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March 06, 2011

Obama Goes Golfing

Drudge fires off a series of headlines:

Libya lurches close to full-blown civil war... UK 'to send team of spies' to help oust Gadhafi... British Army readies for mission at 24 hours' notice... Obama goes golfing...

It's his 60th gold outing. Pretty lucky of him to be elected president when everything was going swimmingly and he could just coast in caretaker mode.

Well, the mercury has crept back up above 60 degrees here in Washington, and so it’s time once again for President Obama to head out to the golf course.

This is the president’s 60th time golfing as president, meaning Obama has spent two months of his presidency on the golf course.

The rounds usually take about five hours, including motorcading back an forth to the course.

According to statistics compiled by CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller, who keeps close tabs on the president’s activities, Obama played 30 rounds in 2010, 28 rounds in 2009, and two this year, including today.

Bush, of course, gave up the game in 2003, deciding he could not explain to a dead soldier's parents why he was golfing during a period of war.

We're very lucky to have gotten such a cool dude for president.

One of the president's implicit powers is to decide when there is and isn't a crisis. If the president doesn't want to deal with genocide in Darfur, he just never talks about it. He behaves like it's not a crisis, and the weak-minded media goes along with that.

That's what Obama's doing here.

Wait, no it's not. Obama's just playing golf because he's never had a real job in his life and the presidency is no reason to give up his precious me-time.


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