Posted on 03/19/2009 9:53:33 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Hoops Coach to Obama: Forget March Madness, Duke It out With Economy!
By John Lillpop
Friday, March 20, 2009
- Satire -
Advisers to President Obama probably figured that the young president could score a solid “connect” with average Americans by getting publicly involved in the annual NCAA basketball championships.
No doubt those same folks calculated that Obama could defect attention from his tawdry cabinet picks by wowing the nation with his clever picks for the Final Four in what is known in sports talk as March Madness.
Besides, with those ungodly AIG bonuses and other administration disasters exploding in his face on an almost daily basis, Obama needed an escape into college basketball, a venue with which he is far more familiar than the rigors of actually being responsible for something.
A brief respite from the fishbowl that is the White House might even slow the premature graying of precious Obama’s hair, or so his experts thought.
Which is why the president took time away from hiring tax cheats, bankrupting the economy, and making life easy for Islam terrorists long enough to select his basketball picks for all the world to see....
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Way to Go Coach K.
This is truth not satire
You tell ‘im!
Must be nice for the occupant to have so much free time to participate in March Madness with the country & economy falling apart and all :(
It’s actually both!
Something tells me Coach K is a believer in free speech. Maybe he thinks he should exercise it while he still can.
I must say, clever headline.
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