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Obama: ‘I Didn’t Really Like the White Sox Growing Up’; Can’t Name His Favorite Player (w/ Video)
Three Fingers of Politics ^ | April 5, 2010 | Stupac

Posted on 04/05/2010 1:52:51 PM PDT by Superstu321

Carlton Fisk, Frank “the Big Hurt” Thomas, Tom Seaver, Rich “Goose” Gossage – all names that any Chicago White Sox fan knows by heart. But today, while being interviewed by Washington Nationals booth announcers Bob Carpenter and Rob Dibble, President Barack Obama couldn’t muster up a single name.

The Commander-in-Chief, who has referred to himself a “White Sox kid” during the interview, was hard pressed to name a favorite player on a team that has been around since the late 19th century.

Obama went on to admit that growing up in Hawaii he was an Oakland Athletics fan and didn’t start to root for the White Sox until he got to Chicago and lived near the old Comiskey Park.

Video after the jump...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: athletes; baseball; bho44; chicago; fake; mlb; muslim; obama; whitesox; youlie
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To: Free America52

I remember Ron Cey and Davy Lopes. I was there when Davy stole FIVE bases in ONE game! :-)


21 posted on 04/05/2010 2:02:59 PM PDT by bannie (Somebody has to go to seed...it might as well be me!)
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To: KEmom
the guy is a first class AZZ...

so smart is he...lets see those school records, Hussein!!!!

22 posted on 04/05/2010 2:03:45 PM PDT by haircutter
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To: Superstu321
Just a little "correction": Obama: ‘I Didn’t Really Like Whites Growing Up’

Redistribution is Theft III, small
23 posted on 04/05/2010 2:03:46 PM PDT by Oceander (The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
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To: mia

This reminds me of the old WWII movies where the German spy is found out because he can’t name the winner of the World Series.


24 posted on 04/05/2010 2:03:53 PM PDT by I-ambush (I didn't think, I never dreamed, that I would be around to see it all come true-McCartney and Wings)
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To: Superstu321

He only wore the White Sox hat as cover for the boo’s—as instructed by Axelrod.

Any one have any stats on past presidents throwing out the first pitch, as far as what they wore? Is it “tradition” to wear the hat from your alleged home team?


25 posted on 04/05/2010 2:04:13 PM PDT by Fu-fu2
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To: KEmom
He got lots of boo's at the ceremonial first pitch.

He also pitched far wide to the left. The catcher was just able to catch it by lurching out past the hitters box.

26 posted on 04/05/2010 2:04:14 PM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free, Free Republic.com baby.)
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To: bannie

No kidding. I remember a whole number of Dodgers from the 70’s and 80’s when I was a kid roaming Dodger Stadium...and he can’t remember one White Sox? what a phony.


27 posted on 04/05/2010 2:05:07 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: KEmom

It wasn’t just his response ... it was how he responded - uh, ah, hmmm, uh ... I really didn’t ... uh, ah, hmmm, uh,uh, uh .. have a ...uh, uh ... hmmm ... favorite ... uh ... player.

You could tell he was completely caught off guard, and had no where to hide.


28 posted on 04/05/2010 2:05:15 PM PDT by Free America52 (The White guys are getting pissed off. We beat Hitler Hirohito and Krushchev. Obama will be easy.)
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To: Superstu321
He's a phakin' phony. Last year he was running off the mouth about his White Sox and the dumb azz started talking about Comiskey Field.

Probably didn't get much news about the Sox in Kenya during the 60's

29 posted on 04/05/2010 2:05:29 PM PDT by skimbell
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To: Superstu321

“I grew up cheering for the Nairobi Bombers.”


30 posted on 04/05/2010 2:05:31 PM PDT by brewcrew
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To: traderrob6
The smell of the hot dogs as you walked the the concrete ramps to your section, and then that first glimpse of the green, the mower lines on that greenest of lawns, the sheer scope of Comiskey Park to a wee kid in the 50s: lasered into our memories.

He is a devotee of the Black Stockings because he is a liar and a fraud.
31 posted on 04/05/2010 2:05:47 PM PDT by jobim
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To: Superstu321

They should have asked him for his favorite Kenyan soccer club and Indonesian boxer.


32 posted on 04/05/2010 2:06:07 PM PDT by rod1
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To: Free America52

33 posted on 04/05/2010 2:07:01 PM PDT by SparkyBass
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To: skimbell
What he said was: Cominskey Field
34 posted on 04/05/2010 2:07:37 PM PDT by jobim
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To: Superstu321

Could you get White Sox games in Pokeestan, Kenya, and Indonesia?


35 posted on 04/05/2010 2:07:48 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (No prisoners, no mercy. 2010 is here...)
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To: Superstu321

One time he called it “Cominsky.” I have a feeling Zero never bought a paid admit to see the Sox play. His claim to be a fan was just a lie to serve up to his southsider voters.


36 posted on 04/05/2010 2:08:23 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Superstu321

Assume that everything he says is a lie until proven otherwise. You won’t be disappointed that way.


37 posted on 04/05/2010 2:09:17 PM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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To: Superstu321

He (and his minions) lies even when the topic is so inconsequential...and as elPresidente you don’t just ‘pop’ into the broadcast booth. Couldn’t Rahmykins and he googled White Sox Team History and memorized something, anything about the team if they were going to push this charade of ‘AllAmericanBarrack.’


38 posted on 04/05/2010 2:09:18 PM PDT by PennsylvaniaMom (Proud to be TROUBLESOME and VITRIOLIC!!!)
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To: Cheap_Hessian
Muttley Laugh

(Go Cards!!!)

39 posted on 04/05/2010 2:10:24 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Superstu321

The very reason he wore a White Sox jersey was so his sycophants in the press could explain that it was his jersey that people were booing and jeering when he walked out to the mound, not his performance or policies. It was done for that reason alone....political cover.

PF


40 posted on 04/05/2010 2:10:27 PM PDT by PresidentFelon
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