I really don't think that the free world is an anymore trouble than it already is if Barack Obama takes some time out to fill out a bracket for ESPN. Really, if some real damage was going to go down, it was going to happen regardless of that missing half hour. Hell, I bet he spends more time than that in the bathroom.
Actually, I'm more impressed that this man can find the time to be this knowledgable about college basketball while rebuilding the economy, getting us out of Iraq, curing cancer, walking on water, all the stuff that he does. It's not like he's falling behind on things. If he was turning in his budgets late and missing press conferences because he was copying someone else's notes at the last minute, the complainers might be onto something. But he's getting everything done, so why are we bothering him? If anything, we should be impressed with his time-management skills.
Most of us can't even make it to work on time every day and we're worried about what he's doing.
At the very least, this helps him relate to people more, because it shows that he's just as sports-crazy as the rest of us. The only difference between me and Barack Obama right now is that he has the respect and admiration of a nation and I picked California to beat Maryland against my better judgment. Really, at the time of this writing, I'm doing better than he is.
Republicans are just jealous they didn't think of this kind of thing first, because George W. Bush or Sarah Palin would kill for this kind of publicity. Barack Obama filling out his bracket on ESPN or actually getting upset that OUR Beloved Bulls were getting beat by the Washington Wizards are the kinds of things that will endear us to him. When he leaves office, assuming his presidency isn't a complete disaster, this sort of thing will make us think about him and smile. Truly the People's President, Barack Obama.
Bush, on the other hand, we forgot about him while he was still sitting the White House. And this guy owned the Texas Rangers once upon a time. But he was so busy clearing brush off of his ranch in Crawford that he forgot to show us what a real guy he was. People always talked about what a great guy he was, but we never saw it. Maybe if he had publicly done things like this, we would have looked at him a little differently. I'm not saying we would have supported all of his policies, because I just don't think that repealing our civil liberties was a smart idea. But maybe, just maybe, we wouldn't have looked at him like he had no idea what was going on in the real world.
Bush's friends always talked about Bush being "the kind of guy you could have a beer with," but we never really saw it. In one 10-minute segment, Barack showed us that he IS that guy, because even though he's meeting with the Prime Minster of Russia while we're breaking our back for some boss that we don't like, we know that at 11 PM, when SportsCenter comes on, our President is just another sports-obsessed boob. Just like us.
You catch me on Leno too?
I am glad I didn't pick Memphis
I have a suggestion to Obama, get your cabinet filled and help those cabinet appointees get their staffs filled ...hopefully without tax cheats, instead of wasting time doing stupid bracket crap like this. As you have stated many times, this is a crisis we have never seen...please start acting like it.
And since being president is a 24/7 job, spend your free time learning some etiquette or class on giving gifts to heads of states. The prime minister of England gives you a pen made of wood from slave ships and you give the guy a subsciptions to netflix? Completely classless.
Being president is not a "normal" job and people who become president are NOT normal people, so get over your "Barry's a normal guy crap". Getting that kind of power puts a lot of skeletons in your closet, no matter the color of your skin or your sex. And coming from Chicago politics, you need to wake up. Barry is no where close to normal "guy".
Hey, what did you think about Barry thanking himself on St Patricks day with the prime minister of Ireland was at the white house? That's what the teleprompter told him to say. Hey Barry, give a speech without a teleprompter for ONCE, so we can see you stammer and studdering like you always do when there isn't one around.
You know what, maybe Barry is a normal guy. He is spending our money without keeping tabs on our balance or how it's being spent....kind of like all those normal people in people magazine. One lady has $250,000 in credit card debt and makes $100,000/yr. So maybe he is normal, because his first 100 days in office he's not acting like the most powerful man in the world.
Bet this gets taken down. How dare ANYONE challenge the "chosen one". Barry is going to put black people back 100 years by what his actions alone. It really is to bad.
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