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Obama Compares Pro Football to Smoking, Says He Wouldn't Let Son Play
Breibart Sports ^ | 1-19-2014 | Breitbart Sports

Posted on 01/20/2014 10:18:55 AM PST by Sir Napsalot

Comparing professional football to boxing and smoking, President Barack Obama said that if he had a son he would not let him play pro football because of the risk of concussions. Last year, Obama said that he would have to think "long and hard" before he would let his son play football.

“I would not let my son play pro football,” Obama told the New Yorker in a lengthy piece that was published on Sunday. “But, I mean, you wrote a lot about boxing, right? We’re sort of in the same realm.”

Obama then compared playing professional football to smoking.

“At this point, there’s a little bit of caveat emptor," Obama said. "These guys, they know what they’re doing. They know what they’re buying into. It is no longer a secret. It’s sort of the feeling I have about smokers, you know?”

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: davidremnick; newyorker; nfl
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WTHeck? Hello! Remember this is the 'most powerful man on earth' who can trigger the nuclear football?

This is simply weird, and ridiculous.

1 posted on 01/20/2014 10:18:55 AM PST by Sir Napsalot
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To: Sir Napsalot

It’s too bad his son is dead. Turns out trying to smash an armed man’s head is more dangerous than football.


2 posted on 01/20/2014 10:20:23 AM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

obama has such a wonderful relationship with his invisible son.


3 posted on 01/20/2014 10:20:34 AM PST by svcw (Not 'hope and change' but 'dopes in chains')
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To: Sir Napsalot

Obama is proving what pot and concussions can do to the brain. He has obviously had lots of both.

Whoever thought this man was smart, should now have to apologize. He just fakes it.


4 posted on 01/20/2014 10:21:37 AM PST by Tenacious 1 (Liberals can afford for things to go well, to work, for folks to be happy. They'd be out of work.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Yeah! His “son” was too busy getting his teeth “gold grilled”, smoking dope, eating Skittles, “gaming” and thuggin’ around neighborhoods he didn’t belong in. Much better then football.


5 posted on 01/20/2014 10:23:13 AM PST by albie (ve`)
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To: Sir Napsalot

This ego-maniac can’t stay out of anything. No need, I suppose, to speculate on the fact of why he hasn’t been able to father a son ... he only has make-believe ones.


6 posted on 01/20/2014 10:24:46 AM PST by glennaro
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To: Tenacious 1

If son like dad, with brain much smaller than head, you can see how this could be dangerous, rattle and all


7 posted on 01/20/2014 10:25:44 AM PST by munin (MSNBC?)
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Remember this?

Contrast that to the picture of Pootie Poot Karate chop.

8 posted on 01/20/2014 10:27:37 AM PST by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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But it is ok if his son is a wannabe thug who likes to attack people and burglar houses.


9 posted on 01/20/2014 10:29:46 AM PST by Parmy
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To: Parmy

The Obama children (male or female) will be off to Ivy League schools and marry hedge fund moguls or rising progressive political stars.


10 posted on 01/20/2014 10:32:06 AM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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Why won't Obama and his wife adopt a white boy the way Obama's white grandmother adopted him? Why won't his wife give him a son? - he's obviously hung up on having too many women telling him what to do -

Because they hate whites? Well?

11 posted on 01/20/2014 10:32:20 AM PST by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.)
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Another whopper!!??!!! Because he's been on to stronger stuff than the weed.

Obama: Marijuana Less Dangerous than Alcohol

12 posted on 01/20/2014 10:33:48 AM PST by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Living proof that the Whitehouse is NO place for a stoner.


13 posted on 01/20/2014 10:34:14 AM PST by CMailBag
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Compare this statement with Patton's statement that football is an excellent education for life and combat. More of the pussification of the US by dear leader, Obama.
14 posted on 01/20/2014 10:36:00 AM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: Sir Napsalot

I always thought the the P in POTUS was for President but I guess I’m mistaken, since 2009 PU$$ie is more appropriate.


15 posted on 01/20/2014 10:37:24 AM PST by Rappini (Veritas vos Liberabit)
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I find the very notion absurd. EVERYONE knows if Obama had a son, he would play BASEBALL!


17 posted on 01/20/2014 10:38:28 AM PST by Mich Patriot (PITCH BLACK is the new "transparent")
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I would not let my son play pro football

Think of the logistics... every kid on the team and their families would need to be investigated by the Secret Service... and then the same for each and every member of the opposition teams. And all opposing players would be worried they will be painted by cross-hairs by the Secret Service snipers during the game if they even touch the kid.

Why are we taking parenting advice from this guy?

18 posted on 01/20/2014 10:39:32 AM PST by John123 (US$ - I owe you nothing. Euro - Who owes you nothing.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

A son of BO would be chillin and choomin...


20 posted on 01/20/2014 10:43:50 AM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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