The First Golfer

President Obama likes his golf. According to CNN, the president has played golf more times than former President Bush in his entire 8 years in office. That's pathetic.

The position of presidency is not one of mere celebrity status and leisure, President Obama. Please stop playing golf! People still need jobs. There is a massive oil spill off the southern coast. North Korea wants to duke it out with South Korea (potentially). Why are you playing your 18 holes at Martha's Vineyard, yet again? You are not made of money. You are using taxpayer's money to travel back and forth and waste hundreds of minutes playing a round, two rounds, three rounds of golf.

One interesting note is that President Obama likes to take his time when he plays. President Bush was noted to be quite quick in his golf games, but oh no - not Barack Obama. He takes his time sizing up the distance, finding lost balls, licking his finger and putting it to the wind to see what direction it's blowing, etc. I was kidding about the last one. It's interesting when the New York Times, not exactly the most conservative paper around, reports on Obama's love of golf. They may not mean to put him in a bad light, but it does. Oh yes. It does indeed.