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2014-09-11 -Short Attention Span Theater-
After Golf Snub, President Canceled Plans, Went Home
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Posted by Fred 2014-09-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 Couldn't they have let him play at midnight?
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418  2014-09-11 00:13||   2014-09-11 00:13|| Front Page Top

#2 From the news report:

The sources said the White House advance team was giving the clubs just a day or two notice to fill the president's open Saturday morning in New York. Of several courses contacted in New York and Connecticut, a spokesman for Fairview Country Club in Greenwich said it would have accommodated the president if he had asked. That was the only club that said it would... Labor Day weekend is one of the busiest times of year for golf courses, and with membership at some area clubs exceeding $100,000, many courses may not have wanted to displace its members on a weekend when they would have wanted to play.

Taking care of regular paying customers. How... quaint.
Posted by Pappy 2014-09-11 00:34||   2014-09-11 00:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Angered by the "no" word, he no doubt saw it as racist.
Posted by Besoeker 2014-09-11 00:49||   2014-09-11 00:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe he could just play golf without all the security?
Posted by gorb 2014-09-11 00:59||   2014-09-11 00:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Couldn't they have let him play at midnight?
Yes, but that would have run up against his midnight hoopie thingy......wit' da hood n' all.....
Posted by USN, Ret. 2014-09-11 01:32||   2014-09-11 01:32|| Front Page Top

#6 How about the driving range or a quiet evening of study and reflection? No, he was angry, pouty. A message had to be sent.
Posted by Besoeker 2014-09-11 01:38||   2014-09-11 01:38|| Front Page Top

#7 Hell, let him play if he wants, but charge him $30 million a round, to compensate any of the other club members who might complain about being displaced. On second thought, make it $100 million.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418  2014-09-11 05:11||   2014-09-11 05:11|| Front Page Top

#8 I see an IRS audit in their future, though I'm sure they can afford the lawyers necessary to increase employment in the beltway.
Posted by Procopius2k 2014-09-11 07:54||   2014-09-11 07:54|| Front Page Top

#9 No audits. The members of the clubs are probably all big Obama contributors.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2014-09-11 08:16||   2014-09-11 08:16|| Front Page Top

#10 Imagine my luck, two guys get beheaded and I've got to give a damn speech to act like I'm doing something. $hit, I could have been out on the fairways. What luck. Obama
Posted by JohnQC 2014-09-11 09:01||   2014-09-11 09:01|| Front Page Top

#11 Whores are only around when they have value to the customer. He is tainted and it does the high end clubs zero good to have him around. It will only get worse for him when he is finally out of office.
Posted by 49 Pan 2014-09-11 13:26||   2014-09-11 13:26|| Front Page Top

#12 Trump just offered Obama lifetime golf.... if he resigns. What an offer!!
Posted by airandee 2014-09-11 13:28||   2014-09-11 13:28|| Front Page Top

#13 Spoiled little boy gets snubbed, takes his ball and goes home. Where's the news in that?

Oh, wait...President Who?
Posted by Bobby 2014-09-11 13:47||   2014-09-11 13:47|| Front Page Top

#14 Labor Day at top notch courses...suppose the waiting list is for that, nevermind schmooz and course fees.

Gotta think that two groups forward and two groups behind would have to be cancelled - that is 16 golfers. Nevermind the suits, air noise, and general chaos of security being in the way of everyone else.

Fly home from Stockholm to go golfing with my previous Wall Street pit buddies now successfull men of business for the one and only get together, scheduled back in 2004 when they all made it, to be cancelled because Obama. Golf courses did prez a favor.

This is the guy who cut in line and shut down lunch at the BBQ place in Texas, because he had a whim. I understand the schedule cannot be telegraphed, but duuude you are tripling up in the choom circle because you.
Posted by swksvolFF 2014-09-11 14:52||   2014-09-11 14:52|| Front Page Top

#15 The golf course is his happy place, he's isolating like mad.
Posted by Shipman 2014-09-11 16:49||   2014-09-11 16:49|| Front Page Top

#16 Kinda surprised He didn't build a golf course in the basement of the White House. Don't they already have a bowling alley?
Posted by SteveS 2014-09-11 17:12||   2014-09-11 17:12|| Front Page Top

#17 The score cards only have 7 frames.
Posted by swksvolFF 2014-09-11 17:35||   2014-09-11 17:35|| Front Page Top

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