Lynn Sweet is a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times. She may, at one time, have been a journalist. Since she writes about the first lady hula-hooping, what's on White House staffers iPods, and which political figures are on Oprah, I consider her to be a columnist only. That's not a bad thing. It just means she doesn't report the news. The last time Lynn Sweet did anything noteworthy was when she managed to botch up a perfectly good presidential press conference on healthcare with a question about Henry Louis Gates right at the end. Yes, the whole "smart angry black guy" thing was important (albeit very briefly), but it had nothing to do with the topic at hand. It also took the media's attention off of what Obama was trying to accomplish, forcing him to settle a ridiculous local police problem. This time, she's written an article about who Obama plays sports with. The issue? It's the first time, since becoming president, that he's played a game with a female included. Yep. That's somehow worthy of an article. Her concern is that he's making the White House an "old boys club" again. It doesn't matter how many women he surrounds himself with or puts into positions of power. That's inconsequential compared to who he takes golfing.
Maybe I need to be a sports fan or a woman to understand the problem here. Our Commander in Chief is working on Afghanistan, Iraq, healthcare reform, Iranian nuclear ambitions, closing Gitmo, uncooperative republican counterparts, H1N1, unemployment, the environment, and a whole host of other things. I think his playmates’ gender ranks pretty low on the list of things to worry about. At this point in Bush’s presidency, people were sporting FDNY hats and crying angrily into American flags as they saluted the freshly spawned War on Terror. Obama has to deal with people thinking it’s too early to give him a Nobel Peace Prize, how often he wears a flag pin on his lapel, the extravagance of Date Night, a peace sign on his daughter’s t-shirt, how short his wife’s shorts are, and any other silly crap that comes to people’s minds. If I was a sports fan, I may see his choice of golf buddies to be significant, but I see sports as people taking games seriously. I don't take games seriously so I don't get it. Perhaps if I had a vagina, I could say, “Well, it’s about time Barry invited a woman to golf,” but I don’t so I won’t. The article, instead, makes me think Sweet is a stereotypical girl who also views clothing selections at the Emmys as important. I anxiously await the arrival of her next writing exercise which will most likely come from a hot pink Trapper Keeper where it was filed next to her Jonas Brothers poster from Tiger Beat.
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