Obama tries to build bridges on course

TODAY is a big day in Washington DC, with a momentous collision of giants set to unfold on a golf course in the American capital. Except we’re not talking about Congressional Country Club and the 111th US Open.

This afternoon’s clash of the titans will be elsewhere along the Beltway, at Andrews Air Force Base, where President Barack Obama will tee it up against political rival Congressman John Boehner, the Republican party’s Speaker of the House.

At loggerheads since Obama won his landmark election in November 2008, the president thinks he has found a way to soften the political divide and broker a new understanding between Democrats and Repbulicans, by playing them at golf.