Posted on 06/06/2010 12:49:10 AM PDT by reagandemocrat
For Immediate Release June 05, 2010 Statement of the President on the Passing of John Wooden I’m saddened to hear of the passing of an incredible coach, and an even better man, John Wooden. As a basketball fan, I remember fondly his ten NCAA championships, his unrivaled winning streak at UCLA, and the caliber of players he mentored. But as an American, I salute the way he achieved all that success – with modesty, and humility, and by wholeheartedly dedicating his life to the betterment of others. Even after he became one of the game’s early heroes, he worked as a high school teacher. And for the rest of his life, on and off the court, he never stopped teaching. He never stopped preparing his players, and everyone he met, to be their best. Despite all the records and the championships, he once said that it wasn’t the tournaments or the games he missed the most – it was the practice and the preparation. He is reunited with his beloved wife, Nell, now; and my thoughts and prayers are with his children, James and Nancy; his grandchildren and great-grandchildren; and all whose lives were forever changed because John Wooden lived his so well. Blog posts on this issue June 05, 2010 3:00 PM EDT "Cherish Your Team" President Obama honors Utah's Major League Soccer champion Real Salt Lake in a ceremony at the White House this afternoon.
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Obama was three years old when Wooden won his first championship and 13 when he won his last.
Get a better PR writer.
Wasn’t he living as Barry Soetero during the Wooden years?
Give him a break.
Unlike the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, basketball is probably something 0bama has the capacity to pay close attention to. How he watched those games in Indonesia, though, is a bit of a mystery...
No doubt he “fondly remembers” Gail Goodrich, Walt Hazzard; Sidney Wicks, Lucius Allen, Lew Alcindor, and Keith Wilkes, et al., being a active 3-9 year old Indonesian at the time.
“Give him a break.”
Yeah, I agree. This is the first thing he or his admin have not totally screwed up since, I don’t know, maybe it’s the first thing.
Indeed.
Indonesians have a long history of gathering around the TV to watch American college basketball, going back to the early 1960s.
And if you don’t believe me, ask Robert Gibbs.
He will be sharing this very fact with America on Monday.
This is the sort of guy Barry would make go in front of a death panel and “justify his existence”
Upon further reflection, you two are right, and I accept your admonishment.
Lolo and Stanley and lil’ Barry watching Bruin basketball narrated by Dick Enberg. “Gee papa, did you see Walt Hazzard make that exciting basket? Pass some halal goat please”
Hard to believe anything could be lamer and more “written for a computer, BY a computer” than this classic example of
THE BOGUS OBAMA SPEECH. It is as vacuously transparently false as the man himself. If he gave it in public, most of the public must have been silently chortling. You’ll notice how EVERY Obama speech is meant to convey a kind of omniscience about EVERYTHING——it might halfway work with some Presidents===with Obama, everything that falls from his lips just sounds cheesier and cheesier.
“Give him a break.”
...why would any American patriot “give a break” to someone hell bent on destroying everything you own? I’ll never give this a$%hole a break.
Bambi is not fit to shine Wooden’s shoes.
/racism
/s
0, a.k.a. ‘Basketball Jones’, speaks. I just threw up in my mouth.
Has he commented on the floods in Tennessee yet? Didn’t think so... 2 months and counting.
LLS
Don’t worry, by the end of his administration he will claim to have known JFK.
And he only mentioned himself four times in this 185 word statement about John Wooden!
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