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Obama Attends Non-Existent Soccer Game?
American Thinker ^ | Monday April 13, 2010

Posted on 04/13/2010 5:35:53 PM PDT by Bigtigermike

Reading the story about President Obama breaking tradition and ditching the presidential press pool over the weekend to watch one of his daughter's soccer games, it appears harmless, right? Not so. It is rather disturbing when you dissect it. So let's do just that. According to the Chicago Sun Times, the press pool was to assemble at 11:30AM.

However, Time reported:

The president left the White House at approximately 9:20 to attend one of his daughter's soccer games at 40th and Chesapeake NW. A pool was hastily called at around 9:35 and drove north at 9:43 to catch the president before the game ended. We didn't make it. The President returned to the White House at 10:17. The pool returned at 10:30. We now return you to your regularly scheduled pool call time.

Seems simple enough. But the story has several problems. The first one is a biggie in that there were no scheduled soccer games for Sidwell Friends April 10, as evidenced here. The second is that the area reported that the game was played at appears to be one of high crime, as documented here and here. Additionally, this is a picture of the field via Google Maps, where Obama went to watch the game.

Another problem is that when the press pool got close to the reported location, they were told that Obama was leaving and to turn around. The press pool complied, but why? Wouldn't they have wanted a photo of him, even leaving the event, to formally document his whereabouts? What's also suspect is the very casual, nothing-to-see-here tone of the Time article.

Something is most definitely wrong. The President of the United States venturing out to a soccer game that didn't exist in a high-crime area. The Politico is also reporting that Obama acknowledged the problem with his actions:

Prior to Obama's bilateral meeting with Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, Obama told his colleague, "Apparently I caused quite a problem," adding something about his secretary not telling the Secret Service, according to, ironically enough, the pool report.

What's more concerning is that no one can confirm if the Secret Service even accompanied Obama on his adventure. Furthermore, let's look at the elapsed time. If the president left the White House at 9:20AM as reported, according to Mapquest, it takes about sixteen minutes to get from the White House to 40th and Chesapeake NW, bringing his arrival time to the field at 9:36AM or so. But then he would have had to leave the field at the latest at 10:00AM to return to the White House at the documented time of 10:17AM. So he spent about twenty minutes at the game? When did the game end? That time is vague as well.

With all of the technology that people have -- iPhones, Blackberries -- not one person took a photo of Obama? And the press didn't get a shot of him getting into his vehicle? Obama loves the cameras, and this is what he looks like at his daughter's soccer game.

Even three days later, there are still no pictures of the president from Saturday's game. The USA just disarmed to Russia, Poland's president and 95 others were killed hours before, and there were many international leaders in Washington, D.C. for the nuclear summit set to begin on Monday, April 12.

And we shouldn't raise even more questions on his whereabouts? According to the MSM, the answer is yes.


TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho44; democrats; elections; obama; obamadisappears; socialism; soros
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I told you guys....that night that something wasn't right about this, especially the press being told to turn around when they got there!!! and the timing is off!

Obama leaves the White House without the Press for a supposedly soccer game that never happened? by BigTigerMike

9:20 to 10:17? including travel time towards and back?

1 posted on 04/13/2010 5:35:53 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
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To: Bigtigermike

Meeting with Soros???


2 posted on 04/13/2010 5:37:21 PM PDT by originalbuckeye
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To: Bigtigermike

He needed a really long smoke.


3 posted on 04/13/2010 5:38:52 PM PDT by library user
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To: Bigtigermike

Curious, isn’t it.


4 posted on 04/13/2010 5:39:28 PM PDT by Mr. Jazzy ("I AM JIM THOMPSON and moderates make me PUKE!!!")
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To: Bigtigermike

A date with Larry Sinclair?


5 posted on 04/13/2010 5:39:29 PM PDT by library user
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To: Bigtigermike

so he lied, whats new?


6 posted on 04/13/2010 5:39:35 PM PDT by Doogle (IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN....donate, because it's the RIGHT thing to do)
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To: Bigtigermike

He picked up a white envelope hid in an oak tree on Washington Parkway?
He met a “Sidewalk Pharmacist” for his monthly refill?


7 posted on 04/13/2010 5:40:16 PM PDT by TaMoDee
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To: originalbuckeye
Meeting with Soros???

Nope. Rendezvous with his boyfriend.

8 posted on 04/13/2010 5:40:23 PM PDT by 50mm (Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power - Ben Franklin)
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To: originalbuckeye

Meeting with the head of SEIU?


9 posted on 04/13/2010 5:41:05 PM PDT by Ingtar (Congress: proof that Entropy trumps Evolution)
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To: Bigtigermike
9:20 to 10:17? including travel time towards and back?

That should be plenty of time for him to buy some more of whatever he's been smoking lately.
10 posted on 04/13/2010 5:41:23 PM PDT by rickomatic
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To: library user

LOL...But what was he smoking????? The secret service have got to be just beside themselves with this kind of crap..


11 posted on 04/13/2010 5:41:32 PM PDT by hstacey
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To: Bigtigermike

The Press may have to actually stake out, “OMG”, his coming and going and do some investigative work. No more relying on the White House to announce when he comes and goes.


12 posted on 04/13/2010 5:41:54 PM PDT by classified
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To: Bigtigermike

Somebody suggested that zero went to Kenyan Ambassy to try to stop releasing the Kenyan Assembly Report dated March 25, 2010, where the Kenyan official told that zero was born in Kenya.


13 posted on 04/13/2010 5:42:46 PM PDT by concernedforusa
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Dead drop for a foreign power???


14 posted on 04/13/2010 5:44:30 PM PDT by Thunder90 (Fighting for truth and the American way... http://citizensfortruthandtheamericanway.blogspot.com/)
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To: Bigtigermike

Bizarre. Some people have suggested that he never left the WH and actually wanted to mislead the press so that somebody - probably somebody like an emissary of Ahmadinejad - could meet him at the WH without any prying eyes around them.

Of course, I guess it’s always possible that he just wanted to go out and eat a waffle by himself (stupid, surly little brat that he is), but I’d suspect there’s something a little more ominous to this.


15 posted on 04/13/2010 5:44:49 PM PDT by livius
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To: TaMoDee
Maybe he just went out for Chinese

Probably "the cream of sum yung gai"
16 posted on 04/13/2010 5:45:21 PM PDT by jrg
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To: library user
"A little blow, when we could afford it..."

Obama is an active, using, cocaine addict by his own published word.

17 posted on 04/13/2010 5:45:47 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Thunder90

FYI...A “dead drop” is where someone leaves an object of intelligence for a foreign agent to recover. It is usually disguised as an object that would fit the area (no one else would suspect it), but distinct enough for the agent to be able to distinguish it from the background


18 posted on 04/13/2010 5:46:12 PM PDT by Thunder90 (Fighting for truth and the American way... http://citizensfortruthandtheamericanway.blogspot.com/)
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To: Doogle

....maYBE THIS IS THE STORY HE WANTS KEPT OUT OF THE news


19 posted on 04/13/2010 5:47:54 PM PDT by Doogle (IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN....donate, because it's the RIGHT thing to do)
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To: 50mm
Nope. Rendezvous with his boyfriend.

He was meeting with Michelle? He could have done that at the WH. Oh, now I get it. ;-)

20 posted on 04/13/2010 5:51:51 PM PDT by doc1019
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