Obama Immediately Retreats to Golf Course to Strategize After Strong Words Against ISIS
President Obama had strong words for ISIS in a press conference Wednesday afternoon after their despicable beheading of American photojournalist James Foley. But his actions mere minutes later had many questioning his focus and resolve on tackling the terrorist threat:
According to WH travel pool w/POTUS, the president arrived at Vineyard Golf Club at 1:05 p.m., following statement on #JamesFoley and #ISIS
— Major Garrett (@MajorCBS) August 20, 2014
Obama’s press conference was terse and brief, and he took no questions afterward. He made vague promises that America would bring the terrorists to justice, but mostly stuck to condemning their actions without clearly laying out what he would to as Commander-in-Chief. Obama didn’t even have time to mention the second journalist kidnapped and under threat by ISIS, Steve Sotloff, who was abducted in mid-2013 and worked for TIME Magazine.
The golf outing was confirmed by a Washington Examiner White House correspondent as well. While these vacations have been defended by the media and many on the left as normal and expected, this time it seemed to really irk some journalists:
Struggling to reconcile my belief that critiques of presidential hobbies/vacations are stupid with my annoyance at Obama's golfing today.
— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) August 20, 2014
@DouthatNYT you're not alone
— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) August 20, 2014
Consensus (correctly) forming that Obama golfing critiques are generally dumb. Except for today. When it is indeed kind of sickening.
— Ben White (@morningmoneyben) August 20, 2014
Pool report #3 confirms: Obama is indeed golfing… avec Alonzo Mourning, Glenn Hutchins and Cy Walker.
— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) August 20, 2014
It’s becoming more and more difficult to ignore just how little attention it appears the president places on actually doing his job.
[ed. note: this post was supplemented with additional information after initial publication.]
