Some Gave All, Obama Shot Par
American Thinker ^ | August 26, 2011 | Betsy M. Galliher
Without question, President Obama seems to have long ago perfected the art of evading responsibility, better perhaps than even most teenagers, and whoever coined the phrase "working vacation."
Obama's favored modus oper-voidance continues to be the game of golf -- a sport for which many, including me, share a great affection -- even if Obama still seems unaware golf is a game best played in less perilous times. Say, retirement -- around 2013.
Obama has played at least four rounds of golf -- in between dribbling, biking, and socializing with major fundraisers -- since beginning his 10-day family vacation on Martha's Vineyard, which comes as no surprise. Honestly, I tire of even discussing his juvenile preoccupation with public recreation at this juncture in the fundamental transformation, but the image of an obtuse Obama on the course this time around strikes a particularly heart wrenching nerve.
On his first full day of vacation, August 19th, as Obama golfed one of Martha Vineyard's private courses, at least five of our most elite - some of the 30 victims of the deadly Taliban attack on their Chinook helicopter August 6th -- were laid to rest. Even Obama's ambitious 77 rounds of golf in as little as 31 months failed to numb to the image.
The timing of events at the most inopportune moments -- natural disasters, economic turmoil, and chaos at home and overseas -- has stung other Presidents. It is, to a large degree, humanly impossible to avoid every such image. But frankly, no one in history has seemed so at ease, so lacking in humility -- so, can't you see I'm on vacation -- even in the midst of great fear, insecurity, tragedy, or unforeseen terrorism, than Barack Obama.
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