Obama Golf Playing, Debt Making, Bitterly Divisive President

During his administration, George Bush was frequently accused of not working hard, being lazy, and generally having a frat-boy mentality to being President. One piece of evidence to support this argument was the frequency to which Bush played golf. Over and over in the media jokes were made about how lazy a President he was, and how he was often playing golf when important decisions needed to be made. It turns out that when compared to current President, Barack Obama, Bush was a workaholic.

President Obama has played 24 rounds of golf as President since February. It took Bush nearly three years to play that many rounds of golf, and yet Obama has done it in one year.

There is nothing wrong with the President playing an occasional round of golf- there is no magic number to the correct amount of golf the President plays. But for the media, which spent a lot of time building and promoting the argument that Bush spent too much time golfing and not enough time governing, it is hypocritical for them to now say nothing when Obama is playing golf a lot more than Bush ever did. The media should have consistent standards on how it covers politicians.

It is almost as if Obama is doing everything wrong that Bush did, only in an exponentially worse way. Democrats criticized Bush for the debt- Obama is piling up debt at a far far faster clip than did Bush. Democrats criticized Bush for bailing out banks and businesses- Obama gave far more money for bailouts than Bush did. Democrats criticized Bush for playing bitter partisan politics- Obama's Presidency is becoming by far the most bitter and most partisan in the history of our nation. And Democrats criticized Bush for playing golf- and now Obama has played way more golf in a year than Bush played over three.

People who voted for Obama did indeed vote for change, but I'm not sure if they understood that voting for Obama was a vote for a dramatic change for the worse. Vote Democrat for higher debt, divisive politics, and more golf playing politicians!