Not 2 Be Missed | Presidential dream: long walk in the park
Saturday, April 9, 2011 03:07 AMBY RICHARD S. DUNHAM
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama wants you to know that he is not a golf addict.
He spends so much time unwinding on the links because security restrictions mean he can’t go out for long walks or go to the carwash or the grocery store.
The president’s comments came during a session with editors and publishers from Hearst Magazines in which he described life behind the scenes in the White House.
The president said he loves his life in the White House but doesn’t enjoy some of the ways of Washington, such as the “kabuki dance” among political partisans before serious policy discussions begin. He also regrets his loss of personal privacy.
“I just miss - I miss being anonymous,” he said at the meeting in the White House. “I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks. I can’t take a walk.”
He says he enjoys golf but is not the fanatic that some have portrayed.
“It’s the only excuse I have to get outside for four hours at a stretch,”
This is a REALLY SCARED MAN
Scared his desire to play golf will be misconstrued by the supporters he saw via Sharpton last week. Scared his academic elitist friends will not understand why he is ineffective. Scared his overseas enemies will not harken to his goodness, and the obviou benefits of his speeches. Scared his domestic political enemies UNDERSTAND HIM.
Most of all, scared he will not be approved of.
Don’t worry Barack.
I approve of you as a man. I approve of your idealism. I approve of your desire to believe that community cooperation by all is a better way. I approve of your desire to find a new path in that thoughts that an america absent from the world stage as leader will be an america absent from foreign hatred and disapproval.
All of these ideas are fallacies, of course, but we need naive idealists. I will ignore for the moment the corruption which brings men like Immelt to the council of advisors and what that means, though.
I approve of you the way I approve of Henry Wallace. Men like you are needed, and necessary.
But you can never, ever be successful presidents.
Perhaps one like, like the elected man of 1976, you will find peace again, as an organizer.
At the fringe.
And there I will wish you luck. But only just enough to find fulfillment.
1 comment:
And SCAREY, too!
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