Bloomberg joins Obama on golf course: The Swamp
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Chicago Tribune
Posted August 27, 2010 2:20 PM
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President Obama rides in a golf cart Thursday with White House trip director Marvin Nicholson. (Photo Credit: AP / Steven Senne)

The Swamp

by Mike Memoli

Eager to show he is still engaged while on vacation, especially as economic growth was revised downward, President Obama held a 15-minute discussion on the economy today with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

The optics, however, did not exactly scream, "I feel your pain."

The president and the billionaire media mogul-turned-politician held that discussion in the clubhouse of a private Martha's Vineyard country club. According to the pool reporter, the two then hit the driving range and then the golf course.

One topic not addressed in the dispatch is whether the subject of the proposed Islamic cultural center and mosque near Ground Zero came up, a subject it would seem likely for the two to discuss. This is the first face-to-face meeting between the two since the Obama addressed the controversy earlier this month.

During an appearance on "The Daily Show" yesterday, Bloomberg made another impassioned defense for building the Park 51 complex in lower Manhattan, while arguing that much of the opposition to it is motivated by pure politics.



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"This is plain and simple people trying to stir up things to get publicity and trying to polarize people so that they can get some votes. And I don't think that most of these people who are yelling and screaming really care one way or another," he said.

Because of that, he predicted that the controversy would die down after the November 2 elections.

"There's already another mosque down there within four block of the World Trade Center. There's porno places, there's fast-food places. It's a vibrant community. It's New York," he added.

Today's golf outing by the president is his fifth of his week-long vacation, which ends Sunday. Earlier today he went on a bike ride with his family.

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Hey Republo-fascists, a black man is playing golf. Start venting your foaming and frothing at the mouth rage in 3.....2......1......


Yes...let's take back golf for America and white men.


Obama plays golf with Bloomberg while the economy sheds jobs like a dog with mange. Both of these guys are clowns. Both want to bend over backwards to appease.


The November elections are going to produce a record turn over. These clowns are done.


They can smell it coming: Barney Frank admits he was at fault for Fannie and Freddie. Bill Clinton admits he should have regulated derivatives...makes that blame Bush BS pretty hard to swallow. Not only does Obama own this economy, but the Democrats have admitted there polices created the whole mess.


Rob can start cutting and pasting in 3, 2, 1....


Correct. One way to create jobs is Obama making friends with the Billionares. They wil invest in America, if Obama can give something they want: power grid, infrustructure for high speed rail, something that will give them a good return and yield! That should start the V shape of the economy. With over 1.8 trillion dollars on the side waiting, it's time to entice. . .


Posted by: Steve Hadley | August 27, 2010 2:48 PM

Yes...let's take back golf for America and white men.

Posted by: bill r. | August 27, 2010 3:46 PM
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Really- ? This is all you two can say?
Seems that there is a little projection going on with your skin color fixation here...
Liberals "go to" rhetoric is ALWAYS race based when they have lost the argument.... and the argument for Obamanomincs has been lost some time ago.
We are at best heading into a double dip recession- 1 in 10 people are out of work- housing sales and home values are at historic lows- while deficits and debt are at insane and historic highs...
The royal Obama family response is to go on horribly expensive vacations ... and all you see is a black guy golfing- how shallow.


"Pure politics" coated in gooey, stickey, hate and fear even though, those people ARE Americans. And people forget that the twin towers had a mulitude of races, religions and nationalities working there that were killed that day. It wasn't all fat, old, white bankers that died in that terrible attack.


heartburn....Next time you republicans leave office...don't leave the country in ruins.


@heartburn
Recession? The economy is still growing. Slowly but it's growing. Corporations are making money. They are flush with cash. Right now it's easy for them to not hire because management gets increased bonuses while their companies are turning higher profits using a trimmed down, leaner workforce. Manufacturers are beginning to increase capital spending. A flood of unused Stimulus cash is about to hit the streets in the coming months. In 12 months America will be tweeting, "OMG America's unemployment nose-dived for 3 years after Reagan was elected. It only took President Obama 26 months to turn this unprecedented economic meltdown around."


Nero fiddled while Rome was burning.. Obama golfs and vacations. Don't see much of a difference.
Biden speaks about as well as Cluadius also. Just call him Clodius and call shower boy Rahm Caligula.


The more BO is on the golf course, the less is screwing up this country.

Rodney King,

Billionaires won't create jobs unless they get to play golf with the President? How do you think they became billionaires in the first place?

As for the Power Grid, let the utilities build it and put it in their rate structure. High Speed Rail, o/s the northeast - I don't here the masses clammering for this.

Heartburn,

This is what most liberals do when they can't win an argument on the facts, which is quite often, they resort to name calling.

Argue against vast expansion of government power, intrusiveness and debt, as represented by the Tea Party movement? Why, they it must be racist resentment toward a black president.

-- Disgusted and alarmed with the federal government's unwillingness to curb illegal immigration? Nativism.

-- Opposition to the most radical redefinition of marriage in human history? Homophobia.

-- Oppose a 15-story Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero? Islamophobia.

Basically the libs don't want to argue facts, they just want to call us Racists, NAtivist, homophobic isloamophobs.


F2W, chill, boy.


Your blood pressure will get you if you continue to get so upset.

President will in all probability be around for the next 6 1/2 years, so you need to pace yourself.

We don't want to lose you to an untimely m.i.


Anyhoo, I wonder if the subject of Treasury Secretary came up during that ride-----


I only say that because Timmy Geithner was seen caddying their golf bags, on foot......


Bush did do one smart thing:

gave up riding around in his golf cart.


Figured, rightly, this didn't look so good when US soldiers were getting their asses shot off in his wars.

This doesn't mean one can't golf. Just means, lose the golf kart.


Awww...little billy r. got his clock cleaned by heartburn, so he comes back with a hard hitting distortion of recent history.

Dear little billy r,
1) Who controlled the U.S. Congress in 2007 and 2008 ???
2) Does Congress mandate spending???
3) Hmmmmm???
Stick to basketball and rap...you'll never make it as a historian.

Paulo



Bloomberg is showing his true colors, for instance, do his actions indicate an Independent or perhaps a Democrat, or just a plain sleaze dressed in a business suit? No doubt he's a rich man and sometimes wise, man but always the opportunist.


heartburn....Next time you republicans leave office...don't leave the country in ruins.

Posted by: bill r. | August 27, 2010 5:35 PM


WOW you really bought into the propaganda. But in reality most thinking adults meaning nonliberal drones know the true timeline. That how the credit swap market could have been regulated back in the 1990s if not for Greenspan and three Clinton appointees (two of which are now financial advisors to Obama). Now before you brain-dead liberal drones start calling me a liar it is all laid out in a Frontline program. There is also video and audio proof of the Democrats basically pumping up the housing bubble. I love it when you get Barney Franks, Maxine Waters, and Chris Dodd on video. And if you do look at the timeline you'll notice that unemployment started going out, the housing market bubble began to burst, and the economy started its long slide after a Democrats took control in 2006. I remember the brain-dead liberals complaining about unemployment when it was at 5% when Bush was in office. When Clinton was in office the liberals and their comrades in the mainstream media were complaining that unemployment was to low at 6.2%. And now they're trying to make it seem that 9.5% is not that far out of line. I cannot state this strongly enough the only ones still buying this are as I've mentioned before brain-dead liberal drones, Hollywood sex addicts, mainstream media reporters and their bosses. By electing Obama as our first child president with no previous executive experience the liberals have continued the dismantling of this country began by the liberals in Congress in 2006. It would appear that 2010 moving into 2011 will be the beginning of the end for this cabal of liberal elitist. Now you little pea brain cheerleading drug addicted welfare dependent liberals can (pick one of the following attacks from the liberal instruction manual) call me a racist, a bigot, a homophobe, a Bible thumper, or a privileged white man. It just does not fly anymore and mean so little coming from a liberal. But I will ask, do you hear it? Tick Tock November is getting close.


Ornery, I'm not your boy. Find someone else.

And I am enjoying the sudden truth coming out of Bill Clinton and Barney the Frank. It's about time that the Dems fessed up to building the housing market house of cards.

More meltdowns to come...


Billionaires won't create jobs unless they get to play golf with the President? How do you think they became billionaires in the first place?
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Correct. In business, friends help each other out. Isn't that what your salesmen do in your company? They forge relationships so they become the supplier. They wine and dine their customers to get the contract. Unless, you don't think business lunches are just part of the companies budget? It's there for a reason. So, it is the same concept.

And, how did you think Bloomberg became a billionaire? Knowing and making friends with other rich people. Among Bloomberg's friends? Well. . .Mr. Gates.


If that's cleaning my clock, I suggest he put away his tools and pick up a mop. Funny about the racism label from liberals, who's the one who called the POTUS a racist with a deep seeded hatred for white folk and then holds a restoring honor on the spot of I have a dream? Hypocrite!


and Paoli girl....while you like to mention 2007 to 2008, you fail to mention that since 2000, the paychecks for big government has gone up 40% and only 8% since Obama took office.


Chill pills for all of the above.


It's no use fulminating about Obama.


His personal popularity is unsurpassed.


You'll have to concentrate on other Dems......I won't say which ones.....


Rodney King,

Businessmen make business deals - friendship only goes so far in a business deal. Many a friendship has come from a business deal - in other words, the business deal comes first.


"His personal popularity is unsurpassed"

Where Ornery? In In the UK or the Middle East?
The vacationer-in-chief has a 41% approval rating after a radical 18 months.

Only the hand-out 35%ers are for him...like you and your ilk.

Paulo


Wow, that 15 min. talk about the economy with Bloomy really turned it around....NOT. Of course the liberal msm lap dogs print and repeat the Ones every word. Lets see if i can fix this: Oblamo went golfing while on vacation while the economy is in the toilet.


How Obama Spent (Some) of His Summer Vacation

“V-A-See-A-T-I-O-N, we’re on vacation, we’re gonna have a ball!” (Connie Francis)

It may be antiquated and not “with it” today but a popular back-to-school, first week assignment to get kids back to the grind used to be to have them write about how they spent their summer vacations. Most kids could write at least something on that easy topic.

If little Barry Obama were heading back to classes following summer vacation 2010, he would have a lot to write about. If he included where and how he spent this year’s vacations, to date, he could almost literally write volumes.

Compliments of IOwntheWorld.com, we present this pictorial insight into how our commander-in-chief, our president, our leader and chief bottle-washer, who had vowed, “I will not rest until everyone has a job, a good wage, and benefits,” has been spending his last vacation during this, America’s “recovery summer.”

Suffice to say, Obama, now being termed President Clark Griswold in a few quarters, has never, ever rested on his laurels nor on his vacations. Maybe he simply forgot that pledge to the American people and forgot those many millions of Americans still without a job, still without a good wage, and still without benefits.

Then, however, it would seem he has a surprisingly bad memory for such a smart dude since he’s forgotten any number of pledges and promises.

The pictures depict the president and First Lady thoroughly enjoying some ice cream during their vacation up there in the playground of the very rich and very famous, Martha’s Vineyard, where, for some very bizarre reason, GWB tee shirts were outselling BHO tee shirts. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1868)


Update: The Mosque and the Glaciers

Trying to keep up with the news nowadays is like liberals/leftists/”progressives” trying to make sense of their lives and trying to fit themselves into their advertised profile of caring, generous, sensitive lovers of humanity and all things that live on God’s green Earth.

It’s nigh near impossible.

Of course, we should strike the word “God” from that last phrase since most libs/lefts/”progs” either don’t adhere to a belief in the Almighty or don’t believe that He was in any way a participant in making the United States of America the exceptional nation that it still is despite their efforts to alter that.

We should also qualify that concern for “all things living” since pre-born babies don’t count.

Nevertheless, let’s give a shot at keeping abreast of things going on in the world on two fronts, mosques and glaciers:

The Monster Mosque and Its Monstrous Supporters:

The extraordinarily contentious issue of whether Muslims should build a mosque 2 1/2 blocks from Ground Zero where almost nine years ago other Muslims destroyed the World Trade Center and, by downing those two iconic towers, destroyed 2,996 innocent lives, was brought to a head last week when those who oppose and those who support the mosque gathered to demonstrate their opposition or support.

Islam’s constitutional right to erect such an edifice has never disputed. Islam’s discretion and sensitivity toward the feelings of 9/11 survivors and loved ones and its sensitivities toward every New Yorker or American who died a little that day are the chief issues of contention.

At those Ground Zero rallies on August 22nd, 2010, the two opposing forces met, head to head, virtually mano-a-mano. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1871)


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