Obama Fail Blog

Lisa Schiffren has written an article at American Thinker titled, "Tiger, Barack, and the Law of Transitivity."

Schiffren compares the well-crafted public images of Woods and Obama and deduces that the public fallout from Tiger's multiple sex scandals could be similar to the fallout when Barack Obama's true ideology become known:

If I were watching the public's disgust with the newly revealed Tiger Woods from an office in the West Wing, I'd be concerned. Because Barack Obama is about as completely manufactured a political character as this nation has seen. His meteoric rise, without the inconvenience of a public record or accomplishments, and the public's willing suspension of critical evaluation of his résumé allowed his handlers and the media to project whatever they wanted to on his unfurrowed brow.

Ironically, the parallels have nothing to do with race. The Obama campaign did explicitly attempt to borrow the from the then-universal Tiger Woods appeal to allay any discomfort voters might have had with a mixed-race politician. They constructed a persona that would make the American electorate comfortable with a barely-known, first-term senator with a left wing voting record, a deliberately obscured personal and professional past, and no traditional qualifications for high office.

Source: American Thinker

Since taking office, Obama has played ALOT of golf. According to multiple sources, he isn't even very good at it (more on that here and here).

The Wall Street Journal asks the obvious question:

Which all serves to deepen a mystery that has surrounded the presidency: Why has Barack Obama forsaken basketball for the links?

Source: Wall Street Journal

The answer is that golf allows Obama to smoke cigarettes like a fiend, away from the cameras.

On October 24, 2009, Christopher Andersen appeared on the John Batchelor radio show. Andersen is the author of "Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage" - he was the author who spilled the beans to Sean Hannity about how Bill Ayers helped write Obama's first book.

During the interview (you can find the show on iTunes), Andersen revealed that Obama golfs because it allows him to smoke without being seen by cameras. Batchelor writes of the interview on his website:

Several weeks back, I spoke to Christopher Andersen re his Barack and Michelle: Portrait of a Marriage and toward the close of our conversation he asked me if I knew why POTUS was spending so much time on the golf course? "Smoking," he said. I said on-air that it was not smart for POTUS, and he should quit it. My impression from Andersen is that the smoking is not a secret. However from the presentation above, my guess is that the White House image team has decided to shield POTUS from photos of his smoking. That would explain using heavy security and a four-man team in front and behind him on the course. My thought also is that this is an elaborate, clumsy and shallow ruse that will eventually be exposed by an accident or a papparazzi. Also, does POTUS not smoke at the White House? Is the WH still a smoke-free zone as arranged by HRC when she was First Lady?

Source: John Batchelor Show

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Why would the president go to such lengths to hide his smoking? It's simple - Team Obama is trying to craft and maintain an image, similar to the PR hacks who crafted the clean-cut image of Tiger Woods.

Smoking reveals two important cracks in the Obama image - he isn't as fit and health-conscious as he'd like you to think and, more importantly, the pressure is getting to him.

The public just wouldn't buy the image of a mentally cool, physically fit president if they knew he was smoking like a chimney.