The Barack and Toby Golf and Yachting Club
By Larry Johnson on June 21, 2010 at 11:16 PM in Current Affairs
Two images emerged over the weekend involving two CEOs who ostensibly are spending all of their time, effort and energy on containing the oil gushing from the wreck of the BP drilling rig, Deep Horizon–Barack playing golf and Toby Hayward sailing. WHAT THE FUCK!!
Both men take the term “clueless” to a new dimension. Hayward started the nonsense by heading back to England for a yacht race. This caught the attention of the Obama White House. Rahm Emmanuel was on the tube yesterday pointing the accusatory finger at Hayward.
The White House continued the drumbeat today:
A White House spokesman mocked BP’s chief executive Monday for attending a luxury yacht race despite the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, but then defended President Barack Obama’s own weekend golf game.
Tony Hayward, the British energy giant’s embattled chief, drew fire from the White House over the weekend for having gone to the yacht race Saturday off the Isle of Wight.
White House spokesman Bill Burton took him to task again on Monday, suggesting that Hayward take part in the cleanup operations in the Gulf of Mexico with the 300,000 euro yacht he co-owns.
“You know, look, if Tony Hayward wants to put a skimmer on that yacht and bring it down to the Gulf, we’d be happy to have his help,” Burton said to laughter in the White House briefing room.
“But what’s important isn’t what Tony Hayward’s doing in his free time; it’s what BP is doing to take… responsibility for the mess that they’ve made,” he said.
His comments echoed those of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel who called Hawyard’s decision to go to the yacht race “part of a long line of PR gaffes and mistakes.”
But when asked about Obama’s day Saturday, in particular his four hour golf game at a course near Washington, Burton said the president had the right to decompress a bit after a hard week.
Oh so Barack had a hard week? The poor, weak manchild needed to decompress? Tell that bullshit to our soldiers in Afghanistan, who have spent months patrolling and fighting without taking a day off to go yachting or golfing. I am a member of TPC golf club. I love to play golf. But I have a job and I must take care of my business responsibilities first. I have played golf once in the last three weeks.
But here’s Barack Obama. He’s played twice in the last week. That’s a minimum of eight hours screwing off recreating rather than doing his job. He’s supposed to be in charge of two wars. The economy remains in the toilet. He’s shutting down a significant portion of the Gulf economy by imposing a moratorium on offshore drilling. And the oil continues to flow. I can think of a lot of thing he could have and should have been doing rather than trying to hit a small white ball.
Hayward and Obama deserved each other. Both are arrogant, clueless assholes. The real difference, though, is that Barack is supposed to be the Commander-in-Chief of US military forces, who are dying in Afghanistan and Iraq. And Barack is playing golf. I don’t know what else to say.
by Ronald Scott
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