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Barack Obama criticised for golf outing with friends straight after James Foley speech

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Thursday, August 21, 2014 7:41 PM

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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




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Thursday, August 21, 2014 10:03 PM

THGRRI


Yep Rappy, you got us on this one. He is a bit cold hearted and stupid for allowing himself to be so detached from what this country wants and expects from him. He does bring some of the criticism of himself down upon his own head.


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Thursday, August 21, 2014 10:40 PM

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And how long have I been keen to this ? Long before now, I confess.


Sometimes ' I told you so just doesn't quite say it '.


Barry is exactly who I told you he was, from day freakin' one. An arrogant, inexperienced, incompetent, self absorbed adolescent Marxist elitist in a man's body who loves to wear mom jeans and play golf. A LOT of frelling golf.


Also, there was this , from the Washington Post...

The shocking news of James Foley’s execution broke as Air Force One landed at Cape Cod on Tuesday night. The president offered his condolences to the American journalist's family and angrily denounced Islamic State militants the following day. Then he went off for a round of golf — his seventh in ten days at Martha's Vineyard so far.

It wasn't the first time this month Obama has made a quick pivot from grim news to the green. Last week, the president was confronted by rising unrest in Ferguson, Mo. and upheaval in Iraq. After delivering a solemn statement on both crises, he hit the golf course just four minutes after leaving the podium .

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Friday, August 22, 2014 8:01 AM

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Associated with this story...

Chuck Hagel: ISIS "beyond anything we've seen"


http://www.cbsnews.com/news/chuck-hagel-defends-failed-james-foley-res
cue-attempt
/


And this...

Disclosure of Failed Attempt to Rescue James Foley Is Criticized
White House Took Decision After Learning News Outlets Were Planning to Report on It


http://online.wsj.com/articles/disclosure-of-failed-attempt-to-rescue-
james-foley-is-criticized-1408670188?tesla=y&tesla=y&url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204587804580106421233717044.html

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Friday, August 22, 2014 5:13 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


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Originally posted by AURaptor:



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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




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That's just crazy talk.

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Friday, August 22, 2014 7:25 PM

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....

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.

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. :)

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Friday, August 22, 2014 8:16 PM

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Friday, August 22, 2014 9:09 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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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.



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?

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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.



Can't argue any of that. I'd love to hear a story where he stayed at the Motel 6 on Route 30 and played 9 holes in Plymouth, IN. :)

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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.



They never do. ;)

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Friday, August 22, 2014 9:29 PM

AURAPTOR

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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?



No, he returned to his non stop partying , just a few minutes after.


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Can't argue any of that. I'd love to hear a story where he stayed at the Motel 6 on Route 30 and played 9 holes in Plymouth, IN. :)




He's closing in on 200 rounds of golf, while President. Hell, Rory McIlroy doesn't play that much damn golf !

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Saturday, August 23, 2014 3:17 PM

ELVISCHRIST






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Saturday, August 23, 2014 3:28 PM

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Bush did not take anywhere near as much time off as Obama. That often repeated lie is all the Left can cling to.
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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
/

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Saturday, August 23, 2014 5:56 PM

ELVISCHRIST


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Originally posted by AURaptor:

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




Unless you're black, apparently.


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

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Saturday, August 23, 2014 8:20 PM

AURAPTOR

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Originally posted by ElvisChrist:

Unless you're black, apparently.



What does that have to do with anything ?

Your remark would only make sense if W and Obama had done nearly exactly similar things. They haven't. Not even close.

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





You really do ask illogical, ignorant questions.

Obama isn't an incompetent , narcissistic pile of go-se BECAUSE he's black, he just happens to be those things while BEING black.

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Sunday, August 24, 2014 8:37 AM

ELVISCHRIST



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Sunday, August 24, 2014 9:30 AM

AURAPTOR

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Putting up lying graphics doesn't make your case. Sorry.

There will be a house cleaning in 2014. And it's the Jackasses who'll be shown the door.

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Sunday, August 24, 2014 10:30 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

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



If being at home the most is the only thing that makes a good president, I'd probably make the best president the world has ever seen.

And I am speaking to the both of you, lol....

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Sunday, August 24, 2014 10:42 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Originally posted by ElvisChrist:




I do have to say this whole idea no matter where it's coming from is kind of ridiculous to me......

A vacation to me is at least 3 consecutive days where I don't have to think about a damned thing about work. I can smoke as many cigarettes as I want, get as drunk as I want while knowing I won't be unexpectedly called into work, and the world isn't going to have fallen apart when I come back to work....

TRUE VACATION DAYS
GWB: 0, OBAMA: 0


Get real guys.... no matter how much you hate the other guy, I'll bet that neither of these guys have had a vacation like that since they were in college. Even when they're on vacation they're working.

That's one of the bennies of being the Chief. You can delegate responsibility for 99% of the diplomatic responsibility to the shit-sippers who's names we will never know, while most of the time you're going to pretty places, in luxury surroundings on taxpayer dollars.

4 years isn't always enough of an indicator, but look at ANY president who served two terms. They look 16 years older easy.

Hell... Obama is only in for 6 years and he looks considerably older than when he was first running. In my experience black men who remain physically fit defy their years. Ain't no way somebody's going to mistake Obama for a younger black dude in 2 more years. I know he's mixed, but seriously, who isn't in 2014?





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Sunday, August 24, 2014 2:31 PM

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"

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Sunday, August 24, 2014 2:38 PM

AURAPTOR

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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"



opinion, not fact.


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Sunday, August 24, 2014 2:46 PM

ELVISCHRIST




Obama Has Had Fewer Vacation Days In His Entire Presidency Than Congress Has This Year


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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?



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Sunday, August 24, 2014 2:51 PM

ELVISCHRIST





Presidents don’t get vacations — they just get a change of scenery.

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Sunday, August 24, 2014 3:51 PM

AURAPTOR

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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/

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Monday, August 25, 2014 4:14 PM

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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






More phony, contrived outrage at Barry's insincerity and callousness towards , well... EVERYTHING

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Monday, August 25, 2014 7:34 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


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.

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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.


I'm wondering how is nobody celebrating Obamination as the second coming of Slick Willy? When Clinton was caught laughing, joking around, jiving with the fellas while stauntering away from the Ron Brown funeral (first Black Cabinet Member IIRC, murdered in office and covered up) but, then, within 3/4 of a step of noticing the camera which nobody else detected, he's pretending to wipe a tear from his eye. Obamination might dislike Slick
immensely, but he learned well from him.

You can't really blame Obamination, he was probably rapping with the beheader back in their days together, before Obamination had to pretend he really wasn't a Muslim.

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Monday, August 25, 2014 7:39 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


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/


That's just crazy talk.
Facts don't matter, you know that.

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Monday, August 25, 2014 7:45 PM

AURAPTOR

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Ron Brown wasn't murdered, JSF. It was an unforeseeable, tragic airline accident.

And Vince Foster committed suicide.

C'mon now, get it right.

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Monday, August 25, 2014 8:23 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Quote:

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


Really? Getting a bullet to the head at cruising altitude, early enough preceding the pancake landing that there was no blood loss from crash injuries, is an accident? Did the weapon which fired the round(s) also disappear equally accidentally? Or are you saying the number of bullets used to kill Secretary Brown was what made it an accident? I forget now, was it one round or two which scrambled his brains?
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And Vince Foster committed suicide.


???
Blood flows against gravity?
The National Park was carpeting that grassy area on the day he committed suicide?
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C'mon now, get it right.


Oh. OK. I see what you did there.
And he never raped all those women that he serially raped, right?

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Monday, August 25, 2014 8:29 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


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/


I have heard tell that Obamination keeps taking moments out of his busy schedule of the few hours he works (err, that would only be when at the White House), umm links, so that he can claim that those gazillions of dollars he spends while the world is burning are really dutiful fiscal expenses rightfully incurred - and it appears that the ultra-gullible drones have fallen for it.

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Monday, August 25, 2014 8:58 PM

AURAPTOR

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


They've no more fallen for the lies than crack whores who believe they'll just wake up tomorrow, put the pipe down, and never touch the stuff again.

But admitting they were wrong 'bout THE ONE would , in their minds, mean that Romney was the better choice, and they just cannot accept that. So they take another hit and assume the position.

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Monday, August 25, 2014 9:08 PM

AURAPTOR

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And in related news...

I guess Gen. Dempsy was for it, before he was ( TOLD to be ) against it.

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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
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Monday, August 25, 2014 11:29 PM

JONGSSTRAW


Quite an unusual week when Obama-lovers Chris Mathews and Maureen Dowd both rail against their beloved Barry over his disastrous and criminal presidency. Just on principle I may have to defend the piece of shit.

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Tuesday, August 26, 2014 6:09 AM

AURAPTOR

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



Be my guest.


But I do love the silence coming from the Obama-bots here after Dowd's comments, as well as Gen.Dempsey's flip.


This admin is pure incompetence on parade. Just as we thought.

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Tuesday, August 26, 2014 4:38 PM

AURAPTOR

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Anyone else cool w/ Obama admitting that we're flying drones over Syria ?

Even though Syria isn't cool w/ it ?


Does this admin NOT understand the problems war, and how it often presents realities where those w/ opposing political views are forced to sometimes work in conjunction, in order to defeat a common foe ?

Guess that whole ' Red Line ' bit Barry barked about is now a bit of a barrier, for OUR goals.

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Tuesday, August 26, 2014 6:19 PM

JONGSSTRAW


Quote:

Originally posted by AURaptor:

Quote:



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



Be my guest.



"MAUREEN" (apologies to Dolly Parton)


Maureen, Maureen, Maureen, Maureen
I'm begging of you please don't slam Barack
Maureen, Maureen, Maureen, Maureen
Please don't slam him just because he's black.

Your writing is beyond the pale
Just a flaming rant, like a child's wail
With a poison pen and a libtard's hate
A great man you seek to denigrate, Maureen.

Maureen, Maureen, Maureen, Maureen
I'm begging of you please leave him alone
Maureen, Maureen, Maureen, Maureen
He can easily burn your ass with a drone.

He talks about you in his sleep
There's nothing Michelle can do to keep
From crying when he calls your name, Maureen.

And I can easily understand
How you could easily embarrass the man
But you don't know what he means to us, Maureen.

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Tuesday, August 26, 2014 7:16 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


I'm not sure I get Obamination's pretend flip.

Didn't he just spend the past year broadcasting all the cities that his buddies in ISIS needed to take over? Announcing which city US Troops were withdrawing from on which date, so ISIS could have it handed over to them? So why is he now pretending to be upset that his master plan for supporting ISIS and killing more jews has worked out so well?

I have not seen mention - was Foley a jew?

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Tuesday, August 26, 2014 7:30 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


There are at least 3 more Americans being held by ISIS, one of them a 26 year old woman. I guess that she's still alive is something, but I don't want to think of what's been done to her. Or what WILL be done to her, if things get dicey.

The smiling pic of Obama at the golf course, minutes after the Foley speech , that pic was taken BY THE WHITE HOUSE, and not some paparazzi in the press.

That means this administration WANTED the world to see that pic. That's how little he cares, and how disconnected he is to his job, and the world falling apart.

The spin-meisters will claim he's just trying to flip off the terrorists, to show them he's not cowering in fear, but no one's buying it. Because besides not cowering , he's not WORKING either. He's PLAYING GOLF. Fist bumpin' and having a good time.

This job is so very far beyond him, he has no clue. But as he's tinkering w/ O-Care, and allowing sex change operations to be paid for by the govt, more graphic and far more disturbing decapitation snuff vids from the mid-East are making their way across the internet.

Folks, if this isn't real life Reavers, it's 1/2 a step away. Truly evil. Unlike what we've seen in the modern era, that's for sure.

I bet Obama is gearing up for Beyonce's big time special on HBO though. Oh, how he loves him some Beyonce !

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Tuesday, August 26, 2014 9:52 PM

ELVISCHRIST



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Tuesday, August 26, 2014 10:43 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


More photo shopped lies.

Time spent in your OWN HOME isn't a " vacation ". FAIL.

Barry has nearly 200 rounds of golf alone ! Don't recall a golf course at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

The more ridiculous the claims from the Left, the more we see them lying.


52 weeks in a year. Obama's been in office for 6+ years.

http://obamagolfcounter.com/

192 rounds of golf.

That's 30+ rounds of golf a year !!!!!

All while destroying the country, lying about spying on Americans, ignoring Veterans, running guns across the border, ... where does he find the time ?




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Wednesday, August 27, 2014 1:04 AM

SHINYGOODGUY


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

Is that what your telling me? Because your home it doesn't count!?

Pull my other leg will ya! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha..........cough, cough!
You almost made me choke on that one..............now that's HI-larious!


SGG


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/


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Wednesday, August 27, 2014 1:07 AM

SHINYGOODGUY


Okay, Obama playing golf right after addressing the nation regarding Foley, well...............that's bad, I admit. Does not set a good example.


SGG


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.


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Wednesday, August 27, 2014 6:16 AM

AURAPTOR

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Staying home and doing the work of the President IS what W & Reagsn did.

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Wednesday, August 27, 2014 4:53 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Quote:

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


That's just crazy talk. All lies.
They are not doing official work if they and their First Lady don't take separate copies of Air Force One, plus maintain a fleet of limos at their ranches, plus pile up on gazillions of Secret Service agents while entertaining foreign dignitaries at their homes, or tie traffic into pretzels in large cities, or travel all over during the busiest times of year - like Christmas or New Year, like a REAL president would do.
You just don't understand how it works, and how incapable W and RWR were of being REAL Presidents like Slick and the Bogeyer-in-Chief.

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Thursday, August 28, 2014 8:02 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


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.




Staying home and working out of your own home office isn't anywhere near the vacation as going to the beach, the golf course, etc... You're doing work, just not on as strict a schedule.

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Is that what your telling me? Because your home it doesn't count!?

Pull my other leg will ya! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha..........cough, cough!
You almost made me choke on that one..............now that's HI-larious!




Yeah, you're laughing at stuff that you clearly don't even comprehend.

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Thursday, August 28, 2014 9:01 PM

ELVISCHRIST




Q: Is it true that George W. Bush took more vacation days than Barack Obama?


A: Yes. Before his two-week trip to Martha’s Vineyard in August, Obama’s count was 125 full or partial days and Bush’s total at the same point in his presidency was 407.



http://www.factcheck.org/2014/08/presidential-vacations/

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Thursday, August 28, 2014 9:58 PM

AURAPTOR

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Well, this sure explains why he was so eager to get back to the golf course.

He has no FRELLING CLUE what he's even doing !!!!!


Obama says 'no strategy yet' as IS executes Syrian troops


Damascus (AFP) - US President Barack Obama admitted Thursday that he still did not have a strategy to fight Islamic State jihadists in Syria, as the militants boasted they had executed scores of Syrian troops -- the latest in a string of atrocities that have shocked the world.

Dampening hopes of imminent air strikes in Syria, Obama said he was still developing a comprehensive plan to defeat for good IS, which has also overrun large swathes of Iraq.

http://news.yahoo.com/obama-says-no-strategy-yet-executes-syrian-troop
s-224410776.html





Our Community Agitator OF Chief has no idea what the fuck he's even doing. He's making this up as he goes along, and only acts when it's absolutely necessary. Or later. MUCH later.


FORE !!!


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Thursday, August 28, 2014 10:44 PM

JONGSSTRAW



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Thursday, August 28, 2014 10:54 PM

AURAPTOR

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" comprehensive plan ". Prolly has a blue ribbon panel to assemble. Strategize for 6-18 months, and then he'll ignore their recommendation. Just like he did w/ his jobs panel.


What an incompetent jack ass.

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Thursday, August 28, 2014 11:33 PM

ELVISCHRIST





Where's Congress's plan?


Aren't they empowered to declare war, or was that just something they used to do back in the quaint olden days?

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Friday, August 29, 2014 3:16 AM

SHINYGOODGUY


Yeah, sure...........nudge, nudge - wink, wink!

Ahhhhh, Bush. So many memories of great leadership. Say, here's one I remember about Bush and golf.........

"Now watch this drive"

Made famous by Michael Moore's documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, this scene from 2002 of Bush following up a screed against "terrorist killers" with a golf swing spelled disaster for his reputation. Really, Mr. President? Suicide bombings in Israel and you're showing off your form?

Our 43rd President was the first whose gaffes were almost entirely catelogued on YouTube. TIME looks back at the best.

Ahhhh, memories............how quickly, and conveniently, they forget.


SGG

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


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