Knoller’s golfing treatise

CBS’s Mark Knoller notices President Obama is going golfing today and provides a little background on what’s par for the course for presidents:

White House to hold briefing at 1230P/ET on swine flu situation.

But at same time, it looks like Pres. Obama is going to play golf this morning.

Pres. Obama has departed the WH on a golf outing.

The last time a US president went golfing was Oct 13, 2003. After that, Pres. Bush stopped playing golf out of respect for US war dead.

Pres. Bush said last year in Politico.com interview that he came to feel “playing golf during a war sends the wrong signal.”

Before his decision, Bush had played 24 rounds of golf as President – ending Oct 13, 2003 – about seven months after the war in Iraq began.