President Barack Obama has been criticized by conservatives who have expressed their frustration with his frequent golf outings. In an interview for the Golf Channel, former PresidentGeorge W. Bush called these criticisms unfounded. Saying that he is familiar with “the pressures of the job,” Bush added that he thought it was “good for the president to be out playing golf.”
is he trying to defend his "watch this drive"?
no i don't think so the right only draggs that out as a jab trying to say Pres. is off playing instead of doing his job, and as you may have already guessed those rants come from republican congress, the ones who hold the title of the least active of all time taking weeks off after sitting there and saying no.
“I see our president criticized for playing golf. I don’t. I think he ought to play golf,” Bush told Jimmy Roberts, host of Golf Channel’s In Play.“Because I know what it’s like to be in the bubble,” Bush replied. “I know the pressures of the job, and to be able to get outside and play golf with some of your pals is important for the president. It does give you an outlet.”1. Obama has played more golf than any president in historyThis isn't even close to being true. Now, there's no question that he plays on a regular basis: 104 rounds from January 2009 through Aug. 4 of this year, the last time he played, according to Mark Knoller, the longtime White House correspondent for CBS Radio. That puts him about in the middle when compared with other duffers-in-chief. It's less than Bill Clinton, and a lot less than Dwight Eisenhower, who played more than 800 rounds over eight years — four times as often as Obama plays.And why is it an outrage if the president, who heads one of three branches of government, golfs 104 times in three-and-a-half-years, but the head of another branch of government, the Speaker of the House, plays four times as much? You heard correctly: John Boehner once told Golf Digest that he plays upwards of 100 rounds a year. Seems like a double standard, no?2. Obama has taken more vacation time than any president in historyThis isn't even remotely accurate either, but first, some context from Nancy Reagan: "Presidents don't get vacations — they just get a change of scenery. The job goes with you." The responsibilities, the pressure, the officer with the "nuclear football" — it's all with a commander-in-chief at all times. No exceptions.
the republicans forget how many people do have access to the internet and that "we're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers" do they think all of us are too stupid to check or just their base if that's it they really are bad at math, not enough to win over the new majority.
