| If you're a regular reader, you know I know better than to even attempt anything relating to sports, but I actually DO know the difference between basketball and golf. Mostly because of the clothing: my recollection is that basketkball players have very long legs and very tight short shorts. Golfers wear plaid below their knees.  So, we know that candidate Obama played a lot of basketball on the campaign trail. That he had a mean game, he played with all sorts of different people, and he played publicly. Have you seen him playing recently? There was that one game of politicos, and a White House tennis court has been remade into a hoops court, but he doesn't seem to have been playing. The Wall Street Journal says Obama has played seven basketball games since becoming president.
Yup, WSJ - this is one of the articles on their FRONT PAGE today. (Yet another reason I read USA Today. No nonsense.) WSJ says that President Obama, like 15 of the last 18 presidents, has been playing golf. They say he's played 25 times since taking office. And that NO ONE gets to watch. The WSJ spends the rest of the article dissing the President's golf game, taking shots at President Clinton's golf game, and goes on to lie about Shrub pretending to give up golf because of the soldiers serving in Iraq. I trust their sports reporting as much as I trust their other reporting: I found a bunch of pictures of Obama playing golf. This a waste of dead trees: if the president wants to play golf, he's an American, let him play. If he wants to play basketball, fantastic. It pleases me that the right wingnut press has chosen this as something to place on their front page. I'm glad this is what Rupert Murdoch is sending his minions out to investigate. I wonder if he'll apply that "no error" thing to WSJ....they're related to Fox Noise. For me, I am just confused since in the photos, he's playing basketball in long baggy pants, and he's lacking plaid on the golf course.... |
