Duffing off

For the record: We care not a wit when and where the President chooses to play golf. Any criticisms we have of him or his policies are independent of how he chooses to delegate any free time (which is scarce for any President regardless of the time or circumstance) he might have. Criticisms of him playing golf during this Iranian crisis or even more bewildering, criticism of him getting ice cream with his daughters is petty and absurd.

Any criticisms with respect to this whole golf business should be leveled at the press who seem to treat the golf outings of two wartime Presidents in greatly different manners.

Would we feel better about the situation on the whole if he had made some stronger statements on the behalf of the Iranian protesters and then played some golf? You betcha. At the end of the day, though, we have a Commander-in-Chief who has yet to offer an official condemnation of the assassination of Private William Long by an Islamic extremist and who will still be inviting diplomats of Iran’s thug-ocracy over to the White House for a wienie roast on the 4th and who also happens to play golf…. a lot of golf.

Nothing more, nothing less.