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The Real Bingo · October 26th, 2009, 10:10 AM

POLITICO CLICK: President Obama ties George W. Bush on golf - Patrick Gavin

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President Barack Obama has only been in office for just over nine months, but he's already hit the links as much as President Bush did in over two years.

CBS' Mark Knoller — an unofficial documentarian and statistician of all things White House-related — wrote on his Twitter feed that, "Today - Obama ties Pres. Bush in the number of rounds of golf played in office: 24.
Took Bush 2 yrs & 10 months."

This news comes on the heels of today's news that Obama played golf with a woman — chief domestic policy adviser Melody Barnes — for the first time since taking office.

Hard at work, fixing what's broken, for sure.

MTAtech · October 26th, 2009, 10:26 AM

That's an important statistic.

Do they have other stats, like number of books read?

Pexster · October 26th, 2009, 10:40 AM

Shaking my head . . .

engracio · October 26th, 2009, 10:45 AM

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Shaking my head . . .

Me three...

Gomer · October 26th, 2009, 11:11 AM

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Originally Posted by The Real Bingo

POLITICO CLICK: President Obama ties George W. Bush on golf - Patrick Gavin

Hard at work, fixing what's broken, for sure.

Since you're drawing comparisons...
Why it is broken:

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A comment in Friday’s Opinion Line accurately noted that “George Bush spent 1,020 days, more than one-third of his presidency, on vacation” — though a president is never really “on vacation.” CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller, who famously tracks such things, broke down the numbers this way: 490 days at Bush’s Texas ranch, 487 days at Camp David and 43 days in Kennebunkport, Maine. Other interesting tallies of the Bush 43 era: He attended 338 political fundraisers and 12 baseball games, delivered 23 commencement speeches, played 24 rounds of golf (giving it up six months into the Iraq war out of respect to families of fallen troops), hosted six state dinners, cast 12 vetoes, visited 75 foreign countries and flew 1.4 million miles on Air Force One. One thing Bush never did as president? Visit Vermont.

Cajunheat · October 26th, 2009, 11:31 AM

Hmmm, sorry if I'm clueless about this but, why shouldn't the man be able to do things to relax? I am not a Obama fanboy didn't vote for him and wouldn't do it now either but, lets face it he has a tough grueling job. I'm sure he needs to work the kinks out often, so why is golfing bad? As far as the amount spent, there are people that golf everyday, then there are those like me that has never golfed and never will. So what is excessive? Is he spending so much time golfing that it is effecting his performance? Imho, there are a lot of really important issues to be concerned with so, why is his golfing habits so important?

MTAtech · October 26th, 2009, 11:41 AM

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Imho, there are a lot of really important issues to be concerned with so, why is his golfing habits so important?

BINGO! (not a reference to the threadmaker.)

Because it's a dig at President Obama, even though meaningless and inconsequential.

IMHO, there are many things to criticize President Obama, such as promising during the campaign to make a break with Mr. Bush’s abuses of power, a policy that denies justice to the victims of wayward government policies and shields officials from accountability -- then, continue the same Bush policy.

As you said, there are a lot of really important issues to be concerned with. Golf aint one of them.

zen · October 26th, 2009, 12:41 PM

I'm more interested in what he shoots. Anyone know his handicap?

The Real Bingo · October 26th, 2009, 02:45 PM

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I'm more interested in what he shoots. Anyone know his handicap?

If he plays golf like he bowls, he's probably a 40.

The Real Bingo · October 26th, 2009, 02:47 PM

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IMHO, there are many things to criticize President Obama, such as promising during the campaign to make a break with Mr. Bush’s abuses of power, a policy that denies justice to the victims of wayward government policies and shields officials from accountability -- then, continue the same Bush policy.

That's why I brought this to your attention. As our good friend Gomer pointed out, Bush seemed to be away from the office quite often; nothing has changed with Obama.