They play Golf.

From the "mainstream" media:

"CBS' Mark Knoller — an unofficial documentarian and statistician of all things White House-related — wrote on his Twitter feed that, "Today - Obama ties Pres. Bush in the number of rounds of golf played in office: 24.

Took Bush 2 yrs & 10 months."

Oh NO hope he shot well! Wonder if he played the back, front or whole 18! I sure hope taxpayer $$$ didnt pay for his golf balls! Does he drive his own cart??
Who cares?
I was unaware that the President is not allowed to take part in recreational activities!
Probably does him well to get outta dodge and play some golf to clear his mind.

I know if I was Pres... I'd spend a lot more time building the relationships with central american and pacific island nations... aka surf trips!!

We can definitely say that it is NOT George Bush's fault that President Obama plays more golf.

I don't want a President with a good golf game. I also don't want a President to "get out of dodge" when he's done nothing in "dodge" to begin with.

What has he done in the last nine months, Brechty, other than play golf?

From the "mainstream" media:

KABUL (AP) - Helicopter crashes killed 14 Americans on Monday—11 troops and three drug agents—in the deadliest day for the U.S. mission in Afghanistan in more than four years. The deaths came as President Barack Obama prepared to meet his national security team for a sixth full-scale conference on the future of the troubled war.
In the deadliest crash, a helicopter went down in the west of the country after leaving the scene of a firefight, killing 10 Americans—seven troops and three Drug Enforcement Administration agents. Eleven American troops, one U.S. civilian and 14 Afghans were also injured.

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Who's up for a round of golf?

This just in, from Fox News:

Afghan President Hamid Karzai's top challenger called for a "dramatic increase" in troops to ensure security in his country, suggesting a failure to send in reinforcements could put Afghanistan "at risk" of falling to insurgents.

"The need for more troops is there in order to reverse the situation," Abdullah Abdullah, who is expected to face off against Karzai in a runoff election in two weeks, told "Fox News Sunday."

President Obama is deliberating over a request from his top commander for such an increase. He's weighing a call by Gen. Stanley McChrystal and other military officials for 40,000 more troops against calls to pursue a more surgical strategy aimed at top Al Qaeda leaders, particularly in Pakistan.

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Are there any golf courses in Afghanistan?

CNN Reports:

(CNN) -- Yessica Maher of Los Angeles, California, feels let down. She had wanted to get the H1N1 vaccine for herself and her children, but that's proving to be difficult.

Her doctor is out of the vaccine, and so is the pediatrician. Her two older sons were not eligible for the nasal spray version because of asthma, and she was told the shot would not become available until perhaps November. Her youngest son, 2, goes to a preschool where there was recently a diagnosis of H1N1.

"I feel that the government and health officials, they knew this was big when it first started, they know the size of our population before it started, and they didn't make leaps and bounds to make sure it was available to everyone when they would need it," she said. "It shouldn't be a supply-and-demand thing."

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced last week that production of the vaccine is slower than expected. While the CDC had hoped for 40 million doses by the end of October, the real numbers will be about 30 million doses because of manufacturing delays, said Dr. Anne Schuchat, CDC's director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.

Public health departments across the country are quickly running out of H1N1 vaccine and don't know when the next batches will arrive.

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How could our President not have known that H1N1 was treated as serious months ago? Maybe the radio on his golf cart doesn't work.

MSNBC reports:

WASHINGTON - Banks should return the favor they received in their recent taxpayer-financed bailout by lending more money to small businesses, President Barack Obama says.

In his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday, Obama said too many small business owners remain unable to get credit despite administration steps to jump-start lending, which was virtually frozen when the financial crisis took hold last year.

"These are the very taxpayers who stood by America's banks in a crisis, and now it's time for our banks to stand by creditworthy small businesses and make the loans they need to open their doors, grow their operations and create new jobs," Obama said.

"It's time for those banks to fulfill their responsibility to help ensure a wider recovery, a more secure system and more broadly shared prosperity," said Obama.

The president said the administration will "take every appropriate step to encourage them to meet those responsibilities." He did not specify what those steps might be.

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So, Mr. Do Nothing, what are those steps to be? Think hard about it, maybe while you are standing next to the ball washer, and get back to us later..you know, when you actually have something ACTIONABLE to say.

Do you really expect banks will loan money to working people when they can do nothing, just like you, and get money for free?

The money went to bonuses, not to small businesses, so they have none to give.

Actually yes there is a golf course in Afghanistan, its in Kabul. Not sure there are any water hazards... not that the soldiers there have time to play anyhow.

I never said I was an Obama supporter nor do I agree with decisions made in office, but i'm sure there are more important topics to discuss other than the president golfing. Whats next? "breaking news Pres Obama takes 45 min shower while troops in Afgan fight"
- or - "Obama goes out to dinner while sick americans suffer in hospitals"

You are focusing on the symptom as not being part of the disease... the disease is DO NOTHING.

think, think, think....

I didn't vote for Obama THANK GOD he is the worst president in my life

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You are focusing on the symptom as not being part of the disease... the disease is DO NOTHING.

think, think, think....

So you would be happier if he actually passed health care reform, climate change, etc...

Thats would be like complaining about my daughter saying she's running away, then complaining when she doesn't actually do it.

sometimes DO NOTHING is better than DO WRONG

think about that

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Originally posted by Brechty:
sometimes DO NOTHING is better than DO WRONG

think about that

I hear you...I would prefer that he had done nothing...

The stimulus was anything but stimulating.

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Originally posted by scrounge:

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Originally posted by Brechty:
sometimes DO NOTHING is better than DO WRONG

think about that

I hear you...I would prefer that he had done nothing...

The stimulus was anything but stimulating.

Well - for us regular American middle-class citizens it was anything but stimulating. I don't know that the rich are suffering much from it.

Brechty,

I guess you are right.

When it comes to your pay raise next year perhaps Mr. Do Nothing won't sign it. That can't be wrong for the country or for you.

And, while Mr. Do Nothing ponders the mysteries of the universe, Mr. Ahmadinijad continues to build his nuclear program without any hesitation whatsoever.

Kim Jong Il tests missiles, starves his people, and has no fear taking us on while Mr. Do Nothing plans his next trip to Europe, where he won't speak to anyone at the climate change summit. Of course, in December, he'll pick up his peace prize, won, it seems, by doing nothing.

And even today, while people are dying every day simply because health care reform hasn't occured (like, people never died until we needed to reform health care), Mr. Do Nothing hasn't seen the Rayburn Building halls one time since he became President.

Or, as climate change destroys the very oxygen we breathe to the point that our lungs burn like fire, and the only way to cure Mother Earth is to tax the air, Mr. Do Nothing promises it shall be so and he'll "get it done."

Now, troll on Brechty....and get back to work.

If I was sitting in "the seat", my first priority is to relocate the war plan candidate Obama said he had and engage it. Everything after that really doesn't stack up to that. Just my 3 cents.

When Prez Dubya was in office....the war(s) were his top priority and also used by his detractors and haters to beat the Administration up. Now the Prez Obama is in office...the war seems to have fallen behind health care. Also...whatever happened to the immigration and drilling for our own energy independence?

No work today, nor do I take orders on a forum, today i'm just waiting for the cable guy to come repair the line.

Thankfully I don't depend on a January pay raise, that is just an added bonus. If I need more money I'll work towards the next paygrade.

As for the other topics, I still think your are mistaking me for Pres Obama supporter. I didn't work for his campaign, didn't vote for him, and I definitely didn't stay at a holiday inn last night.
I do know things aren't right and that his campaign "promises" are still in never never land.
Now I never said you were wrong, b/c you are absolutely correct, he shouldn't be playing so much golf and going on vacations. He has a lot of work to do and put in some over time repairing this country before another nation takes the offensive while we are weak.

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Originally posted by JekelKat13:

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Originally posted by scrounge:

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Originally posted by Brechty:
sometimes DO NOTHING is better than DO WRONG

think about that

I hear you...I would prefer that he had done nothing...

The stimulus was anything but stimulating.

Well - for us regular American middle-class citizens it was anything but stimulating. I don't know that the rich are suffering much from it.

Is that the point? I love how revealing some of these streams are. Clearly some from the left of center believe the rich should be punished for their success.

I think a point to be made is for the past 8 years every time George Bush so much as gave the appearance of golfing, vacationing, etc, etc, and a Serviceman was killed the so called "mainstream media" and it's fascistic allies in code pink, a.n.s.w.e.r. et al screamed bloody murder that the President was out partying while troops were fighting. Interestingly it seems Mr. Obama spends a lot of time jetting around and giving the appearance of having the time of his life playing President whilst the angry anti war protesters and the media lap dogs remain silent. Where has all the outrage gone? Even on this board there were some that took to posting stories of the dead and wounded all in a pathetic attempt to label the former Prez as AWOL. Where is Cindy Sheehan now? Likely abandoned by those same disgusting excuses for humanity that used her pain and outrage for their own political purposes then cut her loose when their man came to power.

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Originally posted by Brechty:
Actually yes there is a golf course in Afghanistan, its in Kabul. Not sure there are any water hazards... not that the soldiers there have time to play anyhow.

I never said I was an Obama supporter nor do I agree with decisions made in office, but i'm sure there are more important topics to discuss other than the president golfing. Whats next? "breaking news Pres Obama takes 45 min shower while troops in Afgan fight"
- or - "Obama goes out to dinner while sick americans suffer in hospitals"