Mon Jun 18, 2012, 11:57 AM
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 USA Today headline: Obama plays 100th round of golf as president (Original post) |
WI_DEM | Jun 2012 | OP |
| democrat_patriot | Jun 2012 | #1 | |
| democrat_patriot | Jun 2012 | #5 | |
| sofa king | Jun 2012 | #21 | |
| Liberal_Stalwart71 | Jun 2012 | #36 | |
| Blanks | Jun 2012 | #2 | |
| Fawke Em | Jun 2012 | #3 | |
| goclark | Jun 2012 | #48 | |
| jillan | Jun 2012 | #4 | |
| democrat_patriot | Jun 2012 | #6 | |
| Drale | Jun 2012 | #11 | |
| ProudToBeBlueInRhody | Jun 2012 | #49 | |
| treestar | Jun 2012 | #7 | |
| FSogol | Jun 2012 | #10 | |
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| Liberal_Stalwart71 | Jun 2012 | #9 | |
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| Liberal_Stalwart71 | Jun 2012 | #28 | |
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| danadevin85 | Jun 2012 | #15 | |
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| Liberal_Stalwart71 | Jun 2012 | #29 | |
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| Liberal_Stalwart71 | Jun 2012 | #34 | |
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Response to WI_DEM (Original post)
Mon Jun 18, 2012, 12:03 PM
1. How mnay have other Presidients had?
Response to WI_DEM (Original post)
Mon Jun 18, 2012, 12:04 PM
Blanks (4,744 posts)
2. You'd think that would endear the George H. W. Bush supporters to him.
Response to WI_DEM (Original post)
Mon Jun 18, 2012, 12:04 PM
3. Can USA Today tell me how many brush piles Dubya
Response to Fawke Em (Reply #3)
Mon Jun 18, 2012, 03:29 PM
48. Tell us too - how many times Bush was drunk
Response to WI_DEM (Original post)
Mon Jun 18, 2012, 12:04 PM
4. Did they keep track how many times W played golf - or how many times he went for a bike ride? Or
Response to WI_DEM (Original post)
Mon Jun 18, 2012, 12:06 PM
treestar (72,287 posts)
7. that averages 25 per year
Response to treestar (Reply #7)
Mon Jun 18, 2012, 12:09 PM
10. Yeah, hardly a serve habit. Queue Romney stating that he won't play golf
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with tax dollars.
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Response to Liberal_Stalwart71 (Reply #9)
Mon Jun 18, 2012, 12:13 PM
12. Is this serious or snark?
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If this is snark, I get it. If it's serious, then
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Response to Liberal_Stalwart71 (Reply #28)
Mon Jun 18, 2012, 01:34 PM
41. I disagree
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but you're entitled to your opinion, of course.
The corporate media and the Republicans have applied a double standard to EVERYTHING President Obama has done since day one and there is literally NOTHING that he has done, will do, etc. that the Republicans will not criticize him for and/or politicize. As far as Presidential recreation, I think that we can agree that Bush's was excessive but I don't see how anybody can make the same case for President Obama failing to do his job and enjoying too much R & R- unless you think Presidents should just be chained to the desk in the Oval Office 24-7-365 until things get "better enough" for everybody, despite the fact that the Republicans have obstructed just about everything that he has been trying to do since he was inaugurated. If Mitt Romney becomes POTUS, do you seriously think the corporate media is going to make a spectacle about $70K (tax deductions) for "dressage"? Yet President Obama playing 100 games of Golf over the course of 3 years as POTUS is newsworthy and/or excessive? |
Response to Liberal_Stalwart71 (Reply #55)
Mon Jun 18, 2012, 04:16 PM
59. The problem though
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is that EVERYTHING is fodder to the right-wing/corporate media. There is virtually NOTHING that he can do that won't be criticized in some way, shape, or form. Him having the nerve to run for and be elected POTUS is bad enough for the right-wing Republicans. So nothing short of abdicating his office and refusing to run for re-election will EVER satisfy the right-wing/corporate media. Do you think that President Obama is just voluntarily GIVING the right-wing/corporate media all kinds of fodder to attack him with?
 It *almost* sounds like you are suggesting that President Obama is causing a lot of his own grief just by engaging in occasional recreational activities that other modern Presidents have been able to do without being questioned, not like this, anyway.
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Response to Liberal_Stalwart71 (Reply #9)
Mon Jun 18, 2012, 12:21 PM
15. White Presidents played golf and no one complained
Response to danadevin85 (Reply #15)
Mon Jun 18, 2012, 12:28 PM
19. Yes, no one complained when white presidents played golf... now watch this drive. n/t
Response to RZM (Reply #20)
Mon Jun 18, 2012, 12:34 PM
26. that wasn't the reason and i think you know that
Response to trumad (Reply #17)
Mon Jun 18, 2012, 12:56 PM
38. That's your opinion. I've seen you write some stupid shit yourself, so we're even.
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Response to Liberal_Stalwart71 (Reply #30)
Mon Jun 18, 2012, 03:16 PM
46. I don't find any eloquence at all
Response to Liberal_Stalwart71 (Reply #31)
Mon Jun 18, 2012, 01:47 PM
43. Is there anything else that you think President Obama should give up
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to make him "look better" in this political and economic environment?
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Response to WI_DEM (Original post)
Mon Jun 18, 2012, 12:16 PM
13. Meanwhile
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the Romneys get $70K deducted from their taxes for Horse "dressage".
Which are most people going to consider to be more "out of touch"? |
Response to WI_DEM (Original post)
Mon Jun 18, 2012, 12:19 PM
14. I beleive at last count W was at over 300 days on
Response to WI_DEM (Original post)
Mon Jun 18, 2012, 12:22 PM
16. Everyone needs an outlet to blow off steam and unwind.
Response to WI_DEM (Original post)
Mon Jun 18, 2012, 12:23 PM
lpbk2713 (35,303 posts)
18. I'm all for it.
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If it relaxes him and puts him at ease what can be bad about that?
He doesn't get wasted in order to relax like some I can think of ... 
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Response to WI_DEM (Original post)
Mon Jun 18, 2012, 12:48 PM
NightWatcher (35,988 posts)
33. But how long has he spent on the toilet?
Response to Liberal_Stalwart71 (Reply #34)
Mon Jun 18, 2012, 12:56 PM
37. At least if USAToday had run an article about how little Congress has been in session,
Response to Liberal_Stalwart71 (Reply #34)
Mon Jun 18, 2012, 01:44 PM
42. Easier to go after POTUS (I suppose)
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than 335 members of the House collectively (or at least the Republican majority of them) and the Republican obstructionists in the Senate. Or at least that's where the Republicans and the corporate media are choosing to focus- to deflect attention from Republican filibusters in the Senate and the House Republicans anemic work schedule. Maybe what we should do- instead of joining in on the Republican/corporate media pile-on over trivial matters such as how many games of golf President Obama has played since becoming POTUS (something that never used to be a big deal with any modern POTUS)- is to remind people that President Obama has done lots of things since he was inaugurated and is fully engaged with doing his day-to-day job as POTUS and that Republicans in the Senate are basically swatting down anything that President Obama proposes and/or anything the Dems try to do a vote on that doesn't command their full support (which isn't much nowadays) and that the House is barely in session at all since the Republicans took over in 2011?
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Response to Liberal_Stalwart71 (Reply #34)
Mon Jun 18, 2012, 03:27 PM
47. USA Today's editorials have been quite critical of Congress
Response to WI_DEM (Original post)
Mon Jun 18, 2012, 01:52 PM
ellie (6,292 posts)
45. Why shouldn't he?
Response to WI_DEM (Original post)
Mon Jun 18, 2012, 03:34 PM
52. So, what's his handicap?
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Besides the repuke Congress, I mean.
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Response to WI_DEM (Original post)
Mon Jun 18, 2012, 03:39 PM
53. I've played about 20 rounds of Golf since Obama took office.
Response to WI_DEM (Original post)
Mon Jun 18, 2012, 05:53 PM
62. Tomorrow's USA Today headline: Obama takes a nap on every 3rd Saturday
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For his 42nd nap, President Obama fell asleep in his Barcalounger after watching more than an hour of the most boring round of golf played in the 112 years of the U.S. Open.
Will Liberals turn out to vote for a President that has taken that many naps during his first term in office? Historically, naps have only been taken by Republican Presidents like President William Howard "Sertasleeper" Taft. But more recently, President George W. Bush simply sleptwalked through the entire 8 years that he was in the White House. However, is this a new trend that will be adopted by Democrat Presidents? Will Liberals reward President Obama with a 2nd term for lying down on the job during his 1st term? 
"They got nothing!" |
