Tim Thomas, Boston Bruins goalie, snubs President Obama

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[bkopto]

Tim Thomas, Boston Bruins goalie, snubs President Obama

That's raaaaaacist.

[True Republican Patriot]

Obama HUSSEIN is desecrating the Office of the PresidenT!
Mr. Thomas is standing up for the Office of the President
by dishonoring the Kenyan Terrorist who is a total Fraud with No Past History at all, all of it laundered in the past! GOD BLESS Mr. Thomas!!

[bluecat6]

Goalies rule!

Goalies are unique breed. Being the hero one day and the goat the next makes the skin thick. They let it all hang out and do not care too much what people think - if they did - they wouldn’t, no...make that couldn’t be an NHL goalie.

[Boardwalk]

I have to agree and have been predicting as much Bruins to repeat.

[PA-RIVER]

I dont think I could go. I would get too angry. Im sure SS would have to escort me from the building after they saw me look at him.

[chessplayer]

He can kiss his hockey career goodbye.

[rlmorel]

WAY TO GO TIM! WOO HOO!

Man. Makes me proud there is someone who won't sacrifice their principles for fifteen more minutes of fame.

For those of you who haven't seen it, this is what his helmet was, at least at the beginning of last season:

[rlmorel]

I like it.

"SNUB"

How do you like that? A man who refuses to be used as a political tool by the most anti-American president to ever hold office. (I would say "the ONLY anti-American president, but there is always Jimmy Carter followed closely by Bill Clinton...)

Hahahaha. Politico can eat my shorts.

[rlmorel]

Ha! A Hab fan and a Bruins fan can join their hands held high for THIS principle!

[rlmorel]

"... I wonder if this diminishes the Office of the Presidency..."

I don't know if that is possible. I think this POS has done as much as he can on his own to that end...

(His political mentor)

(His self-professed bible: Rules for Radicals, with the dedication to Lucifer)

So I would disagree that Tim Thomas, exercising his right as a free person, refusing to be used as a political tool, in any way diminishes the Presidency with this current occupant.

[rlmorel]

I disagree that Bruins fans are solidly against him.

This is a poll (which is at least as scientific as reading message boards, if you can stand to do it) from New England Sports Network (NESN), and it indicates the majority are not disturbed by it. And, this is predominately a site frequented by New England sports fans:

And I will say this as well: Every single hockey player I have ever played with here in Massachusetts spanning 15 years that I knew personally, would back Tim Thomas 100% on this. I speak only of ones I knew personally, not people on opposing teams and such.

And I say this as a Bruins fan.

[nutmeg]

I live in Boston and no doubt the backlash will be severe from the fans. Something along the lines of bringing up the subject of Curt Schilling.

That's really a shame. I'm ready to go out and buy a 'Thomas' Bruins jersey over this... God bless Tim Thomas!

Now if we could only afford to attend a Bruins game, I might wear that shirt there... ;-)

We attended many Red Sox games that Curt Schilling pitched (and one Paw Sox game in RI where he was rehabbing). Schilling always received a ton of applause.

We attended a Red Sox game at Fenway back during campaign 2004. John Kerry was announced as being in the crowd, and I believe he stood up and waved (it was hard to tell, as we were in the cheap seats w/o binoculars). Hubby and I loudly BOOed John Effin' Kerry, as did many other Red Sox fans - it seemed about 50-50 to me.

[nicmarlo]

:)

[nutmeg]

Thanks for that poll info... I just FReeped it! God bless Tim Thomas.

[ri4dc]

RE> As I always say, I’m so so glad to be out of that God-forsaken state.

I say almost the exact same thing every day for the past 13 years. :)

[rlmorel]

You are welcome, nutmeg...stand up guy, eh?

[Puppage]

AMEN BROTHER!

[GregNH]

This has nothing to do with anything but the double standard that exist in the media. There have been many players who have skipped out on WH visits in the past with no attention, at least not the attention this is getting.

Of course it has nothing with someone knocking around a black object with a stick and keeping that black object from reaching it goal. I digress.

Red Sox player Manny Ramirez;

Manny celebrated like a kid when he was finally minted an American citizen, running out onto the Fenway field while waving a miniature American flag, but he didn't have much use for George W. Bush. After the team won the World Series in 2004, Ramirez skipped the team's visit to the White House. Johnny Damon covered for him that time, explaining to the president that the slugger's grandmother was sick. When he skipped again after the '07 victory, Bush wasn't hearing any excuses. "I guess his grandmother died again," the president quipped.

Now that hypocrite should have gotten press for his snub. He just became an American Citizen and he snubs a White House visit, TWICE!

And so did this guy.

Theo Epstein was conspicuously missing from both White House visits in 2004 and 2007 when Republican President George W. Bush was in office.

You see the pattern here, I could go on. It's not the snubbing it's the President that is snubbed that makes the difference.

[bitt]

where’s that video of Kerry getting BOOed at the RedSox game??

fans are different than latte-drinking effetes..

[BluH2o]

There have been many players who have skipped out on WH visits in the past with no attention, at least not the attention this is getting.

My recollection is vague on this, but didn't John Elway skip out on a WH visit back in the day when the Broncos were winning Super Bowls? That was during Clinton's second term.