It took President Obama nearly a week, but he's played the trifecta: golf courses in the three main Martha's Vineyard hubs of Edgartown, Oak Bluffs and Vineyard Haven.
With an earthquake down, a hurricane to come and a revolution in full revolt across the Atlantic, Obama nevertheless did what he likes to do best Wednesday. He golfed.
This time it was at the nine-hole Mink Meadows Golf Club, a day after he played the 18-hold Farm Neck Golf Club. On his first and third days of vacation, he favored the Vineyard Golf Club.
There's been no word on how the president is playing amid natural disasters and international crises. He was viewed two-putting -- or was it three-putting? -- on the first green Tuesday, but then the curtains closed on media coverage.
Obama is scheduled to remain on the island until Saturday, then return to Washington for Sunday's dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall.
White House deputy press secretary Josh Earnest gets peppered with questions regularly about whether Obama will cut short his trip, or interrupt it -- say, to meet with his national security or economic team as he continues to monitor events in Libya and the sputtering jobs picture. Or simply to avoid Hurricane Irene, which could reach Cape Cod this weekend.
Each time, the answer is the roughly the same: "I don't know any conversations that have occurred like that at this point," he said Wednesday.
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