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When John Kerry at identified “Manny Ortiz” as his favorite player on the Boston Red Sox, I could at least decipher which player(s) he might be talking about. But I’m not sure who this Err, Umm, Uhh fellow on the Chicago White Sox is.
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Grzmlyk| 4.6.10 @ 4:11PM
Listen, if Obama refers to the old Comiskey Park as "Kaminsky Park," then, as far as I'm concerned, "Kaminsky Park" it is.
Yea, for the Great One hath spoken. Henceforth, now and evermore, the word "Comiskey" shall sleep with the fishes.
The State is All!
Obama is The State
Long Live Obama!
May His Beneficent kindness and Infinite Wisdom guide us for 1,000 years!
Truth to Power| 4.6.10 @ 4:13PM
We need a 35 second clock on this guy. There is no question that he can't run the clock out.
Here is an amusing take on his basketball skills.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/.....log-431910
Why does he feel he needs to spew nonsense on his athletic prowess? I would rather watch him smoke cigarettes. It is humiliating to watch a fellow male make such a pathetic throw to the plate. I love all the attention to the style aspects of the throw. He has the wind up with the swinging arms, the junior kick and then a totally uncoordinated throw. My advice Mr. President, just get up there and throw it like a girl and get it over with fast.
SoCon| 4.6.10 @ 5:23PM
You insulted girls!
Truth to Power| 4.6.10 @ 7:16PM
You're right but I couldn't figure how to describe what I saw any other way. My apologies to the fairer sex that can throw. For those that can't, I would admire the honest way that they would give it a try. I am really stuck on his attention to style when he can't even throw. I suppose it is a metaphor for his whole being. There is a lot of focus on style with no substance. I am once again sad that I have offended the very cool SoCon.
SoCon| 4.6.10 @ 8:16PM
".... I would admire the honest way that they would give it a try." LOL!
How sweet, how very male of you! Haha.
You make me laugh; with you not at you like Lib Screeder and Bob.
SoCon| 4.6.10 @ 8:21PM
What's even worse is Obama practiced that 'pitch' ahead of time!
Unbelievable.
Powerful Truth| 4.6.10 @ 8:38PM
If I had gotten here first, I would have said that he should've went to The Girls Little League Softball Division for pointers.
Remember, he never threw a baseball when he was a youngster, he was always wasted on pot and hung around with his grandfather and Frank Marshall Davis who were both Communists. Baseball and Free Enterprise were both foreign concepts to them.
He was lucky he got it to the plate.
Mark| 4.7.10 @ 4:49AM
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.
It was a stupid question because Obama, and 99% of other Americans who did NOT grow up on the South Side, would not have any such favorites. Obama plays basketball.
kieser| 4.7.10 @ 10:14AM
I grew up in Detroit. Have never been to Chicago. My favorite white sox growing up (born in 1971) were Wilbur Wood, Greg "the Bull" Luzinski" and Ron Kittle. If you are a fan (as opposed to owning a cool hat and jacket) you know these things. Otherwise, you're just a phony...but that isnt a news flash, is it?
Mark| 4.7.10 @ 6:16PM
News flash for Kieser: You are wrong. If you ARE a fan of any team, then you probably have had favorite players on that team SINCE you became a fan. People do not select favorite team players decades BEFORE they become team fans.
Obama was not a team fan BEFORE he moved here, which means he would NOT have favorite team players before he moved here. Is this too difficult to understand?
Jim Hlavac | 4.6.10 @ 4:26PM
All day today I keep recalling some old WW II Hollywood movies where Nazi infiltrators with really good English were caught when they couldn't answer simple baseball questions. Hmm, now we have a president who not only can't name players, but can't name the parks where they played.
I think the new twist on the old question is "What didn't Obama know and when didn't he know it?" He shows the same knowledge of his health care destruction bill as he does of baseball.
I'm sure another new marker of Nixonian angst is here too -- only instead of 18 minute gaps there are 17 minute answers.
Yikes, I'm going to get on his enemies list any day now! Though I'd hate to "Rush" on to it.
victor| 4.6.10 @ 5:22PM
Jim:
"there are 17 minute answers"
17 Minutes?
I could've listened to the uncut version of Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida in 17 minutes!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
Pete| 4.6.10 @ 4:44PM
I could be wrong, but I don't recall seeing a strong Kenyan squad at the World Baseball Classic.
victor| 4.6.10 @ 5:16PM
Right pew, wrong church.
Kenyans are great, at marathons.
Maybe that's why Obama keeps on going with his continuous run-on sentences.
He never stops.
Tom M. Brown| 4.6.10 @ 6:14PM
What a Judy throw. Couldn't name one White Sox. What a liar he.
SoCon| 4.6.10 @ 8:17PM
Who is Judy?
Mark| 4.7.10 @ 6:21PM
That's a deceptive statement. I'm sure he can name "one White Sox," but that was not the question. He couldn't name any that he was a fan of WHILE GROWING UP, because he was NOT a White Sox fan WHEN GROWING UP!
Kenneth E. MacAlister Jr.| 4.6.10 @ 6:52PM
Mr. Antle, The Manchurian Teleprompter doesn't know ANYTHING about America other than the fact that he hates America & wants to eradicate the America that existed before him. T.M.T. is attempting to do the same thing to America that Satan would do to Heaven if he ever got control of it. GOD though, unlike The Manchurian Teleprompter cannot be defeated, does not have to run for re-election & is not term limited.
"Life is hard; it's harder when you're stupid!" - John Wayne
Typical AmSpec Reader| 4.6.10 @ 8:42PM
He probably learned how to read his teleprompter from GEORGE SOROS!
Rich Rostrom| 4.6.10 @ 8:57PM
Jim Hlavac: There's at least one movie with a scene in which the German infiltrators show off their baseball knowledge to their commander.
OTOH, American sentries once challenged Major David Niven with a question about the 1943 World Series. "Haven't the foggiest idea," he answered. "But I did co-star with Ginger Rogers in Bachelor Mother!"
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RBI| 4.7.10 @ 2:25AM
So Mr. Prez, who is your fav WS player? Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!! Present. This pretty much sums up his whole life. What a phony,lying little Marxist creep. This nancy-boy throwing Muslim is a clear and present danger to the American way of life. In the near future America you need to decide. are you going to vote for Madison, or Marx?
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Frank Drackman | 4.7.10 @ 2:23PM
Favorite Whitesox when I was growin up???Wilbur Wood, Tommy John, Mike Andrews, Dick Allen, Frank Thomas, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Carlton Fisk, and I'm not even a Whitesox fan...
did collect baseball cards though...
Rick| 4.7.10 @ 9:49PM
What about Luis Aparicio and Nelly Fox?
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