This Ridiculous Outrage Over President Obama Golfing Has Got to Stop ****BOG POST****

[sheshe2]

Everyone, you’re going to have to excuse me for a moment, because I really need to vent. This ongoing “outrage” over the fact that President Obama likes to go golfing has gotten absolutely absurd.

First, let’s get a few facts out of the way. To this date President Obama has taken around 125 vacation days since he took office in January 2009. Considering we’re just about at the three-quarter point of 2014, that comes out to just slightly more than 22 days per year. If he keeps this current pace, by the time his second term is over, he will have taken a total of around 182 vacation days in eight years.

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Though let’s be honest, the President of the United States is never on vacation. It’s a 24/7, 365.242 day a year job. But lately another wrinkle has been added. People see President Obama golfing as the “world spirals into chaos.” It’s been a common talking point on Fox News that Obama is the “Golfer in Chief.”

Oh, please. Here’s a fun fact: Presidents of the United States are honest to God human beings. I don’t care what position they might hold, they’re people.

- See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/ridiculous-outrage-president-obama-golfing-got-stop/#sthash.silhS5Pv.dpuf

He has aged years...







I too would age with this hatred...

Barack Obama called N-word in New York newspaper headline



A New York newspaper has apologised after it referred to US President Barack Obama as a “n*****” in one of its headlines.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/obama-called-nword-in-new-york-newspaper-headline-9589558.html

Me...yup I support this President. Best ever. I know so many weep and wail. That's your sad.

I have his back and I will continue too.

[Thinkingabout]

1. Ya see, if he was mountain biking, those days would not count as vacation days.

On a serious note, after his schedule was revealed after the death of bin Laden it seems like his hardest decisions occurs around his "pleasure" moments. He is Cool Hand Luke at the height of action.

[MADem]

51. Or "cuttin' brush at the ... 'ranch' ..." nt

[handmade34]

2. "Me...yup I support this President"

Yup...me too!!

the irrational, immature outrage is beyond anything reasonable

I am so angry and tired of ALL the hate and disparagement directed at my President (right and left both)

[sheshe2]

3. Oh yes...

you covered it all handmade34!

[VanillaRhapsody]

4. Fauxrage over a golf game on his vacation?

[muntrv]

26. Now watch this drive.

[jimlup]

5. I feel and concur with your frustration

Somehow they didn't fucking bother to notice when G. W. did it to much much more of an extreme. It pisses me off a lot that the right wing media can get away with this shit and not be called to account for its raw partisanship or worse.

[regnaD kciN]

9. "Now, watch this drive!"

[BlancheSplanchnik]

24. I agree. definitely. n/t

[SummerSnow]

6. oh wow...

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9gn6KLa5xtY/SCsGp8OwEcI/AAAAAAAABss/SOdxUqZn34A/s400/BushGolf


http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H8biDlXWDow/TWJmm-Kob-I/AAAAAAAAAkA/YwxgmNw7QX8/s1600/JFK+golf.jpg
?ver=1400639849&aspectratio=0.66230366492147







hmm...must be a Presidential requirement to play golf..lol

[RoccoR5955]

7. Where were they when the last president

was ALWAYS on vacation?
He could have cut all the brush in Texass in the time he was on "vacation!"

[IrishAyes]

27. I think a lot of those Texas trips were to get Dubya out of the public eye so much

when he was tippling.

[regnaD kciN]

8. How many presidents have spent lots of time on the links with zero outrage…?

And why do I get the feeling it's a Big Deal now because, for a lot of these people, "his kind" should only be allowed at golf courses as caddies?

[sheshe2]

10. Interesting point, regnaD kciN.

[cheapdate]

11. On NPR today they did their weekly rundown of the news

with media figures supposedly representing "liberal" and "conservative" perspectives. The "conservative" speaker brought up this vacation bullshit. It's unreal.

I'm very thankful for this president's leadership in most every way.

Talking about the fact that he took (or tried to take) a vacation this summer is as meaningful as talking about German chancellor Angel Merkel's hair style.

[sheshe2]

13. NPR has become a right wing station.

That is so sad, they use to make a difference.

[cheapdate]

14. I wouldn't go quite that far.

They still feature interesting, enlightening, and in-depth stories on societal issues. Hell, you could say that since Mara Liasson left a few years ago that they've become less right-wing.

[SoapBox]

20. I stopped listening and donating, several years ago.

Couldn't listen to Steve Inskeep anymore.

[hopemountain]

38. seems their news people take every opportunity to

down talk the president. the arrogance of news casters inserting their personal opinions and political slant into every report on the actions of the president is not news journalism. i seldom if every listen to them anymore and i sure as heck no longer donate.

[Politicalboi]

12. Bush took over 900 days of vacation

That's 2 1/2 years. Although his whole term was a vacation while Poppy, The Dick and Condi did all the work.

[toddwv]

34. Yeah, but those were "working" vacations.

Whereas President Obama probably just sits around watching TV while the red phone rings...

/sarcasm

[Cha]

15. It's a Dick Cheney move to whine about the President finally getting some golf in on his

actual much earned vacation, she. Thank you for your OP.. I've seen rumblings about this and it pisses me off as it does Allen Clifton the writer of this piece.. who is from the Dallas Ft Worth area in Texas.

Cheney: President Obama Would 'Rather Be On The Golf Course' Than The Situation Room

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=876470

Five myths about presidential vacations

3. George W. Bush took more vacation days than any other president.

During his eight-year presidency, Bush did take 879 days of vacation, including 77 trips to his Texas ranch. So far, Obama has taken about 150 days off. But our founders were away even more.

And, Dick head knows this..

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-presidential-vacations/2014/08/15/2aa969c6-2311-11e4-958c-268a320a60ce_story.html

Have to mention the a$$holes in Congress who did nothing all year and are now on a 5 week vaca with pay while they won't raise the Minimum Wage for actual hard working Americans.

And, glad they decided it was wrong to use that derogatory word in their headline even though it was exposing the racism in America against President Obama... from your link..

"The writer James Lincoln Collier penned an opinion piece for the July edition of WestView News, which was entitled: “The N***** in the White House”.

Despite the use of the racist slur, the column was actually a pro-Obama piece that suggested far-right opposition to the President was influenced by the colour of his skin.

Collier wrote: “These far right voters hate Obama because he is black. The simple truth is that there is still in America an irreducible measure of racism.”

Bottom Line.. from your 1st link..

"The last thing any American should want is a president who’s so stressed out that they’re on the verge of a psychotic breakdown. And the media, both the left and the right, really needs to stop this nonsense of shaming presidents every time they might dare take some kind of a vacation or – gasp – even play a round golf. -

My President who's hard at work even though he takes some time away to play golf and clear his head.



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[sheshe2]

16. You, Cha ...you are awesome in your righteous anger!

Thank you for all you posted. You said it better than I did.

Oh, please. Here’s a fun fact: Presidents of the United States are honest to God human beings. I don’t care what position they might hold, they’re people.

This President is a living breathing human being. He deserves respect. Period. End of Discussion.

and what you linked...

"The last thing any American should want is a president who’s so stressed out that they’re on the verge of a psychotic breakdown. And the media, both the left and the right, really needs to stop this nonsense of shaming presidents every time they might dare take some kind of a vacation or – gasp – even play a round golf. -

That is the truth!

BOG

[Cha]

23. "Oh, please. Here’s a fun fact: Presidents of the United States are honest to God human beings.

I don’t care what position they might hold, they’re people." Rofl, she.. I think I mentioned that at one point. about the President not being a robot.

Mahalo for your excellently timed OP on this ridiculously ignorant attack on the President and his much needed R&R, she~

[BlancheSplanchnik]

21. +++!! n/t

[Fred Sanders]

17. Freaky CNN has now hosted some freaky black woman, twice, from the Blaze site. To spew

incoherent garbage about Obama golfing "while the world burns."

Freaky CNN is so desperate for ratings they host people from Glenn Beck's racist and fascist site and hand her a megaphone to blast her verbal excrement into the medias sphere....I see a problem with that.

[Maedhros]

18. I think this is a helpful graphic:

http://www.mediaite.com/online/obama-has-logged-only-13-as-many-vacation-days-as-george-w-bush/

[SoapBox]

22. +100

[Iliyah]

19. He's ok and also the Democratic Party

[SoapBox]

25. More cooked up faux outrage

From the PukeBaggers.

How many days has Boner not worked and played golf?

[AnAzulTexas]

28. the red voting idiots

will find anything to drag this man over the coals.

there's plenty he's done to betray my trust, but taking a break from probably the shittiest job in the world deserves a break. I feel bad for him sometimes.

[littlemissmartypants]

29. OMGawd!

Wait until they find out when he has his next bowel movement.

We won't hear the end of their sh*tty comments.

That's all they have.

The good news is that anger is fear translated.

Assh*les beware. You are justified in your fear. The end is near for you and your stark raving insane cohorts.

Love, Peace and the Righteous Fight!
~ Lmsp 🙌

[Kath1]

40. Love your comment!

"Assh*les beware. You are justified in your fear. The end is near for you and your stark raving insane cohorts." - Yes, yes, yes!

Our ideals are winning and they are scared sh*tless!

[ErikJ]

30. All their fake scandals fizzled so this is all they got left, racist dog-whistles.

Its been proven that vacation days increase productivity anyway.

[Cha]

35. Good point about the fake scandals, EricJ.. And, it has been proven that R&R increases Productivity!

[cleduc]

31. Any good doctor would tell a person in a high stress job

that they must take some time away from it to decompress and relax. Doing so, helpds to maintain their health and benefits their mental & physical performance in that job.

People HAVE to have outlets like this to function properly and well.

The attacks are just from ignoramuses trying to score political points.

[LloydS of New London]

32. Amen

&R!

[kardonb]

33. BO

I LOVE this man ! He always thinks before he speaks , a rare quality in any one . He truly cares about all of us .

He has really faced a most awful time in World History ,nothing but strife , hatred , bigotry , and blatant racism . And what a truly wonderful family to love and support him

I will always have his back , and be deeply grateful for his sysiphian effort on behalf of our country , and world peace .

[handmade34]

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[ucrdem]

37. I have a hunch that maybe it wasn't unintentional.

Bushler golfs while the world burns; Obama golfs when the job is done, and by all accounts he did what he had to do in that speech. An instructive compare-and-contrast for those paying attention IOW.

[Kath1]

39. Right on!

I am so sick of that narrative. And the people who speak it know it is total BULLSHIT! Any US President has all the resources he needs close at hand hand, wherever he is.

If i had to put up with all the shit he takes every day from the Republican hate gang I'd probably be an alcoholic!

[sheshe2]

41. Thanks Kath1~

for the BOG

[Kath1]

42. If Romney had been elected....

we'd be dropping bombs on dark-skinned women and children right now.

I'd much rather have the President golfing than following the same old, tired, failed warmongering policies that have created this situation in the first place.

[sheshe2]

43. Yes and here is a gif that keeps on giving, Kath~

Hmmmm~



Thank Goddess for this President.

[Kath1]

44. Yes!

Thank Goddess we have a pro-choice and pro-peace President!!!!

[sheshe2]

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[Kath1]

46. Women made the diffence in 2008 and 2012.

Let's do it again!

[mimi85]

48. Not to nitpick, but

you're either an alcoholic or you're not. Guess that was nitpicking. Take it from one who knows first hand.

[Kath1]

49. No offense taken!

Peace...

I know what you mean.

[mimi85]

47. Hear, hear!

Ditto. I've been concerned about his health. Oh, I know he's healthy, but he looks so damn exhausted. Who wouldn't be? As we've said, he's a human being. An extraordinary one, but human nevertheless.

Damn, must get sleep, can't seem to turn the ole brain off tonight. Be well all you good people and enjoy what's left of the weekend.

[freshwest]

50. Less time off than his critics. He has promises to keep. And miles to go before he sleeps:

He will finish his race. Bless him and his family.

[sheshe2]

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