While the Middle East continues to implode, gas prices in our country continue to skyrocket, our Best and Brightest remain in hard’s way in hostile countries, and 1/6th of our population remain on Food Stamps, President Barack Hussein Obama spent Saturday working on his number one priority: 

HIS GOLF GAME .

Well, I mean, you really can’t blame him, can you?  The weather in D.C. was over 60 degress and beautiful.  And he had his usual buds with him:  Ben Finkenbinder of the press office, Marvin Nicholson, the president’s trip director and David Katz, a Dept of Energy staffer.

This is the president’s 60th time golfing as president, meaning Obama has spent two months of his presidency on the golf course.

These golf outings usually take about five hours, including travel time for the 10-vehicle Presidential motorcade to travel to the course and back to the people’s house.

CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller reports that Obama played 30 rounds in 2010, 28 rounds in 2009, and two this year, including yesterday.

I can hear the Libs whining now:   Boooosh played golf, too!

Well, yeah, he did…24 times.

President Bush stopped golfing in 2003.  He explained why in an interview with politico.com in 2003:

I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander-in-chief playing golf.  I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.

Evidently, the present occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue doesn’t have that problem with his conscience.

On the other hand, Obama has attended church 6 times since becoming President.  The last time was last September, when he and his family went to St. John’s Episcopal in D.C. 

For you that are mathmatically-challenged out there, this means that Scooter plays golf 9 times for every time that he goes to church.

It is no wonder then, when Time magazine conducted a poll last August that the Abt SRBI survey of 1,002 adults revealed that 24 percent think the president is a Muslim.

The poll was taken after Obama made remarks in support of the right of Muslims to build a mosque at Ground Zero in New York City, where the Twin Towers fell and 3,000 Americans were killed on September 11, 2001.

Right now, the Libs are screaming:  But…but…he went to Reverend Wright’s Church for 20 years.

About that…from my post, The Great Disconnect, Part 2:  Columbia, Community Organizing, and “Hahvard”:

From 1985 – 1988, Obama was a Community Organizer in Chicago. What does a Community Organizer do? I’m glad you asked.

Per Byron York in an article found at nationalreview.com:

Community organizing is most identified with the left-wing Chicago activist Saul Alinsky (1909-72), who pretty much defined the profession. In his classic book, Rules for Radicals, Alinsky wrote that a successful organizer should be “an abrasive agent to rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; to fan latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expressions.” Once such hostilities were “whipped up to a fighting pitch,” Alinsky continued, the organizer steered his group toward confrontation, in the form of picketing, demonstrating, and general hell-raising.

Obama was hired by Jerry Kellman, a New Yorker who had gotten into organizing in the 1960s. Kellman was trying to help laid-off factory workers on the far South Side of Chicago, in a nearly 100% black community. He led a group, the Calumet Community Religious Conference, that had been created by several local Catholic churches in the industrial community. Kellman was advised to hire a black organizer for a new spinoff from CCRC. They called it the Developing Communities Project, designed to focus solely on the Chicago part of the area.

One of Obama’s projects while he was there, was to try to build an alliance of white and black churches and enlist them in the cause of social justice. Obama had a problem, though. He didn’t go to church himself. And that, brothers and sisters, is how Obama, drawn to the preaching of Rev. Jeremiah Wright (and a political opportunity), joined Trinity United Church of Christ on 95th Street.

It was simply a matter of political expediency.

This being Sunday morning, I’m about to go wake up my beloved bride to get ready to attend our church.  It’s something that I and millions of other Americans will be doing this morning, because He is our priority…and our Rock.