Working on his game - How the media dogs Obama

During his 8 years in office, President Bush played just 24 rounds of golf. He quit after his last one, October 13th, 2009 out of respect for the families of Americans killed in the war in Iraq. President Obama, infatuated with the trappings of the presidency, has already tied that. It took President Bush 34 months to play 24 rounds of golf. It took President Obama just over 9 months. Funny that the media (you know, the reporters other than Fox) showed images of Bush playing golf three times as many as we see of Obama. The media would hound President Bush and ask about troops killed in action. Meanwhile, President Obama finds it better to work on his game than make a decision about whether or not to send troops to Afghanistan as requested by General McChrystal –Obama’s handpicked guy.

For some other comparisons, the National Debt when Bush took office was $5.7 trillion (the surplus that everyone talks about was a 10 year prediction assuming nothing out of the ordinary – Like a hurricane, attack on American soil, Democrat controlled congress spending money like drunken …. Congressmen). The debt as of Jan 15, 2009: $10.6 trillion. Barack Obama has taken it to $11.9 trillion as of October 26th, 2009 with a record budget deficit of $1.4 trillion (previous record was $459 Billion in 2008). In 2008, 155 American troops were killed in Afghanistan (“a war of necessity”); 267 in 2009 so far (but golf is more important). Where are those “reporters” and opinion page writers that we opposed to the way things were going under Bush now that things seem to be going worse under Obama? I am criticized if I point out the hypocrisies but how much time do we have to give President Obama before we expect the same from him that we did for President Bush?