A girl who can throw like a man
Posted on 07/16/2009 10:01:02 PM PDT by Rennes Templar
If you're a sports fan, you have to feel good that one among us works in the Oval Office.
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Which brings us to his ceremonial first pitch Tuesday night at the All-Star Game. How best to put this? He throws like a ... wait, I'm not going to say it. It's not worth the protests by the U.S. women's national softball team that inevitably will blossom outside Tribune Tower.
Let's just say he throws like someone who hardly has played sports. If the Cardinals' Albert Pujols hadn't stepped up and made a catch, Obama's pitch would have bounced in front of the plate, the ultimate humiliation.
If I'm North Korea, I attack right now.
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How can someone who professes such deep love for baseball, someone who plays basketball so frequently, someone who puts everything else on hold to sit down with ESPN to fill out his college basketball brackets -- how can that person throw a baseball so badly?
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But this was Obama, who ran for president on a platform that looked like the Celtics' parquet floor. He's supposed to be better than he was Tuesday in St. Louis. He's supposed to be an athlete. There's nothing wrong with lacking athleticism, but to present one image and the opposite be true is crushing.
This brings everything into question: Is Obama really a good basketball player, or are we the victims of camera tricks that make it look as if he's a baller? Has a fraud been perpetrated on the American public? We need to see Obama play against someone other than a Department of Commerce undersecretary who's afraid to foul the president hard. Or does the leader of the free world only invite basketball players who give him a presidential pardon on the court?
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
More and more Americans are waking up to a crushing feeling, but it's not about sports.
I'd love to go one-on-one with TOTUS. I'm not much on offense, but when I defend a man, I use all my fouls.
Remember the perfect strike Bush threw in Yankee stadium during the World Series in 01.
Even the lib sporst writers say it was the best first pitch ever thrown.
It’s a gift.
The defensive comments after the article are a hoot. You can sense some real desperation in the Obamabots as the veneer of competency begins to flake off of their hero. Hitler/chimp jokes were so cool and relevant, but light hearted jabs at this guys obvious klutziness and phoniness is out of bounds.
Well basketball & baseball are two different games.
“veneer of competency”
Good phrase for the One.
Every second he's in office, Tribune.
He didn’t have his teleprompter giving him instructions in how to throw....
The Mom jeans he wore don’t make a good case for him, either
I think his game is basketball. He is not a baseball player. Why are people giving him crap about this? It seems so silly since he has loads of other stuff to complain about him. Why are we concentrating on this and not his negatives. Obama must love conservatives since our priorities are so interesting.
Author to be audited by IRS ASAP.
A girl who can throw like a man
Where’s the video of this throw? I keep HEARING about it, but how can one judge without the video?
Why are we giving him crap about this? Because he and his handlers can never admit to any defeciency. Even this article says that the ball would have been in the dirt if Pujhols hadn’t caught it. I’ve seen the You Tube. It was in the dirt.
All right. That WAS a gay pitch.
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