Obama Matches Bush Golf Rounds
President Obama has already caught up with predecessor George W. Bush in one area:
Rounds of golf. The Oval’s good friend
Mark Knoller of CBS News
reports that Obama on Sunday played his 24th round of golf since his inauguration Jan. 20 —
matching Bush’s presidential total
, which he racked up in two years and ten months. Obama’s latest round also got attention because it included a woman, domestic policy adviser
Melody Barnes
. President Bush
played his last round
in 2003, telling reporters he didn’t think it was appropriate to play the game with the the U.S. at war in Iraq and Afghanistan/The Oval, USA Today.
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Question: Is President Obama playing too much golf at a time when he should be paying more attention to the deteriorating war condition in Afghanistan?
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