President Obama's Golf Rejection Much More Than Poor Timing

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President Obama was rejected by not one, not two, but three golf courses in the New York City area during the recent Labor Day holiday weekend. Could anyone in their wildest imagination envision a sitting U.S. president being booted from a golf course or any other venue before he even got there? Golf-course owners gave the lame excuse that trying to accommodate Obama would be a crowd and security nightmare and presumably would eat into their business by shooing away other golfers during the busy holiday weekend. They noted that other notables, even kings (most recently the king of Morocco), have also been denied access to their links.
That’s undoubtedly true. But Obama is not just any notable, let alone a foreign king. He’s the president of the United States of America. Their excuse for shunning him was as good as any, since what else could they say? “We don’t want Obama, because we don’t like his politics or, more honestly, him”? The more cynical among us saw in their insulting excuses for rejecting the president the hidden hand of serial Obama vilifier Donald Trump, who owns one of the clubs in question.
But the truth is far deeper than that, and one hint of that is found in a cursory look at recent polls that show that Obama’s approval ratings have plunged even lower than George W. Bush’s, and his were worse than terrible. This rating low tells us much about the six-year drumbeat assault on Obama by the GOP: It has more than paid off in that it has forced Obama to put immigration reform on hold and push a very questionable and potentially disastrous military plunge into the ISIS crisis in Iraq and the Syrian civil war. And even more shamefully, a slew of Democratic Senate incumbents have flatly told him that they don’t want him to show his face anywhere near them on the campaign trail, all because, despite all the evidence to the contrary, the GOP has finally sold a majority on the laughable notion that Obama is a weak, flawed, failed leader. However, there’s much more to explain Obama’s turn away from the links.
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