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President Barack Obama not quite a White Sox expert
Chicago Sun Times ^ | April 6, 2010 | Kyle Koster

Posted on 04/06/2010 10:54:26 AM PDT by FTJM

President Barack Obama wore a White Sox cap during his ceremonial first pitch at the Washington Nationals game yesterday, but before any rabid Pale Hose supporters get too excited about it, they should know he had a bit of a problem naming any player by name.

The first fan was interviewed during the game's television broadcast by former Sox pitcher Rob Dibble, who asked the president about his favorite players on the South Side growing up.

This is was the point that the usually eloquent Obama began stammering.

"You know uh ..... I ... I thought that ... uh .... you know," Obama stalled. " ... The truth is a lot of the Cubs I like too! But, uh ... I did not become a Sox fan until I moved to Chicago. Because I uh .... I was growing up in Hawaii so I ended up actually being an Oakland A's fan."

Yes, he did also call it "Cominskey Park." That, apparently, is something he does regularly.

One could make the case that Obama's point was that he didn't become acquainted with the Sox until later in his life, but I'd imagine most fans would have liked him to spit out at least one player's name.

So, big deal or not?


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cominskey; dumbass; obama
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To: FTJM

This guy’s a fraud—always has been. So why is this surprising to the Chicago Tribune that he’s lied about this? Everyone but them knows it? He’s lied about absolutely everything.


61 posted on 04/06/2010 11:49:06 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (Fix bayonets!)
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To: FTJM
Without hesitation I can rattle off the Phillies of my youth (and not look them up...just have to trust me here...) Clay Dalrymple, Bobby Wine, Reuben Amaro, Tony Taylor, Dick ("don't call me Richie") Allen, Wes Covington, Don Demeter, Tony Gonzalez, Johnnie Callison, Jim Bunning, Art Mahaffey, Rick Wise, Jack Baldschun...and the ever even-tempered, Gene Mauch.

...as well as the many wonderful days spent in the $1.00 Bleacher Benches (they were NOT seats!) with my Grandfather at (the now burned down by the neighborhood) Connie Mack Stadium.

62 posted on 04/06/2010 11:50:56 AM PDT by Prov1322 (Enjoy my wife's incredible artwork at www.watercolorARTwork.com! (This space no longer for rent))
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To: FTJM

His PHONINESS is REAL!!


63 posted on 04/06/2010 11:51:07 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion,,,,,,the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Fu-fu2
the sheer number of those kinds of posts was really sad

Don't be down. The DNC and Soros types and the money left wing organizations employ thousands to post that crap. That's one of the large reasons Obama was elected. Thousands of these people sit at computers all day long and type this crap defending the One.

The truth will come out, sooner or later, it always does.

64 posted on 04/06/2010 12:00:34 PM PDT by Auntie Mame (Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
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To: henkster

That’s Wringley


65 posted on 04/06/2010 12:10:37 PM PDT by Bramuce
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To: FTJM

Obama is to baseball what Obama is to foreign policy, economics, politics, science, law...I could go on all day!!


66 posted on 04/06/2010 12:15:10 PM PDT by Spok (Free Range Republican)
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To: FTJM

Obamao is an effeminate twerp, and no matter how he tries to be a manly man or red blooded, American male, he ends up looking and sounding foolish.


67 posted on 04/06/2010 12:20:19 PM PDT by pallis
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To: colorado tanker

Even girls don’t throw that pansy assed.


68 posted on 04/06/2010 12:23:10 PM PDT by Nonstatist
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To: FTJM

No one gonna mention Hillary, that great Yankees fan from Arkansas ???


69 posted on 04/06/2010 12:24:20 PM PDT by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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To: FTJM

I thought he grew up in Indonesia, and therefore it would be hard to follow baseball, other than perhaps the Hanshin Tigers.


70 posted on 04/06/2010 12:29:05 PM PDT by FLCowboy, (And people thought Jimmy Carter was our worst president........)
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To: SevenofNine

He could have at least said Michael Jordan.


71 posted on 04/06/2010 12:29:32 PM PDT by Hoodat (For the weapons of our warfare are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.)
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To: Hegewisch Dupa

But he didn’t say “Comiskey”. He said “Cominsky”, with an “n” in it. He didn’t know how to pronounce it, that’s why it’s a major gaffe. If he’s really such a big baseball fan and White Sox fan, he would never misprounce the name of the ballpark.

And the president speaks and enunciates very well. He never slurs his speech or misprounounces, at least in public. The bottom line is that he didn’t know the name of the ballpark he allegedly knew about.


72 posted on 04/06/2010 12:37:06 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

No, I missed the key point there - you’re very right


73 posted on 04/06/2010 12:39:54 PM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Cominsky Park is where the Corpse-men play.


74 posted on 04/06/2010 12:44:41 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: FTJM

Listen to this audio, as Boston’s Howie Carr rips Obama a new one — and remember, those callers are all blue-collar guys.

This is beautiful.

http://audio.wrko.com/m/audio/30146503/obama-fan-but-know-no-players.htm

Title: Obama Fan but know No Players

Published: Mon, 5 Apr 2010

Description: 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. Are you surprised?


75 posted on 04/06/2010 12:49:37 PM PDT by Beckwith (A "natural born citizen" -- two American citizen parents and born in the USA.)
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To: Nonstatist
Even girls don’t throw that pansy assed.

You're darn straight they don't!


76 posted on 04/06/2010 12:50:27 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: DManA
Or was it ALINSKY Park? Michelle loves Obama and Obama loves Sol!
77 posted on 04/06/2010 12:52:03 PM PDT by itssme
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To: FTJM

The press would have crucified Bush over something like this.


78 posted on 04/06/2010 12:52:58 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Entitlements will do to America what drugs eventually do to addicts)
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To: 240B

I was around FR when 2004 election happen I mean it Freepers have greatest joke on Senator John Kerry well he is a joke ROFL


79 posted on 04/06/2010 12:56:30 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile")
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To: reagan_fanatic

If President Bush wasn’t baseball fan everybody know he was I think to safe to say I think he could name the players that play for Texas Rangers unlike this current occupant of the WH LOL!


80 posted on 04/06/2010 12:59:01 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile")
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