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Read Replies (1) | Respond to Obama now in all-out free fall The Washington Times ^ doubling down on his strategy of blaming Republicans for his failures. And he’s shifting into hyperpartisan drive, traveling the country to campaign for Democrats, many of whom wish he’d just stay away.Veterans Affairs scandal is blazing, with new horrific details emerging weekly; Congress is gathering kindling on the IRS scandal , which sends shivers of fear up the spines of wobbly Democrats; House Speaker John Boehner is fired up and plans to sue the president for his unilateral (and constitutionally banned) executive actions; and the rest of the world looks about to burst into flames.economy is in free fall (and even Team Obama can’t fudge the numbers to make things look OK). When the administration in April put out the rate of growth for the first quarter, it said the economy had grown by 0.1 percent. Last month, it changed the numbers: The economy had shrunk by 1 percent. And on Wednesday, the Commerce Department said oops, make that 2.96 percent — the 17th worst GDP quarterly performance in U.S. history.White House say? Uh, bad weather. But there was much more to the massive drop, according to economist Peter Morici.The Washington Post lambasted Mr. Obama for his weekly rounds of golf, 177 so far. (To put that into perspective, Tiger Woods plays about 18 tournaments, 72 rounds, a year.) Of course, The Post harangued President George W. Bush for playing golf, but he quit playing after America went to war with Iraq. (“I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal,” he said.) “On June 14, Sunni rebels threatened Baghdad after seizing much of Iraq — and President Obama fearlessly played a round at the Sunnylands Golf Course in Rancho Mirage, Calif.,” wrote Dana Milbank. “The next day, the militants posted pictures of their mass execution of Shiite members of Iraq’s security forces — and Obama boldly teed off again, at Oracle founder Larry Ellison’s Rancho Mirage estate.” But the liberal paper’s columnist declared that Mr. Obama’s once-a-week golf habit has enormous ramifications. “A majority of Americans now believes that Obama doesn’t understand their problems, and images of him playing golf — perceived, fairly or not, as a rich man’s game — confirms this out-of-touch reputation.” Of course, the elitist image of the current president will be in play again in 2016, when Hillary “Dead Broke” Clinton and her Hundred-Million-Dollar hubby Bubba hope to move back into the White House . washingtontimes.com
