Golfing: 96 hours. Afghanistan strategy sessions: 20 hours.


White House Spokesferret Robert Gibbs announced that Obama met with the Joint Chiefs of Staff to discuss the war in Afghanistan. Gibbs bragged that Obama will have spent 20 hours on Afghanistan strategy sessions (after today, of course). Gibbs even called this 20 hours over nine months "an extensive and exhaustive review" of the situation.

Meanwhile, Obama has played golf 24 times in the same period. Let's see... 24 sets of golf at about four hours a pop... that's 96 hours on the links, and that doesn't count the drive to and from the course.

Leadership is all about priorities. And apparently, golf is about five times as important to Obama as the life and death struggle in Afghanistan. Perhaps Gen. McChrystal can buy a set of Pings to get a little more face time with the CinC.