The Golfing President

I love to golf, but I haven't swung my clubs for quite a while. An injury to my back and neck has kept me away from the links now that I have some time, and a lack of time while I was driving a Sand and Gravel big rig kept me away from golf courses during the last half dozen years. Before that, I played quite a bit.

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The game of golf is among the greatest games ever invented. It gives the player the ability to play solo, or in a group. The competition ranges from being against other players, against the course, and against oneself in the sense of past scores. While playing the game you relax, yet exercise, while having the option to ride in a cart, or walk, and all the while also maintaining the option to have a smoke if you do that kind of thing, and sip on whatever drink you desire, including an alcoholic beverage. A beer, a cigarette or cigar, the open air, the greenery around you, and a leisurely competition against your friends? A game anyone could love. But, as much as I love golf, my playing time was regulated by a number of factors, including ability to pay, ability to make the time, and my current challenge, the ability to physically manage playing the game. I also juggled playing time with other things, such as time with my kids, my wife, and the priority of life events. Sometimes, as much as I like to play, it wasn't the right thing to do to go play a game of golf. I didn't interrupt a game of golf to squeeze in the funeral service of my father. I never played golf on, or around, my wedding anniversary. I kept the courses small and inexpensive, or did not play at all, when money was an issue. Sometimes, there are priorities more important than a game of golf.

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President Barack Hussein Obama seems to be unable to limit his impulse to golf, somehow finding a way of placing the game above any other consideration, outside perhaps a run to a burger place as taxpayers pay for the secret service accompanying him, attending a fund raiser with a lot of socialist rich and ruling elite friends he's made along the way to his current position as White House resident, participating in vacation time outside of time on the links, and the duck and weave I believe he has to perform every time he upsets his significant other. . . Michelle Obama. I supposed if I had a wife like that brute, I'd want to be on the golf course as much as possible, too. During the Iraq War, George W. Bush was criticized for his few games of golf, so out of respect to the American People, and understanding the significance of the image he was portraying when he was on a golf course during trying times in American history, Dubya stopped playing. Barack Obama hasn't gotten the message, and he is now even being criticized for his golf habit by media outlets that normally do whatever they can to defend the liberal left champion of the Democrat Party. An article in the New York Times begins:

"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."

The President's statement regarding the slaying of James Foley was followed by his rapid departure, not giving reporters a chance to ask questions, so that Obama could hurry off to his tee time at Vineyard Golf Club with Alonzo Mourning and a part-owner of the Boston Celtics. The NYTimes writer added, in Obama's voice, "Hillary and I agreed when we partied with Vernon Jordan up here, hanging out with celebrities and rich folks is fun." ISIS is rampaging through the Middle East, beheading an American journalist along the way, threatening to do it again, and promising "direct confrontation" with the United States. Ferguson, Missouri is burning under the fires of riots and racial division. Ebola is spreading rapidly through western Africa. Putin is mocking the weakness of Obama as Russia conducts a deceptive invasion of Ukraine. Hamas is pounding Israel with rockets as the Jewish State stands alone against an enemy that surrounds them, and a worldwide opinion that sounds nearly as anti-Semitic as the rhetoric that came out of Nazi Germany. The family of beheaded journalist James Foley remains in mourning as the Obama White House announces they failed miserably on a mission to rescue the hostages in Syria. War is raging in the Middle East, and an Army General was murdered by a "friendly" in Afghanistan at a security force training facility. The federal government has instead launched a war against the United States Constitution, with a Justice Department and a number of agencies targeting anyone who dares to oppose the Obama agenda, while backing off of anyone, or any group, considered to be allies with Obama. Anger rages, tyranny is spreading, and the world is burning. Barack Obama knows these things, but right now all he cares about is if he is going to sink his next putt. Maureen Dowd: In Golf We Trust - New York Times

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