Barack Obama criticised for golf outing with friends straight after James Foley speech
August 21, 2014  23:20
The president came under fire from critics for heading off to play his favourite pastime straight from the school podium where he vowed to fight the "cancer' of the Islamic State.

His foes highlighted not only the jarring juxtaposition between his speech about a dead American and then beaming pictures taken of him shortly afterwards in a golf caddy on Martha's Vineyard, his up-market summer holiday retreat.

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