Barack Obama, the world's hardest-working man, took time out this week from fundraising junkets and pronouncing the Supreme Court to be unconstitutional to speak out on a matter of deep, personal importance to him: golf.
Specifically, he opined that the Augusta National Golf Club should change its membership rules to start admitting women. According to Whitehouse Spokesworm Jay Carney, the president "believes Augusta should admit women. We’re kinda long past the time when women should be excluded from anything."
Except, of course, the president's own notoriously "guys only" golf outings. Although in fairness, we can understand why Mr. Obama wouldn't want women in his party, smacking longer drives than he has any hope of hitting.
But on matters of women and hitting, Carney had less to say about this week's affectionate meeting of Whitehouse officials (not the president himself, who was presumably on the links) with members of the Muslim Brotherhood, to celebrate their Obama-assisted rise to power in Egypt and their continuing drive for the kind of Sharia law which would give the ever-frisky Sandra Fluke an endless supply of free stones instead of free birth control.
All of which makes Barack Obama's genuine commitment to women more than a little hard to believe.
Which is why female voters should be seriously questioning whether they should vote for a man who is seen as "unbeatable among women" yet, when it's politically expedient, doesn't see women as unbeatable.
The president is now making women part of his golf outings.
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Another double-standard by Barack.
@Ron Russell- Exactly. The president, who continues to falsely declare that there is a "War on Women" in the United States, is doing nothing to stand up for the rights (and even lives) of women suffering under tyranny.
Well put! I'll check back later to see if Janeane Garofalo has posted a comment.
@Velcro- Now there is a truly disturbing thought.
Turdboy is counting on the stupidity and gullibility of women. I think he will be disappointed to learn they aren't as dumb as he thinks. Are any of us as dumb as he thinks? Yes, too many voted for him in 2008 for a variety of dumb reasons. But they know him now.
Hypocrisy? In the White House? I'm shocked, SHOCKED I tell you! The main point of all this 'War on Women' bs is, of course, to distract from Crisis One - it's the SPENDING, stupid!
@Angry Hoosier Dad- I've recently read some articles that say the Obama camp is worried about Mitt's wife, Ann Romney. She is an upbeat, energetic, and articulate woman who knows how to work a crowd - and speak directly to women.
@Pete(Detroit)- And of course, ruinous spending is the crisis that Obama won't talk about, because he loves it.
Stilton:
I'd like to be impressed by Ann Romney because her husband doesn't do a damned thing for me.
The board of directors at Augusta feel Obama should unseal his college records.
Since the '70s, I've always argued that the "gender feminist" movement was just a tool of the Progressives. What better proof is there than this? I fondly recall the pre-911 days when the prominent feminist groups were still free to be openly critical of the Islamic regimes where women enjoyed rights somewhere between domesticated animals and household germs. How times change. Today, American women are considered "oppressed" because employers or taxpayers aren't forced to pay for their birth control. But womanhood everywhere on the planet is just swell.
In a just universe, Sandra Fluke would be made to transfer to a university in Iran or Saudi Arabia for a semester or two to learn what oppression is really about. Who's gonna be made to pay for her recreational sex would be the least of her problems...
It's okay for muslims to oppress women because that's in accordance with sharia law, and in this country we value freedom of religion.
Unless, of course, you happen to be Catholic...
@Angry Hoosier Dad- Assuming that Mitt is the candidate, I'm hoping that he'll find an explosively good, raw meat, Tea Party VP choice.
@rickn8or- Maybe the Congressional Black Caucus should look into Augusta's discriminatory entrance policies.
@John the Econ- For me, the leftie women's rights groups lost their last tatter of credibility when they were faced (so to speak) with the Monica Lewinsky situation. They had always described it as "rape" if a superior used his position to coerce sex from a woman in a subordinate position - even if she thought she was a consenting partner. But when Monica was found to have been gobbling knob in the Oval Office (and keeping a souvenir in her closet), suddenly having sex with the boss was a celebration of women's empowerment. Right.
@CenTexTim- Well obviously the Sharia Law of Muslims is more important than the Canon Law of Catholics. Because the president isn't a Catholic.
Stilton:
I hope you are right but I expect Mittens to pick a VP that is as squishy and uninspiring as himself...just from a western or southern state to appeal to the moderates of a different time zone.
@Angry Hoosier Dad- I think Mitt will already have the "squish" vote. He'd be making a huge mistake not to go with a Tea Party darling to shore up his support from the Right.
Stilton: as to that 'souvenir in the closet', I wouldn't be surprised if despicaBill believes the Secret Service to have been remiss in its duty to 'block the shot', as it were. If God has a sense of humor, that POS will wind up in hell dancing on hot coals to the tune of 'devil with a blue dress on'.
And technically speaking, there is a war on American women... as there is on every American citizen. The perps in this case have a history that goes back to the dawn of man: people who wouldn't know a bad idea if it bit them in the ass repeatedly. I would like to believe that such idiocy could eventually be lead down a path to reform. But sadly, just as the rabid dog must be put down lest it further injure and kill, I fear that a victorious conservative majority would necessarily find itself with bloodied hands. One can only hope that cooler heads prevail.
Getting a bit confusing at times...as you listen to obama or any lefty speak, you must turn what is said 180 degrees, add some nuance, take into account the standard talking points on the matter, and you might have a slight clue as to what they are talking about! All in all, it just boils down to a pack of lies!
a shout to mrs. pryorguy...been putting up with me for 38 years now
@Stilton, I think that was the point that most people woke up to the fact that NOW and their ilk were all just Democrat toadies. It's little coincidence that since the late '90s, you just don't see much of a profile out of those groups anymore.
Or perhaps its that the majority of people woke up to the fact that we'd long since grown out of the need for such victimization groups. Their complaints about a female life in America got so shrill, that the worst thing they can find to whine about is that they actually have to pay for their own recreational sex.
@AHD - I think you're underestimating the gullibility of the average woman.
I recall Ann Coulter once saying that if women were barred from voting, the GOP would have won every election but one since around 1950. - Those ladies have a LOT to answer for!
They are also the group most likely to vote for the greenies, which is another great indicator of their general naivety/gullibility.
@Mike Porter- There is indeed a war on women if we simply include them in the long-running war on American values. And for better or worse, I can't foresee anything good ever happening in this country as a result of bloodied hands: the war we're fighting needs to be for people's beliefs, not subjugation (and I know that's not what you're calling for - and I'm sympathetic to the notion that our electoral options sometimes seem inadequate to the task at hand.)
@Pryorguy- There's really not much point in trying to develop an algorithm which might help decipher the grain of truth mixed with a liar's lies. Because more lies will soon be forthcoming.
And HnC also salutes Mrs. Pryorguy!
@John the Econ- Isn't it funny what counts as "victimization" these days? As you said, women paying for their own birth control...or highly paid black pop stars singing about fried chicken wraps...or surgically altered transsexuals demanding a shot at the "Miss Universe" title. And all the while, Nero keeps playing that damn fiddle...
@Coon Tasty- I'd hate to categorize it as gullibility among women, and rather go with the "Men are from Mars, Women from Venus" theory that they simply make more complex and complicated associations than men do, adding a rich mix of variables like how a candidate's wife looks (or how a female candidate looks), whether the candidate reminds them of anyone they've ever had negative feelings about, how the female voter is feeling about herself on a given day, her hormone levels, and her unresolved feelings about her mother.
Men who think like men find it hard to tailor their overly-pragmatic, fact-based political arguments to a woman's mindset. Men like Obama, who express themselves like romance novelists using a vocabulary of emotion, find it easier to connect - and manipulate.
(By the way- the opinion above is NOT intended to offend any female readers. I love women, but anyone who says that men and women think the same way is sadly mistaken.)
Oh how I love watching Mr.j carney dance. He is the most enthusiast tap dancer I have ever seen. It's just such a shame he is not a good tap dancer. Well he deserves points for his endurance though, the last 2 weeks of non stop fast and furious dancing should have earned him a Guinness world record but I have a feeling we haven't seen anything yet.
@REM1875- As much as I find Carney a reprehensible little weasel, I need to give him a tip of the hat for being good (well, as good as possible) at his job. He's skilled at spin, and can apparently say absolutely anything with a straight face, no matter how ludicrous or untrue.
And as you suggest, it will get worse in the near future.
OOOOOOOH! Another great one Stilton. I would like to se a 'Flash' be done of all the real crucial issues we've had of the day for this country and the world and have a "And where was the President on this?" and just flash every freeking golf and vacation pic.
We know this asshat wil use anything and everything to make 'his ends met his means.' When Reagan said he trusted Americans would make the right decisions he was really out on a limb for his faith and of course there was a landslide for him.
I'm hoping with a lot of good patriot Americans and the 'Indies' this bastard gets slammed hard to the ground this November.
@Lloyd- Wow, that's actually a great idea for a video; pairing the crises this country has faced on a week by week basis with pictures showing the Bamster still found time for golf. I hope someone does it (I'd try it myself, but I'm already up-to-my-eyeballs busy).
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