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Home Front: Politix
Champ admits golfing cock up following Folley beheading.
2014-09-08
[Daily Caller] President Obama admitted on Sunday that he "should've anticipated the optics" of golfing just minutes after a sober statement on the brutal beheading of American journalist James Foley by ISIS, noting that "part of this job is also the theater of it."
Showing respect would have amounted to theater? Well in that case, thanks for being honest.
Obama sat down Sunday with NBC's new "Meet The Press" host Chuck Todd for a wide-ranging interview that touched on immigration, ISIS and other White House challenges. But Todd made sure to ask about that golf game, a moment that even supporters of the president admitted made him look tone deaf and disengaged.
Sorry, no picking this one up from the clean end. It's not simply the look, it's reality.
Posted by:Besoeker

#14  be = being

spell check yourself BR!
Posted by: BrerRabbit   2014-09-08 18:49  

#13  Theater? Like ..."Springtime for Barack"

He was sorry for how people took him seriously not be serious.
Posted by: BrerRabbit   2014-09-08 18:48  

#12  He called a Foley on the dawg leg12th and played from the neck. Then declared Body Line and went home victorious with the skate of honor.
Posted by: Shipman   2014-09-08 16:30  

#11  He's just running out the clock [attempting to not do stupid shi*]. Don't look for any aggressive passing game. Unfortunately, this strategy appears to have begun at the beginning of his second term.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-09-08 15:29  

#10  Nor did the economy...
Posted by: Pappy   2014-09-08 15:22  

#9  I think someone pointed out that his poll numbers didn't go away while he golfed.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2014-09-08 14:53  

#8  "That Foley thing totally distracted my game that day"
Posted by: Frank G   2014-09-08 13:37  

#7  He is only saying this because people complained and ruined his golf fun.
Posted by: DarthVader   2014-09-08 11:43  

#6  He didn't study at the feet of Rev. Jeremiah Wright all those years for nothing.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2014-09-08 11:24  

#5  "part of this job is also the theater of it"

And the foam Grecian columns behind the the "secular preacher" were just a warm-up...
Posted by: Pappy   2014-09-08 11:17  

#4  
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-09-08 09:57  

#3  Optics? Theater of a beheading? Can these imbeciles not speak English? What a moron.
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-09-08 09:26  

#2  So the memo from POTUS goes out: "No more official events less than two hours from tee time."
Posted by: ed in texas   2014-09-08 07:36  

#1  Smartest man in the room, indeed!
Posted by: Bobby   2014-09-08 07:30  

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