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So Tom.... wrote on Mar 22, 2009 1:36 PM:
Do you expect the President of the United States of America to wear sackcloth and ash, go on food stamps and play Jenga by candlelight? Did any other President do so during a recession or depression? Does anyone work all day, never smile or relax, think all the time about what is wrong with the country/world/economy/Congress/bad peanut butter? Are you gonna boycott all the affluent bowlers at NB Lanes next?
Mr B wrote on Mar 22, 2009 12:25 PM:
Joe Sixpack: At least he can read better than the last President, who was barely manage to string together a coherent sentence.
To Tom wrote on Mar 22, 2009 12:23 PM:
"President Harry S. Truman officially opens the first White House bowling alley on this day in 1947. The two-lane bowling alley, situated in the West Wing, had been constructed earlier that year." http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=506. The economic tragedy was handed to you on silver platter by BUSH & CO.
Mr E wrote on Mar 22, 2009 12:58 AM:
You're complaining that the President gets to "have fun" sometimes (even if, not counting George "the W stands for 'vacation,' back-to-back" Bush, the President is probably one of the five busiest individuals in the WORLD)? Because some Republican, FORTY YEARS AGO, put a bowling alley in the White House, you pull the "but our CHILDREN, how DARE you" card? Wow, talk about pathetic.
And, without a teleprompter, who knows what will come out of anybody's mouth. At least the media is equal opportunity... this is as much a non-story as what happened to Trent Lott (regarding Strom Thurmond's run for President in the days of segregation) a few years ago, but we keep hearing about it. Of course, you don't see the Democrats stabbing Obama in the back, as the Republicans did to Lott...
And, without a teleprompter, who knows what will come out of anybody's mouth. At least the media is equal opportunity... this is as much a non-story as what happened to Trent Lott (regarding Strom Thurmond's run for President in the days of segregation) a few years ago, but we keep hearing about it. Of course, you don't see the Democrats stabbing Obama in the back, as the Republicans did to Lott...
ALL PRESIDENTS NEED SOME R R wrote on Mar 21, 2009 11:34 PM:
Bowling didn't appeal to Truman and his birthday gift lanes were removed in 1955. Richard and Pat Nixon were the avid bowlers who had the current alley installed under the North Portico in 1969. The White House Museum web site has a photo of George W. Bush bowling there. Barak Obama, like presidents Nixon and Bush, is an elected government employee who has every right to some private leisure time in his home--the White House. His occasional verbal gaffes fall far short of the calculated malicious rhetoric of his detractors who apparently can't form an original thought without a teleprompter in the form of Rush Limbaugh.
Laughing wrote on Mar 21, 2009 4:37 PM:
That HE bestowed upon us.... right.... maybe you should take a look at where this all came from.
FRED TWELVEPACK wrote on Mar 21, 2009 4:09 PM:
We take things way to serious. It was an attempt at humor. Why is this news? I am sick of politically correct!
Tom wrote on Mar 21, 2009 1:58 PM:
THat's it. You go bowl in your big white house and improve your scores while the rest of us can't afford to take our kids bowling because of this econimic tradgedy you have bestowed upon us. Yah...nice to hear howmuch fun you are having in the white house.
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