Crowd Cheers On Obama On Golf Course

December 30. 2008

Obama asks the crowd to keep quiet about his bad golf score (joking)

President-elect Barack Obama is enjoying the last of his Christmas vacation, before returning to the pressure cooker that is political life.

The incoming commander-in-chief was previously teased about his lack of bowling skills, shattering another stereotype, that all black men are good athletes (LOL I’m just teasing).

Obama can't shake the bowling jokes

(AP) President-elect Barack Obama asks members of the public sitting on a wall to silence their cheers...

KAILUA, Hawaii (AP) - President-elect Barack Obama thought he'd put the bowling jokes behind him. Not likely.
On the golf course Monday, a woman waiting at the 18th green reminded Obama of his disastrous bowling during the presidential campaign. It was an unwelcome reminder for Obama, whose golf game during a 12-day vacation has been just as troublesome.

"That was pretty good, right?" Obama said to cheers as he finished a round of golf near his $9 million rented vacation home near Honolulu.

The woman sitting on a nearby wall shouted, "Better than your bowling."

The woman's quip referred to Obama's embarrassing bowling outing in Pennsylvania, when he knocked down only 37 pins - with the assist during two frames from an 8-year-old. It was an effort to connect with working-class voters, yet he lost Pennsylvania's primary election to Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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