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Barack Obama’s golf swing reveals he’s an athlete, a duffer and fun to play with By Michael Bamberger Senior Writer, Sports Illustrated Published: December 24, 2008 Golf.com has performed an important service. It has posted five photographs, taken by AP photographer Gerald Herbert, that shows President-elect Barack Obama on vacation in Hawaii playing golf. This is invaluable as we all know that nothing, not even a CNN special called “Obama Revealed,” reveals the soul as ruthlessly and efficiently as how one plays the old Scottish game. John F. Kennedy nearly made a hole-in-one on the short par-3 15th at Cypress Point (the best-smelling hole in all of golf, if you like the mix of eucalyptus and brackish ocean water) while running for the presidency in 1960. Kennedy, considered by presidential golfing historians to be by far the most skilled of our golf-playing presidents, was relieved to see the ball stay out. He was trying to succeed Dwight Eisenhower as president, and not as First Golfer. The game then wasn’t the populist activity it has become. Kennedy, foolishly, allowed himself to be photographed taking a golf swing in fancy loafers, no socks. Still, he won West Virginia. But Obama does not have to run from his golf. The guess here is that he’s an athlete and a duffer and fun to play with. In Photo No. 1, the first thing that strikes you is that Obama is a lefthanded golfer who plays golf wearing a watch, just like Phil Mickelson. Also like Lefty, the future president …
With all the time he spends on the course (5 plus hours per visit, 40 + visits) he should be better. He is untrainable. If you have time contribute to the Obama Golf Tracking Project
@mauibucky its the left that is obsessed with Palin. You just brought her up when she was nowhere near this conversation. Way to be a clueless Obama worshipper.
Obama looks weak and skinny in my opinion and therefore our enemies probably think he looks weak and skinny, too, which makes the U.S look weak. Impeach this fraud now. Does he have aids, bytheway?
@jonbcaliman first cali man… i dont have a basement.. dont live with my mom.. and dont live on my knees blowing this worthless “president” So you can pretend to sound intelligent all you want… but anyone with half a brain knows this pres is a jackass.. anyone at this point that is still in lockstep with him… well is a fucking jackass as well! But caliman… i may just go take a hit from the bong.. better than reality that so many Americans are fucking stupid enough to still support him
@5k1killer Obviously, long periods of isolation in your mom’s basement have rendered you incapable of providing salient commentary on what BPV and I are alluding to: ‘Beavis and Butthead’. Clearly, the wattage in YOUR brainstem is DWARFED by the cartoon personalities’ IQ we are referencing herein. Now, ‘killer’, put the bong DOWN and go ask mommy if you can play with the family dog without a set of pliers….
@jonbcaliman get up off your knees…
@mauibucky
Obama sucks – plain and simple!
@jimistreets So, Jimi, if , as you say, Presidents are never really on vacation, then what’s all this fuss about Obama golfing?
@jimistreets I have to use childish terms , Jimi; you’ll never understand what I’m trying to say if I used grown-up lagnuage.
what a looser he,eh he
@BestPoliticalVideos Oh, the snickering, hands down!! I rolled….
He traded in the mom jeans for MOM SHORTS!
@jonbcaliman
the snickering is HYSTERICAL! What would you rather hear? phoney MSNBC meatheads sucking Obama’s ass with blind platitudes?
@thatguyfromga Ya mean Commander in Chief….tardO
George Bush has more class in his dirty underwear than this man-child will ever have. G-Dub stopped golfing out of respect to the troops and their loved ones. You just know that it never even occurred to this dope to do the same. He will go down in history as THEE worst president in our history, bring down his own party with him, ruin the lives of millions of average Americans, yet continue on his merry way with his damned nose up in the air thinking, literally, that he is God’s gift to mankind
This man golfs, throws, and bowls like a woman. My advise is to spend every waking minute practicing his swing. The more this loser golfs, the less damage to our once great nation. I’d be willing to bet that Sarah Palin would trounce his skinny butt in a game of one-on-one. I’d bet that Sarah is better than Barry O. at EVERY sport that B.O. plays! How the hell does ANYBODY that is not blind bowl a FREEKING TWENTY-TWO??!! He is too damned arrogant to realize he is an embarrassment to the world
@mauibucky Pretty hilarious how you call us childish then use childish terms to describe us! Like most libs, you are too dense to see the irony, er, hypocrisy…
@mauibucky Dont think it will matter to an Obama-worshipping kool-aid drinker. Obama has played more golf than in 18 months than Bush did in 8 years. Presidents are never really on vacation. Bush had enough class to stop playing golf during the war. Barry is a man-child, thin-skinned, whiney, poor excuse for a man that seems to think everything revolves around him and that he is God’s gift to mankind. Don’t need Google for that. Just one look at a photo of him looking down his nose at all of us
lol…That was funny. Obama does suck. At golf and being president
Do we have some Muslim friends on this site, giving dirty comments
to FOX and Mr. Glenn Beck???
Such a shame, but we have to be prepared, against haters and the
growing “mob”.
@pavlovsdog3 Hey Einstein! go back and read the Politico article again. You obviously didn’t score too high in reading comprehension. The 24 rounds of golf you mentioned that Bush played took him 2 years and 10 months in office to complete. In case you forgot or OD’d on that glue thing, Bush was in office for another 5 years and 2 months. And the article doesn’t mention number of rounds played in those 5 + years.
Bush took a total of 2.67 years vacation while in office. Hard to match that.
Listening to all the snickering is like real life ‘Beavis and Butthead’!!!! LOL!!!! I could hear “Boy, he SUCKS!” in Butthead-speak and the invetible “YEAH, HE SUCKS!!” response with the gravel-throated “HEH HEH” HA!!!!
You don’t have to be a pro golfer to know he has a horrible swing. He’s also lousy at basketball. Terrible ball handler, can’t dribble. Maybe a new hobby like stamp collecting.
@TheShannon76 — I throught the cash for clunkers program took all of the obama car stickers off of the road.
PS — President Bush played like a man. The obaminator swings like a silly little school girl.