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Recalling own injuries, Obama calls for end to ‘suck it up’ culture in youth sports
CNN ^
| May 29, 2014
| by Kevin Liptak and Nadia Kounang
Posted on 05/29/2014 4:51:41 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Saying he wants to change a culture in youth sports where kids are encouraged to “suck it up” after sustaining head injuries, President Barack Obama on Thursday said it was time coaches and athletes started thinking about better ways to keep kids safe on playing fields.
Obama said he could recall instances during his own days in Pop Warner leagues when a particularly hard hit left him sidelined for a spell.
“There were a couple of times where I’m sure that that ringing sensation in my head and the need to sit down for a while might have been a mild concussion, and at the time you didn’t think anything of it,” he said at an event designed to bring awareness to head injuries in youth sports.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: choomwagon; failure; nannystate; obama; phony
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The Bamster.......desperately trying to change the national conversation.
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posted on
05/29/2014 4:53:10 PM PDT
by
originalbuckeye
(Moderation in temper is always a virtue; moderation in principle is always a vice. Paine)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
05/29/2014 4:53:13 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
05/29/2014 4:54:52 PM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Can we just get one person from his childhood to corroborate that he ever even played Pop Warner football?!?!
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Does he always have to make it all about his self? Gee, that was a stupid question.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Did Obama ever play football?
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posted on
05/29/2014 4:57:44 PM PDT
by
struggle
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Yeah, sure he threw a football as a kid, just like he threw a baseball.....never.
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posted on
05/29/2014 4:58:09 PM PDT
by
kik5150
To: Oldeconomybuyer
If Puffer played any ball it was with Reggie’s.
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posted on
05/29/2014 4:59:06 PM PDT
by
RetiredTexasVet
(If you lined up the best and brightest of this administration, you'd just have a string of dim bulbs)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
He gets faggier by the day.
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posted on
05/29/2014 4:59:34 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
To: Dr. Pritchett
My first thought as well.
There is NO WAY he played football, not full contact football.
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posted on
05/29/2014 5:01:01 PM PDT
by
Zeneta
(Thoughts in time and out of season.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
05/29/2014 5:01:17 PM PDT
by
Bryan24
(When in doubt, move to the right..........)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
0bama was hit in the head with a ball!?! They call it ‘being tea bagged’ these days.
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posted on
05/29/2014 5:01:25 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
05/29/2014 5:02:20 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: struggle
He was only there because he wanted to be on the bottom of a pile-on by a half dozen jocks.
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posted on
05/29/2014 5:05:36 PM PDT
by
digger48
To: Oldeconomybuyer
A Pop Warner League in Kenya? Indonesia?
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posted on
05/29/2014 5:06:56 PM PDT
by
kabar
To: Oldeconomybuyer
"I got me some bad dain bramage chooming all that dope."
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posted on
05/29/2014 5:08:29 PM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(Black skin has morphed into Teflon.)
To: Huskrrrr
Just how freaking hurt can he get playing checkers?
Gunner
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posted on
05/29/2014 5:12:26 PM PDT
by
weps4ret
(Republicans are suffering from Testicular Atrophy!!!)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I don’t think suck it up means what he thinks it means.
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posted on
05/29/2014 5:13:18 PM PDT
by
Starstruck
(If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
That only head ‘Ringing Sensation’ he has ever received was the times Reggie saved it up and then gave the back of Barry’s throat a full blast....
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posted on
05/29/2014 5:14:19 PM PDT
by
bobby.223
(Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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