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Obama offers Palin a game of hoops
Yahoo ^ | 9/07/08

Posted on 09/07/2008 9:48:08 AM PDT by Libloather

Obama offers Palin a game of hoops
7 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Democrat White House nominee Barack Obama on Sunday offered to go one-on-one with Republican vice presidential pick Sarah Palin -- but only on the basketball court.

Obama, 47, who blows off steam on the campaign trail with games of pickup hoops, however joked that he wouldn't take on the Alaska governor -- and experienced hunter -- with a gun.

"She looks like she's got some game, she played in high school," Obama said of Palin's basketball talents on ABC "This Week."

"You know, I know she's a sharpshooter, and I know that -- I probably wouldn't do target practice with her.

"I think she'd be a better shot than me. But on the basketball court, I think I'd stand up pretty well."

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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008debates; 2008veep; hoops; mccainpalin; obama; obamabiden; palin; sarah; sarahbarracuda
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How about just a debate on experience?
1 posted on 09/07/2008 9:48:08 AM PDT by Libloather
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2 posted on 09/07/2008 9:49:13 AM PDT by Libloather (September is Liberal Awareness Month.)
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To: Libloather

It won’t be who can play basketball, it’ll be who can play HARDBALL!


3 posted on 09/07/2008 9:49:39 AM PDT by unixfox (The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
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To: Libloather

She should take him up on it. The show would get better ratings than the NBA finals. And I bet she could beat him at HORSE.


4 posted on 09/07/2008 9:49:41 AM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: Libloather

Isn’t she a runner and a fitness lady? BHO is a smoker too. I think she would give him a good game....


5 posted on 09/07/2008 9:51:34 AM PDT by Nachum (Sarah Palin: Baberaham Lincoln)
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To: Libloather
OMG...can you imagine if this actually were to take place?
And Obama lost? To a girl? Priceless.
6 posted on 09/07/2008 9:51:52 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Conservatives say, 'Seeing is believing.' - - - Liberals say, 'Believing is seeing'.)
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To: Libloather

He strikes me as the kind of guy who yells “foul” every time he misses. I definitley wouldn’t play a game calling your own with that guy.


7 posted on 09/07/2008 9:52:23 AM PDT by Skip Ripley
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To: InterceptPoint

He wouldn’t allow the game to be Horse. He’d want it to be full contact and he would require that he got to chose all the refs and officials. He figures with those advantages as well as his weight and height and her just getting back in shape from her pregnancy that he might have a chance of winning. My guess is that she’d still clean his clock.


8 posted on 09/07/2008 9:52:35 AM PDT by airedale ( XZ)
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To: Libloather
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Democrat White House nominee Barack Obama on Sunday offered to go one-on-one with Republican vice presidential pick Sarah Palin -- but only on the basketball court.

She'd kick your a$$ Barack.

9 posted on 09/07/2008 9:52:49 AM PDT by Centurion2000 (McCain/Palin 2008 : Palin the Paladin 2012)
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To: Libloather

Why is he running against Gov. Palin?


10 posted on 09/07/2008 9:52:54 AM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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To: Libloather

He’s just hoping that she posts him up.


11 posted on 09/07/2008 9:53:10 AM PDT by squidly
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To: Libloather

She probably doesn’t play gangsta thug basketball


12 posted on 09/07/2008 9:53:26 AM PDT by cw35
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This would be an excellent time for Sarah to reply with, “I’m busy with this campaign, I’ll send John or Todd over.”


13 posted on 09/07/2008 9:54:37 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (McCain/Palin '08! Real change you won't have to "believe in." You'll be able to see it!!!)
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To: Libloather

Just how stupid is Obama?

If he wins at basketball, he’s beat up on a woman. She loses nothing.
If he loses at basketball, he looks like a bigger fool and no self-respecting black male would vote for him.

And she was a star in high school while he was doing drugs.


14 posted on 09/07/2008 9:54:41 AM PDT by kidd
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To: Libloather

Obama dufus has to be the most illiterate person ever to run for the POTUS. I guess all that Ivy League schooling went down the crapper. lmao


15 posted on 09/07/2008 9:54:42 AM PDT by Ancient Drive
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To: Libloather
I would be satisfied if Obama would join McCain in town hall debates. Last I heard John McCain is head of the Republican ticket for president, not Gov. Palin.
16 posted on 09/07/2008 9:54:48 AM PDT by BARLF
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

The McCain/Palin campaign should jump on this and take up the offer. It’s a win/win for Palin.

If she wins it embarasses Obama. If he wins he looks like a dork “beating up on a girl.”


17 posted on 09/07/2008 9:54:53 AM PDT by CrosscutSaw (An Obama nation would be an abomination.)
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To: cw35
She probably doesn’t play gangsta thug basketball

Ha ha, neither does that pansy Obama!

18 posted on 09/07/2008 9:55:01 AM PDT by JohnnyZ (This gun for hire)
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To: cw35

Sarah said lets go out hunting moose!


19 posted on 09/07/2008 9:55:20 AM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: Libloather

Yup, yup, yup.........if you can’t do anything else....play basketball.


20 posted on 09/07/2008 9:55:21 AM PDT by RC2
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