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Relax football fans: Obama speech won't trump NFL (This is Hugh!)
reuters ^ | Sept.1, 2011 | Jeff Mason

Posted on 09/01/2011 5:37:51 PM PDT by PROCON

(Reuters) - American football fans can rest easy: President Barack Obama's nationally televised jobs speech to Congress will not conflict with the season-opening NFL game between the Green Bay Packers and New Orleans Saints.

Obama agreed late on Wednesday to move his jobs address to a joint session of Congress back by a night from September 7 to September 8 to avoid overlapping with a debate by Republican presidential candidates on the first night.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


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To: PROCON

If he stops talking in a timely manner then his speech will not conflict with the game. But the game will conflict with the customary televised opposition statemets in reply to the speech.


21 posted on 09/01/2011 6:19:19 PM PDT by Clive
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To: PROCON
What we have here is a Spech From the Throne in the parliamentary manner.

To be consistant, he really ought to follow it up with his parliamentary draftsman producing explicit legislation and with a formal budget, all designed to implement the contents of the Speech From the Throne.

;)

22 posted on 09/01/2011 6:22:55 PM PDT by Clive
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OOPS, typo:

"Spech From the Throne" should have read "Speech From the Throne".

23 posted on 09/01/2011 6:24:58 PM PDT by Clive
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To: PROCON

Most pro-football fans have one hand on their crotch and the other hand in a bowl of potato chips. They actually need 3 hands, one more to hold in their gut so they can buckle their size 54 pants.


24 posted on 09/01/2011 6:27:01 PM PDT by macquire
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To: macquire

Ooh, you are very judgemental, my FRiend, standby for flaming...


25 posted on 09/01/2011 6:30:26 PM PDT by PROCON (My Passion for FREEDOM is Stronger Than That of Democrats Whose Obsession is to Enslave Me.)
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To: PROCON
I think all the publicity with the speaker of the house turning him down for Wednesday night will cause more people to watch both the debate on that night and the presidents speech on the next night.
26 posted on 09/01/2011 6:33:54 PM PDT by political1 (Love your neighbors)
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To: PROCON
This is Hugh!"

Who is this Hugh guy?!?!?!

Do you mean Huge?

Nevermind!

27 posted on 09/01/2011 6:37:42 PM PDT by China Clipper (My favorite animals usually are found next to the rice on my plate.)
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To: Steel Wolf
Anyone who watches both the speech and the game will no doubt remember only the game the next morning.

On the other hand, they may remember very little of the game because they had already finished off a few by the time hussein finished.

28 posted on 09/01/2011 6:37:58 PM PDT by fso301
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To: PROCON

Perhaps he can be bumped back to 1 AM - right after the farm report.


29 posted on 09/01/2011 6:39:02 PM PDT by Godzilla (3-7-77)
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To: fso301

Good lord ... the drinking game we could have with this! I shudder to think of what abuse my liver might need to absorb.


30 posted on 09/01/2011 6:45:52 PM PDT by Steel Wolf ("Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master." - Gaius Sallustius Crispus)
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To: Steel Wolf
Good lord ... the drinking game we could have with this! I shudder to think of what abuse my liver might need to absorb.

A shot of scotch everytime theone says "I"? Tanked before kickoff. Way before kickoff...

31 posted on 09/01/2011 7:10:49 PM PDT by Mrs.Liberty (Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing an idiot.)
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To: PROCON

Maybe he should set up his teleprompter at the US Open so that his back and forth head movement fits right in with the spectators watching the tennis matches.


32 posted on 09/01/2011 7:17:02 PM PDT by Mobties (Reduce the government footprint! Let the markets work!)
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To: Godzilla

Yep, 1 a.m. works for me. It will be opposite the infomercials for how to buy real estate with no money down, the infomercials for Time-Life CD rock and roll hits of the ‘50s and ‘60s, and the infomercials for DVDs of the Dean Martin celebrity roasts.


33 posted on 09/01/2011 8:09:47 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The sham-wow man may get bumped, but he’s dead any way and won’t care.


34 posted on 09/01/2011 8:16:29 PM PDT by Godzilla (3-7-77)
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To: VinL

A 45 minute mooning would be more appropriate.


35 posted on 09/01/2011 8:48:12 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
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To: Clive

On top of that, the NFL had planned a Kid Rock performance and the introduction of an NFL Legends team during the pregame show.

Granted, Kid Rock isn’t a big draw, but I’d take a Sinead O’Connor boyfriend audition over obama’s speech.

Reference...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2772097/posts


36 posted on 09/01/2011 8:53:08 PM PDT by MediaMole
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