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Barack-etology-gate: What’s Really Behind Criticism of President Obama’s Basketball Jones?

by Tommy Christopher | 6:07 pm, March 17th, 2011

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In what has become an annual tradition, critics of President Obama are slamming him for taking the time to select picks for the NCAA’s “March Madness” College Basketball Tournament, when he should be focusing on…(fill in current event here). I say “has become an annual tradition” because, prior to the Obama presidency, I don’t remember another President being criticized for such a brief sports-related diversion. Is it the president in question, the sport, or both?

The message isn’t very subtle, now, is it? President Obama can’t be bothered with Libya, or Japan, or the budget, but he loves him some basketball. Not that “all-American” pastime that George W. Bush loved so much, baseball, as Mike Huckabee pointed out, but that Mau-Mau-loving, Boy Scout-hating, sport of…well, it actually is an American sport. Just not the kind of “American” that matters to people like Mike Huckabee.

The fact is, though, that Barack Obama really does love basketball, so what’s the problem? It shouldn’t be. March Madness is a huge event for millions of Americans, all of whom expend a similar amount of time and attention filling out their brackets. The difference, though, is that “good” Americans can manage to follow the tournament, and do their jobs. But with Barack Obama, that basketball fever just takes aholt of him, and just crowds all the Libya, Japan, and budget right up outta him.

What makes this criticism truly mystifying is that, of all the things he’s supposed to be doing instead of taking five minutes to make basketball picks, no one can really say what he ought to be doing differently. There’s a lot of support for a no-fly zone in Libya, but very little support for another war in the Middle East. Unfortunately, a no-fly zone isn’t as simple as installing an aerial crossing guard.

In Japan, the US has offered more assistance than the Japanese want, and has moved Americans out of harm’s way at a distance four times greater than Japanese authorities have recommended.

As for the budget, I’ve held the evidence of the President’s engagement in my hands, all ten pounds of it.

There is always room for debate on whether the President is doing the right things, or doing things with which you agree, but the idea that he’s not doing anything is ridiculous, and the idea that he’s not doing anything because he’s too busy slaking his basketball jones is just offensive.

budget, George W. Bush, Japan, Libya, march madness, Mike Huckabee, ncaa basketball tournament, President Obama

cjd ohio 1

still dont see what point you are trying to make tommy, people critize presidents all the time because of politics, am i missing something?
Liberal Tormentor

Once again TC, it’s that perception is reality and the perception is that Barack can’t be bothered with the important things. He doesn’t want to be on the record about anything, it seems.

BTW Tommy, it’s not just conservatives criticizing him:

Jon Meacham: Bush Would Be ‘More Barbecued’ Than Obama for Touting NCAA Bracket During Japan and Libya Crises

Jon Meacham, the liberal host of PBS’s “Need to Know,” frankly admitted Thursday that media scrutiny of President Bush would far surpass the mild criticism of Barack Obama when it comes to a 10-minute ESPN segment on the President filling out his NCAA Tournament bracket.

Stalwart liberals such as MSNBC “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski and California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom (D) agreed.

“My only point is that Bush would have gotten more barbecued for this,” Meacham claimed on “Morning Joe” Thursday. “Anyone who thinks that he didn’t – he wouldn’t – is crazy.” The panel was debating the merits of President Obama appearing on ESPN to discuss basketball while Libya is in turmoil and Japan is facing a possible nuclear catastrophe.

Even liberal co-host Mika Brzezinski echoed Meacham’s sentiments, and actually brought up the original question. “The President doing his brackets yesterday, and then going to a fundraiser – would we be more critical if this was George W. Bush?” she surprisingly asked.

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matt-hadro/2011/03/17/jon-meacham-bush-would-be-more-barbecued-obama-touting-ncaa-bracket-duri#ixzz1GtiGpAW3
cjd ohio 1

is it the president or the sport or both?……..the message isnt verysubtle now is it? what message? you did answer any of the questions you posed.
cjd ohio 1

you did not answer
BadGenome

So “basketball” is yet another dog whistle now, Tommy? Since someone evidently went and made a fat, haggard, Elena Kagan-looking Mediaite contributor the arbitrator of what is and isn’t hate speech in this country, it would be cool if you could tell us now so that we can avoid any future unpleasantness.
Liberal Tormentor

and the idea that he’s not doing anything because he’s too busy slaking his basketball jones is just offensive.

I’m sure Obama appreciates his water boys being offended for him. One less thing he has to do himself.
BadGenome

Tommy, if you could take a few moments away from being the most unhealthy looking creature yet to be featured on a TLC reality show, would you mind taking a look at this and telling me whether or not your colleague Alex Alvarez is a member of the Klan? Thanks.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/presenting-mediaites-ultimate-super-meta-media-bracket-bracket/
scalleywag

Wow. You just figured out that conservatives manufacture outrage???

In other news……water is wet.
Color Me Badd

Everything in this article is true. Thank you Tommy Christopher. Racists? You damn right they are racists and they hate to hell if you point it out to them, you get called a race-baiter or worse. I have seen some of this racist b.s. right here on this website written by these sickee teabags, they cant even hide it. I think they should be shamed and outed as gutter racists.
Liberal Tormentor

Color me Ignorant, perhaps you didn’t hear, but you libs maxed out the racism card like a year ago. Yawn.
scalleywag

I think it’s funny that the rest of the time conservatives complain that he’s an “elitist” and not a common man….then he does something we all do – fill out a bracket – and now all of the sudden they *want* him to be an elitist and not partake in common man stuff.

I don’t buy their faux outrage for a minute. Conservatives are in the business of destroying the president, not protecting the countries interests.
scalleywag

We maxed out? So since conservatives say so much racist stuff we shouldn’t even acknowledge anymore.

LOL. Love the retard “logic”.
Liberal Tormentor

Scalleywag says:

I don’t buy their faux outrage for a minute. Conservatives are in the business of destroying the president, not protecting the countries interests.

Would that be what you libs did the 8 years Bush was in office?
Liberal Tormentor

scalleywag says:
We maxed out? So since conservatives say so much racist stuff we shouldn’t even acknowledge anymore.

Example? Oh wait, you mean like a couple years ago he’d be fetchin us coffee? Wait, that was Clinton.
scalleywag

Call the WAHHHmbulance! Obama filled out a racket! The world is no doubt going to end now.
felixw

Tommy Christopher said:
The message isn’t very subtle, now, is it? President Obama can’t be bothered with Libya, or Japan, or the budget, but he loves him some basketball. Not that “all-American” pastime that George W. Bush loved so much, baseball, as Mike Huckabee pointed out, but that Mau-Mau-loving, Boy Scout-hating, sport of…

Even the Left is ashamed of playing the race card nowadays. As this article makes eminently clear. The real coded language is not in what critics say about Obama’s March Madness brackets. It’s found in Mr. Christopher innuendo, which is about as subtle as as a ton of bricks. But I guess when pundits realize how tired and pathetic the race card looks, they need to resort to this kind of rhetoric.
BarneyFranken

I was not at all offended with the Obama making the picks….

I was offended BY his picks.

All #1 seeds going to the final four? Have some imagination Mr. President!
Thelonious Funk

If the president wants free time, he should spend it choking on a pretzel while watching the Super Bowl, not by filling out NCAA brackets while not choking on a pretzel.
ProObamaAgenda

felixw said:
Even the Left is ashamed of playing the race card nowadays. As this article makes eminently clear. The real coded language is not in what critics say about Obama’s March Madness brackets. It’s found in Mr. Christopher innuendo, which is about as subtle as as a ton of bricks. But I guess when pundits realize how tired and pathetic the race card looks, they need to resort to this kind of rhetoric.

im not ashamed felix, you racist POS….just own ya racism and shut the hell up…..oh ….enjoy the games…. i almost forgot…..Obama just declared war on Libya, its time for you war mongering teabaggers to change your tunes now and run out and join the peace movement & code pink just like joe scarbrough did
roxsteady

Jealousy is what’s behind it. Most of the people trashing the President would have to look up to see the soles of his shoes. They’re beneath him and it’s killing them. And none of them will EVER be President! Suck it losers!
felixw

ProObamaAgenda said:
im not ashamed felix, you racist POS….just own ya racism and shut the hell up…..oh ….enjoy the games…. i almost forgot…..Obama just declared war on Libya, its time for you war mongering teabaggers to change your tunes now and run out and join the peace movement & code pink just like joe scarbrough did

Typical “erudite” commentary from the Left. And they wonder why moderates and independents have abandoned their candidates. Pretty obvious, I’d say.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Linda-Walker-Eaton/1416698787 Linda Walker Eaton

Why don’t you come down here to North Carolina and tell all these people that basketballl isn’t an “all-American sport?”

All the sycophants who are covering for Obama are the FIRST ones to throw the race card; it is disgusting.

People who have no response scream racism; and those people are usually the biggest racists in the room.
illusive man

felixw said:
Typical “erudite” commentary from the Left. And they wonder why moderates and independents have abandoned their candidates. Pretty obvious, I’d say.

Correct, Modern “liberalism” is a dying breed.
A type of filthy animal I am happy to see go extinct by the way.
cjd ohio 1

well tommy.
illusive man

Color Me Badd said:
Everything in this article is true. Thank you Tommy Christopher. Racists? You damn right they are racists and they hate to hell if you point it out to them, you get called a race-baiter or worse. I have seen some of this racist b.s. right here on this website written by these sickee teabags, they cant even hide it. I think they should be shamed and outed as gutter racists.

Not one ounce of brain in that tiny little badly raised head. Your parent’s should be jailed for what they have done to you, You poor little victim.
gar

As for the budget, I’ve held the evidence of the President’s engagement in my hands, all ten pounds of it.

BET YOU LIKED THAT!!!!!!!!
Lover

Obama really went out on a limb by picking all top seeds, huh? Amateur.
Cecelia

Presidents have been rightly and wrongly criticized for fiddling while Rome burns.. to Bush the Elder vacaying in Kennebunkport … to W bush-hogging in Crawford, to the Clintons hobnobbing in Martha’s Vineyard….to Jimmy Carter’s retreats to Camp David.

But when Obama receives the same sort of opprobrium what is the reason for it?

Racism.

You guessed it….

You’d expect even shameless cheapshot artists to have a tad more imagination.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Paul-D-Powell/659552301 Paul D. Powell

Come on, folks! Don’t be “tormented” by a certain individual in this forum. By his handle alone we can all see his purpose…to raise the ire (and blood pressure) of most of the rest of us here. So far he’s succeeded. In the words of one of his probable heroes, Sean Hannity, “Let not your hearts be troubled.”

By the actions of what his party has been up to since November, I predict a liberal comeback in the next elections, kicked off by record recalls in Wisconsin and possibly Michigan.

The “Tormentor” will find another wrong side of history and we will be here to rebuke his views again.

I have to give him credit for showing up, though. He makes things contentious.
delta777

While Japan and the Middle East burn, while the U.S. finances are in shambles w/ no jobs on the horizon…. Obama plays golf, fills out basketball brackets and goes to Rio. All the while the Liberals chant continues, “Yes We Can” continue to support the half white/ half black Socialist fraud in the WH.
cjd ohio 1

come on tommy, explain the message, you tell us not to read into your articles and make assumptions
Cecelia

Surprise…surprise…. the sockpuppets and strawman sockpuppets are out in force…
gar

cjd ohio 1 said:
come on tommy, explain the message, you tell us not to read into your articles and make assumptions

Maybe the ”One Trick Pony” can explain how the Mau-Mau loving part plays into this article.
BadGenome

cjd ohio 1 said:
come on tommy, explain the message, you tell us not to read into your articles and make assumptions

Why so eager? If Tommy responds at all, he’ll do what he always does: tell you all the shit he DIDN’T say and be pseudo-cryptic about what he meant by the shit he did say.
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Arkansas Steve

TOMMY,
Since you asked a good question, I’ll try my best to answer.
You asked: “Is it the president in question, the sport, or both?”
My answer: It is neither, an option you “conveniently” left off! It is certainly not the sport of basketfall, I love it. It is not the president per se. I can find a lot of things (a whole lot) to criticize him about, but taking 15-30 minutes to fill out a bracket isn’t one of them. He is entitled to enjoy watching basketball (as I do) and have opinions about it.

Tommy, I don’t think you thought about this, but simply writing this story HURTS the President. It calls attention to his “perceived” inattention regarding all the chaos around the world & at home. I want my president to relax in private. I want him to hug his daughters, make love to his wife, enjoy March madness, eat an occasional cheeseburger in the White House kitchen, even take a little vacation at appropriate times.
What I DON’T WANT, is for him to allow these activities to turn into news stories which indicate, rightly or wrongly, to the American people and people throughout the world, that the United States doesn’t have it’s eye on the ball!!
gar

BadGenome said:
Why so eager? If Tommy responds at all, he’ll do what he always does: tell you all the shit he DIDN’T say and be pseudo-cryptic about what he meant by the shit he did say.

That’s if he doesn’t update it, pull shit out and then play dumb.
BadGenome

gar said:
That’s if he doesn’t update it, pull shit out and then play dumb.

Tommy doesn’t have to play dumb.
Pablo

I say “has become an annual tradition” because, prior to the Obama presidency, I don’t remember another President being criticized for such a brief sports-related diversion. Is it the president in question, the sport, or both?

Do you recall people flipping out over it last year or the year before? Could it be because this year the frigging world is on fire? And we can’t seem to get a budget done while BOTH parties are wondering where the hell the President is? And because people expect the President of the United States to LEAD in a time of crisis?

Nah, it’s gotta be racism. Nobody said a thing when Bush sat down with Bob Costas to review his playoff picks leading up to the 2001 World Series. And then went to Rio.
Pablo

BarneyFranken said:
I was not at all offended with the Obama making the picks….

I was offended BY his picks.

All #1 seeds going to the final four? Have some imagination Mr. President!

Leadership, bitches. He voted “present” on his March Madness picks!
MrTPar_taY

“What’s Really Behind Criticism of President Obama’s Basketball Jones?” Gee let’s see-he’s SUPPOSED to be the President, not “Norm” from Cheers!
http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

funny, I just did a post on this today…

priorities…it’s about the optics, people. optics.

If the Obama White House doesn’t want to be criticized for “petty” things like the NCAA picks, or vacations, perhaps the only news he generates shouldn’t be about parties, NCAA picks, fundraising and vacations.

http://sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/prioritiesits-about-optics-people.html
lonestar77

It’s “offensive”? Really, Tommy? Please enlighten us.

The only thing “offensive” is you playing the race card. You come across as a bigoted wingnut. Let me know when learn the word “hypocrisy”. The left attacked Bush for any & everything and lefty crackpots like you not only didn’t defend him, you poured gasoline on the fire. Even your fellow liberals like Meacham & Mika said that if GWB were filling out brackets, he be getting hit harder for it than Obama is.

Take your race-hustling and shove it up your ass.
MrTPar_taY

lonestar77 said:
It’s “offensive”? Really, Tommy? Please enlighten us.

The only thing “offensive” is you playing the race card. You come across as a bigoted wingnut. Let me know when learn the word “hypocrisy”. The left attacked Bush for any & everything and lefty crackpots like you not only didn’t defend him, you poured gasoline on the fire. Even your fellow liberals like Meacham & Mika said that if GWB were filling out brackets, he be getting hit harder for it than Obama is.

Take your race-hustling and shove it up your ass.

That’s the best you got? RACISM!-bitch bitch bitch-Pissy Effing Lib-you are an embarassment to this country.
http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

It’s not just Republicans that are complaining….

President Barack Obama’s laissez-faire approach to the ongoing spending debate is winning him few friends on Capitol Hill.

Republican and Democratic Members alike are becoming increasingly critical of the president and are demanding the White House immediately step up its role in the standoff over funding the government. And Democrats fear that if Obama doesn’t engage more directly — and soon — they will lose the war of words to the Republicans on the critical issue of federal spending.

“We need to be sitting down,” Hagan said. “We need to have leadership from the president, but we also need to focus on the task at hand.”

Several House Democrats, including Reps. David Price (N.C.) and John Garamendi (Calif.), used Tuesday’s closed-door Caucus meeting to tell White House Chief of Staff William Daley that the president needs to increase his visibility on the issue. Members have grumbled for several weeks that Obama isn’t involved enough in the debate, but sources said those frustrations are growing.

“They did have an exchange, and several Members did express some frustration and concern about the low-key approach of the president,” one Democratic leadership aide said of Tuesday’s Caucus meeting. “What was expressed is, we’re losing the budget debate and when are you going to lead?”

The aide said House Democrats in particular want Obama to engage more directly because as the minority party they no longer control the conversation.

Rep. Norm Dicks, ranking member on the Appropriations Committee, spoke up during the Caucus meeting, saying it was important for the administration to take a leading role in the negotiations.

“It wasn’t confrontational, but we think the president and his staff and the [Office of Management and Budget] people and the White House people have got to be involved in helping reach this final decision,” the Washington state Democrat said. “I hope and pray that we don’t have to do another CR. We’ve got to get this done, so we’re going to do everything we can to cooperate, to facilitate.”

http://www.rollcall.com/issues/56_98/-204190-1.html
BadGenome

sarainitaly said:
It’s not just Republicans that are complaining….

It’s not just Republicans who are racists, you mean?
http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

BadGenome said:
It’s not just Republicans who are racists, you mean?

haha apparently not!
http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

It’s not just Republicans that are complaining….

“Obviously, she’s not happy with dealing with a president who can’t decide if today is Tuesday or Wednesday, who can’t make his mind up,” a Clinton insider told The Daily. “She’s exhausted, tired.”…

Clinton is said to be especially peeved with the president’s waffling over how to encourage the kinds of Arab uprisings that have recently toppled regimes in Egypt and Tunisia, and in particular his refusal to back a no-fly zone over Libya.

In the past week, former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton’s former top adviser Anne-
Marie Slaughter lashed out at Obama for the same reason….

“Frankly we are just completely puzzled,” one of the diplomats told Foreign
Policy magazine. “We are wondering if this is a priority for the United States.”

Or as the insider described Obama’s foreign policy shop: “It’s amateur night.”

http://www.thedaily.com/page/2011/03/17/031711-news-hillary-2-2/
X-3

The best thing 0bama can do for our country is to concentrate on basketball, golf, and going on vacations.
Pablo

sarainitaly said:
It’s not just Republicans that are complaining….

“Obviously, she’s not happy with dealing with a president who can’t decide if today is Tuesday or Wednesday, who can’t make his mind up,” a Clinton insider told The Daily. “She’s exhausted, tired.”…

Clinton is said to be especially peeved with the president’s waffling over how to encourage the kinds of Arab uprisings that have recently toppled regimes in Egypt and Tunisia, and in particular his refusal to back a no-fly zone over Libya.

In the past week, former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton’s former top adviser Anne-
Marie Slaughter lashed out at Obama for the same reason….

“Frankly we are just completely puzzled,” one of the diplomats told Foreign
Policy magazine. “We are wondering if this is a priority for the United States.”

Or as the insider described Obama’s foreign policy shop: “It’s amateur night.”

http://www.thedaily.com/page/2011/03/17/031711-news-hillary-2-2/

I just came over here to post that. Thanks, Sara! Some wag (Jonah Goldberg, maybe?*) noted that this administration needs a lot more feck, gorm, clue, and list.

*Yep, Goldberg.
Nationman

X-3 said:
The best thing 0bama can do for our country is to concentrate on basketball, golf, and going on vacations.

It would be like he was contuing the bush legacy if he did that.
IIWII

Knowing what I know of this Prez’s picks… I will say: Go Cubs!!!!!!! My fave baseball team has a better chance of winning the NCAA bassetball tour. than Barry’s choice.
WCinWI

http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2011/03/your-bracket-awaits-mr-president.html
ChrisNH

It clearly must incense Leftists to no end that ‘Their Boy’ Obamo is so vilified and hated. After eight years of hating Bush, these little limp-wrists are livid at the hatred that Obamo is routinely subject to. Poor them! And the whole ‘racist’ thing is a complete non-starter. For me, I’m fine–perfectly fine– with Obamo’s ‘blackness’ in the same way I’m fine with Clarence Thomas’ ‘blackness.’ It’s Obamo’s Euro-Socialist ‘whiteness’ that I hate.
BatBoy

Like Hillary, we all are getting fed up with this President.

Fed up with a president “who can’t make his mind up” as Libyan rebels are on the brink of defeat, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is looking to the exits.

Source: http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/17/obamas-indecision-on-libya-has-pushed-clinton-over-the-edge/#ixzz1GwpYHneu
TrollJuice

Who is “we”?
ChrisNH

Hey everyone! Look…LOOK!!! Paul Krugman wrote another column today. Hurry! Go see!!!
tatboy

Tommy C: “I say “has become an annual tradition” because, prior to the Obama presidency, I don’t remember another President being criticized for such a brief sports-related diversion. Is it the president in question, the sport, or both?”

REALLY!!! You don’t remember you fav “journalist” Olbermann going on a “Special Comment” screed about Bush giving up golf because it felt wrong to be on a golf course while a war is going on??? You really forgot about that? BTW… Obama has played more rounds of golf in 2 years than Bush played in 8. And Obama had so much knowledge about the teams and the players a lot of people like me were left wondering if he is spending more time researching/watching basketball then studying the… as you say… “(fill in current event here)”.
cjd ohio 1

cjd ohio 1 said:
come on tommy, explain the message, you tell us not to read into your articles and make assumptions

i am disappointed that tommy would not explain the message
ProObamaAgenda

tatboy said:
Tommy C: “I say “has become an annual tradition” because, prior to the Obama presidency, I don’t remember another President being criticized for such a brief sports-related diversion. Is it the president in question, the sport, or both?”

REALLY!!! You don’t remember you fav “journalist” Olbermann going on a “Special Comment” screed about Bush giving up golf because it felt wrong to be on a golf course while a war is going on??? You really forgot about that? BTW… Obama has played more rounds of golf in 2 years than Bush played in 8. And Obama had so much knowledge about the teams and the players a lot of people like me were left wondering if he is spending more time researching/watching basketball then studying the… as you say… “(fill in current event here)”.

just how many rounds of golf has obama played???……or bush????….my guess is you really dont know…you just like to complain….typical bagger…..all show and no go….oh BTW you’re right about one thing, he researches and is brilliant….Obamas picks went 14 – 2 yesterday…….pretty darn good at pickin em id say
dandelion28

I love watching how Obama gets under the righties’ skin. They’re scared and/or jealous of him because they’re fascist authorians bent on destroying our country. And we want our country back!

See, I just took the typical wingtard post, changed a few descriptions and voila! Instant rebuttal.

You can find more in my new book, “Stupid, Cliched Attacks on Liberals: 20 recycled subject-changers.” Chapter titles include: Libs Hate Glenn Beck Because He Tells the Truth; Teleprompter; Elitist; Acorn; George Soros; Fox’s High Ratings Means It Does Good Journalism; Rachel Maddow Looks Like a Dude; and What is NPR? (No really, I’ve never heard of it.).
http://www.facebook.com/people/Bob-Hubble/100001340708758 caconservative

Is it just his basketball picks in a time of world crisis, or is that just one more indication of this man’s lack of respect for the office he holds. Opponents of Obimbo are hollering about a disconnect. That is only true if there was governmental connect from the beginning. There was none. This man had his own agenda from the outset, and anything resembling a connect with what this nation needed was never in his plan. When he told people he was going to completely change this country, he meant it. It wasn’t just some RA-RA high school cheer he was spouting. This clown said what he meant, and is doing everything in his power to make the dreams of his father come true. At some point, the liberal-morons are going to have to face facts. They’ve been duped and no amount of deflection is going to change that fact. The best we can hope for in the next to years is the Republican party stopping as much of the bleeding as they possibly can. Like Qaddafi, Obimbo must go!!
tatboy

ProObamaAgenda said:
oh BTW you’re right about one thing, he researches and is brilliant….Obamas picks went 14 – 2 yesterday…….pretty darn good at pickin em id say

Good to know where his focus is…
tatboy

ProObamaAgenda said:
just how many rounds of golf has obama played???……or bush????….my guess is you really dont know…you just like to complain….typical bagger…..all show and no go….oh BTW you’re right about one thing, he researches and is brilliant….Obamas picks went 14 – 2 yesterday…….pretty darn good at pickin em id say

Oh just noticed your avatar. You’re one of Olbermann’s FUKing followers. That explains it all. :) Never mind…
michiganruth

oh–you caught us, Tommy! it’s that Negro thing again! that’s right: we don’t like Obama doing his brackets because we hate black people, and we hate basketball because black people like it. damn Tommy, you’re just too smart for us.

and yeah, really–what other president has ever caught flak for being interested in sporting events? you’re right again Tommy: I can’t remember another president being harassed over playing or enjoying a sport since–well, since the last one. George W. Bush? ‘memba him? who couldn’t play a round of golf without you and your ilk bitching about it?

but all criticism of Owebama is due to racism. yup.

if you people truly believe this you’re ABSOLUTELY FREAKING OUT OF YOUR MINDS.
Pablo

ProObamaAgenda said:
just how many rounds of golf has obama played???……or bush????….my guess is you really dont know…you just like to complain….typical bagger…..all show and no go…

60.
Pablo

TrollJuice said:
Who is “we”?

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
tatboy

Tommy… I know you read the comments on your articles so I’m writing this to YOU directly. I find it HIGHLY offensive that my response to ProObamaAgenda’s slur of calling be a “bagger” was deleted. I responded in a strong way due to someone calling me a vile slur… a slur that YOU have chosen to leave up. I find this unacceptable. I have been a fan of you work for a while but this is a bridge to far. For you to leave a vile and offensive comment directed at a conservative but remove the RESPONSE TO that vile and offensive slur is very telling. I can’t wrap by brain around that kind of selective management of a supposedly “neutral” blog.
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X-3

Barack-etology-gate: What’s Really Behind Criticism of President Obama’s Basketball Jones?

What’s really behind the criticism? 0bama was elected to lead the country, NOT go on one vacation after another, NOT go on one apology tour after another, NOT to bow to every foreing leader in the third world, NOT to shoot hoops with his pals, NOT to spend more time on the links than Jack Nicklaus, NOT to pander to the criminals who run labor unions, NOT to pander to every communist, marxist, fascist, socialist, and so-called “progressive” organization in the world by putting them on the American taxpayers’ payroll.

In short, the 0bama regime could well bring the end of the United States of America, but if, by God’s grace, this country survives four years of anti-Americans running our country, his presidency shall forever be remembered as the worst infestation of our government since Jimmy Carter.