Our Scratch Golfer

No one would deny that there is turmoil in America. Unemployment percentage hovering near (or into) double figures, foreclosures at record numbers, epic homelessness, a 3.2% decline on average in individual incomes, two active wars and a worldwide war on terror- no one could doubt much of America is suffering. But not so with the bon vivants, world travelers, and good time Charlies at the White House, who are enjoying the perks of office like no administration that has served before (and hopefully will ever serve again). We have learned that President Obama is an avid golfer, playing at least thirty-two (32) rounds of golf in his early tenure in office, eight (8) more matches than the twenty-four (24) that the last President Bush played during his entire two term, eight (8) year Presidency. Is it good to know that in a time of economic dislocation, vicissitudes facing the average family, real peril from Islamist extremists that the President can so easily take his mind off all of our problems? There is an historic precedent, where a national leader has occupied his time with something other than worrying about the travails his citizenry faced- a fellow named Nero reputedly fiddled while Rome burned.