Posted on 07/16/2009 4:52:45 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Some pundits are using President Barack Obama's throwing out the first pitch at the 2009 All Stars Baseball game to find a new way to criticize him. Apparently, though it was not readily apparent to TV audience, Obama throws like a girl.
The account by Examiner Larry Amon was typical.
"Yesterday, at the major league all star game President Obama threw out the ceremonial first pitch. Now politically this doesn't matter much but for a president who has carefully crafted his image, especially as a sports enthusiast, it's worth noting that President Obama is not much of a baseball player. He pushed the ball rather than throwing it like a pitcher. It was a softball style throw except that it was overhand. All of the news media pointed out that Obama made it over the plate."
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Just seeing them side-by-side makes it all the more clear.
Bush=WIN 0bama=FAIL
This is Beautiful.
Bottom line...0 can't throw a ball 60 feet when he's got all the time in the world to do just that.
“Does Obama Throw like a Girl?”
It needs to be asked?
Two things: 1) any critique of a president’s baseball acumen ought to be written by someone who knows better than to write about the Baseball All Stars game (it’s the All-Star Game), about Albert “Pojus” catching the pitch, or about how GW Bush “through” a better pitch in 2001...
...and 2) we really need to see him have a catch with Malia before we assess whether he throws like a girl; it’s entirely conceivable that he was so concerned about not throwing a wild pitch that he sort of just guided the ball up there.
That said, I resented the way he treated it like it was a photo-op, controlling the conditions, “using” the event to make it about him, running everywhere he went, just to prove that he’s young, hip and unaffected by the smokes. I imagine he’s mortified that he’s being criticized for his girlie throw, which is encouraging to me — since, to him, image is absolutely everything. He needs to not be so self-conscious (although, if I were him, with those radar-ears and liver lips, I’d be self-conscious, too).
“Obama throws like a girl.”
That’s an insult to those of us girls who have a wicked side-arm pitch.
Gay.
I guess they don't teach you how to throw a baseball in Kenya or Indonesia. I've seen a lot of girls who threw better than Hussein.
I must be honest and state I thought Obeyme would not have a problem and expected he would easily throw it 66'6".
LOL! Sarah would pound him into the ground if the two went one on one...unarmed that is!!! (either way actually :>)
I hate myself for laughing at that.
[and it makes me think of Eric Cartman’s “Whatsa matter Kyle? Got sand in your vagina?”]
Rag arm? Hell, Venturer, he doesn’t even have that! If anything, I would call it a noodle arm. ;-}
As such, the ball never made it “over the plate”.
Obammy is such a pansy.
Not to mention that W was encumbered by a very heavy bullet proof vest, if I recall correctly...yet he still managed excellent form.
[maybe Hussein’s ‘Mom Pants’ threw him off his stride]
What size you wear?
I have a whole collection of black leather pants with many to spare.
We’ll fix that “mom pants” thing right quick....:)
I think Foghorn Leghorn had a saying about that. “I say, I say, any boy that dosen’t play baseball is kinda eeeeeeuuuuuwwww!”
Not surprised since I’ve never heard of a Kenyan National League or Mombasa World Series.
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