Obama needs to work on the problems that America is facing like a soaring national debt, soaring gas prices, jobs/reducing unemployment, getting the economy back on track, keeping America Safe RATHER than sticking his nose into issues that frankly are none of his business....The problem is he has NO solutions for the nation's problems and has proven through his failed policies that he is incapable of fixing America so he has no other way to get into the press other than commenting on inane issues that are frankly none of his concern...
And again it's don't do as I do...do as I say....have we forgotten all the flack over the fact that Obama never plays golf with women....it's always a big boys club....see second attached article...
Obama thinks Augusta golf club should admit women as members
Published April 05, 2012 | FoxNews.com
President Obama thinks women should be admitted as members to the all-male Augusta National golf club, the White House said Thursday.
Press Secretary Jay Carney conveyed the president's position just as the Masters tournament hosted by Augusta got underway.
"He believes Augusta should admit women," Carney said. "Kind of long past the time when women should be excluded from anything."
Carney said Obama thinks it's "up to the club to decide," but that Obama told him he personally thinks women should be welcome.
Augusta's exclusion of women routinely has surfaced as a controversial issue, as the club is the longtime home of the prestigious Masters tournament. The issue has attracted particular attention as one of the club's sponsors, IBM, has a new female CEO, Virginia Rometty.
The last four CEOs at IBM, all male, have been invited to be members.
The chairman of Augusta National this week said the club will decide for itself whom to allow in its ranks.
"As has been the case whenever that question is asked, all issues of membership have been and are subject to private deliberations of the members," Billy Payne said when the inevitable question was asked Wednesday. "That statement remains accurate and that remains my statement."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Obama’s War On Women
BY: Andrew Stiles - April 5, 2012 1:37 pm
President Obama believes it is “long past the time” for women to be admitted to the traditionally all-male Augusta National Golf Club, White House press secretary Jay Carney said Thursday.
The remarks were viewed by some as a conscious effort by the White House to propagate the meme of a “war on women” being waged by Republicans against the fairer sex.
The president himself, however, has a well-documented history of excluding women, especially on the golf course.
Obama played 23 rounds of golf between January and October of 2009 before inviting a single woman to his foursome, the New York Times reported. This was emblematic of broader concerns over the president’s preference for the company and advice of men:
The technical foul over the all-male game has become a nagging concern for a White House that has battled an impression dating to the presidential campaign that Mr. Obama’s closest advisers form a boys’ club and that he is too frequently in the company of only men — not just when playing sports, but also when making big decisions.
“Women are Obama’s base, and they don’t seem to have enough people who look like the base inside of their own inner circle,” former Clinton press secretary Dee Dee Myers told the Times.
In a 2011 article titled “The White House Boys’ Club: President Obama Has a Woman Problem,” TIME magazine’s Amy Sullivan detailed the president’s fondness for male-dominated enviroments.
“There’s a looseness to Obama when he’s hanging out with the boys club that doesn’t appear in co-ed gatherings,” she wrote. “The President blows off steam on the golf course with male colleagues and friends. He takes to the White House basketball court with NBA stars, men’s college players, and male cabinet members and members of Congress.”
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