems to be a quite factual moniker for this most worthless putz of a US President.
  • sjalan 2012/06/19 04:55:54
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    +3
    ALL PRESIDENTS need reasonable and responsible exercise to stay healthy. EVEN Reagan did his horseback riding, Jimmy Carter did his daily walks (TWICE A DAY)!, Bill Clinton did his DAILY jogs. Dwight Eisenhower played golf with Bob Hope EVERY CHANCE HE GOT!!

    Why don't you bark up a tree that could be perceived as reasonable.
  • Aqua Surf 2012/06/19 03:55:45
    America "spudders" while Obama "putters"....
    Aqua Surf
    +3
    Spudders AND shudders.
  • Ken 2012/06/19 03:47:05
    Obama needs to play golf often because....
    Ken
    +3
    Because when he does he can't screw things up.
  • DougE 2012/06/19 03:23:07
    Obama needs to play golf often because....
    DougE
    +3
    Baracks use of the Golfcart 1 is almost at an end. Besides, the more he plays golf, the less damage he can do to the US.
  • Don Leuty 2012/06/19 03:09:28
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  • FairLady 2012/06/19 03:01:00
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    +3
    I don't care much.. I am counting days to see him gone . Poof... Bye, socialist.
  • MsTlynne FairLady 2012/06/19 17:08:27
    MsTlynne
    It's way too soon to start the countdown til January 2017.
  • Flamingolady 2012/06/19 02:52:57
    America "spudders" while Obama "putters"....
    Flamingolady
  • Don Leuty Flaming... 2012/06/19 03:14:21
    Don Leuty
    +3
    I used to object to his excessive recreation time. After that first year, I encourage it. It diminishes the time available to screw things up even more.
  • Linda Flaming... 2012/06/19 05:12:37
  • mwg0735 Linda 2012/06/19 15:39:00
  • texasred 2012/06/19 02:37:39
    America "spudders" while Obama "putters"....
    texasred
    +5
    He likes the perks, e.g. Air Force One, free golf, etc., but his doesn't really like the job. November is very important to America!!
  • wilsonmja 2012/06/19 02:30:45
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    +1
    While I'm no fan of Obama, I'm not angered by the amount of vacation that the American president gets. I want the leader of our nation to have plenty of R&R;.
  • JT For Political Reform 2012/06/19 02:19:47
    America "spudders" while Obama "putters"....
    JT For Political Reform
    +6
    Just look at the oil spill in the gulf coast, where was Obie? He was on the Golf Course. This guy could care less about this country.
  • Linda JT For ... 2012/06/19 05:40:40
    Linda
    +2
    and where was bush when Kartina happened, at his ranch on vacation. He was warned before hand.
  • JT For ... Linda 2012/06/19 12:08:33
    JT For Political Reform
    +2
    So what? This isn't about Bush. But now that you brought it up, his ranch wasn't very far from where Katrina hit, so he was a lot closer than if he was shooting a few holes in DC.
  • Linda JT For ... 2012/06/19 13:21:13 (edited)
    Linda
    Yet he (bush) did nothing. He let people die.
  • JT For ... Linda 2012/06/19 19:03:25
    JT For Political Reform
    +2
    No, the governor and the Mayor let people die. It was up to them to ask for federal assistance only after they enacted their own National Guard which they didn't. Bush followed the law. The idiot mayor and the no balls female governor failed their constituents miserably.
  • Al B Thayer 2012/06/19 02:09:52
    America "spudders" while Obama "putters"....
    Al B Thayer
    +2
    The guy has a terrible swing. How embarrassing. Honestly, with all that's going on he should have shown more class and not rubbed it in our faces.
  • Stevern... Al B Th... 2012/06/19 04:40:54
    Steverno~POTL~PWCM~JLA
    +1
    His golf swing can't be as bad as Obama's baseball pitch...lol

  • seadog6608PWCM 2012/06/19 01:54:18
  • paul 2012/06/19 01:48:52
    America "spudders" while Obama "putters"....
    paul
    +5
    OK, so that's over a month of golf per year. Which is to say nothing of the vacations.
  • JCD aka... paul 2012/06/19 09:44:25
    JCD aka "biz"
    Right, that's one day every 12 days. Including Sundays. So?

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