[WEEKLYSTANDARD] A new report from NBC claims that President Obama couldn't get a tee time during a recent visit to New York. So he packed up and went home (before returning to New York the next night for a private wedding).
"President Obama was turned down at several top golf courses in Westchester while he was visiting the area over Labor Day weekend, sources tell NBC 4 New York," the report states.
"Club managers apparently did not want to inconvenience their high-powered and high-paying members over Labor Day weekend by shutting down their courses to accommodate the president. The president was in town Aug. 29, a Friday, for fundraising events in New York and Rhode Island. He had been scheduled to stay overnight in Westchester County in order to attend the Saturday evening wedding of MSNBC host Alex Wagner and White House chef Sam Kass at Blue Hill Farm."
So Obama went home.
Posted by: Fred ||
09/11/2014 00:00 ||
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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.
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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.
#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
#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 ||
09/11/2014 13:26 Comments ||
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#12
Trump just offered Obama lifetime golf.... if he resigns. What an offer!!
#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 ||
09/11/2014 13:47 Comments ||
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#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.
#2
The company challenged the order on constitutional grounds but lost repeatedly, both at the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and an appeals court, the Foreign Intelligence Court of Review
#2
Balad Airbase with an air wing, a combat brigade, a Joint SpecOps battalion sized element, as well as a training battalion, with all the needed logistical support - thats what the original Bush plan was. And had it been in place, ISIS and Iraq as they exist today would likely not have happened (discounting of course the massive incompetence of Obama, Clinton/Kerry, and the "professional" diplomats)
#5
OS's #2 is spot on. It would have required a bit of base expansion, but bulldozing the slums around Balad was needed and long overdue anyway. I would have recommended both LSA Anaconda [Balad] and FOB Speicher outside of Tikrit. ISIS would have never entered Iraq from Syria and lived to tell about it. Just my opinion.
#6
What surprises me is that NYT Baghdad Bureau Chief only now says the President and his administration is lying. The NYTs has been running cover for them up until now.
#8
I appreciate and agree with OS in #2. However --
-- it wasn't possible, and not just because Obama was a feckless, weak-kneed, spineless man who didn't let the facts interfere with his hallucinatory view of the world.
It was also not possible because of Iraqi politics. In retrospect it's clear to see that Nouri al-Maliki thought he could build a political machine for himself that would be of the classic Arab mold -- a thugocracy, a dictatorship, a strong horse. That would let him run things until he was old and gray. It would have to be done in a 21st century style but with Iranian help he could do it.
I think that's why the Iraqis could never accommodate our concerns over basing rights and status of personnel -- all that got in the way of building the dictatorship. Over time our presence in Iraq would have had the same moderating, democratizing influence that our presence had in South Korea (yes, yes, it took 40 years but still). Any perceptive thug would look at that example and know that it would be a bad idea to have American troops around.
Yes, Obama lied. Repeatedly, as did his principal aides. But Iraq is as much the fault of the Iraqi leadership as it is Obama.
Posted by: Steve White ||
09/11/2014 9:35 Comments ||
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When thinking of a U.S. - Iraqi Status of Forces Agreement or 'SOFA', it helps to think in terms of Susan Rice, the Sunday talk shows and the Mohammad Video. The failed SOFA agreement was a piece of diplomatic paper, and a convenient cover for action. It should not have been a mission stopper that would potentially lead to the creation of a Islamic Caliphate.
#11
A SOFA agreement glitch would not be a show stopper unless the empty suits wanted it to be a deal breaker.
An agreement between gentlemen on the principles of the agreement and a handshake should have been enough until the wonks and drones got the details worked out.
The SOFA was an excuse to bail out and fulfill a promise to the leftist/liberals/pacifists constituency (which I have never understood WHY the empty suit gave them so much power in policy making)
Posted by: Bill Clinton ||
09/11/2014 11:32 Comments ||
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..cause mommy and everyone else in his universe said America was the evil colonial empire?
#13
Very aware of the politics. Hence the comments about State - proper diplomats would not be there to kiss Malikis ass, but to pressure him and force him into doing what's right, as well as developing political opposition contacts to provide political pressure.
A while back after the military officially departed, I was briefly (72 hour hop, all the time stayed inside the concrete barriers) at Taji with some contractor friends who were training officers, and the overall Shia bias was very obvious. And it was a political issue that US State Dept (the facilitating agency, not the DoD) willfully ignored.
Maliki would not have been such an issue had he been properly and firmly handled. Perhaps given a history lesson about Ngo Diem... That and a bit of money in overseas banks in his name, probably would have been enough leverage.
#14
Obama and State (and the leftist... Redundant I know) need to realize this isn't Star Trek - there is no "prime directive", and our primary mission should be the furtherance of US interests, which means that the interests of the native folks do not come first unless they happen to coincide with the best interests of the US.
#16
"the Iraqis could never accommodate our concerns over basing rights and status of personnel -- all that got in the way of building the dictatorship. Over time our presence in Iraq would have had the same moderating, democratizing influence that our presence had in South Korea (yes, yes, it took 40 years but still)" I agree with your assessment. However, the US electorate has pretty well lost interest in 40 year long efforts to turn backward countries around. And in S. Korea they still have signs up in some places saying "No Americans allowed". At Least Islam never got a foothold in S. Korea. The Kim dynasty is as crazy as Koreans can endure.
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