You're darn straight they don't!
Posted on 04/06/2010 10:54:26 AM PDT by FTJM
President Barack Obama wore a White Sox cap during his ceremonial first pitch at the Washington Nationals game yesterday, but before any rabid Pale Hose supporters get too excited about it, they should know he had a bit of a problem naming any player by name.
The first fan was interviewed during the game's television broadcast by former Sox pitcher Rob Dibble, who asked the president about his favorite players on the South Side growing up.
This is was the point that the usually eloquent Obama began stammering.
"You know uh ..... I ... I thought that ... uh .... you know," Obama stalled. " ... The truth is a lot of the Cubs I like too! But, uh ... I did not become a Sox fan until I moved to Chicago. Because I uh .... I was growing up in Hawaii so I ended up actually being an Oakland A's fan."
Yes, he did also call it "Cominskey Park." That, apparently, is something he does regularly.
One could make the case that Obama's point was that he didn't become acquainted with the Sox until later in his life, but I'd imagine most fans would have liked him to spit out at least one player's name.
So, big deal or not?
This guy’s a fraud—always has been. So why is this surprising to the Chicago Tribune that he’s lied about this? Everyone but them knows it? He’s lied about absolutely everything.
...as well as the many wonderful days spent in the $1.00 Bleacher Benches (they were NOT seats!) with my Grandfather at (the now burned down by the neighborhood) Connie Mack Stadium.
His PHONINESS is REAL!!
Don't be down. The DNC and Soros types and the money left wing organizations employ thousands to post that crap. That's one of the large reasons Obama was elected. Thousands of these people sit at computers all day long and type this crap defending the One.
The truth will come out, sooner or later, it always does.
That’s Wringley
Obama is to baseball what Obama is to foreign policy, economics, politics, science, law...I could go on all day!!
Obamao is an effeminate twerp, and no matter how he tries to be a manly man or red blooded, American male, he ends up looking and sounding foolish.
Even girls don’t throw that pansy assed.
No one gonna mention Hillary, that great Yankees fan from Arkansas ???
I thought he grew up in Indonesia, and therefore it would be hard to follow baseball, other than perhaps the Hanshin Tigers.
He could have at least said Michael Jordan.
But he didn’t say “Comiskey”. He said “Cominsky”, with an “n” in it. He didn’t know how to pronounce it, that’s why it’s a major gaffe. If he’s really such a big baseball fan and White Sox fan, he would never misprounce the name of the ballpark.
And the president speaks and enunciates very well. He never slurs his speech or misprounounces, at least in public. The bottom line is that he didn’t know the name of the ballpark he allegedly knew about.
No, I missed the key point there - you’re very right
Cominsky Park is where the Corpse-men play.
Listen to this audio, as Boston’s Howie Carr rips Obama a new one — and remember, those callers are all blue-collar guys.
This is beautiful.
http://audio.wrko.com/m/audio/30146503/obama-fan-but-know-no-players.htm
Title: Obama Fan but know No Players
Published: Mon, 5 Apr 2010
Description: Carlton Fisk, Frank “the Big Hurt” Thomas, Tom Seaver, Rich “Goose” Gossage – all names that any Chicago White Sox fan knows by heart. But today, while being interviewed by Washington Nationals booth announcers Bob Carpenter and Rob Dibble, President Barack Obama couldn’t muster up a single name. The Commander-in-Chief, who has referred to himself a “White Sox kid” during the interview, was hard pressed to name a favorite player on a team that has been around since the late 19th century. Are you surprised?
You're darn straight they don't!
The press would have crucified Bush over something like this.
I was around FR when 2004 election happen I mean it Freepers have greatest joke on Senator John Kerry well he is a joke ROFL
If President Bush wasn’t baseball fan everybody know he was I think to safe to say I think he could name the players that play for Texas Rangers unlike this current occupant of the WH LOL!
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