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October 26, 2009
President Obama Takes Decisive Action on Afghanistan and Deficit Reduction
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at October 26, 2009 8:18 AM
Just kidding. Actually, while Americans were dying in Afghanistan and Iran was weaseling out of his nuclear deal, PBO he went out this weekend and played golf again. (Will Michael Moore make a snarky reference to Obama playing golf in a time of crisis in some future film highly critical of the leftist Democrat president? Magic 8 Ball says, "Don't Bet On it.")
But this golf game was remarkable for two reasons. First, as two of Moonbattery's clever and handsome regulars (SK and Ted) have noted, this game ties Obama with GW Bush for the number of golf games played in office. The progressive left thought Bush playing golf or vacationing was a telling indicator of his laziness and indifference to national concerns. In contrast, when PBO golfs or jets off to Martha's Vineyard, the progressive left treats as a well-earned break from a hard-working president. Whatever.
Second, this golf game demonstrates PBO taking decisive action in response to a serious national issue. PBO has dithered over sending reinforcements to/retreating from Afghanistan (where 14 more Americans died this weekend and whose president is questioning whether the USA is a reliable ally), and he has been completely deaf to criticism from the right about his massive deficits and expansion of government. But when feminists criticize him for not having enough girls in his scrimmages and golf outings, he snaps right into line.
President Obama was criticized by women’s advocates and liberal bloggers for hosting a high-level basketball game with no female players... The debate about the all-male game has become a nagging concern for a White House that has battled an impression dating to the campaign that Obama’s closest advisers form a boys’ club and that he is too frequently in the company of only men - not just when playing sports, but when making big decisions.
So, for his latest golf outing, he made sure he invited a woman, and made sure news cameras were there to see it.
What has America done to earn leadership such as this?
