"Two Obama golfing milestones, one game"

[Cort]

"Two Obama golfing milestones, one game: Prez plays with woman for first time, ties Bush's total"

President Obama, accused of running a fratboy White House by some women's advocates, went golfing Sunday with a woman for the first time since he took the oath of office.

Melody Barnes, 45, Obama's chief domestic policy advisor, accompanied the nation's commander in chief to a golf outing at the U.S. Army's Fort Belvoir golf course in Virginia.

At first, a White House spokesman denied that Barnes was the first woman to go golfing with Obama since he became president. But when pressed by a reporter, the aide confirmed Barnes was, indeed, the first.

The golf game was also notable for being Obama's 24th, tying it with Bush's total number of golf games played - during his entire adminstration. It took Bush 2 years and 10 months to reach that tally, according to Mark Knoller of CBS News. Obama has reached it in 11 months.

Barnes' golf outing comes amid a deluge of criticism following Obama's recent participation in a high-profile, all-male basketball game.

Even outside of sports, Obama has long been dogged by the impression that his closest advisers are men.

Asked recently by NBC whether he thinks the all-male hoops games leaves the public with the impression that there's an old boys' club, the president replied, "I gotta say, I think this is bunk."

"I don't think it sends any kind of message," he added.

Earlier this month, Obama's health and human services secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, engaged in some good-natured trash-talking.

Asked by comedian Jay Leno whether she could beat Obama in a game of "H-O-R-S-E," she replied, "I actually made my college basketball team, so, you know, bring it on."

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MirewEn was pissed about me posting this in another Obama thread, so I guess I'll make a thread about it.

I'd rather he spend time on some issues than golf, but I'm just some kind of crazy, ignorant, so on and so forth, Obama-hater, what do I know?

 

[Mirewen]

Mirewen was pissed about me posting this in another Obama thread, so I guess I'll make a thread about it.

Thanks for telling me how I feel. Being "pissed" at something over the internet, I'm so like that. I just asked how it was related to the OP. Now that you've made a seperate thread, you can rant all you want about golfing.

 

[Cort]

Sorry, didn't mean to spell your name wrong. :C

 

[Makelith]

Don't need two threads on relatively the same subject. Regardless of how Mirewen feels about the subject.