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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAverage time for a golf game... about 4 hours.
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
(32,611 posts)No one complained about it.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)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).
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JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Sunday time defending a bumbling baffoon like Bush. Just let that nightmare fade away.
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)nolabear
(41,999 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts):
trumad
(41,692 posts)elias49
(4,259 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,755 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Total hides this month: 8. Four of them today, in that thread (OP and 3 replies hidden).
greatauntoftriplets
(175,755 posts)I stepped away for a few minutes and he got more hides! That's not a complaint.
lpbk2713
(42,769 posts)They call it "Transparency" for a reason.
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)on one of those hides.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)spanone
(135,900 posts)I actually thought about that when I posted this...hence 4 hours instead of the 5 it takes me.
spanone
(135,900 posts)bwahahahahaaa
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)underthematrix
(5,811 posts)"a round of golf" may mean something totally different as John Stewart observed.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)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
(53,339 posts)They're plaid agitators.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)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
(65,616 posts)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
(4,835 posts)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.