Can you believe it? Obama plays golf!?!

Some people have criticized President Obama for playing golf. That is just not right.
If you want to slam him for getting the Dow Jones Industrial Average from 8046 to 12,369; then go ahead.
If you want to castigate him for increasing the number of American private sector jobs in 26 consecutive months; OK.
If you want to denounce him for ending The War to Find Saddam’s WMD; all right.
If you want to disparage his tax cuts for working people (the Making Work Pay Tax Credit and the Payroll Tax Holiday); then knock yourself out.
But, if you condemn the President of the United States for playing golf, then I’m drawing the line. That is NOT OK, here’s why. Golf makes Presidents and presidential candidates more effective and successful. In fact, they should be required to play golf. Look at this list: (Franklin Roosevelt and Bob Dole are excluded from this analysis) Presidents and presidential candidates who did not play golf include Jimmy Carter, Michael Dukakis, Al Gore, Walter Mondale, and Herbert Hoover. (Mitt Romney wants to join this list?? He can afford a bag of clubs and some lessons).
If you insist on bashing Presidential golfers, then you are smearing the President who led the defeat of the Axis Powers; the President who oversaw the greatest expansion of American wealth and power; the President who installed a putting green in the White House backyard; the President who played 800 rounds during his term of office.
If you just can not stand it that we have a President who plays golf, then you are criticizing General Dwight David Eisenhower and I may have to ask you to step outside onto the first tee.

Mitt's Memory vs My Memory

Turns out that Mitt Romney was a real life Scut Farkus.

A Romney spokeswoman dismissed the reports of Mitt's school days misbehaviour as being unimportant, because it happened so long ago. Her opinion was that this subject was not worthy of discussion.

Below is an e-mail I sent my favorite Sexy Liberal Radio Yak-Show Hostess, Stephanie Miller. It briefly tells about an incident from Manhattan High School way back in the previous century. I have thought about what happened that day but have never talked about it out loud. I can't take it back now.

There was a boy in my high school class who, perhaps was gay; maybe his voice didn't hadn't changed yet; he just sounded different. One day I mockingly imitated him when I yelled out his name across the crowded lunchroom. My buddies and I got a good laugh. He may have had problems other than jocks making fun of him in public, because later that school year he used a shotgun to kill himself.

What I did was mean, thoughtless, and wrong. Unlike Mitt Romney, I remember what I did. It was 1973, but I recall what a horrible thing I did. I remember exactly.

Perhaps Mitt has had so many of these incidents he can not separate one memory from another.

This does matter, even though "it was a long time ago". Jesus was here a long time ago; Joseph Smith was here a long time ago; the Constitution and Declaration of Independence were written a long time ago; 9-11 was a long time ago; these things all matter today.

It appears that as a high-schooler, Mitt did not care about people. As a businessman, Mitt did not care about people. As a politician, Mitt does not care about people (unless they are also corporations).