Quote:

---

The president came under fire from critics for heading off to play his favourite pastime straight from the school podium where he vowed to fight the “cancer” of the Islamic State.

His foes highlighted not only the jarring juxtaposition between his speech about a dead American and then beaming pictures taken of him shortly afterwards in a golf caddy on Martha’s Vineyard, his up-market summer holiday retreat.

They also questioned whether he could be handling the national security duties of his position at this sensitive time when he spent four and a half hours at the Vineyard Golf Club playing with former professional basketball star Alonzo Mourning and two businessmen friends.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11049491/Ba
rack-Obama-criticised-for-golf-outing-with-friends-straight-after-James-Foley-speech.html

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by AURaptor:

Quote:

---

The president came under fire from critics for heading off to play his favourite pastime straight from the school podium where he vowed to fight the “cancer” of the Islamic State.

His foes highlighted not only the jarring juxtaposition between his speech about a dead American and then beaming pictures taken of him shortly afterwards in a golf caddy on Martha’s Vineyard, his up-market summer holiday retreat.

They also questioned whether he could be handling the national security duties of his position at this sensitive time when he spent four and a half hours at the Vineyard Golf Club playing with former professional basketball star Alonzo Mourning and two businessmen friends.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11049491/Ba
rack-Obama-criticised-for-golf-outing-with-friends-straight-after-James-Foley-speech.html

---

Our Community Agitator in Chief , hard at work.

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Wow....

With my birthday coming in 2 days, maybe I'm a little sensitive to this, but I actually own "former professional basketball star Alonzo Mourning"'s rookie card.



I'm not going to get mad at a guy playing golf. I've never been good at it, and it isn't exactly cheap to play, so I don't get the appeal....

---

Quote:

---

All I'm saying is that it would take 10,000 of these golf outings to cost what it cost to take his wife to Broadway right after he got in office.

---

Quote:

---

Clinton liked putting cigars in intern's assholes and Bammy seems to really enjoy driving that golf cart. I'm about 3 beers into what will likely end up being 12 or more before the night ends...

Let he who is free from sin cast the first stone. :)

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by AURaptor:
It's not about him playing golf. It's about a President addressing the nation about a grizzly, brutal murder of an innocent American journalist, and then mere minutes later, he's in his golf cart, fist bumping and laughing like he doesn't have a care in the world.

Meanwhile,...

British PM David Cameron Cuts Short Summer Holiday to Lead Hunt for Foley Beheader; Abbott Calls Decapitation ‘Pure Evil’

http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/563408/20140821/british-pm-david-camero
n-cuts-short-summer.htm#.U_faD_ldUu8

Just to recap... Obama ,in the face of a brutal murder of an U.S. citizen, quickly goes back to the golf course. British PM, in stark contrast, cuts SHORT his holiday to get to work in tracking down the killer of said US journalist.

It doesn't look bad. It looks fucking ridiculous.

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

The horror..... He's trying to show us that we should still enjoy our lives instead of putting everything on hold for every horrible thing that happens.

This wasn't a goddamned press conference. So what? He happened to have fun with some friends a few hours later?

---

Quote:

---

MEDIA IGNORES LAVISH OBAMA VACATIONS, SLAMMED BUSH FOR MOUNTAIN BIKING

Eight months into President George W. Bush's second term, the Washington Post wrote that Bush's frequent trips to his Texas ranch symbolized "a lackadaisical approach to the world's most important day job" and gleefully noted that Bush was intent on setting the record for being on "vacation"--or away from Washington, D.C.--for the most number of days of any president.

But when President Barack Obama vacations in Hawaii, sets up a fantasy golf vacation for himself with Butch Harmon and Tiger Woods, averages more than a vacation a month in 2013 while purporting to be a man of the people and demanding the rich pay their fair share, and playing sequester politics by shutting down White House tours, the mainstream media is silent.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/03/26/Obamas-Vacation-Mor
e-Lavishly-than-Bushes

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by AURaptor:

Merely being away form 1600 Pennsylvania Ave does not constitute a 'vacation'.

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by ElvisChrist:

Unless you're black, apparently.

---

Quote:

---

If Obama is away from 1600, is he still President? Or does that only apply to white presidents?

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by AURaptor:
Merely being away form 1600 Pennsylvania Ave does not constitute a 'vacation'.

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by ElvisChrist:

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by ElvisChrist:
"FACT CHECK: During his Presidency, Obama has taken 125 vacation days. By comparison, George W. Bush invaded Iraq for no reason." - Andy Borowitz, "The Borowitz Report"

---

Quote:

---

Here is a reality check for Republicans who keep complaining over President Obama’s vacations. President Obama has had fewer vacation days in the last six years than Congress will have in 2014.

According to CBS News Correspondent Mark Knoller, President Obama has spent 129 days of presidency on vacation. The Republican led House of Representatives was scheduled to be in session for only 124 days in all of 2014. This means that John Boehner and company will spend fewer days at work this year than President Obama has spent on vacation in his entire presidency. The numbers are actually worse when one considers that the House is only scheduled to work for 97 days between January and Election day in November. Members of the Senate, like Ted Cruz, have had nearly as many days off this year as the president has had since taking office.

This is the point in any story about Republican hysterics about Obama’s vacations that George W. Bush needs to be used as a point of reference. During Bush’s presidency, he took four vacations that were longer than Obama’s longest vacation. Former President Bush took virtually the entire month of August 2001 off. Bush’s vacation was almost twice as long (27 days) as Obama’s current break (15 days). Ronald Reagan took a 25 day vacation in August 1983. Republicans never demanded that Bush and Reagan return to work, so why is it different for President Obama?

---

Quote:

---

The Golf Address

By MAUREEN DOWD
AUG. 23, 2014

FORE! Score? And seven trillion rounds ago, our forecaddies brought forth on this continent a new playground, conceived by Robert Trent Jones, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal when it comes to spending as much time on the links as possible — even when it seems totally inappropriate, like moments after making a solemn statement condemning the grisly murder of a 40-year-old American journalist beheaded by ISIL.


I know reporters didn’t get a chance to ask questions, but I had to bounce. I had a 1 p.m. tee time at Vineyard Golf Club with Alonzo Mourning and a part-owner of the Boston Celtics. Hillary and I agreed when we partied with Vernon Jordan up here, hanging out with celebrities and rich folks is fun.

Now we are engaged in a great civil divide in Ferguson, which does not even have a golf course, and that’s why I had a “logistical” issue with going there. We are testing whether that community, or any community so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure when the nation’s leader wants nothing more than to sink a birdie putt.

We are met on a great field of that battle, not Augusta, not Pebble Beach, not Bethpage Black, not Burning Tree, but Farm Neck Golf Club in Martha’s Vineyard, which we can’t get enough of — me, Alonzo, Ray Allen and Marvin Nicholson, my trip director and favorite golfing partner who has played 134 rounds and counting with me.

We have to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for my presidency, if I keep swinging from behind.

Yet it is altogether fitting and proper that I should get to play as much golf as I want, despite all the lame jokes about how golf is turning into “a real handicap” for my presidency and how I have to “stay the course” with ISIL. I’ve heard all the carping that I should be in the Situation Room droning and plinking the bad folks. I know some people think I should go to Ferguson. Don’t they understand that I’ve delegated the Martin Luther King Jr. thing to Eric Holder? Plus, Valerie Jarrett and Al Sharpton have it under control.

I know it doesn’t look good to have pictures of me grinning in a golf cart juxtaposed with ones of James Foley’s parents crying, and a distraught David Cameron rushing back from his vacation after only one day, and the Pentagon news conference with Chuck Hagel and General Dempsey on the failed mission to rescue the hostages in Syria.

We’re stuck in the rough, going to war all over again in Iraq and maybe striking Syria, too. Every time Chuck says ISIL is “beyond anything we’ve ever seen,” I sprout seven more gray hairs. But my cool golf caps cover them. If only I could just play through the rest of my presidency.

ISIL brutally killing hostages because we won’t pay ransoms, rumbles of coups with our puppets in Iraq and Afghanistan, the racial caldron in Ferguson, the Ebola outbreak, the Putin freakout — there’s enough awful stuff going on to give anyone the yips.

So how can you blame me for wanting to unwind on the course or for five hours at dinner with my former assistant chef? He’s a great organic cook, and he’s got a gluten-free backyard putting green.

But, in a larger sense, we can dedicate, we can consecrate, we can hallow this ground where I can get away from my wife, my mother-in-law, Uncle Joe, Congress and all the other hazards in my life.

The brave foursomes, living and dead, who struggled here in the sand, in the trees, in the water, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or subtract a few strokes to improve our score. Bill Clinton was Mr. Mulligan, and he is twice at popular as I am.

The world will little note, nor long remember, what we shot here, or why I haven’t invited a bunch of tiresome congressmen to tee it up. I’m trying to relax, guys. So I’d much rather stay in the bunker with my usual bros.

Why don’t you play 18 with Mitch McConnell? And John Boehner is a lot better than me, so I don’t want to play with him.

It is for us, the duffers, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who played here have thus far so nobly advanced to get young folks to stop spurning a game they find slow and boring.

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us of getting rid of our slice on the public’s dime — that from this honored green we take increased devotion to that cause for which Bobby Jones, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy gave their last full measure of devotion — and divots.

We here highly resolve that these golfing greats shall not have competed in vain, especially poor Tiger, and that this nation, under par, shall have a new birth of freedom to play the game that I have become unnaturally obsessed with, and that golf of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.

So help me Golf.


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/24/opinion/sunday/maureen-dowd-the-golf
-address.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&_r=0

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by AURaptor:

Quote:

---

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Wow....

With my birthday coming in 2 days, maybe I'm a little sensitive to this, but I actually own "former professional basketball star Alonzo Mourning"'s rookie card.



I'm not going to get mad at a guy playing golf. I've never been good at it, and it isn't exactly cheap to play, so I don't get the appeal....

---

It's not about him playing golf. It's about a President addressing the nation about a grizzly, brutal murder of an innocent American journalist, and then mere minutes later, he's in his golf cart, fist bumping and laughing like he doesn't have a care in the world.

Meanwhile,...

British PM David Cameron Cuts Short Summer Holiday to Lead Hunt for Foley Beheader; Abbott Calls Decapitation ‘Pure Evil’

http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/563408/20140821/british-pm-david-camero
n-cuts-short-summer.htm#.U_faD_ldUu8

Just to recap... Obama ,in the face of a brutal murder of an U.S. citizen, quickly goes back to the golf course. British PM, in stark contrast, cuts SHORT his holiday to get to work in tracking down the killer of said US journalist.

It doesn't look bad. It looks fucking ridiculous.

Quote:

---

All I'm saying is that it would take 10,000 of these golf outings to cost what it cost to take his wife to Broadway right after he got in office.

---

With where Obama plays golf, it'd be more like 10 rounds, not 10,000. And that's not counting the the 5 star accommodations that Barry loves to stay in either.

Quote:

---

Clinton liked putting cigars in intern's assholes and Bammy seems to really enjoy driving that golf cart. I'm about 3 beers into what will likely end up being 12 or more before the night ends...

Let he who is free from sin cast the first stone. :)

---

Alright. I got nothing to add to any of that.

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by AURaptor:
Bush did not take anywhere near as much time off as Obama. That often repeated lie is all the Left can cling to.

Quote:

---

MEDIA IGNORES LAVISH OBAMA VACATIONS, SLAMMED BUSH FOR MOUNTAIN BIKING

Eight months into President George W. Bush's second term, the Washington Post wrote that Bush's frequent trips to his Texas ranch symbolized "a lackadaisical approach to the world's most important day job" and gleefully noted that Bush was intent on setting the record for being on "vacation"--or away from Washington, D.C.--for the most number of days of any president.

But when President Barack Obama vacations in Hawaii, sets up a fantasy golf vacation for himself with Butch Harmon and Tiger Woods, averages more than a vacation a month in 2013 while purporting to be a man of the people and demanding the rich pay their fair share, and playing sequester politics by shutting down White House tours, the mainstream media is silent.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/03/26/Obamas-Vacation-Mor
e-Lavishly-than-Bushes

---

Merely being away form 1600 Pennsylvania Ave does not constitute a 'vacation'.


Back to the real issue...

It's worse than we know.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/08/21/isis-thirst-for-oil-could-lead
-to-global-catastrophe-if-unchecked-experts-say/

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by AURaptor:
Ron Brown wasn't murdered, JSF. It was an unforeseeable, tragic airline accident.

---

Quote:

---

C'mon now, get it right.

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by AURaptor:
Going to your own residence and clearing brush or chopping wood isn't the same as long walks on the beach, yachting or rounds of golf on 5 star courses.

Obama attending fundraisers , bachelor parties and dinner parties on Marthas Vineyard isn't remotely the same as Bush governing from the comfort and tranquility of his OWN DAMN HOME.

The Left will perpetually lie , and this vacation nonsense is only the latest example.

http://obamagolfcounter.com/

---

Quote:

---

- and it appears that the ultra-gullible drones have fallen for it.

---

Quote:

---

At a Pentagon briefing last Friday, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, spoke about the threat posed by ISIS in the clearest possible terms.

“It is possible to contain them,” Dempsey warned. “They can be contained, but not in perpetuity.”

“This is an organization that has an apocalyptic, end-of-days strategic vision which will eventually have to be defeated,” he continued.

No ambiguity there. America’s present strategy designed to roll back ISIS in Iraq, while enjoying some near-terms successes, will face rapidly diminishing returns soon. Moreover, as Dempsey warned, the threat posed by this group is great enough to merit a more comprehensive strategy designed to not merely combat but to defeat ISIS forever.

Well, not so fast. With reports indicating that President Barack Obama’s administration has concluded that striking ISIS inside their Syrian stronghold is necessary and the only debate is over the scope of the operation, Dempsey warned on Monday that mounting airstrikes in Syria is a bad idea.

http://hotair.com/archives/2014/08/25/martin-dempsey-isis-must-be-defe
ated-but-dont-strike-them-in-syria/

---

Quote:

---

Just on principle I may have to defend the piece of shit.

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by AURaptor:

Quote:

---

Just on principle I may have to defend the piece of shit.

---

Be my guest.

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by AURaptor:
Going to your own residence and clearing brush or chopping wood isn't the same as long walks on the beach, yachting or rounds of golf on 5 star courses.

Obama attending fundraisers , bachelor parties and dinner parties on Marthas Vineyard isn't remotely the same as Bush governing from the comfort and tranquility of his OWN DAMN HOME.

The Left will perpetually lie , and this vacation nonsense is only the latest example.

http://obamagolfcounter.com/

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by AURaptor:

Quote:

---

The president came under fire from critics for heading off to play his favourite pastime straight from the school podium where he vowed to fight the “cancer” of the Islamic State.

His foes highlighted not only the jarring juxtaposition between his speech about a dead American and then beaming pictures taken of him shortly afterwards in a golf caddy on Martha’s Vineyard, his up-market summer holiday retreat.

They also questioned whether he could be handling the national security duties of his position at this sensitive time when he spent four and a half hours at the Vineyard Golf Club playing with former professional basketball star Alonzo Mourning and two businessmen friends.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11049491/Ba
rack-Obama-criticised-for-golf-outing-with-friends-straight-after-James-Foley-speech.html

---

Our Community Agitator in Chief , hard at work.

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by AURaptor:
Staying home and doing the work of the President IS what W & Reagsn did.

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
So let's see if I have this straight, staying at home and not doing any presidential work (stay-cation), that's ok.

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by AURaptor:
Staying home and doing the work of the President IS what W & Reagsn did.

---