NYT White House Correspondent: Obama 'Hates' Camp David Because There's No Golf
UPDATE AT END OF POST: There actually is golf at Camp David.
Camp David has been an historic presidential retreat since World War II, but according to New York Times White House correspondent Helene Cooper, Barack Obama "hates it" because there isn't any golf.
Such was revealed on the syndicated Chris Matthews Show this weekend (video follows with transcript and commentary):
HELENE COOPER, NEW YORK TIMES WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Alright, for something totally superficial, I have figured out why President Obama does not like Camp David.
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: He doesn’t like it?
COOPER: He hates it. We were up there for the G-8 last weekend and I’ve never been able to understand why, you know, Obama, President Obama doesn't like going there. It's beautiful. I mean, the cabins are…
MATTHEWS: Did you get to see it?
COOPER: Yes, I finally got to see it. I got to see the presidential cabin.
MATTHEWS: Everybody loved it.
COOPER: It was fantastic. And so everybody’s going, “Why doesn't he spend more time up there?” No golf.
MATTHEWS: No golf.
COOPER: It's all about the golf.
MATTHEWS: Doesn’t he have a little putting green?
COOPER: No, it's all about the golf. It's got a couple of places where you can...
MATTHEWS: But it's got skeet shooting, it’s got bowling, it’s got everything.
COOPER: There's wildlife, I saw a squirrel.
MATTHEWS: Oh God. I think that shows a limitation at this point. I think it would be great out there.
You think so, Chris?
After all, the President that claims to be a man of the people has now played almost 100 rounds of golf since Inauguration Day.
While Obama's adoring media try to paint Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney as a wealthy elitest out of touch with the public, maybe they should be far more critical of a president that has averaged over two rounds of golf per month while much of the nation struggles to make ends meet.
His love of golf is so great he doesn't even like the famed presidential retreat because it doesn't have a course.
It therefore will be very interesting to see how much attention Cooper's startling revelation gets in the coming days.
Stay tuned.
*****Update: Cooper on her visit to Camp David might have missed something. Sports Illustrated reported in 1955:
The most recently built, and perhaps the most interesting, of President Eisenhower's golfing loci is a new four-hole pitch-and-putt course which a number of his friends have provided for him at Camp David, the presidential weekend retreat in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland. Here, a rustic-type lodge perches atop a ridge. There is a terrace in front, and then the land slopes quickly down to a small clearing that was devised by President Roosevelt (F.D.) so that a person lolling on the terrace could command a superb view of the countryside—on a clear day, a 30-to 40-mile vista. From the terrace to the edge of the wood line, the cleared lawn measures about 140 yards and runs to about the same yardage in width. This is hardly enough room for even one good golf hole, but Robert Trent Jones, the golf architect who was called in, dealt with the spatial problem with fine imagination. At the left of the clearing Jones built an Augusta-type green, and then created four tees along the right-hand edge—the first, 100 yards distant and 15 feet above the level of the green; the second, 140 yards distant, 20 feet above; the third, 120 yards distant, 20 feet below; and the fourth, 80 yards distant and 15 feet below. Carrying his mashie and pitching irons, a player hits his shot from each of the four tees, in counter-clockwise order, then moves up to the green to hole out his four balls. It offers a splendid variety of shots and no confusion in a foursome as long as each player uses a clearly distinguishable set of balls—like ones imprinted with MR. PRESIDENT.
Maybe our current president doesn't find this format challenging enough.
As for what number of rounds Obama's played since Inauguration Day, Saturday was only his 98th time. The original version of this piece claimed the President had already surpassed the century mark.
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Not just a lousy president...
Submitted by Bill Brasky on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 12:04pm.
Obama is an asshole.
I guess Yellowstone is out of the question also
Submitted by frank14 on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 5:28pm.
No tees by Old Faithful...
It's Michelle who probably despises Camp David.
Submitted by drsamherman on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 12:07pm.
She doesn't get to fly to Camp David except on a helicopter. She doesn't get to sweep down the long stairway after spending millions on her own flight (including listing her daughters as "assistants") and she doesn't get to receive all of the adulation to which she believes she is entitled. Add in no shopping, no trendy restaurants and no TV coverage and the place is probably like hell to her. It would starve her need for publicity.
Not to mention Camp David is
Submitted by stratman on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 1:45pm.
Not to mention Camp David is where the White Imperialist Presidents and their racist families like GW Bush vacationed and it's no wonder Moochelle, who had her first proud moment as an adult in America when her husband was running for President, would not want to stay there.
Martha's Vineyard on the other hand...
Just curious, does Mother Robinson go on the fabulous vacations with Moochelle, at least not as the live-in nanny?
"Moms Mabley" Robinson is probably on the payroll.
Submitted by drsamherman on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 11:45pm.
Just like the two girls are "special advisers", Moochelle's mother is probably listed as a $160K/year "child care expert".
I feel exactly the same way
Submitted by Chulio on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 12:24pm.
I feel exactly the same way about my personal resort compound. I hate it because it doesn't have it's own golf course. Dammed personal resort compounds without gold courses!
Pssst,
Submitted by bobsmom on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 12:28pm.
President Obama, I have it on good personal authority that Camp David hates you right back. Don't tell anybody.
Helen Cooper sees the President, at Camp David
Submitted by Gary Hall on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 12:30pm.
COOPER: There's wildlife, I saw a squirrel.
Well, my first thought was, 'Goodness. What? She's never even been to Central ParK?'
My second thought was, 'Hey, she got a glimpse of the President.'
(;~/ gary
I got a chuckle out of that
Submitted by ex buff e-dub on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 1:03pm.
I got a chuckle out of that too...
No wonder we're constantly pull..
"look! a squirrel!"
This thread needs "Like" buttons
Submitted by Blonde on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 1:39pm.
Good one, Gar.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Hunting, bowling, and wild squirrel life
Submitted by CO2Maker on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 1:51pm.
I saw herds of squirrels stampeding across my back yard every day this week.
She did say it was a superficial observation. Shooting squirrel! Geez, it's high school all over again!
herds of squirrels stampeding . . . you say
Submitted by Gary Hall on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 4:55pm.
Actually - they're migrating. That darn anthropogenic climate change.
(;~/ gary
Bushy tailed
Submitted by misterbee241 on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 5:33pm.
tree rats.
Too bad Mooooooochie wasn't
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 2:45pm.
Too bad Mooooooochie wasn't there - she could have seen a wildebeast!!!
And if there's no golf
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 12:33pm.
he has to interact with his family.
The guy acts like his family time is SOOOO important, yet he chafes at having to spend an entire weekend sort of "cooped up" with them.
He misses
Submitted by misterbee241 on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 5:34pm.
Reggie.
Awwww, poor baby.
Submitted by ant on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 1:01pm.
Must be tough to fire up a spliff on a bowling lane, huh? Hey, I got an idea....what's the perpetual Marxist adolescent a-hole worth now? I forget, I know it's millions. Build one nearby, you got the money, you'll actually create jobs for once, and you've got five more years to enjoy it, right, Mr.confidence?
Shhhh! Ant!
Submitted by Blonde on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 1:41pm.
He doesn't spend HIS money....he spends ours.
How much does a golf course cost to build? $20 million or so......So the Wonce would have the taxpayers fund a $10 billion dollar course at Camp David, with $200 million per year in perpetuity to maintain it.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
I bet he sucks at golf too.
Submitted by ex buff e-dub on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 1:07pm.
I bet he sucks at golf too. I wonder what his REAL average is?
That transcript..
Submitted by dmacleo on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 1:58pm.
is also hidden....
Boy Baraka's golf swing as
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 2:48pm.
Boy Baraka's golf swing as about as bad as that other ex-basketball player's - 'the round mound of rebound' - I can't think of his name. He's a TV commentator, a psuedo-political gum-flapper, and another a$$hole, just like Obama.
Charles Barkley
Submitted by Rukus on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 5:47pm.
From Auburn, meh, figures...
Yeah, Ruk...........mahalo!!!
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 5:57pm.
Yeah, Ruk...........mahalo!!! That was earlier this morning, and I was having coffee, and ye olde brain wasn't as quck as it normally is - I couldn't remember that dope's name!!! Wasn't he a 'Republican' at one time??? Jeez....................
His average golf score is...
Submitted by Unsane on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 9:05pm.
18!
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
The "Dear Leader" score.. In
Submitted by ex buff e-dub on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 11:56pm.
The "Dear Leader" score..
In fact, probably a 17! At least one shot must have bounced out of the cup and into the next hole.
One of the greatest perks of being President
Submitted by syvyn11 on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 1:12pm.
And our king hates it cause it cuts down on golf time?
What a asshole!
And it's Obama that says 'he's' for the common man, not Romney.
I beg to differ...
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 1:45pm.
He's an asshole, not a asshole!
Jer
I agree,
Submitted by Boudin on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 1:48pm.
Nice to see you "comin around"
C'mon Jer
Submitted by Model850 on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 6:50pm.
As a lawyer you of all people should know that Obama is a asshole in the same way that the law is a ass!
; - P
<edited to undo NB splitting my clever emoticon>
We aren't the 'common
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 2:51pm.
We aren't the 'common man'...........we're the 'folks'. And he IS for us - he NEEDS us - he has told us!!! Of course, we shouldn't expect anything in return for our subservience and submission (a la Islam), other than the honor of having served him.
Tell him to go to Bush's
Submitted by ant on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 1:12pm.
Tell him to go to Bush's ranch. He can chop wood, he can bring gloves so he doesn't callous his effeminate little hands.
He'll never have calloused
Submitted by ex buff e-dub on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 1:29pm.
He'll never have calloused hands...you have to work through the blisters first
Oh please, ant...
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 1:42pm.
we all know GB would deliver one wobbly axe blow for the official photo, and then a couple of guys from his Secret Service detail would show up with a chain saw to finish up the next load of firewood for the ranch. ;-)
Jer
hey Jer,
Submitted by djwolf12 on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 2:06pm.
You got proof of what you claim....or is that just a lame attempt to be funny? I remember MANY times of the press complaining about how dull Bush's vacations to his ranch were and that they got bored watching him chop wood.
dwolf...It's just a lame attempt to be funny.
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 2:27pm.
See the little "wink" emoticon at the end of my comment. That should have been a clue.
Jer
wolfman ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 3:14pm.
You sometimes never know with Jer, him being a lefty and all. :o(
He apparently believes that Obama, who wouldn't even wear an American flag lapel pin until called out for not doing so - should be accorded 'patriot' status. :o(
The first post on this thread called Obama an asshole, and a subsequent post called him 'a' asshole - which Jer corrected to 'an' - either way, no truer words were ever typed, spoken, or screamed at the top of one's lungs. :o)
After three years and four months of this malignant tumor of a grifter stinking up the Oval Office and turning it into the Offal - or Awful - Office, effing up the economy, and mangling foreign policy, ANYONE who currently favors, supports, or defends this pos - or fawns over his butt-ugly wife - has either lost, or likely never had, anything remotely resembling any sense whatsoever. :o(
MD
MD, I did see - a couple of
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 3:35pm.
MD, I did see - a couple of weeks ago - that ol' Jer told another poster that he was going to cancel that poster's vote by pulling the lever for Boy Baraka. Now, I consider Jer to be a pretty smart guy, and he conducts himself in a pretty classy manner also, so I just can't figure out why he is for Boy Baraka - regardless of who else is running. Hell, at this point my cat Oreo (oh wow, what a racist statement that is!!!) would be a better choice. Maybe Jer gets his spendin' (Obamaspeak) money from Barry???
I'm not so naive to expect, much less to ask, anyone here
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 3:58pm.
to praise or defend this president. But I did hope that the usual flood of 'America-hating piece of shit' accusations might be reduced to a trickle this Memorial Day weekend, and that the inclination to pummel the nation's Commander-in-Chief for however he may choose to honor our nation's heroes might actually be considered sufficiently beyond the pale to be avoided altogether.
I plead guilty to irrational optimism.
Jer
Jer ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 4:25pm.
the last two lengthy posts I typed out got booted somewhere out into the ether, so I will keep this short:
Obama is an absolute disaster, AND, he is a piece of shit.
If you choose to either not see that, or ignore it, fine.
You wanna take the high road, fine - but your desire to see this incompetent, United States military hating son-of-a-bitch get a pass as far as cutting him some slack because of Memorial Day, on a conservative site, is ludicrous beyond description.
Put your irrational optimism in one hand; and Obama's phony patriotism and bullshit in the other, and see which one fills up first.
MD
It's interesting now that all
Submitted by balboa on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 9:12pm.
It's interesting now that all the people who bad-mouthed democrats for "BDS" are now knee-deep in their own version, with Obama.
Well Bal,
Submitted by Boudin on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 9:21pm.
Difference is, Obama did and does lie
You're right
Submitted by ant on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 9:22pm.
Knee-deep in ODS...Obama Debt Slavery.
Poor bal
Submitted by Unsane on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 9:23pm.
Well, when I can think of a positive thing He has done, I will let you know.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
He's a Twoosh Master!
Submitted by ex buff e-dub on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 11:59pm.
He's a Twoosh Master!
Bush certainly had his shortcomings, but ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 9:27pm.
only a lib could could equate Obama's multitudinous shortcomings and ODS syndrome that conservatives reflect, with the Bush DS or Palin DS previously and currently demonstrated by the left.
Light years of difference - that can be seen and admitted to, apparently, on a case by case basis only by those on the right.
MD
...which is exactly what
Submitted by balboa on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 9:31pm.
...which is exactly what someone with BDS would have said during the Bush administration:
"Only a con could could equate Bush's multitudinous shortcomings and BDS syndrome that liberals reflect, with the Clinton DS or Hillary DS previously and currently demonstrated by the right."
The differences, however, between Bush, Palin, and ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 4:28pm.
Obama, are recognizable because they are huge.
Recognizable to conservatives, that is.
Liberals hate(d) Bush, and fawn over Obama - and while most conservatives will admit that Bush had shortcomings, libs are too damn stupid to see that Obama is nothing but a shortcoming.
MD
That's just silly, Jer
Submitted by ant on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 4:38pm.
If anything, rememberance of those who truly sacrifice for the Country, not in the form of traveling to Europe to ask for the Olympics by virtue of being 'Mr. Historic-al I Won', is only likely to increase the hostility, magnify all the Fraud's faults, and remind us of what a negative direction the Country is taking.
This is not the time we remember those 'great photo-ops' that died 'fighting on HIS behalf'.
What?
Submitted by Unsane on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 9:08pm.
Are you serious? HIM? Honoring our nation's heroes?
He is personally embarassed and ashamed of the military.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Jeez.Jer......'irrational
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 9:39pm.
Jeez.Jer......'irrational optimism'??? On THIS subject??? And earlier today I gave you kudos for being a smart guy??? You're makin' (Obamaspeak) me look bad here, Jer, ol' buddy!!! This is a guy who wants a civilian corps (and he can't even pronouce it right!!) that is equal to - or more - than the military, for the precise reason that he knows the military won't 'get his back' when push comes to shove. And this is a guy who has disdained and dismantled the military, while using it's successes for his own political gain. This is a guy who will play ANY angle possible for self-success, without any regard for what it took for him to latch onto their work and effort. And the only reason he'll even do anything remotely resembling any 'honoring' of our Military is because he HAS TO!!! You KNOW the guy would rather be out golfing. I noticed that he sent Joe Plugs Bite-Me to West Point.
And, Balboa - I've heard all about this comparison between BDS and ODS, but I don't get it - and I wasn't a big fan of Bush, politically - for the main reason that he wasn't a conservative, he spent too much money, and he tried to 'make nice' with the libs too much - which is trying to be friendly with termites and vermin in your house, in my opinion. I don't think anyone with a modicum of common sense needs to be 'deranged' in order to peg Boy Baraka for what he is - which is the biggest scam ever perpetrated on the American public in the history of this country, as well as being the biggest threat to this country in our history also.
Be ready for the new White House Press MEME this week
Submitted by djwolf12 on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 2:03pm.
Steffany Cutter just gave her progressive morons in the media their new marching orders: ROMNEY WAS A DRAFT DODGER! Don't believe me? Look at her twitter account. I expect NON-STOP coverage of this on M.S.S.R. (M-BS-NBC) because Crazy Larry O'S***bag is now retweeting this garbage.
I swear, these marxist idiots will do ANYTHING to avoid discussing this HORRIBLE economy.
He sure does speak for the black community.
Submitted by ant on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 5:42pm.
I know many blacks here in West Philly that just hate that they can't always get to the links./sarc.
➚ Cooper saw a squirrel
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 9:15pm.
This doesn't end well.
"in retrospect, lighting the match was my big mistake ..."
Po
Submitted by Boudin on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 9:25pm.
Varmint
At first I thought that was a
Submitted by ex buff e-dub on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 12:10am.
At first I thought that was a "Caddyshack" reference. Boy was I mistaken.
what about just being with his family?
Submitted by Kuso Jiji on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 9:31pm.
i seem to recall him belly aching about not having enough time to spend with his family. camp david is the perfect place to make time with michelle and his two girls but instead he wants to play golf. this guy is nothing but a bozo speaking out both sides his mouth.
What does Mrs Obama have to say?
Submitted by Someone Said on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 9:25am.
Probably relieved that her husband only plays 2 1/2 rounds of golf every month.