RSSCarping on Obama’s World
Gene Lalor | May 31, 2011
I guess the presidency can be a fun gig, to some presidents. Even solemn occasions such as the observance of Memorial Day don’t phase Barack Hussein Obama or stay our leader from his appointed rounds–of golf. 
Granted, this year represented a decorous improvement over Memorial Day 2010 when he took the family on one of their frequent vacations to visit his old haunts in Chicago where he learned his skills as a “community organizer” instead of following hallowed tradition and reverently laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. This year he performed his presidential duty, however grudgingly, and laid the wreath before hightailing it off to Fort Belvoir to get in some golf, something he also did in 2009.
I know Memorial Day has devolved into an occasion of fun, frolic, bbq’s, the unofficial launching of summertime and summer sports but it’s also a time for remembrance of our war dead and the ultimate sacrifice they paid for our nation. America’s head role model should be at the forefront of that recognition. Laying a wreath doesn’t cut it.
President George W. Bush, the man to whom liberals still refer to as a buffoon, an incompetent, and worse, had the smarts, respect, and discretion to discontinue playing golf during wartime since it presented a public spectacle of enjoying life while our troops died. Our troops continue to die in “Bush’s wars” during Obama’s watch but this president still plays golf, lots of golf, as well as hosting, with the uncontested Queen of Taste, White House soirees and festivities.
Could that be characterized as nitpicking, partisan carping? Only if the British are nitpicking partisan, American carpers.
When the Brits take note of an American president’s gross lack of respect on what the Daily Mail referred to as a sacrosanct day to play golf for the seventieth time in his 28 months as commander in chief and leader of the Free World, it can’t simply be called carping. As Nile Gardner wrote in the Mail, ”Can you imagine David Cameron enjoying a round of golf on Remembrance Sunday [the UK's version of Memorial Day]? It would be inconceivable for the British Prime Minister to do so.”
Gardner continued, ”I can’t imagine the PM even considering it, and I’m sure his advisers would be horrified at the idea. And if the prime minister ever did play golf on such a sacrosanct day he would be given a massive drubbing by the British press, and it would never be repeated.”
On this side of the Pond, instead of drubbing Obama, his MSM, as per usual, ignored his “extraordinarily bad judgment,” as Gardner called it. The Brit also opined that, “The president’s actions smack of poor taste, as well a lack of empathy and support for the US military, hardly the kind of leadership the White House should be projecting at a time of war.” (http://bit.ly/mcNrFx)
Lack of respect, empathy, and leadership? Inconceivable? Bad judgment and poor taste? Can Gardner really be speaking of our president? Evidently, he doesn’t know him well. Or, he knows Obama all too well.
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