From Staff Reports 

The Carolina Stompers, a local conservative activist group, staged a 75-minute protest against President Barack Obama early on the evening of June 20 in front of the U.S. Cellular Center in downtown Asheville.

Specifically, the protest was against what the group claimed was Obama’s obsession with playing golf, since being elected president. Also, the site was chosen because the National Democratic Convention Committee was meeting in the civic center.

“Americans are struggling with high gas prices and the highest unemployment since the Great Depression— and Obama just completed his 100th rounds of golf while this was going on,” Stompers’ spokesman Chad Nesbitt told the Daily Planet as the protest wound down. About eight Stompers participated in the protest, Nesbitt said.

The president has “had over 75 vacations, including two here in Asheville, in 3-1/2 years as president, all of which was paid for by the taxpayers,” Nesbitt claimed.

“And we’re here to show the absurdity of it,” he said.