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Sanity -> Presidential Golfing Double Standard (8/8/2014 11:50:30 AM)


I love to golf, and its fine with me that presidents play the game

Whats interesting though, is the game that leftists play with presidents' golf habits... Which is why I love poking fun at our current duffer-in-chief and his golfing obsession

The following article, though a bit dated (from April of 2010), takes a shot at explaining the blatant double standard presented by the propaganda arm of the DNC:

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The Media's Golf Double Standard

The president has gone golfing more than he’s met the press. Had Bush tried that, he’d have been clubbed by the media. Mark McKinnon on Washington’s 18-hole hypocrisy.

News flash: President Obama hasn’t held a formal press conference in almost a year (274 days and counting) yet has golfed 32 times since he was elected—eight more times than President George W. Bush did during his entire presidency...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/04/21/the-medias-double-standard-on-presidential-golf.html


Obama has golfed almost 200 days now... [;)]

[image]http://danieljmitchell.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/obama-golf.jpg[/image]



Musicmystery -> RE: Presidential Golfing Double Standard (8/8/2014 11:55:10 AM)

He's *already* met the press more times than Nixon, Ford, or Reagan, and he needs only 9 more in the next two years to pass W.

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/newsconferences.php



mnottertail -> RE: Presidential Golfing Double Standard (8/8/2014 11:58:25 AM)

Eisenhower 800 rounds, Dubyah has more time flying to and from his vacations in Crawford than Obama has vacation and golf combined, the rightists are shitting their pants as usual.



Musicmystery -> RE: Presidential Golfing Double Standard (8/8/2014 12:01:10 PM)

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Since Taft, Republican presidents have openly and publicly played golf.

Teddy Roosevelt played too, but not publicly.

http://www.thegolfballfactory.com/the-golf-course/hole18/President-Taft-the-first-golfing-president.htm




MrRodgers -> RE: Presidential Golfing Double Standard (8/8/2014 12:14:48 PM)

Nothing to see here, just...more partisan swill.



Sanity -> RE: Presidential Golfing Double Standard (8/8/2014 12:31:03 PM)

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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers

Nothing to see here, just...more partisan swill.


News flash - If you disprove of people discussing politics, you are in the wrong place [;)]






thompsonx -> RE: Presidential Golfing Double Standard (8/8/2014 12:39:23 PM)


ORIGINAL: Sanity


News flash - If you disprove of discussing politics, you are in the wrong forums [;)]




Since when did bashing constitute discussion?
You have never had a political discussion on this board in your nearly 18,000 posts.



subrosaDom -> RE: Presidential Golfing Double Standard (8/8/2014 12:45:59 PM)


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ORIGINAL: thompsonx


ORIGINAL: Sanity


News flash - If you disprove of discussing politics, you are in the wrong forums [;)]




Since when did bashing constitute discussion?
You have never had a political discussion on this board in your nearly 18,000 posts.



It's very simple. Lacking Nero's fiddle, he has his golf clubs. Even the Secret Service reports he is insufferable, entitled, narcissistic, detached, and the like. He has no sense of propriety or manners. He golfs in the middle of crises where other Presidents would have been crucified by the media for doing the same. That's what happens when 95% of the media are lapdog leftists, incurious, incapable of critical thinking. You get sheep. No question Obama wins the sheep vote. Too bad for the progeny, the lambs. We all know where they (the remaining thinking population) ends up.



Musicmystery -> RE: Presidential Golfing Double Standard (8/8/2014 12:51:05 PM)

He could always take naps, like Reagan.



dcnovice -> RE: Presidential Golfing Double Standard (8/8/2014 12:57:54 PM)

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Even the Secret Service reports he is insufferable, entitled, narcissistic, detached, and the like.

Link please?



dcnovice -> RE: Presidential Golfing Double Standard (8/8/2014 1:02:46 PM)

FR

Two thoughts:

(1) The OP appears more focused on Obama's golf than the President himself.

(2) When Eisenhower, another avid golfer and no stranger to effective leadership, took office, he shelved his predecessor's practice of working the residence after dinner. He explained to chief usher J.B. West that he believed one worked more effectively by focusing on the job during set hours, then taking time to unwind.



mnottertail -> RE: Presidential Golfing Double Standard (8/8/2014 1:07:53 PM)


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ORIGINAL: subrosaDom


quote:

ORIGINAL: thompsonx


ORIGINAL: Sanity


News flash - If you disprove of discussing politics, you are in the wrong forums [;)]




Since when did bashing constitute discussion?
You have never had a political discussion on this board in your nearly 18,000 posts.



It's very simple. Lacking Nero's fiddle, he has his golf clubs. Even the Secret Service reports he is insufferable, entitled, narcissistic, detached, and the like. He has no sense of propriety or manners. He golfs in the middle of crises where other Presidents would have been crucified by the media for doing the same. That's what happens when 95% of the media are lapdog leftists, incurious, incapable of critical thinking. You get sheep. No question Obama wins the sheep vote. Too bad for the progeny, the lambs. We all know where they (the remaining thinking population) ends up.



Ja, jack that fuckin dick somewheres else, Eisenhower golfed thru the Korean War, and W fucked the dog and sold the pups in Crawford during Iraq. Hell, he even took more time off than Reagan.




BamaD -> RE: Presidential Golfing Double Standard (8/8/2014 1:17:48 PM)


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ORIGINAL: dcnovice

FR

Two thoughts:

(1) The OP appears more focused on Obama's golf than the President himself.

(2) When Eisenhower, another avid golfer and no stranger to effective leadership, took office, he shelved his predecessor's practice of working the residence after dinner. He explained to chief usher J.B. West that he believed one worked more effectively by focusing on the job during set hours, then taking time to unwind.

So it is Eisenhower's fault?



MrRodgers -> RE: Presidential Golfing Double Standard (8/8/2014 1:18:22 PM)

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ORIGINAL: subrosaDom


quote:

ORIGINAL: thompsonx


ORIGINAL: Sanity


News flash - If you disprove of discussing politics, you are in the wrong forums [;)]




Since when did bashing constitute discussion?
You have never had a political discussion on this board in your nearly 18,000 posts.



It's very simple. Lacking Nero's fiddle, he has his golf clubs. Even the Secret Service reports he is insufferable, entitled, narcissistic, detached, and the like. He has no sense of propriety or manners. He golfs in the middle of crises where other Presidents would have been crucified by the media for doing the same. That's what happens when 95% of the media are lapdog leftists, incurious, incapable of critical thinking. You get sheep. No question Obama wins the sheep vote. Too bad for the progeny, the lambs. We all know where they (the remaining thinking population) ends up.

More unmitigated partisan bullshit. W was the most, ignorant, pompous, arrogant asshole to ever reside in the WH. He strutted like was as entitled to all of the trappings as he was when he avoided doing anything in the Tex. AirNG.

Repub presidents are THE TEFLON do-nothing-wrong incompetents that sit in a Florida school classroom for a photo op while our country was being attacked and then delay, resist and never agreed to oath or any recording of any real testimony in front of a bullshit 9/11 commission designed to let his admin get clean away either with 9/11 or the incompetence that allowed it to happen.

Then proceeded to allow wall street to defraud 1000's out of billion$, destroy more jobs in 2 years than were created in the previous 6.

...and we are supposed to be upset about Obama's fucking golf and what the SS feels he's like ? Read about Palin, read the bankers about McCain...now there are some more repub winners. (sic)




dcnovice -> RE: Presidential Golfing Double Standard (8/8/2014 1:52:22 PM)

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So it is Eisenhower's fault?

What's the antecedent of "it" in your sentence? And who said anything about fault?

I brought up Eisenhower for two reasons:

(a) His perspective is a good reminder that quantity doesn't always mean quality in terms of one's work.

(b) His example suggests that regular breaks for exercise/recreation do not necessarily impede a leader's performance. Indeed, they may enhance it.



thompsonx -> RE: Presidential Golfing Double Standard (8/8/2014 2:15:54 PM)


ORIGINAL: subrosaDom

It's very simple. Lacking Nero's fiddle, he has his golf clubs. Even the Secret Service reports he is insufferable, entitled, narcissistic, detached, and the like. He has no sense of propriety or manners.

Do you have any validation for this ignorant unsubstantiated opinion? A selfie of the shit house wall you copied it off of does not count.



He golfs in the middle of crises where other Presidents would have been crucified by the media for doing the same.


The story is that grant whittled while the battle of shiloh raged...grant was a republicrat wasn't he?

That's what happens when 95% of the media are lapdog leftists, incurious, incapable of critical thinking.


Should you ever pull your head out of your ass and google up who the phoque owns what, you would not make such dumb ass statements.

You get sheep. No question Obama wins the sheep vote.


For those who have not taken sixth grade civics...the u.s. appoints presidents they are not elected...not even by sheep






Sanity -> RE: Presidential Golfing Double Standard (8/8/2014 2:21:54 PM)


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ORIGINAL: subrosaDom

It's very simple. Lacking Nero's fiddle, he has his golf clubs. Even the Secret Service reports he is insufferable, entitled, narcissistic, detached, and the like. He has no sense of propriety or manners. He golfs in the middle of crises where other Presidents would have been crucified by the media for doing the same. That's what happens when 95% of the media are lapdog leftists, incurious, incapable of critical thinking. You get sheep. No question Obama wins the sheep vote. Too bad for the progeny, the lambs. We all know where they (the remaining thinking population) ends up.


This president has driven his approval numbers from the gutter, into the sewer.

Just imagine how low they would go if his "lapdog leftist media" relentlessly attacked him as they did W :

quote:


America's Fed Up: Obama Approval Rating Hits All-Time Low, Poll Shows

"The public seems have moved beyond the plaintive cry of ‘Feel our pain!’ to the more angry pronouncement of ‘You are causing our pain!’"



mnottertail -> RE: Presidential Golfing Double Standard (8/8/2014 2:24:13 PM)

Yeah, if the lapdog rightist media attacked W like they did Obama, Ws approval ratings would still be lower than Obamas are.



Musicmystery -> RE: Presidential Golfing Double Standard (8/8/2014 2:52:01 PM)

http://www.click2houston.com/news/Politics/worst-approval-ratings-of-modern-presidents/27333510

Both Bushes had lows in the 20s. Reagan hit 35. Obama is in the 40s.

[8|]



DomKen -> RE: Presidential Golfing Double Standard (8/8/2014 4:23:47 PM)

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ORIGINAL: subrosaDom


quote:

ORIGINAL: thompsonx


ORIGINAL: Sanity


News flash - If you disprove of discussing politics, you are in the wrong forums [;)]




Since when did bashing constitute discussion?
You have never had a political discussion on this board in your nearly 18,000 posts.



It's very simple. Lacking Nero's fiddle, he has his golf clubs. Even the Secret Service reports he is insufferable, entitled, narcissistic, detached, and the like. He has no sense of propriety or manners. He golfs in the middle of crises where other Presidents would have been crucified by the media for doing the same. That's what happens when 95% of the media are lapdog leftists, incurious, incapable of critical thinking. You get sheep. No question Obama wins the sheep vote. Too bad for the progeny, the lambs. We all know where they (the remaining thinking population) ends up.

Really? The Secret service reports that? Please link these reports.
No Protective Division agent has ever publicly discussed his protectee, ever.



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