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Inbetween Rounds Of Golf Obama Sends His Condolences After Deadly Winter Storms Slam US
What was until a few days a gorgeous, balmy (and GDP boosting, pre-triple seasonal adjustment) winter, rapidly turned into something ugly, violent and deadly, with the sudden arrival of winter weather over the past week killing at least 43 people this weekend, leading to the first winter storm of the season which has also threatened to unleash more flooding in the Midwest and icy conditions in parts of the Northeast.
The storm caused widespread damage across parts of Texas and Oklahoma over the weekend, spawning tornadoes with record-high winds. Then it began to drag precipitation from the Gulf of Mexico toward the Great Lakes, creating deadly floods. According to the WSJ, more than 2,500 flights were canceled and thousands more delayed Monday due to bad weather, which included high winds and a wintry precipitation mix in Chicago.
On Monday, residents in the Dallas suburbs of Garland and Rowlett continued to dig out debris and assess the destruction after tornadoes swirled through Saturday night, damaging hundreds of homes.
Eleven people died in North Texas. In Garland, a city of about 233,000 where eight were killed, field meteorologists with the weather service estimated that the tornado that struck was in the EF4 category, with winds between 166 and 200 miles an hour.
It was only the second EF4 tornado in the Dallas region since 1950. Roughly 600 structures were damaged, most of them single-family homes, according to Garland officials.
In Oklahoma, where freezing rain and ice left nearly 200,000 homes without power and flooding closed highways, Gov. Mary Fallin extended a state of emergency for the state’s 77 counties.
By Tuesday, cold air descending from the Northeast was forecast to cause rain to freeze, creating dangerous road conditions and the chance of power outages in parts of Massachusetts and Connecticut and down into Pennsylvania. Officials in Michigan and other Midwestern states also braced for ice as well as more flooding.
“It will be a very icy, dangerous kind of storm,” said Glenn Field, warning coordination meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Taunton, Mass.
In short: a dazed and confused nation, which is need of leadership. Unfortunately, it won't get it.
Here, courtesy of the AP's ever watchful eye, is the latest hourly update of Obama's Hawaiian vacation, now in its 10th day, in which we read that the president - inbetween rounds of golf - "offered condolences for those who lost their lives and for those who lost their homes in the tornadoes."
This is day 10 of Obama's annual holiday vacation with his family in Hawaii.
* * *
9:05 p.m.
President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama wound up Monday dining with friends in Honolulu.
They're at Alan Wong's Honolulu, a restaurant that Obama frequents each year during his annual holiday vacation with his family in Hawaii.
Wong was one of the founders of Hawaii Regional Cuisine, a culinary movement that began in the 1990s, blending Hawaii's diverse ethnic flavors with the cuisines of the world while using local food sources.
* * *
4:35 p.m.
President Barack Obama was all smiles as he wound up a round of golf on Monday afternoon with friends in Kailua on the island of Oahu.
Obama spent nearly six hours playing golf with Mike Ramos, Greg Orme and Bobby Titcomb at the Mid Pacific Country Club. A small crowd gathered nearby, excited to see the president. Obama was wearing a white golf shirt, tan khaki shorts and a tan baseball cap.
The crowd cheered as Obama chipped it on to the green and then made a short putt on the 18th. The president took off his cap and tipped it to the crowd, and smiled and waved.
Earlier, Obama cheered on Titcomb and gave him a high five after he made a shot.
The president's motorcade later passed by scenic Lanikai Beach, with a view of the Mokulua Islands, as it made its way back to his Kailua vacation rental.
* * *
12:30 p.m.
The White House says President Obama has called Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to get an update on the severe weather there and to offer federal support for recovery efforts.
At least 11 people died and dozens were hurt in the tornadoes that swept through the Dallas area on Saturday and caused substantial damage. Other states in the Midwest and South also were hit by severe weather in the past week.
White House spokesman Eric Schultz says Obama offered condolences for those who lost their lives and for those who lost their homes in the tornadoes.
Obama made the call from Hawaii, where he is vacationing during the holidays. Schultz says the president made clear he has directed his team to work closely with the governor's staff to provide whatever assistance may be needed.
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11:35 a.m.
President Barack Obama is playing golf in Kailua. On the way to the golf course Monday morning from his vacation home, Obama's motorcade passed by scenic Kailua Beach, where some onlookers waved and took pictures of the motorcade with their cellphones.
The White House says Obama is playing golf with some of his longtime friends including Mike Ramos, Greg Orme and Bobby Titcomb.
* * *
10:40 a.m.
The White House says President Obama has been updated on progress made by Iraqi force against the Islamic State group in Ramadi.
Ramadi fell to IS in May, marking a major setback for Iraq and the U.S. The White House is describing the progress in retaking Ramadi as a testament to the "courage and determination" of the Iraqi security forces.
Iraqi military leaders say security forces have seized the main government complex there, though parts of the city remained under IS control.
The White House says the United States and the broader coalition have supported the Ramadi operation with more than 630 air strikes, and training and equipment.
A White House readout of Monday's briefing says the U.S. will continue to "support our partners fighting against ISIL on the ground until it is defeated."
Obama is vacationing with his family in Hawaii.
* * *
8:15 a.m.
President Barack Obama started off Monday morning by working out at the gym at Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe.
As the president's motorcade entered the base, a colorful Hawaiian sunrise broke through the clouds. Temperatures are in the mid-70s.
* * *
And then this happened:
A recreational drone briefly flew alongside the presidential motorcade in Hawaii, highlighting a growing security challenge posed by the popular toy. The incident, which took place Monday around 4 p.m. local time, only lasted a matter of seconds and the operator landed the craft next to him as Secret Service agents approached.
"The Secret Service is aware of this incident," U.S. Secret Service spokeswoman Nicole Mainor wrote in an email. "The subject was completely unaware that the Presidential motorcade would be transiting the area of operation and immediately complied with law enforcement requests to cease and desist. No charges were filed. The motorcade proceeded without further incident."
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Glad you could find the time chief.
Such a nice guy he is. Mr. NiceGuy... http://hedgeaccordingly.com/2015/12/obama-insists-threat-from-climate-ch...
Yeah Obama sucks. Moving right along. If he talks about a threat of Climate change then I can breath easy knowing there is absolutely no threat since the "man" only lies.
This guy could fucking care less. His balls are much more important than TX deaths. Though I will leave the last call to Reggie.
… A recreational drone briefly flew alongside the presidential motorcade in Hawaii
What kind of a drone was it - a recreational Reaper or a recreational Predator? ;-)
Looney
Seriously? Why the fuck should he speak about that shit.
He runs the fucking executive branch of government, he ain't a therapist. What is it with everyone needing fucking coddling now?
Life is short, people die. Get the fuck over it.
And you don't need any kind of leader to pay lipservice to you for you to heal.
Sheesh.
pods
Bitches will bitch about anything.
Senator Obama on Presidential vacations and leisure
"You have to understand if you seek that office, that you give your life to that office... the bargain any President strikes is, you give me this office and I give you all my fears, family life, vacations, leisure .... is gone"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68WS5B19LC4
Hyocrite in-Chief
Whenever I hear the National Anthem nowadays, I pause, bow my head and reflect on deeply patriotic thoughts. For instance, Obama laying in a hospital bed in an ICU ward dying of ass cancer.
It's good to see America's "most admired man" relax for a change ... while the middle class private sector implodes.
how about ball cancer?
You beat me to it. Take the downvotes as a scar of honor. No wonder the gov is so involved with our lives?
Pods --
I doubt anyone here really wants the CiC to pretend to weep over the death of US citizens.
This article and the comments are merely a way of pointing out the hypocrisy of these Statists and especially of the crocodile-teared libs who are forever fake-weeping over others and knitting their brows with empathy...when they really don't give a damn about anyone.
You see, the nation as our Founding Fathers established it (small central government and strong, sovereign states) has become a federal Leviathan. And the Statists destroyed the nation as we inherited it by claiming that we need an all-powerful Centralized State...FOR THE GOOD OF THE PEOPLE, and because the CARE.
When you have a Leviathan with its tentacles shoved into every orifice of the US citizenry as we have, like it or not, it is the political and official responsibility of those at the top of this beast to pretend that they care about "the little people."
The only irony with this jackass is that he so obviously couldn't care less about the US people and is so bad at pretending that he does, unless, of course, he's up for election. In that case, he's great at swinging by NJ and patting poor, stupid Chrispie Creme on the back and wiping away his tear.
I wouldn't doubt that he secretly cheers when Americans "get what's coming to them."
First, destroy the Leviathan. No one will give a rat's ass about the vacations of those in elected office or their crocodile tears.
Why the fuck should he care or lead? He took the job and gave the no vacation bullshit speech. I took better care of my team and their families than he does of the country. You obviously don't know what people are or the problems families have. People are not machines. He makes people into children through welfare and dependancy and PC bullshit and then you expect them to be mercs?
Fuck you.
People allow themselves to be made children through welfare.
I certainly don't know all the problems that families have, nor do I pretend to. That is the whole fucking point. You think somehow he is going to magically take care of you?
That is about all I could glean from your diatribe. Not sure about the mercs comment.
Are you upset that the UN guy didn't say anything about this? I mean, people died.
Maybe we should change the job description of the president to say a soft word whenever someone dies before the ripe old age of 100?
A 1 year old got shot in the head and died in my area. Why didn't she get a soft word from the CiC?
Doesn't her life matter?
pods
You take a job you do the shit. An aside comment during a golf game is insulting. There is a difference between being a role model and insulting those who elected you. He can't stop a fucking million dollar vacation to do his job which is to lead and inspire? Families have problems and many times it is not their fault. They just need some help and hope. And yes there is a reason leaders comfort the families of the dead whether you care or not.
Why bring the UN into it? They have no interest.
And yes it would be a nice human jesture for you to comfort the neighboring family of the 1 year old who got shot - or don't you giver a shit about anybody except for yourself?
You don't get it. It is not about being taken care of. It is about being respected.
Why would I respect anyone who holds office in Federal Government? 90% of what they do is OUTSIDE the scope of the government that was set up for them.
So, 90% of what they do is illegal. Outside their jurisdiction. How can YOU respect anyone serving in that capacity?
Do you expect the president to sit by and wait for each and every loss of life in the country, just so they might say a few comforting words?
I do care about others. Mainly by trying to scale back this goddamn government to the point where people might actually live life for themselves.
Sorry if I do not see your vision of a Federal Government which has the responsibility of paying lipservice to all those affected by this.
Wait, maybe I should hope they put a fucking gun to the head of someone in Florida to pay for the funerals in Texas? Hey, that will work, right?
Government is amoral, as well as it should be. As soon as you bring emotion into this, the whole thing falls apart and you have shitheads like yourself wailing because the president didn't whisper the right thing in your ear in your time of need, or put a gun to my head fast enough to pay for your cleanup.
pods
You can't fucking read shithead. I said elected government representatives must RESPECT the citizens. NOT citizens respect the government which is an oxymoron. You disagree with this?
And I guess you don't know what respect is. Your amoral government will surely work great. This is alledgedly what we have now - a nation of laws not men - and it works for shit. I think what you really want is accountability. Accountability without respect for those you are accountable to (or at least fear) is nothing.
You don't make any sense. How do you scale back a government that is amoral and does not respect you and therefore not accountable to you? Back to respect.
I am trying to focus on a few points to keep it simple for you.
Ooops, I misread your respect statement. You win.
What the hell does respect have to do with anything?
Government is amoral because it is force, nothing more and nothing less.
This government is terrible precisely because it cares. Or says it does.
Thank you for keeping it simple for me. I appreaciate it.
You started off by saying you took better care of your team or family and how O took the job and gave a no vacation speech BS.
Then you accused me of not knowing people's problems and some other such claptrap.
Then you admonished me about not consoling someone who lost a kid to a gang shooting.
Then what?
Ahh, the "you take the job you do the shit" comment and talked about leading and inspiring?
I could go on but you are not making any points. You are merely lashing out in any direction that you see fit.
But, keep going on about respect. That works well for the rappers.
pods
OK, last try on my simple point
If government is amoral without respect for the governed and is only force, nothing more and nothing less, than it is over -except to get a good job in the government.
Without respect (or fear) for the governed there can be no accountability. Without accountability government is arbitrary force. Now we may already be there as evidenced by Obama's attitude. But the sole response then is counterforce. Not the preferred option.
I objected to the cavalier arritude of our alledged leader toward the people who he is supposed to serve and your dismissal of this as irrelevant, but in re-reading your initial post I may have over-reacted, but I do believe a leader has more than an amoral responsibility to those he leads.
Agree with me or not. I am done.
duplicate post
You are one pathetic human. Help and hope? Not their fault? Who gives a shit. You want to cry for worthless lives lost (all human life is worthless), go ahead and waste your time. Ive had enough bleeding heart bullshit. Go to church and collect your welfare you clueless fuck. The only tragedy here is more lives weren't lost.
Fuck off and die faggots. Complaining is the only thing you are good at.
Since you are such a swell guy I feel compelled to respond. Lucky for you I don't give a shit about you which should make you happy.
As I have been trying to say it is about respect ( of which I have little for you also). I respect those that deserve it and pay them their due. Sorry you have never met one.
So shit for brains peasants deserve your respect for dying? What a comical concept respect is. Respect me and I respect you? No chance. Gov respect citizens? No chance. Keep on crying little boy. What's respect worth? When you die you get a few more people at your funeral? Fuck off you pleb.
You stil don't understand the rules of the game or human nature. That's why your life sucks and you are so good at complaining.
As I said but you did not get the message - I don't give a shit about you or your opinion as you are obviously one of the worthless human lives as you have so eloquently stated.
To make it simple, and you can agree or not, dying does not ipso facto deserve respect. However, an elected official must treat the citizens with respect or the government will be totalitarian. You might want this because you think you can function in this environment, and we may already have it. Of course I don't know you and you might just fit in.
Every man for himself eh? Good luck.
Every man for himself is right. Not sure what fantasy land you live in or if your some faggot idealist. Not 1 government in the history of the world respected its citizens.
I thrive in all environments because I am able to identify the game, its players and the rules. I don't need luck, luck is for hopeless morons like yourself.
State and local government should handle this (they also tax us). We do not need Washington to fill our every desire or solve our every problem. That has led to what we have now. States need separation and shoulder more responsibility. We need to stop depending on Washington, we need to shrink it not encourage it.
Again as I have been trying to say- it is not about government financial help but about leadership. How much would it cost (or save) for Obama to take some time from vacation to show some support.
phoney as a three dollar bill...
Swindlers... the one recognizes others.
I wouldn't look to this asshole (or any other president) for "leadership" after a natural disaster. I'd take a good, long look at my community and see what--if anything--they're bothering to do to band together and tackle the mess. Bovine America can't step up to the plate half the time, unless it's a dinner plate...
And the same slobbering idiots who voted for him will vote for Hillary or Bernie Sanders. Keep the freebies coming.
One occurring theme joins this story together with so many others....can you guess what that is?
http://beforeitsnews.com/global-unrest/2015/12/gangs-in-london-can-you-g...
This is not the leadership we are looking for.
It's too bad the fuck ever left the golf course. Do us a favor Obombya...stay there
This is not leadership.
Fixed.
Nope
Apparently, it costs the US about $1.4 billion a year in expenses for the Nobel Prize Winner. That will fix a lot of storm-damaged homes:
Obama family 'costs taxpayers $1.4BILLION per year' (that's 20 times more expensive than British Royal Family)http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2210323/Obama-family-costs-taxpa...
Fron now on lets just refer to Reggie's ass as the 19th hole.
Somehow I see Obama receiving more than giving. Could be wrong but thats my guess.
Well, either way old boy putts from the rough.
We tolerate this.
Nothing will change until we don't.
.."A country deserves what it tolerates." - Fred Reed
That cunt hasn't done an honest day's work in his whole life.
Honest work is for the proles.
Obama:"Wait a minute, I'm still thinking about my plan. I know I have a pen and a phone, plus a pack of camels in my pocket."
Are you talking about Barry or Michael LeVaughn Robinson Obama?
It applies to both actually.
What a "flaming butt-->dart"... We can't be rid of this limp wristed wedding bomber soon enough.
2 GREAT SOBRIQUETS!!
Putterer Of The United Statists. Only has time for golf balls and Reggie's balls...Michelle doesn't share hers.
She really does look like a man. Look at the brow of her face, her shoulder width, shoulder muscles, hands, height, hell man her neck and traps are huge. Has anyone actually seen a picture from when she was pregnant? My wife has like a million of herself. Surprising that none are available.
No one has seen a photo of Michael pregnant because there are none. The "daughters" were purchased on the open market in Morocco. If the world could see the birth certificates for all four, the healing could begin.
Nor, strangely, does there seem to be any images out there of the girls as infants. Most folks like to show off their little cuties...
Any thoughts about that?
He knows he isn't commnader of anything except his free time, so why bother.
Beautifully put - and true.
six hours. that's why golf isn't worth playing anymore. maggots like him think 6 hours is a decent pace.
Let's go, while we're young! [/Al Czervik, Caddyshack]
"working out at the gym at Marine Corps base" L O fucking L ... you guys posted him doing his "silver dumbell lunge routine" ... working out is not exactly what id call that
stripping-out for a second how you feel about his policies, i don't think ive ever seen a more disrespectful president in my life. from showing up late to every press conference to the fact that he "made a stop in san bernardino to meet with the families gunned down on his way to hawaii" and now this ... someone help me out, im pretty sure he did this once before where he "took time out from his busy golf game" to talk about something important. might have been a reporter who was decapitated by ISIS but i could be corrected on that.
oh, and there was that marine's wedding he had shut-down because he wanted to play golf during the time they were scheduled to get married. friggin disgraceful.
Pressing the 5-pounders... Feel the burn...
He's got a tough job this Golfer in Chief.
He views tornadoes as being in mostly white areas. He hates white people
Barry looks like such a weenie on the golf course, he really is bad for business.
Observe the comment above from 'Footprint'... All this man ever was in terms of his office, is a placeholder. If the body language, feet-on-the-desk, teleprompter, golf outings and overall demeanor don't spell it out, you'll never know anyway. Which, oddly enough speaks volumes about the American electorate, does it not...?
Who are the American electorate and why does it matter? Just wondering aloud. Elections have not mattered for nearly a century; at least since 1913.
All that time he's on the golf course, he's not doing any real damage. Play on, douche, play on.
SOSDA Same Ole Shit Different Asshole
I never was very good at golf, just OK, but since Obalsam has been president, I've played less and less, to the point that I didn;t play at all in 2015. Maybe I'll give the game up in honor of our First Gay-Black-Muslim-Cocksucker-Wedding-Bombing-Bed-Wetting President.
Too bad 2016 is a leap year. It's one more day this fuck will be president.
As a Half-breed, Muslim, Flaming Homo-Sexual, Obama deserves the relaxation over the holidays.... Oh look, here comes Reggie Love to make it a twosome....
Too bad the Chinese dont send some more warships to magically appear off the coast of Hawaii while the man god puts his way through American hardship. Course he'd never get the irony and would believe they were there in a show of support (for him).
Another hard hitting piece of journalism that you can't find anywhere else.
Amazing work, TD! These types of stories put ZH above all the rest!
What's he supposed to do... look sad everytime an American dies somewhere? Attend every funeral? Personally view every blown down house? Face it, you jackasses will find something to complain about no matter how he responds.
You may not realize it, but the same thing you scorn others about...you did the same; complaining about the complaining...so which is worse? I'd say about the same. Pray for all people.
Get the fuck out of the Mid East.
Looking at that golf pic, I bet his second wife is a He -She.
From the Islands of course.
Past time for a recall...
Really? Honestly? What do you want the guy to do. I'm on vacation and I have the same reaction. I'm sad for those that have been hurt by nature's storms. I send my condolences. there is nothing else I can do except hope that the emergency response teams are up to the task.
He's a crime against humanity, but in this case it's a non-issue. no?
If he was white and not a Dem the media would be all over him for not flying there to see the destruction
If he believed in global weather warming, cooling, or just change he might have found a closer vacation spot than Hawaii and kept the big jet parked?
One heckuva job...
I know of some really nice courses that he is not invited to play on...
http://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-golfs-new-frontier-wsj-money-june-201...
http://www.icenergy.co.uk/files/thumb.php?img=manual/RGA_logo1.jpg&w=300...
It's good to be the King.
"Ok, God, so listen, I'll tell you one more time. Not Texas! Don't send the tornados to Texas! He's in Hawaii!!!!!"
Printing new targets.
ATTN FIGHT CLUB!!!
Bill Clinton will crush Donald Trump — with a smilehttp://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/264375-bill-...
Get your popcorn ready!
So he's on holiday vacation, big fucking deal. George Bush took over twice as many days off.
Your point?
My point is, people get to take holiday time, get over it.
Yeah but most don't take a month or two every year. And require taxpayers to fund transportation, security, etc. For your golf game.
STOP with the George Fucking Bush comparisons.
BOTH are fuckheads - each in their own motherfucking way.
Fuckbama's timing and overall demeanor makes HIS "vacations" despicable. At least Bush hid out at his ranch - not fucking around in public like this mulatto/puppet/fraud/ cunt.
I take it by your language that you aren't actually from Jamaica.
Na na na na na na na na na na
He can't be out of office soon enough. A midget in an office that requires a world statesman.
http://www.newswithviews.com/guest_opinion/guest301.htm REPLY TO ... ANTI-TRUMP HYSTERIA
I know! On the way back to DC Air Force One could make a low fly-over of the tornado-damaged areas in Texas. Maybe even a golf clap by Obama for the efforts of the little people to rebuild their lives?
The story that should retire the trophy was the one by the Washington Post as to how the deaths of six US soldiers in Afghanistan put a frowny face on the start of Obama's excellent Christmas vacation.
Lazy. Check.
Scammin'. Check.
Free stuff. Check.
$600 iPhone works fine? Check.
An upscale version of the EBT line at Walmart.
Stay on the golf course you motherfucking prick.
Stay on it until February 2017.
Fuck me; the douche looks like a complete asswipe playing the game. What a fucking disgrace.
It is a flaw in the US political system that a lame duck can carry on like this, even in Britain MP's would drive out a useless or even an effective but unpopular leader, thinking Thatcher, Major, Blair, and cameron's on a fine line, one big mistake and its goodnight for him too.
Re: Cameron
Sticking his dick in a dead pig's mouth isn't enough for the British? WTF does he have to do, fuck a dead baby?
Is he holding his vagina?
One occurring theme joins this story together with so many others....can you guess what that is?
http://beforeitsnews.com/global-unrest/2015/12/gangs-in-london-can-you-g...
I realize that holding a putter or wedge is not the most natural thing but in Obama's case , that picture just makes him look more of a fag than usual.
thanks obama
Each time it snows or rains too much the president of the united states must declare he is sorry and if he does not everyone has to get angry?
Blacks and homosexuals must feel very embarrassed with the insults, ridicule, contempt, and open disrespect shown to their hero, Obama.
The White House staff are the laughingstock for the entire country. With a boss like Obama and his "wife," who needs clowns to laugh at.
America conducted a bad experiment by electing Obama president.
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