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Peter_Herreid

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The most exclusive greensite in the world?
« on: October 23, 2007, 06:12:15 PM »


Maybe? maybe not?, but it WAS open to public tours the past couple of weekends, which is a more rare occurence the past 6 years...

While it might have been fun to think of a Redan here, or a nice Double-Plateau, or a Punchbowl, what we get is a fairly simple, very flat presentation without much pitch, unlike most of the rest of Washington DC!...



Some years, it probably leans to the left; other years it slants to the right, and many years it probably breaks right down the middle--not many other greens can say that!



It would be nice to think of it as perhaps a place of quiet reflection, where some of the grander issues can be sorted through in a gentlemanly and thoughtful fashion.  Perhaps it could be a place where boisterous games of skill and gamesmanship could highlight the true measure of a man, under the less-than-white hot glare of public attention...

Perhaps it's just a putting green...with a most delightful, but demanding setting...

I now count the seconds, wondering where this thread may go...


Kalen Braley

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Re:The most exclusive greensite in the world?
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2007, 06:15:51 PM »
I just wonder if it really is the most exclusive....  ;)

Mark Bourgeois

Re:The most exclusive greensite in the world?
« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2007, 06:27:50 PM »
Peter, nice pics. You should have let the DC contingent known you were in town, we could have shown you Ike's spike marks in the Oval Office.

You can thank Ike for building the green and Bill Clinton for resurrecting it.  Golf is nonpartisan in the home of partisanship!

No matter who they are, Presidents earn every right to the WH green, Camp David, etc. etc.

Hey, does anyone know if Clinton did end up breaking Ike's record for "rounds in office?" It was a major goal of his...

Mark

Pete_Pittock

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Re:The most exclusive greensite in the world?
« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2007, 06:28:38 PM »
Kim Il-sung probably hasn't got an invitation. ;D

Tiger_Bernhardt

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Re:The most exclusive greensite in the world?
« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2007, 06:34:21 PM »
I wonder who cheats more cheney or bush?

BVince

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Re:The most exclusive greensite in the world?
« Reply #5 on: October 23, 2007, 06:51:06 PM »
I don't know if I would cheat against VP Cheney by the looks of this picture:



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TEPaul

Re:The most exclusive greensite in the world?
« Reply #6 on: October 23, 2007, 08:15:48 PM »
Peter:

Exclusive??

I don't think so. Is there anyone left who really wants to have anything to do with those people who inhabit that place now?

I've been around a long time and have been interested in  politics most of my life but I have just never seen anything like this. Those people are beyond embarrassing. The irony to me is there probably isn't enough time left to impeach them because if there was they would be. Just let the f...ing jerks serve out their time and wander into oblivion. The only enigma to me is who's the bigger jerk--Bush or Cheney.

I'm sure there will be a bunch of contributors on here who'll take me to task for this post.

Whatever.

Jamey Bryan

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Re:The most exclusive greensite in the world?
« Reply #7 on: October 23, 2007, 08:29:32 PM »
Not me, Mr. Paul.  I'm pretty sure I've voted Republican in every Presidential race since 1972 (there were a couple I wasn't very happy about, but I think I ended up voting for them).  But this administration and the current candidates have me very frustrated.

Jamey

Joe Hancock

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Re:The most exclusive greensite in the world?
« Reply #8 on: October 23, 2007, 08:31:39 PM »


I'm sure there will be a bunch of contributors on here who'll take me to task for this post.

Whatever.

Let me be the first (EDIT: second!)......to say that even us right leaning semi-conservative types are embarrassed. Having said that, this kind of comment usually leads a thread into a political discussion hell....nice going! This will keep both left and right wing miscreants busy for awhile..... ;D

Joe
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TEPaul

Re:The most exclusive greensite in the world?
« Reply #9 on: October 23, 2007, 08:56:18 PM »
Joe:

Then I deny everything i said and I even deny that i said it.