OBAMA: People should offer help to Japanese 'as they're filling out their brackets'

Whitehouse.gov ^ | 3/16/2011 | Who knows?

[GVnana]

President Obama's 2011 NCAA Brackets

Posted by Jesse Lee on March 16, 2011 at 12:20 PM EDT

As he does every year, the President filled out his brackets predicting the winners of the men's and women's NCAA basketball tournaments, but discussing it with Doris Burke of ESPN, he began with a call to stand with the people of Japan:

One of the things I wanted to do on the show was, as people are filling out their brackets -- this is obviously a national pastime; we all have a great time, it’s a great diversion. But I know a lot of people are thinking how can they help the Japanese people during this time of need. If you go to usaid.gov -- usaid.gov -- that will list all the nonprofits, the charities that are helping out there. It would be wonderful for people to maybe offer a little help to the Japanese people at this time -- as they’re filling out their brackets. It’s not going to take a lot of time. That's usaid.gov. It could be really helpful.

[GVnana]

While your drinking your beer, watching TV, and collecting your unemployment check, take a few seconds for Japan!

(This is a Drudge headline.)

[xenob]

what a douche

[jakerobins]

Obama’s got a basketball jones...a basketball jones...oh baybee ohh.......

[mancini]

sadly, not satire

[Vaquero]

another reason to hate basketball....or thug ball as I like to call it....(I call it other things too...)

[isthisnickcool]

What a tool Obama is. Lightweight one too.

[dblshot]

Obama needs to get Holder working on the obvious lack of Japanese Americans in the NCAA Tournament.

[GSWarrior]

Short man syndrome?

[Dilbert San Diego]

I had to read this twice, and couldn’t believe that Obama actually said this.

Well, it’s good to know he’s on top of the NCAA brackets.

[tsowellfan]

Reading the headlines you would think the nuclear reactors are the only problems right now for the Japanese.

For many Japanese a nuclear meltdown would probably be a ticket for them to reunite with their familes. Sad but true.

NHK Tokyo, Japan Live TV... http://bit.ly/idutY6

[Quilla]

Boy howdy, was Obama right when he said elections have consequences.

[Frantzie]

He is a typical moron ball team fan and TV watching idiot. The NCAA, NFL, NBA and MLB love him.

[dead]

[TSgt]

[SkiKnee]

Gosh, what an inspiring leader.

NOT!!!

[Mouton]

The man is brain dead. POS leader of the free world. Loser in chief.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Ill Douche

[tsowellfan]

Very insensitive of Obama

[omega4179]

Is he deliberately a douche to all our allies?