Obama Bursts Into Tears at Sight of Golf Course Destroyed by Tornado

(The following is satire.)

(From WIRES)
May 26, 2013, 

(MOORE, OK) —President Obama remained awe-struck as he toured what remained of the town of Moore, Oklahoma, which took a direct hit by a deadly tornado May 20th.  Obama walked through the pathways residents had made among the ruins of their town and homes, hugging locals and rescuers.   “Thank you and God bless you all,” the President said, shaking hands of local volunteer firemen.  “You’re truly heroes, all of you.”

Obama remained relatively composed as he listened to residents tell him their stories of surviving the tornado, which killed 24 people and injured 337 more.  But when the President was shown what was left of a local golf course, he could contain his emotions no longer.  

“This is unimaginable!  This is the most heartbreaking thing I’ve ever seen in my life!” said the President, busting out in tears.  “The whole town is destroyed and people have died, I know, but to see a perfectly good golf course reduced to this is just…just…. I’m sorry, I have to leave!”

The Lakeside Golf Course was a modest course located in the north end of Moore, and was popular with locals and residents of Oklahoma City.  What was once a lush, rolling swath of finely kept 18-holed greenery and well-placed sand traps and ponds was shredded to pieces during the storm that left a 17-mile strip of death and destruction last Monday.  Trees on the course were stripped of their leaves, many uprooted, golf carts were pulverized and thrown hundreds of yards away, the sand in the sand pits gone, and debris from local homes and stores littered the course.