QUOTE (Controlled Chaos @ May 17, 2011 -> 11:44 AM)
A lot of my police friends on FB are posting this and complaining about the POTUS. Rightfully so IMO.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/waterc...1#disqus_thread
President Obama left the White House this morning a little after 9:30 am. He wasn’t on his way to the Capitol building, where grieving friends and families of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty hold a yearly commemorative service. Though he was invited to recognize the fallen and offer condolences by speaking at the annual Peace Officers’ Memorial Service, he instead spent this fine Sunday playing a round of golf with aide Ben Finkenbinder, White House trip director Marvin Nicholson and U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk.
Every president deserves down time. But after offending police earlier this week by hosting a rapper at the White House whose corpus includes a song lauding a convicted cop-killer, blowing off their service in order to golf seems tone-deaf, if not outright callous. Badly done, Mr. President.
i'll have to find the article but i swear i read somewhere that in Obama's first two or three years in office he played more golf than Bush did in eight. of course the Dems loved to make it seem like Bush was all over the links.
then again.....some liberals love to bash Bush for actually taking a few minutes in that classroom to gather the facts on 9/11 but yet Obama took 16 hours before making the call to go in for Osama???? Haven't heard too much griping over that..........