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LAKEVILLE, Mass -- Police along with the Secret Service are investigating after a local country club discovered a symbol that represents eastern religious beliefs carved into the green.

Lakeville Country Club workers discovered the vandalism early Monday morning.

Police believe the vandals meant to carve a swastika next to President Barack Obama's name on the 18th hole; however, the symbol was backwards and means hope and peace in some Eastern countries.

Interesting that police have jumped to the conclusion that the vandals don't mean what they say. Basically "I Heart Obama." Check out the photo and story here.

It is quite possible that the vandal in this case made the backwards swastika by mistake. It is also quite possible that in a town represented in congress by Barney Frank, the vandal meant exactly what he said.

The political left has for the most part derided golf as a bourgeois game enjoyed by corporatists and selfish, exclusionary capitalists. (Hugo Chavez recently closed a bunch of courses in Venezeula. But the game's popularity world-wide has transcended all social and ethnic classifications.

Lakeview Country Club is a public links, open to all and affordable to most ($40 to walk on weekdays.) But that doesn't matter to the politically-minded, who see any golf club's very existence as a symbol of bourgeois corruption.

The irony here is that President Obama has been bitten by the golf bug. He's lousy but he loves it. And he adheres to Spencer's First Rule of Golf: It's OK to play bad, just play bad fast.

Repairing the sort of damage perpetrated at Lakeview can cost thousands of dollars. Even worse, it detracts from the enjoyment of those who loyally play the Lakeview course as a matter of routine.

Maybe it was done by an Obama hater, maybe not. But the victim of this crime, besides the owner of the course, was the Lakeview golfing public. Here's hoping they catch the bastard(s) and prosecute him (them) to the full extent of the law.