red states rule
06-15-2010, 10:17 AM
The Washington post - and most liberals - thought it was an outrage when Pres Bush played golf while the nation was a war, and during a national crisis
Before Golf, Bush Decries Latest Deaths In Mideast
Upcoming Holiday to Be No Vacation From Strife
By Mike Allen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, August 5, 2002; Page A02
KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine, Aug. 4 -- It's a ritual when President Bush golfs: As he gets ready to tee off, reporters toss out a few questions about the news of the day from their perches on a nearby sand trap. This morning, Bush wasn't waiting. He sprang from his golf cart at 6:15 a.m. and said he was "distressed to hear about the latest suicide bombers in Israel."
Just over four hours before, as Bush slept at his parents' seaside retreat, a Palestinian suicide bomber blew up a bus in Israel, killing nine passengers.
Bush, wearing khakis and a knit shirt, was holding a driver in his gloved left hand. The rest of his foursome, including his father, former president George H.W. Bush, was waiting. However incongruous the setting, the president plunged ahead. "There are a few killers who want to stop the peace process that we have started, and we must not let them," he said. "I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers."
His business out of the way, Bush barely paused for breath before saying, "Thank you. Now watch this drive."
The abrupt segue illustrates the dilemma Bush will face over the next month as he relaxes and works at his ranch in Crawford, Tex., at a time of global political volatility. On Tuesday, Bush will leave Washington behind until Labor Day. That is likely to mean a return to the golf-cart diplomacy of last summer, when Bush talked Middle East peace between playing holes, at one point dripping sweat as he said Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat "can do a lot more to be convincing the people on the street to stop these acts of terrorism."
During his comments this morning, Bush said, "For those who yearn for peace in the Middle East, for those in the Arab lands, for those in Europe, for those all around the world who yearn for peace, we must do everything we possibly can to stop the terror."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A43789-2002Aug4?language=printer
Now that a fellow liberal is President, the Washington Post as "so what" if Obama plays golf during a crisis?
Shocking! Obama plays golf during BP oil spill!
Seems President Obama on Sunday compared the BP oil spill to 9/11, then went golfing for four hours. At least that’s the sort of crack reporting that Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft offered his readers yesterday. Hoft’s dismissive, one-word take: “Leadership.” My reaction: So what?
Surely even the president deserves -- and probably needs -- some downtime, even now. Weeks spent clearing brush back at the ranch in Hyde Park might be pushing it. But an afternoon on the back nine doesn’t bother me. And whenever Obama does take a few hours off, there will always be enough going on in the world against which to juxtapose his leisure to enable the Jim Hofts of the Internet to take their cheap shots. It was unfair when Michael Moore did this to George W. Bush. And it’s unfair for Hoft to do it to Barack Obama.
Of course, the president might have expected this after comparing the oil spill to 9/11. His point -- that the spill will change the way Americans view relevant national policies -- is fair enough. But even in drawing a more apt analogy to the tragedy of 2001, invoking that loaded pair of numbers practically invites rhetorical excess
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/06/shocking_obama_plays_golf_duri.html
Before Golf, Bush Decries Latest Deaths In Mideast
Upcoming Holiday to Be No Vacation From Strife
By Mike Allen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, August 5, 2002; Page A02
KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine, Aug. 4 -- It's a ritual when President Bush golfs: As he gets ready to tee off, reporters toss out a few questions about the news of the day from their perches on a nearby sand trap. This morning, Bush wasn't waiting. He sprang from his golf cart at 6:15 a.m. and said he was "distressed to hear about the latest suicide bombers in Israel."
Just over four hours before, as Bush slept at his parents' seaside retreat, a Palestinian suicide bomber blew up a bus in Israel, killing nine passengers.
Bush, wearing khakis and a knit shirt, was holding a driver in his gloved left hand. The rest of his foursome, including his father, former president George H.W. Bush, was waiting. However incongruous the setting, the president plunged ahead. "There are a few killers who want to stop the peace process that we have started, and we must not let them," he said. "I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers."
His business out of the way, Bush barely paused for breath before saying, "Thank you. Now watch this drive."
The abrupt segue illustrates the dilemma Bush will face over the next month as he relaxes and works at his ranch in Crawford, Tex., at a time of global political volatility. On Tuesday, Bush will leave Washington behind until Labor Day. That is likely to mean a return to the golf-cart diplomacy of last summer, when Bush talked Middle East peace between playing holes, at one point dripping sweat as he said Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat "can do a lot more to be convincing the people on the street to stop these acts of terrorism."
During his comments this morning, Bush said, "For those who yearn for peace in the Middle East, for those in the Arab lands, for those in Europe, for those all around the world who yearn for peace, we must do everything we possibly can to stop the terror."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A43789-2002Aug4?language=printer
Now that a fellow liberal is President, the Washington Post as "so what" if Obama plays golf during a crisis?
Shocking! Obama plays golf during BP oil spill!
Seems President Obama on Sunday compared the BP oil spill to 9/11, then went golfing for four hours. At least that’s the sort of crack reporting that Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft offered his readers yesterday. Hoft’s dismissive, one-word take: “Leadership.” My reaction: So what?
Surely even the president deserves -- and probably needs -- some downtime, even now. Weeks spent clearing brush back at the ranch in Hyde Park might be pushing it. But an afternoon on the back nine doesn’t bother me. And whenever Obama does take a few hours off, there will always be enough going on in the world against which to juxtapose his leisure to enable the Jim Hofts of the Internet to take their cheap shots. It was unfair when Michael Moore did this to George W. Bush. And it’s unfair for Hoft to do it to Barack Obama.
Of course, the president might have expected this after comparing the oil spill to 9/11. His point -- that the spill will change the way Americans view relevant national policies -- is fair enough. But even in drawing a more apt analogy to the tragedy of 2001, invoking that loaded pair of numbers practically invites rhetorical excess
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/06/shocking_obama_plays_golf_duri.html