Remember how the left would hyperventilate and complain about President Bush playing golf instead of [fill in the blank]? And remember how the right would rush to Bush’s defense, pointing out that a President is never actually out of touch “on vacation,” but is constantly kept informed about breaking developments?

Well, we’ve really come full circle now: This Guy Really Wants to Be President, Except When We Need Him to Be a President - Jim Geraghty.

In other words, at the exact moment when skeptics like myself are most ready to hear from him, eager to hear from him, and eager to know what, if anything, is needed from the citizenry at this moment, there was a “strategy” of keeping the president away from cameras … and golfing.