Barack Obama’s golf swing reveals he’s an athlete, a duffer and fun to play with By Michael Bamberger Senior Writer, Sports Illustrated Published: December 24, 2008 Golf.com has performed an important service. It has posted five photographs, taken by AP photographer Gerald Herbert, that shows President-elect Barack Obama on vacation in Hawaii playing golf. This is invaluable as we all know that nothing, not even a CNN special called “Obama Revealed,” reveals the soul as ruthlessly and efficiently as how one plays the old Scottish game. John F. Kennedy nearly made a hole-in-one on the short par-3 15th at Cypress Point (the best-smelling hole in all of golf, if you like the mix of eucalyptus and brackish ocean water) while running for the presidency in 1960. Kennedy, considered by presidential golfing historians to be by far the most skilled of our golf-playing presidents, was relieved to see the ball stay out. He was trying to succeed Dwight Eisenhower as president, and not as First Golfer. The game then wasn’t the populist activity it has become. Kennedy, foolishly, allowed himself to be photographed taking a golf swing in fancy loafers, no socks. Still, he won West Virginia. But Obama does not have to run from his golf. The guess here is that he’s an athlete and a duffer and fun to play with. In Photo No. 1, the first thing that strikes you is that Obama is a lefthanded golfer who plays golf wearing a watch, just like Phil Mickelson. Also like Lefty, the future president …
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April 26th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
Obama sucking more and more everyday!
April 26th, 2010 at 5:07 pm
LOL STOP TALKING ABOUT THE ECONOMY WHEN THE VIDEO SHOWS OBAMA TAKING A GOLF SWING. LIKE SERIOUSLy.
April 26th, 2010 at 5:21 pm
Obama = epic fail
April 26th, 2010 at 6:05 pm
great golf video of a great american president folks! im so glad he got elected and not those clueless repubs. mccain and palin. obama 2012!!:)
April 26th, 2010 at 6:53 pm
He still golfs far better than he governs.
April 26th, 2010 at 7:52 pm
Hahahaha, the world is in disaster and he is playing golf- loool- at least Bush played better than him…nice one CIA, next time maybe you should just let him stick to basketball like in the elections (racist faggots)
April 26th, 2010 at 8:50 pm
lol!
Thank you.
April 26th, 2010 at 9:02 pm
@CheekiMnky
We are worse off than we were before 2009. Obama is Bush on steroids.
April 26th, 2010 at 9:47 pm
cherry pick?
April 26th, 2010 at 10:46 pm
obama thought that club was a shovel? terrible… you can tell he just started golfing in 2009 loll
April 26th, 2010 at 11:05 pm
go lefthanded golfers
April 27th, 2010 at 12:59 am
@cjd623
Obama is on par with Jimmy Carter as one of our worst Presidents in the history of the United States. Afghanistan debacle, Health Care debacle, Economy debacle and now Terrorist are trying to hit our airplanes again. Our head of Homeland Security, Janet “the system worked” Napolitano is a complete MORON! She should be fired!
April 27th, 2010 at 1:01 am
-thing they said. and plus im pretty sure you heard of yellow journalism am i correct? honestly are you telling me the strait truth or are you being bias about the conversation?
April 27th, 2010 at 1:58 am
wait the health care was already screwed up in the first place, and plus not everyone will be satisfied with any presidents decisions. think about alll the presidents we had in the past. im pretty sure out of most of them they had made decisions that you were not in favor with. but since your republican (guessing) your not going to be satisfied in any way. and people like you always try to find something negative about him. and plus do you really think the media is telling the truth about every
April 27th, 2010 at 2:46 am
white people are weird, why are they following him on his vacation?
April 27th, 2010 at 3:28 am
@cjd623
how many Presidents have been impeached in the history of the United States? try answering that without looking it up