Yes, she can
(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Melody Barnes, President Barack Obama’s chief domestic policy adviser, left, and White House trip director Marvin Nicholson carry their golf clubs as they prepare to leave the White House, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009 to play golf with President Obama.
Published: October 26, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House scored a stroke for gender equality in sports on Sunday.
President Barack Obama’s chief domestic policy adviser, Melody Barnes, became the first woman to play in the president’s golf foursome. She joined the president, Marvin Nicholson, the White House trip director, and Dr. Eric Whitaker, the executive vice president at the University of Chicago Medical Center, for a round on the Army’s Fort Belvoir golf course.
Obama has been criticized for playing basketball with men and no women, most recently in Sunday’s New York Times.
White House deputy press secretary William Burton confirmed the first. “He golfed with women on the campaign trail but not with Melody until this year,“ Burton said.
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A feel good story for something that has been allowed for awhile. Though it still doesn’t account for guys being bigger, stronger, hit harder, and being faster. I am all for gender equality, but i am also for the best athletes qualifying or winning.
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