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Obama MORE INTERESTED in GOLF than GOVERNING!!

07/22/2011

Of late, President Obama has been imploring lawmakers to embrace "shared sacrifice" to help break the stalemate over the debt impasse while lecturing, "We might as well do it now - pull off the Band-Aid, eat our peas."

But where's the sacrifice from the President? While the rest of America is pinching its pennies, Obama is poised to jet off to a lavish 50th-birthday celebration in Chicago that will double as a fund-raiser for his reelection. This party will take place the day after Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's arbitrary Aug. 2 debt ceiling deadline. The cost to attend the bash? As much as $35,800 a couple.

Then, later next month, he'll head to the same palatial 28-acre estate he rented last year on posh Martha's Vineyard for a family vacation while most Americans are opting to stay home and save money.

Everyone deserves a vacation. Especially the President. But does he deserve such a lavish trip when he's doing such a poor job? To his credit, he canceled a fund-raiser/vacation in Montana this summer. But that was simply smart politics when the nation's economy is sputtering and a debate over what to do about the national debt shows no sign of resolution.

According to Gallup, the President's approval rating stands at 42%. Rasmussen notes that 68% of responding voters feel the country is on the wrong track.

The excessive golfing likely doesn't help. Since taking office, Obama has played 75 rounds of golf. In comparison, Bush golfed 24 times as commander in chief.

Now, Obama is entitled to birdie and bogey, but not when he hasn't submitted a budget on time, which he didn't his first two years in office. And when it comes to the debt ceiling debacle, the President has yet to submit to a proposal of his own. While regular Americans suffer, the White House is leading from behind once again, reacting to Republican proposals without putting forth any of its own.

The country's housing market is in shambles. Gas prices are soaring, bringing food prices along for the ride, and unemployment is staggeringly high. The disconnect between Washington and Middle America is becoming ever greater, and the President appears more and more disconnected from our problems. Let them eat cake has turned into let them eat their peas.

But given that his campaign is predicated on the rhetoric of class warfare, Obama is a walking contradiction. He scolds the rich with one hand and lights their cigars with another. He slams corporate jet owners while accepting campaign cash from businessmen who fly in on corporate jets to give it to him. Among his closest economic advisers is Jeffrey Immelt, the head of General Electric. You can't get much more corporate than that. Eat the rich, and eat with the rich.

If Obama is unwilling to give up luxuries in his personal life, than he should forgo them in his policies. Union members, craven environmentalists and bureaucrats have feasted on our economy, potentially putting America's credit rating at increasing risk. Whether it's the auto bailout, the stimulus or a mythical green economy, everywhere there's evidence of lavish government programs that reward Obama's key constituencies at a time when tax breaks - an ideological no-no for the left - would do much more to help our economy.

So before his next getaway, Obama might want to take the time to practice what he preaches and have a little empathy for America. He could also show true leadership and cut back himself.

If not, we saw what happened in 2010. Voters tired of an inept Congress stormed the Bastille and wrecked the party at Versailles. When it comes to 2012, they'll be ready to do it again.

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Would you be complaining this much {{and in this eye sore of a color?}} if it was the republican party? I honestly don't think you would. Also, how do you know for sure with out a shadow of a doubt that the President has not made cut backs in his personal life? Stop reading the National Enquirer Magazine, that thing will rot your brain out.

[SoA|0 likes] [|reply]

the fact that obongo has played 75 rounds of golf over his term in office while this country and its economy is going down the drain (thanks to our president) gives me the clue that he has not made any personal cut backs. but again, another mindless liberal comes to my blog to make strawman arguments. i am not even bothered.

[Conservative Values|0 likes] [|reply]

I'm not commenting to bother you. I'm just saying that I find it rather odd that you think only President Obama is the one to be responsible for "allowing" the country & its economy to go down the drain. Why aren't you looking at congress? Why just center only on President Obama? Yes he has the power to veto what comes across his desk but he does not have the power to put whatever he wants into action. The House of Representatives or it may be the Senate {{it's been a while since my high school government class}} has the power to veto what he is trying to put through if they don't agree with. That goes for any President. So instead of calling out one member of the government, why don't you look at the whole thing?

[SoA|0 likes] [|reply]

Mostly that him and his family throw loads of parties and visit loads of places on vacation. And he golfs all the time. When Bush golfed (not near as much as Obama did - Obama golfed more in his first year than Bush did in atleast 4 years combined) he got called out on it by our mainstream media. Obama does not.

[American|0 likes] [|reply]

I still believe that he needs to stop calling out one President for something all the Presidents have done. Okay, so he golfs more. Maybe this time around the job is a little more stressful then it was for Bush. Hell, maybe the golf trips where business. I'm sorry but neither of us (me, CV, you, et cetera) where there and can't know for sure.

I will admit, President Bush had it pretty hard because a lot of people were saying that he only got the Presidency because of his dad. That's got to be really hard to swallow, for anyone. But the call outs on Obama seem a little extreme. For example, a lot of people called him out for smoking. Okay, yeah smoking is bad for you, but it wasn't pot. When y'all catch him smoking pot, then go crazy. Now it's the amount of golfing. Next people are going to be flipping out because he had two beers with dinner instead of one. It's getting a bit ridiculous.

[Professor Snape|0 likes] [|reply]

The problem is, everyone acted like it was a big deal when Bush went golfing instead of being in the White House, and no one is doing so with Obama.

You don't think a terrorist attack like 9/11 during your first year in office is stressful? Come, now, be serious.

People attacked Bush for many reasons - many of which those same people are not attacking Obama for that he has done himself. I'm just pointing the hypocrisy of it all. Do I care that he golfs? Not if he does his job. But because I don't feel like he is adequately doing his job, I don't like that he golfs so much, or sends his family on vacations all the time, or goes himself. We're in a money crisis like no other president has ever had before, according to him, so he should be tightening his belt like no president ever has before.

Let me be clear: I don't agree with him using taxpayer money to do these things. If he wants to use his own personal stash that he had before he became Senator and then President, fine. But not on my, or any other American's, money.

[American|0 likes] [|reply]

I did not say that the attack was not stress for at all.

I will say though, I felt saver the day following the election when Obama won.

I don't doubt there is hypocrisy in Government & the Media. There is hypocrisy in everything.

You have a point. Said trips & such should not be coming out of our pockets but his own. I will agree with you on that. And seeing as we aren't in a depression, I doubt this is as bad as he's making it out to be. But that could just be me

[Professor Snape|0 likes] [|reply]

Whoops that should say stressful not stress for

[Professor Snape|0 likes] [|reply]

I caught that. Hah. And I like your comment pic. Snape was one of my favorite Harry Potter character.

[American|0 likes] [|reply]

*characters.

[American|0 likes] [|reply]

book wise i wasn't a fan but when i saw alan rickman playing him...i fell in love with severus snape LOL

[Professor Snape|0 likes] [|reply]

Yes, Alan Rickman did a wonderful job. I'm the same: in book, not so. Movie, yes.

[American|0 likes] [|reply]

Hello friend.

Did you personally count how many times Obama has been golfing? That's really lame. How do you know it's 75 times? I'm going to ignore everything else you said because it's all a bunch of crap.

[Unauthorized|0 likes] [|reply]

Agreed, he should link it.

Obama ties Bush in golfing in just 9 months:
http://www.politico.com/click/stories/0910/obama_ties_bush_on_golf.html

This one says more than 70 rounds (as of June 11, 2011):
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/weekinreview/12golf.html

[American|0 likes] [|reply]

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