Posted on 06/11/2012 9:18:35 AM PDT by ColdOne
The Washington Post is up with another excerpt of David Maraniss’s forthcoming biography of President Obama, this one examining his love affair with basketball.
Maraniss dug deep into Obama’s time spent playing for Punahou, an elite prep school in Hawaii, and found that he loved the game but wasn’t exactly the star player that some accounts have suggested.
“If Obama was unhappy about his playing time, the truth is he had to work exceedingly hard just to make the team. He made it more because of his intense passion for the game -- his will -- than anything else. …The reality was that Barry, as skilled and intelligent a player as he was, could not stand out in this group. He had good court sense and an ability to slash to the basket, but was an unreliable outside shooter and not much of a jumper...
Decades later, a story emerged that his nickname was Barry O’Bomber, playing off his last name and a propensity to fire away from long range, but few team members recalled that nickname… and said the real gunner was Darin Maurer, who was better than Obama but barely got more playing time…
“He loved basketball so much, I think a lot of things have been blown out of proportion,”
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
File this one under NGAS.
THERE'S an understatement...
His Grandmother was V.P. Of the Bank Of Hawaii. She was a wealthy woman.
She died with over 1/2 Million in cash assets and an equal amount of property.
As uncoordinated as Barack Hussein Obama is, I’m willing to bet that making the basketball team was the first time Barry was able to take advantage of affirmative action.
Punahou is the the most connected prep school you could imagine. Google the alumni: progressive elite bastion.
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