The proof is in the picture. After President Barack Obama allowed in a recent interview that he and friends shoot skeet “all the time” up at Camp David, cynics started to question why there are no photos of the...
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President Barack Obama shoots clay targets with a shotgun on the range on Aug. 4, 2012 at Camp David, Maryland.
Obama Skeet-Shooting: Picture-Proof — JFK-Styled Video Next?
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More on Obama’s Skeet-Shooting: Camp David for Fun, Not Photos
A question came up at the White House today: Just how much skeet shooting does President Barack Obama do at Camp David? He said in an interview with The New Republic released over the weekend that he and friends go...
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Camp David
President John F. Kennedy shot skeet at Camp David, shown here with David Niven and The Washington Post's Ben Bradlee in 1963. Camp David Photo.President John F. Kennedy shot skeet at Camp David, shown here with David Niven and The Washington Post's Ben Bradlee in 1963.
Obama Shoots Skeet at Camp David — and Has Advice for the NCAA
President Barack Obama, seeking a ban on assault weapons, says he shoots skeet “all the time” at Camp David. Obama told The New Republic magazine in an interview that at the presidential retreat in Maryland’s wooded Catoctin Mountains “we do...
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Raising Campaign Cash, Like Shooting Fish in a Barrel
Need a new approach to raising campaign cash? Forget about the grueling grip-and-grins, the endless cocktail receptions and rubber-chicken dinners. You can follow one sportman’s approach that’s gaining popularity. Representative Bill Huizenga (R-MI) is taking his donors skeet shooting. He...
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