Who was playing golf all day?

I think Maureen Dowd's column today would make an interesting test passage in the Common Core reading comprehension section of some state test.  Scoring wrong interpretations makes me laugh.

HKGuy, New York City

As a conceit, this could have been a cute introduction to the president's tin ear about crises, but it just got more and more labored. If you're obviously phoning in a column, probably best not to make it about how you were playing golf all day.

And teeing off on the fields of Gettysburg, nonetheless!
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ADDED:  Journalist Noah Rothman also contrasts the level of importance the Obama administration is according recent foreign events, with the seriousness the president's actions seem to give them.

“When you see somebody killed in such a horrific way, that represents a terrorist attack,” said [Benjamin Rhodes, the White House’s deputy national security advisor]. “That represents a terrorist attack against our country and against an American citizen.”

“We see that as an attack on our country when one of our own is killed like that,” Rhodes added.

So, now the president was not just callously golfing in the wake of the horrific murder of an American citizen, he was golfing in the immediate aftermath of a “terrorist attack” on the United States of America. Oops.
...In that same press conference, Rhodes was asked to explain Obama’s claim in January that ISIS was merely al-Qaeda’s “JV” team after the Islamic State captured the Iraqi city of Fallujah.

“The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant,” Obama said then.

Rhodes insisted that Obama was being deliberative about the terrorist threat matrix in the Middle East and North Africa at the time, and ISIS has clearly become more powerful in the ensuing months.