is that even months later, the image of Tyree's catch is burned so deeply into the national consciousness that a cartoonist in Richmond, Virginia, was able to use it in a political cartoon with no explanation. That is pretty amazing.
I think Obama is actually pretty decent at Basketball
if I remember correctly. Bowling on the other hand... (but who gives a shit about being good at bowling - you go there to get drunk or because you're too cheap to buy your date a nice dinner).
Who really counts bowling as a sport? It's one of those things you have to de fairly regularly to be any good at. I've heard Obama is a good hoops player, which would lead me to believe he could go up and grab a pass.
I have no doubt that Hillary would pile-drive him into the ground, though!
Of all the things about Barry Obama that have come out, believe it or not, it was the bowling score that got people talking.
I was at a large industrial site in Ohio recently for work. The only part of the plant where I could get a signal for my blackberry was the lunch room. There were about a dozen workers chatting (about even between blacks and whites) and to a man, they were laughing at what a "fairy" Obama was(they used more colorful words too). They were ripping him over the bowling score, and evidently he baulked when handed a beer at some point.
Given the economic status of these guys, I'd say good old Barry has himself a big problem in the general election.
obama is a pretty good bball player and is in the best shape, by far, of any candidate who ran for president this year. who the hell cares if he can't bowl?
wide swaths of people are remarkably sensitive about elitism. Fairly or not. One of my buddies whines constantly about elitism among our peers even though he comes from an upper-middle or upper class household and has seen more of the world than probably 99+% of Americans. Al Gore and John Kerry certainly suffered from this and rightly or wrongly the notion that George Bush could have walked into a barber shop most anywhere in Middle America and fit right in was a good bit of his appeal.
I believe it was the Miami Herald that said that if Al Gore had shown up at a NASCAR race or a home Tennessee football game it may very well have won him his home state and the Presidency, the Florida mess being rendered moot. If people look at Obama and see a skinny metrosexual with a bowling average lower than his age, whose nose crinkles at the smell of beer, he may have the same problem with blue collar Democrats and independents for whom McCain already has significant appeal. In Pennsylvania and parts of the Midwest this could prove very important.
but c'mon, President Bush is simply "not an elitist" because he's better at walking the walk. Yale, Skull & Bones, Harvard, baseball owner, oilman, etc. Not exactly qualities of the quotidian.
Because he rolls up his sleeves and clears some brush at his (multi-million dollar) ranch doesn't mean he's any less of an elitist than Kerry (supposedly) is. Or that either of them are. And let's face it, the fact that Bush is language-challenged probably doesn't hurt him with the commonfolk.
I realize, btw, you're commenting just on the perception, not necessarily reality. And, IMO, the rightwing media goes to great lengths to paint the Dem candidate as "elitist". Kerry (believe it or not) apparently even looked French!
...who dumped his first wife and married a rich heiress who financed his political career.
More to the point, who the hell wants an ordinary man (or woman) in the White House? Are there really idiots out there who pick who they're going to vote for based on someone's bowling score or their attendance at a NASCAR event? Why haven't we shipped them out on the "B" ark yet?
Does that mean you can picure Clinton playing sports?
Tell me you don't think Hillary would be a perfect fit in the NHL. She's got the legs to be a power skater, could probably throw a pretty mean hip check & wouldn't be afraid to drop the gloves if it came to that.
Obama I see more as a badminton player. Otherwise He was probably the kid always picked last in gym class.
His own arrogance and inflexibility are generally credited as the reasons the United States did not enter the League of Nations, and some of his decisions at Versailles have been questioned ad nauseum. I think the latter criticism is somewhat unfair but I think the former is apt; had he not been so obstinate we may have given France and Britain the security commitment it needed to keep a renascent Germany at bay.
2. Who threw the ball?
I have no doubt that Hillary would pile-drive him into the ground, though!
I was at a large industrial site in Ohio recently for work. The only part of the plant where I could get a signal for my blackberry was the lunch room. There were about a dozen workers chatting (about even between blacks and whites) and to a man, they were laughing at what a "fairy" Obama was(they used more colorful words too). They were ripping him over the bowling score, and evidently he baulked when handed a beer at some point.
Given the economic status of these guys, I'd say good old Barry has himself a big problem in the general election.
obama is a pretty good bball player and is in the best shape, by far, of any candidate who ran for president this year. who the hell cares if he can't bowl?
on the trail - ( New Window )
Because he rolls up his sleeves and clears some brush at his (multi-million dollar) ranch doesn't mean he's any less of an elitist than Kerry (supposedly) is. Or that either of them are. And let's face it, the fact that Bush is language-challenged probably doesn't hurt him with the commonfolk.
I realize, btw, you're commenting just on the perception, not necessarily reality. And, IMO, the rightwing media goes to great lengths to paint the Dem candidate as "elitist". Kerry (believe it or not) apparently even looked French!
More to the point, who the hell wants an ordinary man (or woman) in the White House? Are there really idiots out there who pick who they're going to vote for based on someone's bowling score or their attendance at a NASCAR event? Why haven't we shipped them out on the "B" ark yet?
But boy, I bet he can bowl like nobody's business!
They both feel entitled, BTW.
Tell me you don't think Hillary would be a perfect fit in the NHL. She's got the legs to be a power skater, could probably throw a pretty mean hip check & wouldn't be afraid to drop the gloves if it came to that.
Obama I see more as a badminton player. Otherwise He was probably the kid always picked last in gym class.