After beating up on Tony Hayward’s decision to spend a day yachting this weekend, the national media oddly avoided mentioning President Obama’s golfing day, taking place on the same afternoon. It was Barack Obama’s seventh day on the links since the explosion at Deepwater Horizon and the start of the Gulf spill, which has mainly gone without comment during the massive media coverage. CNN follows the lead of David Letterman, who skewered the outrage over Hayward’s sailing day by noting that Obama got so mad when he heard about that it that “he missed his putt!” Jeanne Moos wraps up this piece by speaking to someone with more political sense than anyone at the White House (via Greg Hengler):
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