[boomop1]

Now I am sure he is queer.

[cardinal4]

Nothing about an economic plan, though?

[izzatzo]

Very believable that the WaPo would do this, not at all surprising, but pathetic nonetheless.

[BlessedBeGod]

Why is he so much clearer and crisper in the photo than anyone else? Was WaPo just trying to highlight him so everyone would know which player he was, or is this photoshopped?

[Former Proud Canadian]

Too bad he doesn’t love his country as much as he loves basketball.

[mikrofon]

No doubt to be followed up next month by a hard-hitting expose’ re: his challenges on the golf course....

[newheart]

[Joe Boucher]

Pretty sad,
Back when it had it in for Nixon the Post was a pretty good news source
Now it is simply up obammy’s as

[BerryDingle]

ever since the father he did not know and never saw again gave him his first ball during a brief Christmastime visit. Basketball is central to his self identity. It is global yet American-born, much like him. It is where he found a place of comfort, a family, a mode of expression, a connection from his past to his future. With foundation roots in the Kansas of his white forebears, basketball was also the city game, helping him find his way toward blackness, his introduction to an African American culture that was distant to him when he was young yet his by birthright.

That sounds exactly like the beginning of a Saturday Night Live skit.

[meatloaf]

Is the Washington Post still in business?

[SERKIT]

Didn’t High Times post a similar article on ‘Obama’s Love Affair with Pot, Coke, and Beer’?

[DManA]

A black man in love with basketball. No stereotyping there.

I have a hunch Barry embraced BBal for the same reason he joined Rev. Wright’s church - street cred.

[Pharmboy]

Geez...did they say Naismith was his great-great grandfather on his mother’s side?

[mylife]

I wish Sarah Palin would challenge him to a game of one on one.

[Venturer]

, basketball was also the city game, helping him find his way toward blackness.
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Too bad it didn’t help him become an American.

[Ann Archy]

Too bad he doesn’t love AMERICA that much!!

[Doogle]

I call BS...he’s about as athletic as gay doughnut tosser with a broken wrist.

[FlingWingFlyer]

The WaPo reinforcing the black guy = basketball stereotype. What a load.

[Fresh Wind]

[tumblindice]

Just substitute `Larry Sinclair’ for any reference to basketball and you’ve got a real news story:

“To say that President Obama loves Larry Sinclair understates the role of the the man in his life. He has been devoted to Larry for 40 years now, ever since the father he did not know and never saw again gave him his first ball during a brief Christmastime visit. Larry Sinclair is central to his self identity.” and so forth and so on