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OBAMA: People should offer help to Japanese 'as they're filling out their brackets'
Whitehouse.gov ^ | 3/16/2011 | Who knows?

Posted on 03/16/2011 2:07:05 PM PDT by GVnana

President Obama's 2011 NCAA Brackets

Posted by Jesse Lee on March 16, 2011 at 12:20 PM EDT

As he does every year, the President filled out his brackets predicting the winners of the men's and women's NCAA basketball tournaments, but discussing it with Doris Burke of ESPN, he began with a call to stand with the people of Japan:

One of the things I wanted to do on the show was, as people are filling out their brackets -- this is obviously a national pastime; we all have a great time, it’s a great diversion. But I know a lot of people are thinking how can they help the Japanese people during this time of need. If you go to usaid.gov -- usaid.gov -- that will list all the nonprofits, the charities that are helping out there. It would be wonderful for people to maybe offer a little help to the Japanese people at this time -- as they’re filling out their brackets. It’s not going to take a lot of time. That's usaid.gov. It could be really helpful.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: basketball; brackets; idiot; ncaa; obamaawol
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To: GVnana

Predicting college basketball is a national pasttime? Really? My family and our friends must have missed that memo. Our grifter-in-chief is the worst POTUS ever and a lightweight girlyman to boot.


41 posted on 03/16/2011 2:28:33 PM PDT by crazyhorse691 (Now that the libs are in power dissent is not only unpatriotic, but, it is also racist.)
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To: panthermom

So, while people are starving, cold and just had their entire city wiped off the map, with tens of thousands dead and threat of nuclear meltdown, let’s take a few minutes, from our vapid sports game, or General Hospital, to click on a link about Japan…

Honestly, that is just about the most sickening thing I have ever heard from this guy.

And this episode with the brackets.. this is Obama’s “jump-the-shark” moment.. I firmly believe he just lost the re-election


42 posted on 03/16/2011 2:28:36 PM PDT by Chuzzlewit
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To: Frantzie
He is a typical moron ball team fan and TV watching idiot. The NCAA, NFL, NBA and MLB love him.

You do lay it on heavy on almost every thread, but I like it.

43 posted on 03/16/2011 2:30:04 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
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To: Tax-chick

Brackets? Is that like point spread?
So this is something to do with gambling?
It’s just a good thing he’s not a horse lover
or we’d have a parimutuel president.


44 posted on 03/16/2011 2:30:57 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: GVnana

Where the heck was the BARF alert! I’m so over hearing one more thing from this complete idiot, fake president!


45 posted on 03/16/2011 2:32:28 PM PDT by blondee123 (Japan in MAJOR CRISIS & ZERO PARTIES ON! IMPEACH HIM!)
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To: RandallFlagg
Basketball Jones,
I got the basketball Jones,
I got the basketball Jones,
Ohhhhh, ohhhhh, ohhhhh, weeee!
46 posted on 03/16/2011 2:34:16 PM PDT by 11Bush
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To: GVnana

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY6Bzv-mm1E

He’s not my favorite president either, but here’s a video of what he actually said.


47 posted on 03/16/2011 2:34:53 PM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (Public education is WELFARE.)
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To: GVnana

The Japanese should offer help to America, because, she is being destroyed by a deflated basketball for a Pres__ent.


48 posted on 03/16/2011 2:41:59 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (Hope and change is share the poverty.)
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To: GVnana
I don't even know how anyone forms a coherent thought involving basketball and an ongoing nuclear-earthquake-tsunami disaster that has killed tens of thousands of people, and has the potential for killing many more. Basketball is a game--we're talking about the lives of millions of people in Japan affected by disasters.

It will be a relief to get him out of the country for a while. I keep hoping he will decide to stay out of the country.
49 posted on 03/16/2011 2:44:40 PM PDT by Nepeta
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To: tet68

Aren’t sports betting pools illegal in most states?


50 posted on 03/16/2011 2:45:23 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Nadie me ama como Jesus.)
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To: GVnana

Let them eat basketballs.


51 posted on 03/16/2011 2:45:31 PM PDT by Darkwolf377
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To: blondee123

Good point. I must be numb.


52 posted on 03/16/2011 2:46:49 PM PDT by GVnana
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To: keypro

Isn’t that a girl’s bike? Winning The Future, indeed.


53 posted on 03/16/2011 2:47:19 PM PDT by hsalaw
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To: GVnana
New meaning to empty suit has been established. It will be often imitated never duplicated.
54 posted on 03/16/2011 2:47:31 PM PDT by hflynn
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast

The problem is, those are the only people he’s speaking to...


55 posted on 03/16/2011 2:48:29 PM PDT by GVnana
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
So Obama’s entire commentary on Japan is go to some website?

Wow.

56 posted on 03/16/2011 2:49:21 PM PDT by Gabrial (The Whitehouse Nightmare will continue as long as the Nightmare is in the Whitehouse)
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To: Chuzzlewit

Remember the Haiti earthquake? He and Michelle were making public service announcements asking for aid? I have heard NOTHING for Japan.......Japan is 1,000 times worse!

I have to wonder if he is now fully aware of how ineffective and lost he his and he will now just be like Whatever and use the perks because he knows he is a failure.


57 posted on 03/16/2011 2:50:19 PM PDT by panthermom
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To: blueplum
“I’ve never filled out any brackets much less considered doing so a ‘national pasttime’”

Neither have I. I work for a living, as opposed to this jerk-off.

58 posted on 03/16/2011 2:52:35 PM PDT by Gabrial (The Whitehouse Nightmare will continue as long as the Nightmare is in the Whitehouse)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

LOL!


59 posted on 03/16/2011 2:55:31 PM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll protect your rights?)
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To: Vaquero

football is really “thug ball”


60 posted on 03/16/2011 3:02:04 PM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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