darin
04-07-2010, 05:50 AM
Okay - ALL politicians pander from time to time. Mr. President, however - every time he's off-prompter he's a f'ing joke.
The question didn’t seem all that difficult. Washington Nationals broadcaster Bob Carpenter asked a certain “White Sox fan” who moved from Chicago to much nicer digs in Washington D.C. last year to name his favorite Pale Hose player. President Obama danced around the question, said that he actually followed the Oakland A’s growing up in Hawaii, declared that the Cubs had some good players too and ultimately let the subject drop uncomfortably. Perhaps this was just another example of our perpetually tongue-tied president trying to work without a teleprompter net, but one rather doubts it.
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The president’s apologists will likely claim that he was thrown by the “while you were growing up” qualifier contained in Carpenter’s question. Perhaps he was. But, even in that case, you’d think he might have mentioned a few A’s from his childhood, like Bert Campaneris, Reggie Jackson, Vida Blue, Catfish Hunter, Gene Tenace, etc., before rolling on to name his favorites among the White Sox who took the field during the eighteen years that he lived in the Windy City.
That would have established his bona fides as the baseball fan in general, and Pale Hose fanatic in particular, that he purports to be. As it was, he didn’t and the reason he didn’t, one suspects, is that he couldn’t. That’s not surprising. When it comes to being a die-hard White Sox fan, the president’s pin-striped jersey appears to be as empty as his business suit.
http://bigjournalism.com/rtrzupek/2010/04/06/obama-swings-and-misses-when-asked-to-name-favorite-white-sox-what-does-that-tell-you/
The question didn’t seem all that difficult. Washington Nationals broadcaster Bob Carpenter asked a certain “White Sox fan” who moved from Chicago to much nicer digs in Washington D.C. last year to name his favorite Pale Hose player. President Obama danced around the question, said that he actually followed the Oakland A’s growing up in Hawaii, declared that the Cubs had some good players too and ultimately let the subject drop uncomfortably. Perhaps this was just another example of our perpetually tongue-tied president trying to work without a teleprompter net, but one rather doubts it.
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The president’s apologists will likely claim that he was thrown by the “while you were growing up” qualifier contained in Carpenter’s question. Perhaps he was. But, even in that case, you’d think he might have mentioned a few A’s from his childhood, like Bert Campaneris, Reggie Jackson, Vida Blue, Catfish Hunter, Gene Tenace, etc., before rolling on to name his favorites among the White Sox who took the field during the eighteen years that he lived in the Windy City.
That would have established his bona fides as the baseball fan in general, and Pale Hose fanatic in particular, that he purports to be. As it was, he didn’t and the reason he didn’t, one suspects, is that he couldn’t. That’s not surprising. When it comes to being a die-hard White Sox fan, the president’s pin-striped jersey appears to be as empty as his business suit.
http://bigjournalism.com/rtrzupek/2010/04/06/obama-swings-and-misses-when-asked-to-name-favorite-white-sox-what-does-that-tell-you/