The Fairways Are Always Fairer
No matter how little President Barack Obama knows about a subject, he always seems to assume that he knows more than anyone else. So, not surprisingly, today he weighed in on that annual rite of spring question: Should Augusta National, the home of the annual Masters golf tournament, accept women as members?
Here’s the story from The Washington Post:
The president’s “personal opinion is that women should be admitted,” Carney said, noting that he discussed the issue with Obama.
“It’s long past the time when women should be excluded from anything,” Carney said, about Obama’s views.
As a non-member – yes, no green jackets for me yet – I’ll take a pass on expressing any views here. But with Obama interjecting himself into the middle of this controversy, it’s worth recalling when some questioned the gender balance of his own golf foursomes. Remember this excerpt from The New York Times in the fall of 2009?
“In records kept by Mark Knoller of CBS, the president has played 23 rounds of golf since taking office, none of which have included women, though Mr. Knoller allows that the press office does not always release the names of every player.
The grass may always be greener on the other side, but apparently the fairways are always fairer on our own.
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Jul '11
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The president is an idiot of the highest order. Augusta can do darn well as it pleases! Hey Carney, who is John Galt?
Edited on April 5, 2012 at 8:28pmJun '10
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Can caucasians be members of the Congressional Black Caucus?
Sep '10
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What about selective service system?
Apr '11
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Desperation sure makes people go weird. This could be the most entertaining election cycle ever. Well, at least until the long-dead start wandering into the voting stations ...
Jun '10
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If they don't like the all-male golf monastery, start an all-female golf convent. For some people, golf is the only serious religious vocation they have.
Jul '10
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This is how we're going to beat him. He just can't keep his mouth shut.
Jan '11
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This is one of the side benefits to limited government: it means that there are matters about which the president's opinion is as worthless as mine.
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Doesn't seem so.
May '10
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That didn't help us in 2008.
Jun '10
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James Lileks
Doesn't seem so. · 1 minute ago
And I'm shocked, shocked I tell you, that the ACLU isn't all over this.
Jul '10
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Aaron Miller
That didn't help us in 2008. · 1 minute ago
True, but in 2008 he was fresh and new and exciting. He had no record, and you weren't allowed to judge him on anything other than his promises. Plus there was Bush fatigue working against the GOP, and the historic implications of a black man being elected President. None of those things are true anymore.
Note how Obama's poll ratings go up when he stays out of the news. In light of that, his obsession with telling us what to think about everything is going to get on people's nerves.
Jul '10
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James Lileks
Doesn't seem so. · 14 minutes ago
Separate, but equal. Henry Billings Brown would be pleased.
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President Obama has shown that he likes playing in the sand traps. Think about the past two weeks. Even before this, he stirred up controversy with his comments on Russia, the Florida investigation and the Supreme Court.
Apr '11
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Will there be a woman in the foursome next time he golfs?
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Good bet. I am sure someone in the White House is already thinking about a photo op.
Jun '11
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93 rounds of golf in just over three years. Unbelievable.
That said, the country's safer with him out of the office or w/out his teleprompter.
Mar '11
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Why is everyone giving Romney a pass on this? He's calling for Augusta to admit women too. What happened to respect for private property and freedom of association? And this is a Republican? The proper answer to this question isn't "I think...". The proper answer is "It's a private club, I'm not a member, and they should be able to do as they darn well please. If you don't like it, start your own club". But no, Romney panders.
I had to laugh at one of the liberal commenters at CNN, because they absolutely nailed Romney with the perfect name: "Weathervane".
Dec '11
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Absolutely!
Because there are bigger issues to focus upon than the private policy of a golf course and Romney's extraordinary fiscal acumen trumps all the nonsense... period.
Aug '10
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The idea that neither sex must ever be excluded from anything only makes sense if one has bought into the notion that gender is meaningless. This is something that practically everyone seems to believe, but that no one actually feels, because it is not true.
Segregating part of our lives by sex is as natural as breathing, and doesn't represent the slightest contempt or ill-will toward the opposite sex. Since the sexes are different, there is also a difference between single-sex groups and sex-integrated groups. Trying to eradicate the former does violence to human nature. But then, so does everything that comes from the Left.