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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Caliph Baraq was a bench rider on the hs bball team.
After a bit too much chooming, he may have fallen off backwards and knocked his skull on the bleachers.
I’d be willing to bet that little Barry never played football.
Next he will be claiming PTSD for his exploits playing Army with his GI Joe.
Everything is always about him and always a lie.
Standby for a staged, professionally photographed Obama football photo
Oh please. If this idiot ever played “Pop Warner” ball he was the freaking waterboy.
Crackhead....cracked head...same diff, right?
He must be ‘friends’ with Oprah again.
She is the ‘most famous’ person that has ‘lived’ whatever the guest went through.
If one says she was a ‘Lez’, OW will claim to have ‘dabbled’ in it.
If one says she is a Prostitute, OW will claim etc etc etc
IF BO speaks in front of a CS group, he will claim to have taught Linda Lovelace the “deep throat” method.
Look up PHONY in the book and this buttheads picture should be there.
No matter HOW you spell it...fony, phony, foney, phoney, BS’r, lying sack of horse apples, lying pile of cow pies, etc etc
Good one - and oh so true.
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