I’ve had several readers note that while they don’t begrudge President Obama some downtime, they’re a bit surprised that his unexpected downtime was on the golf course, and not with his daughters.

As one put it:

When I was an irresponsible college student and later a free-wheeling singleton, a canceled event definitely would have meant an afternoon to play. But once I became a parent, a canceled event meant that I had extra time to devote to my many other responsibilities (paying bills, folding clothes, weeding, home improvement projects, etc). Of course I would love to curl up with a book on a Sunday afternoon but I recognize my responsibility to my family. I wish Obama felt the same sense of obligation to the American people. It’s not like he doesn’t have anything better to do — for starters, he could have gone back to the Oval Office and worked on that unfinished Iran strategy.

Well, he did go to one of his daughter’s soccer games Saturday.