Average time for a golf game... about 4 hours.

[trumad]

If the President wants to take a 4 hour break to golf....I'm OK with that.

Those who criticize him for golfing are fucking idiots.

Oh and don't use that false equivalent shit that we criticized Bush for it.... NOooooooo... we criticized Bush for his record breaking vacations.

Nuff said!

[DURHAM D]

1. Woodrow Wilson played golf daily.

No one complained about it.

[TreasonousBastard]

19. Eisenhower was great for the game...

and the game was great for Ike.

http://golf.about.com/od/historyofgolf/a/ikegolf.htm

Dwight Eisenhower Elected to World Golf Hall of Fame

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The King, Arnold Palmer, said of the prez:

"One would be hard-pressed to find any single person who did more to popularize the game of golf, not only in the United States but throughout the world, than President Eisenhower. His visibility, coupled with his passion for the game, were the inspiration for literally millions of people picking up the game for the first time. Those involved in golf today owe him a great debt of gratitude."

Eisenhower was the most famous golfer in the world - or perhaps a better way to state is that he was the most famous person who was an avid golfer - during his presidency. Ike was in office from 1953-61; at the beginning of that period, according to Don Van Natta, Jr., author of First Off The Tee (compare prices), just over three million Americans were golfers. By the end of his term, more than six million Americans were playing the game. There's even a book about Ike's impact on golf, called Don't Ask What I Shot: How Eisenhower's Love of Golf Helped Shape 1950s America (compare prices).
<...>

[JaneyVee]

2. I can't believe someone would waste precious

Sunday time defending a bumbling baffoon like Bush. Just let that nightmare fade away.

[Electric Monk]

3. That poster is taking his own vacation now. It was their 5th (& 6,7,8th) hide in the past 90 days

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5400962
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=309333&sub=trans

[nolabear]

5. Thank goodness. He was getting on my last nerve.

[pinboy3niner]

7. He landed in a sand trap of his own making. nt

:

[trumad]

11. snarf

[elias49]

8. Good riddance. n/t

[greatauntoftriplets]

9. A rather long vacation, it appears.

[pinboy3niner]

16. And flagged for review

Total hides this month: 8. Four of them today, in that thread (OP and 3 replies hidden).

[greatauntoftriplets]

17. Wow.

I stepped away for a few minutes and he got more hides! That's not a complaint.

[lpbk2713]

10. Hah!

They call it "Transparency" for a reason.

[Control-Z]

24. Proud to have been the deciding vote

on one of those hides.

[In_The_Wind]

4. Golf courses are beautiful peaceful places. It's a great place for a break.

[spanone]

6. i bet a presidential round is a lot quicker...he's the only one on the course.

[trumad]

12. LOL

I actually thought about that when I posted this...hence 4 hours instead of the 5 it takes me.

[spanone]

18. bet he doesn't wait on the slow foursome in front of him...taking practice putts after missing....

bwahahahahaaa

[Hissyspit]

13. Kevin Drum:

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/08/everyone-now-officially-banned-whining-about-presidential-vacations-forever

[underthematrix]

14. The President is a MEGA multi-tasker

"a round of golf" may mean something totally different as John Stewart observed.

[arcane1]

15. The false equivalencier was indeed an idiot.

Since so many of Bush's actions were totally undefendable, most RW idiots never even get to hear about them in the first place

[pinboy3niner]

20. Some are not idiots voluntarily

They're plaid agitators.

[gollygee]

21. What expectation do people have?

He got criticized the other day for going out and having a meal. He can't eat. He can't have any recreation time at all. Who else is expected to live like that?

[Rex]

22. This is stupid that it even comes up. IF A POTUS spends all his time golfing

then FUCKING A I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH IT!

Going back just a bit, I can think of ONE that did.


Never hear about Obama and golf...sounds like something fucking stupid a desperate fake news station would talk about all the time.

[Blanks]

23. George H. W. Bush ran the first gulf war from the golf course...

Almost every evening he'd make a statement from the golf course on the news.

I can't be the only one who remembers that.