The next episode of 'Hypocrisy in the White House'
Another amusing story from the Telegraph.
Do you remember that lazy-ass president who used to play golf all the time? I think his name was George W. Bush. Well, it turned out that President Bush played golf a whopping 24 times while in office. For those who aren’t the best at math, that means that the great liberator played golf three times per year on average. Seriously, what kind of slacker devotes 12 hours a year to a relaxing game?
This is completely different, however, from Barack Obama’s latest antics. Obama has been in office for 15 months now, and has hit the golf course 32 times. With only a little over year in the White House, the President has whacked around more balls than Barney Frank and filled more holes than John Edwards. Do I care? No not at all. I don’t care if the President wants to play golf, squash, or even run over chickens. What I don’t have time for is the hypocrisy of the first chain-smoking, coke-sniffing, alcoholic, ‘post-racial,’ one-term, African American President, once again setting a different set of standard for himself than he does for the rest of the world.
Congratulations Mr. President on taking a page right out of the leftist manifesto!
Tags: Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Golf, Hypocrisy, Telegraph
April 20th, 2010 at 8:19 pm
“With only a little over year in the White House, the President has whacked around more balls than Barney Frank and filled more holes than John Edwards.”
This is wrong on so many levels….I LOVE IT!!!
April 21st, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Didn’t golf used to be a white man’s game? Those were the days…
April 21st, 2010 at 5:03 pm
Haha Nigel – so B. Hussein Obama should be allowed to play 9 holes then? (You know, half a game…because he’s half-whi…oh never mind.)
April 21st, 2010 at 7:37 pm
Thing about Bush though was he said he was going to stop playing golf for the troops (like that is an equal sacrifice some how.)
AP:
US President George W. Bush said in an interview out Tuesday that he quit playing golf in 2003 out of respect for the families of US soldiers killed in the conflict in Iraq, now in its sixth year.
from Politico interview:
“I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf,” he said. “I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.”
Giving up golf for the troops wasnt even his idea:
“I remember when de Mello, who was at the U.N., got killed in Baghdad as a result of these murderers taking this good man’s life,” he said. “I was playing golf — I think I was in central Texas — and they pulled me off the golf course and I said, ‘It’s just not worth it anymore to do.’“
de Mello was killed in August of 2003, and amidst his ‘sacrifice’ to give up golf, Bush was later seen in a photograph from the AP – dated October 13, 2003 – playing a round. Two months after he said he supposedly said “It’s just not worth it anymore to do.”
April 21st, 2010 at 7:39 pm
Noted that the Politico interview was from May of 2008.
April 21st, 2010 at 9:18 pm
i’m thinking of getting the famous “miss me yet” picture put on a t-shirt. lemme know if you guys would want to sell that one.
April 22nd, 2010 at 1:08 am
Matt:
The Great Liberator didn’t equate giving up golf with the sacrifice made by soldiers. He said he thought it was tasteless to play golf while at war.
As your comment said:
from Politico interview:
“I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf,” he said. “I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.”
Alex:
When can we get some of those great shirts?
April 30th, 2010 at 6:59 pm
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