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The Obama Watch
Country Club Democrats
Obama works on his socialism and swing.
“Ike’s not a communist, he’s a golfer,” said the conservative author Russell Kirk in response to charges that President Eisenhower was soft on the Soviet Union. Were Kirk alive today and saw Obama’s redistributionist economics and underwhelming swing, he might have said that Obama is not a golfer but a communist.
Obama takes his socialism more seriously than his swing, but his taste for the trappings of power doesn’t prevent him from working on it when he gets the chance. His latest golf outing will cost taxpayers almost a million dollars, according to Britain’s Daily Mail.
Obama is adding a new dimension to the picture of limousine liberals: after stoking the flames of class warfare and denouncing the rich in speeches, they climb in their limousines or jets and head to lavish country clubs for rounds of golf.
The Country Club Democrats have come a long way from Jimmy Carter, who insisted on carrying his own suitcase and keeping tabs on the White House tennis court. Obama won’t even carry his own golf bag. Pictures of his overburdened aides dragging golf clubs on to Air Force as he jets off to Florida’s Treasure Coast for a round with Tiger Woods don’t exactly conform to his self-description as the “Middle Class President” and the nostalgic community organizer for the poor.
Not that Obama cares much about such contradictions. Like commissars who read Marx’s books on the class-less society from their sumptuous dachas, Obama figures that he can contemplate the needs of the poor just as well from the Floridian Yacht and Golf Club. As he told Putin’s puppet last year, he was going to enjoy more “flexibility” in his second term.
Obama can count on the press not to care much either. Fresh from his golf trip he arrived back in D.C. to find on Tuesday’s Washington Post a front-page story titled “For second term, idealistic Obama returns,” which suggests the level of hard-nosed reporting he can expect in the coming days.
For all of his emphasis on the value of “empathy,” Obama clearly prefers the company of the rich to the poor, the company of celebrities to members of the middle class. Gone evidently are those feelings of guilt to which he confessed in his memoirs. In Dreams from My Father, he said that one of his first jobs out of college, a job at a Chicago financial-information firm, made him feel like he was “working for the enemy.” He wrote: “Sometimes, coming out of an interview with Japanese financiers or German bond traders, I would catch my reflection in the elevator doors—see myself in a suit and tie, a briefcase in my hand, and for a brief second I would imagine myself as a captain of industry, barking orders, closing the deal, before I remembered who it was that I had told myself I wanted to be and felt pangs of guilt for my lack of resolve.”
If he happened to catch his reflection off the elevator doors of the Floridian Yacht and Golf Club, he would have seen himself standing next to those hated captains of industry, with a scandal-plagued professional golfer in tow.
Obama’s choice of golfing partners makes Bill Clinton’s look circumspect. Last December, Obama played with Bobby Titcomb, a friend from his Hawaiian schooling days who had been picked up in 2011 for soliciting a prostitute. Tiger and Titcomb could compare notes.
Reporters are upset with Obama not for playing golf with Tiger Woods but for not letting them tag along. George W. Bush, before swearing off golf during the Iraq War, would let reporters pepper him with questions between swings, producing one memorable exchange with them after a Middle Eastern suicide bombing: “I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers. Thank you. Now watch this drive.”
Clinton also didn’t mind sharing his game with reporters, sauntering back to the press section of Air Force One to inform them of his latest low score, with “no freebies, no second drives, no nothin,’” as he once put it.
These Democratic enemies of plutocracy always seem to end up in Palm Beach playing golf with plutocrats. Clinton famously landed in a Palm Beach hospital after a day of golf and unexplained partying at Greg Norman’s house, at which he stumbled and damaged his knee. Obama’s trip to Palm Beach was less eventful, but another reminder that the class warfare of the Country Club Democrats remains more rhetorical than real.
Photo: UPI
About the Author
George Neumayr, a contributing editor to The American Spectator, is co-author, with Phyllis Schlafly, of the new book, No Higher Power: Obama’s War on Religious Freedom.
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Robbins Mitchell| 2.20.13 @ 6:30AM
Barokeydoke probably takes a mulligan on every hole and thinks that any putt less than 4 ft is a gimme
TLP| 2.20.13 @ 8:53AM
Answer this question: Who loves Money (and little Boys and Girls) more than Liberals? Who has the Most Money in Congress? Who has the most Millionaires and Billionaires? How many Million$ has Ex President Rapist collected, since leaving office, after being Impeached? Who are the White Politicians that Demand Special Treatment for Minorities from inside their Mansions and their Compounds, in towns like Chappaqua and Hyannisport, where the only Minorities you'll find are the ones Mopping the Public Toilets, and the ones on the Wanted Posters at the Post Office.
How is it that the Pols screaming Loudest for Global Warming, are the ones with the Biggest Cars, the Biggest Private Jets, and the Most Mansions?
How is it that the Pols screaming Loudest for "Worker's Rights" and UNIONS, own the most Restaurants and Vineyards that only employ Non-Union Illegals?
And, of course you have the Heroes of The Women's Movement. Guys like The Rapist, Serial Misogenyst, Serial Molester, Serial Groper, Indecent Exposer, Sex with an Intern, and a Lifelong Spousal Abuser of his Wife - Bill Clinton. Along with Robert - "Is that your Daughter? How old is she? Nine, ya say? She's really pretty. HOW MUCH?" - Menendez.
Oldefarte| 2.20.13 @ 12:57PM
I think they call it hypocrisy, or possibly that which Santa yelled out to the three ladies of the evening across the street......HO, HO, HO!!!!!
Butch| 2.20.13 @ 3:53PM
Your description of Clinton is dead on except for the "spousal abuser" part: she was the one flinging the dishes and the marble ashtrays, remember? One of the Secret Service guys privately indicated that they didn't know what to do. After all, the President WAS under attack!
Von Mises Jr| 2.20.13 @ 9:15AM
Nonsense. It has been reported that Dear Leader scored 19 holes in one that was not even achieved by Mao or Kim Jong-Il.
The NYT reported a perfect round of golf and a fine time had by all in the showers.
How else could a liberal Statist vacation end?
Terrible Ted| 2.20.13 @ 12:29PM
That's funny. 19 holes in one, and he hadn't even finished his round. I can hear him saying: "I’ve now played 19 holes? I think one left to go."
drudge ette obama| 2.20.13 @ 6:34AM
One million bucks? I bet that is a low estimate?
What is this strangeness with Reggie Love? Is this relationship between Obama and Love going to be another Eleanor Rooseveltism?
Having a "tin ear" comes to mind to describe Obama and his family's separate and joint vacations, where millions are spent without a thought how it looks and how much they cost.
Jack in Wi| 2.20.13 @ 6:52AM
Obama and his wife feel entitled. They could care less about the little people. They figure the millions they cost us on their vacations are nothing compared to how valuble they are to the country. We have let the chief executive become the king. They issue edicts, kill without courts, spend laviously on themselves with the peoples money, and make war without declartion or having the money to do so. They are worse then the worst Bourbon or Czar.
Arnie| 2.20.13 @ 7:45AM
Bush and his wife feel entitled. They could care less about the little people. They figured the millions they cost us on their vacations are nothing compared to how valuble they are to the country. We have let the chief executive become the king. They issue edicts, kill without courts, spend laviously on themselves with the peoples money, and make war without declartion or having the money to do so. They are worse th(a)n the worst Republican.
jothepro| 2.20.13 @ 8:46AM
Dick head...
TLP| 2.20.13 @ 8:58AM
I'm going with Stephie where this guy's concerned, from now on.
Leave him alone, and he'll go home.
He's just not worth it.
Russel| 2.20.13 @ 11:01AM
Notice that Perp has been absent ( til today ) ?. They work for the same organization , get paid , and simply take turns spending their day harassing . I'd bet on MoveOn .
Arnie| 2.20.13 @ 11:26AM
Sorry. Not paid. I just get a bunch of laughs out of you guys. I know it's hard for you free thinkers on the right to believe that people don't believe in your bullsh*t, but there are quite a few of us out there.
But if you want to remain paranoid and ignorant, please, go right ahead and come up with conspiracy theories.
Stan Redmond| 2.20.13 @ 1:40PM
Always the same refrain when the manchild president's failures are obvious. "BUT BUSH BUT BUSH BUT BUSH." Wipe your chin.
sotto voce| 2.21.13 @ 6:07PM
Bush vacationed with his wife at Camp David or his ranch, where he chopped wood for recreation. He sent troops to Iraq after getting approval from Congress ( vastly different from Obama's cowardly "leading from behind" in Libya, which only "led" us right into the disaster of Benghazi). You may not have liked Bush's politics or approved of his policies (I disagreed with many of them myself), but at least he never gave the impression that he was motivated by anything other than love of country. He didn't run his administration like a politburo (or staff it with malcontents and subversives on a mission to "fundamentally transform" the country they despise) and he upheld the dignity of the office to which he'd been entrusted (a dignity long ago abandoned by our current president in his unseemly quest to become America's Celebrity-in-Chief).
Butch| 2.20.13 @ 3:56PM
I hear that Moochelle was calling him "Ivan the Terrible" way before he ever became famous.
loulou| 2.20.13 @ 11:26AM
Obama can't stay away from Love.
Love better be careful--some of Obama's Chicago bathhouse friends have been found dead.
TLP| 2.20.13 @ 1:59PM
I'm thinking it was Reggie Love at first sight, for President Gay Bathhouse Boy.
TLP| 2.20.13 @ 2:09PM
A prominent member of Chicago’s homosexual community claims Barack Obama’s participation in the “gay” bar and bathhouse scene was so well known that many who were aware of his lifestyle were shocked when he ran for president and finally won the White House.
“It was preposterous to the people I knew then to think Obama was going to keep his gay life secret,” said Kevin DuJan, who was a gossip columnist in Chicago for various blogs when Obama was living in the city as a community organizer and later a state senator.
“Nobody who knew Obama in the gay bar scene thought he could possibly be president,” said DuJan.
Chicago Tribune.
Anthony| 2.20.13 @ 3:10PM
Yeah well they kept the secret for as long as they needed to. If it were to come out now, he'd be made a saint for gay, bi-sexual rights.
Amazing how Obozo has kept all of his secrets secret. When the truth does come out, it will send shockwaves throughout America.
I hope to live long enough to see it all unfold and watch his enablers scramble.
TLP| 2.20.13 @ 4:00PM
WND.
Google: Barack Obama Gay Bathhouse Story.
GOOGLE IT!
Joellen| 2.20.13 @ 6:50AM
drudge ette obama, remember Jim McGreevy, when finally exposed (no pun attended), the media was shocked, aghast, had no clue, never would've thunk it, totally blew their minds,
even though every one in the tri state was well aware.
Yea, I believe the media like I believe Hillary had a concussion that had to be treated.
I am just saying.
Maxwell| 2.20.13 @ 8:10AM
Joellen, speaking of Jim McGreevy, the wife & I were having dinner one night in town (Princeton) & located at the next table was Mr. McGreevy & two HUGE New Jersey State Troopers. The contrast between the troopers & McGreevy was amazing. I said, there is just something to 'pretty' about him. Something just did not look right. That was the second clue that Jim did not feel the same way about a lovely & attractive lady that I do.
The first clue was when a report appeared in the Red Star Ledger of Newark that McGreevy had an 'accident' while at the beech and broke his ankle. How could a man have an accident while alone walking on the beach?
R Martin| 2.20.13 @ 7:59AM
"...some animals are more equal than others."
Maxwell| 2.20.13 @ 8:12AM
R Martin, you could add Jon Corzine to that list too. There is STILL no accounting to what happened to 1.5 BILLION dollars. If that was either you or me, Bubba would be mighty happy as the door closed behind us at the iron bar hotel.
TLP| 2.20.13 @ 9:00AM
No accounting?
He's got a Job in this Administration!
You can't make this Shitt up.
C. Vernon Crisler | 2.20.13 @ 9:33AM
A line from Animal House, yes, that's an excellent summary of the point of the article RM. No matter how much socialists talk about equality, they cannot escape the pull of self-interest, or the temptations of greed and avarice.
Roscoe| 2.20.13 @ 8:04AM
Still looking for the names of the Japanese financiers and German bond traders...
Al Adab| 2.20.13 @ 8:25AM
Let the emperor golf all he wants. The less time he spends manipulating his agenda, the better off we all are.
c. j. acworth| 2.20.13 @ 8:42AM
My thought exactly. $1M is a cheap price to pay to be rid of him for a while.
TLP| 2.20.13 @ 9:10AM
It's a cheap price to pay to get rid of him for longer than a little while.
Anybody know anyone named - Two Cannoli Carmine, Vinnie Pair a Shoes, or Tony Pickle Jar?
Oldefarte| 2.20.13 @ 12:52PM
What about Tiger Hole-In-One??????
Pecos Pete| 2.20.13 @ 10:27AM
Al, I'm not so sure you are correct. When King O is playing that leaves Valerie in charge. Or Uncle Joe. Come to think of it, even when King O is in DC at the PEOPLE's House, Valerie is still in charge.
I do agree that when the King and Queen are playing they are not punishing us with their class warfare speeches. On that basis alone I'd be happy if they played 24/7/365 for the next 4 years.
loulou| 2.20.13 @ 11:24AM
Who controls Jarrett? Soros?
SUBVET| 2.20.13 @ 11:01AM
Al..........it's not him, the magic negro is just a pupit....this all goes deeper.
rjh| 2.20.13 @ 11:10AM
You beat me to it. I was about to reply the same thing to another poster. obama is just a mouthpiece and a distraction.
Al Adab| 2.20.13 @ 11:46AM
Pete, Vet:
You are of course correct this goes a lot deeper than just the figurehead. Still, like Congress in recess, we are better off when they are "ignoring" the job.
T:LP: I do know a fellow named Tommy the Torch.
Stan Redmond| 2.20.13 @ 1:41PM
How right you are. Obama is protected by his "black" armor. Any attacks equal "That's Racist."
Anthony| 2.20.13 @ 9:46AM
As the intrepid reporters of the Politico told us yesterday, the White House Press Corps are just too, too, intimidated to ask the Golfer-in-Chief any hard questions. King Obozo tells them what to say and what to print, end of story.
I would have thought the WHPC, Chris Matthews, Andrea Mitchell and the rest of the leftist media whores would have put a pool together to see which media whore would win the chance to follow Obozo around for 18 holes and wash Obozo's balls.
Where's Helen Thomas when we need her the most??
SUBVET| 2.20.13 @ 11:03AM
What ever happened to Major Garrett....?
Woodrow| 2.27.13 @ 4:27PM
Major Garrett left Fox News and went to CBS...
markenoff| 2.20.13 @ 9:47AM
Come on now. After four years of pulling our country out of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, maybe even worse than the Great Depression and then fighting for months to keep the out sourcing, cancer spreading, dog torturing, hair cutting Romney out of the White House our Savior deserves a little R & R. Hopefully Tiger set up a little party with some of his friends so they could show how much they appreciated Obama keeping abortion legal.
Stan Redmond| 2.20.13 @ 1:42PM
Don't forget his recent vacation to Hawaii. I come back from vacations exhausted and need a little break.
ncatty| 2.20.13 @ 9:59AM
Our lack of knowledge about Obama even extends to his golf game. Does anyone know how he plays the game?
JGW| 2.20.13 @ 10:18AM
I read somewhere this morning that Tiger remarked that BO had "a good touch".
Not sure if he was talking about BOs game or if he wandered into the room when Reggie and BO were hanging out.
Anthony| 2.20.13 @ 10:39AM
Yeah, according to Tiger, Obozo has a great short game.
This will be welcome news for Purp, vtwin and Arnie. You see guys, size doesn't matter.
Stan Redmond| 2.20.13 @ 1:43PM
I am sure Obama has soft hands. He's never worked a day in his life and by now his choom calloused fingers have softened up.
JP Jones| 2.20.13 @ 11:19AM
Country Club Democrats as Country Club Republicans don't give a hoot about the US Constitution, American Values and Traditions and the unique nature of The United States of America.
The only difference between those two groups are the way they worship money and power.
The Dems like Obama tend to feel more at ease with lording over folks with Czars and fear
and Country Club Reps love to Lord over folks through Corporate intimidation, and fear.
Creating Fear amoung the folks is the key to their ruteless quest for power and their ability to maintain a firm grip on it..
You can trace that back a ways and certainly it is a bit older con job than the USA.
Just a tiny bit older....thousands of years more or less to be exact.
1ConservativeUSA| 2.20.13 @ 11:29AM
It is surreal.
I'll bet Obama and his entourage have a good laugh about how he is allowed to pander to the "middle class" by demonizing "the rich" and then he and his wife live a life of elitism, luxury and privledge right in our faces.
Obama to his staff aboard Air Force 1:
"Heh heh, remember my line, "I will not rest until...."? My press puppets and the ill informed really ate that up."
Pecos Pete| 2.20.13 @ 11:46AM
Focused like a laser ....
markenoff| 2.20.13 @ 11:46AM
Now that OJ is in jail Tiger and Obama took over his taks of finding the real killer.
Oldefarte| 2.20.13 @ 12:49PM
Word has it that the next celebrity/POTUS golf outings will occur in Columbia while making use of local prostitutes as golf caddies at every hole!!!!!!
cicero| 2.20.13 @ 1:19PM
After a while, all of this gets so tiring. We are r epeating the same thing over and over. Nothing is going to change as long as these folks are in the seat of power. The conservatives point out the abuses. The apoligists rejoin whith , "Bush did it ,too". Enough.
We have another election cycle coming up in less than two years. At that itme, the entire House, one third of the Senate, and various State admins are up for review. Let's start focusing on the vulnerable Dems, and hammer away at them. Letr's start showcasing some new, young candidates for the positions that will be up for grabs, and defending those in the fold.
To keep pointing at the charade in chief and his acolytes wastes too much effort. There is already enough out there to shoot at. Benghazi cannot be let go of. Those 4 Americans should be kept in frront of the nation. If the Reps are serious, they must call the military officers who were told to stand down for personal apperaances before the cameras. The Reps must stand firm on the spending front. Obama has to be made to own the governamental bankruptcy.
Seek| 2.20.13 @ 4:04PM
Every person, Right or Left, instinctively prefers the company of the rich to that of the poor. Were Bill Buckley, Evelyn Waugh or Taki any different from Barack Obama in this respect?
Great wealth is one of the markers of success and being interesting. The idea that Obama is a "hypocrite" for exhibiting this trait simply because he's left of center is absurd. I never voted for him, but this is taking the "horns effect" a bit too far.
JD| 2.20.13 @ 5:40PM
Your first three sentences were correct. The fourth was not. Obama has frequently presented himself as a man of the poor and middle class, and an anti-rich type. He is a hypocrite.
John II| 2.20.13 @ 7:55PM
In Federalist 72, "Publius" (Alexander Hamilton, an early supporter of strongly centralized governance) argues against any statutory limit on Presidential terms (what he calls the "exclusion" from office of a former President after a specified period of service).
First among his interesting arguments against such "exclusion" is his contention that the effect "would be a diminution of the inducements to good behavior. There are few men who would not feel much less zeal in the discharge of a duty, when they were conscious that the advantages of the station with which it was connected must be relinquished at a determinate period, than when they were permitted to entertain a hope of obtaining, by meriting, a continuance of them."
Hamilton's argument goes on to list what he takes to be five principal "ill effects" of "exclusion"--all of them premised on the unspoken assumptions that (a) the President is someone of essentially good character and (b) the electorate to whom the President is answerable is of essentially sound judgment.
I'm thinking that even a man of Hamilton's chic, citified instincts would have trouble imagining the condition of this country two hundred years after his own time.
And I'm thinking that the perennial attempts of various degenerate liberals to repeal the 22nd Amendment are likely to gain traction during the Prince of Darkness's second term.
homme nike air max BW | 2.20.13 @ 10:53PM
Treasure Coast for a round with Tiger Woods don’t exactly conform to his self-description as the “Middle Class President” and the nostalgic community organizer for the poor.