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Barack Obama shapes up to be a sporting leader
The Sunday Times UK via themalaysianinsider.com Blog ^ | December 28, 2008 | Sarah Baxter in Washington Times Online UK reporter

Posted on 12/28/2008 7:06:50 PM PST by TornadoAlley3

Edited on 12/28/2008 7:47:56 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

WASHINGTON, Dec 29

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho2008; obama; obamatransitionfile; obarf; sportingleader
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Imagine if President Bush was in Hawaii vacationing while we are heading into a recession. The headlines would be scandalous complete w/starving kids on the front page. The obamedia left pathetic months ago.

Pray for W and Our Troops


41 posted on 12/28/2008 7:55:05 PM PST by bray (Is Rezko Singing God Bless America?)
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To: RWB Patriot

Coolidge is a grossly underrated man. His only rival for most rhetorically conservative President in the 20th century would be Reagan, but Coolidge presided over a govt. far more consistent with conservative values than did Reagan. He didn’t need to go in for showoff “athleticism,” nor did most common Americans of his day, because hard physical work, lack of couch-potato entertainment, and walking everywhere made the average American then far slimmer and fitter than the average person today.


42 posted on 12/28/2008 8:00:30 PM PST by hellbender
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To: TornadoAlley3

Obama bowled a 37...nuff said


43 posted on 12/28/2008 8:04:50 PM PST by xp38
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To: xp38

DNC fax machine is spreading their talking points to all the media outlets.

“Ohhhh, look at what an Adonis he is!!!!”

They sound like a bunch of 8th grade girls at a boy band concert.

Do they realize how much they are embarrassing themselves?


44 posted on 12/28/2008 8:13:53 PM PST by Rodney Dangerfield (Barack Obama aka "The Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers")
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To: Rodney Dangerfield

No.


45 posted on 12/28/2008 8:18:20 PM PST by mplsconservative
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To: TornadoAlley3

Got a feeling he’s going to spend a lot of time “out of the office.”


46 posted on 12/28/2008 8:22:09 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (What's Obama's Secret?)
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To: FoxInSocks
"Lots of people play basketball, but all the top basketball players are African-Americans . . ." Watterson said.

RACIST!

47 posted on 12/28/2008 8:23:09 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (What's Obama's Secret?)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Bush exercised for health reasons and because he liked it.

Obama exercises to look good. (but doesn’t)


48 posted on 12/28/2008 8:24:56 PM PST by altura
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To: TornadoAlley3

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/12/27/tale-of-two-presidential-workout-fanatics/

“Fit Republican president = Selfish, indulgent, creepy fascist.

Fit Democratic president = Disciplined, health-conscious, Adonis role model.”


49 posted on 12/28/2008 8:29:18 PM PST by ltc8k6
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To: TornadoAlley3
Bill Clinton: A keen jogger but gave up after a quadruple heart bypass. He gained notoriety for cheating at golf, regularly taking extra shots known as mulligans and misplacing the ball, according to those who played with him.

It wasn't cheating at golf that gave him notoriety

Calvin Coolidge: The least athletic president to inhabit the White House

I think FDR would have been the least athletic.

50 posted on 12/28/2008 8:32:48 PM PST by TheCipher
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To: altura
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51 posted on 12/28/2008 8:51:44 PM PST by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
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To: KJC1

Ø was a bench warmer on his championship HS BB team. I wonder how his time running the mile compares with W’s before W’s knees gave out. His hoops options should be limited at the WH, but there is exercise equipment and a track there. W’s time were reported during his first term, although I don’t have them at my fingertips. Someone should compare them the first time the MSM try to brag about Ø’s.


52 posted on 12/28/2008 8:51:47 PM PST by JohnBovenmyer
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To: TornadoAlley3
Headline?

Hollywood announces third prime time show featuring Obama
Obama Goes One-On-One With NBA
New show joins Reality West Wing and Working Out With Obama

53 posted on 12/28/2008 9:20:21 PM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Oh man, Arnold must have really gotten under the spindly-O’s skin. Obama is a girly man. Hehehehehe.


54 posted on 12/28/2008 9:30:03 PM PST by advance_copy (Stand for life or nothing at all)
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To: TornadoAlley3

I wonder if he ever reads any books, and if so, what kind. Bush reads lots of books - about one a week - history especially.

We have heard that 0bama likes comics. What a sickening little piece of crap he is.


55 posted on 12/28/2008 11:27:28 PM PST by little jeremiah (Leave illusion, come to the truth. Leave the darkness, come to the light.)
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To: zarodinu

Shedding the pinko-commie-girly-man image won’t be a cake walk. He is very feminine and very pinko.


56 posted on 12/28/2008 11:32:37 PM PST by Kara1000
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To: fwdude

Personally, I’d much prefer a portly, but conservative, Wm H. Taft than a buff leftist Øbama.
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I would prefer Ulysses S. Grant DRUNK to any kind of Obama!


57 posted on 12/29/2008 4:41:05 AM PST by RipSawyer (Great Grandpa was a Confederate soldier from the cradle of secession.)
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To: RWB Patriot

“Calvin Coolidge: The least athletic president to inhabit the White House.”
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Silent Cal! I love the story about Coolidge and his wife visiting the poultry farm. “Tell that to the First Lady”.


58 posted on 12/29/2008 4:46:29 AM PST by RipSawyer (Great Grandpa was a Confederate soldier from the cradle of secession.)
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To: editor-surveyor

Your tagline is disrespectful...to Richard Milhous Nixon.


59 posted on 12/29/2008 4:52:01 AM PST by RipSawyer (Great Grandpa was a Confederate soldier from the cradle of secession.)
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To: hellbender

The average American in Coolidge’s day was far slimmer and probably more fit than most fitness instructors today. I recently watched the movie “Reefer Madness” on television and the thing that I could not stop thinking was that there were zero fat people in that movie. The average waistline must have been 12 inches smaller than today.
I don’t remember much before 1950 but I know how fit and skinny people were in the fifties and I know how even sixty year olds often did hard labor all day long, only the most fit of fitness buffs and professional athletes would have a chance of matching them now. As a teenager my idea of a relaxing Sunday afternoon was walking five miles or more, mostly through the woods. If we got a chance to go to the lake and swim we stayed in the water for hours. Come fall we cut wood with a long two man saw and an axe. Young people now have no idea about such things.


60 posted on 12/29/2008 5:03:06 AM PST by RipSawyer (Great Grandpa was a Confederate soldier from the cradle of secession.)
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