Considering that his putting game might need a little work anyway, maybe this isn’t the worst idea. But for a Republican to say that folks should lay off President Obama for hitting the links is a boldly RINO proclamation.
Even if that Republican is the 43rd President of the United States.
In an episode of the Golf Channel’s In Play with Jimmy Roberts set to air Tuesday night, former President George W. Bush tells the host that Obama critics should keep their critiques far from the gallery.
“You know, I see our president criticized for playing golf — I don’t,” Bush says in the interview. “I think he ought to play golf. I know what it’s like to be in the bubble. I know the pressures of the job. And to be able to get outside and play golf with some of your pals is important for the president.”
Bush was a noted golfer himself during the first term of his presidency. However, after learning of the August 2003 bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad during a golf outing, he chose to keep his clubs stored away.
“I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf,” Bush said in an interview with Politico five years after he made the decision. “I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.”
Watch the promo of the In Play interview with Bush below:
