News from Huffington Post today:
Barack Obama Gets STITCHES After Basketball Injury
President Obama received 12 stitches after suffering an injury during a basketball game, according to a White House statement: "After being inadvertently hit with an opposing player's elbow in the lip while playing basketball with friends and family, the President received 12 stitches today administered by the White House Medical Unit. They were done in the doctor's office located on the ground floor of the White House."
So unlike the posers--both of them--formerly in the White House--who PRETENDED to be "men of the people", who, the first one acted like he liked pork rinds while knowing nothing of the scanners at grocery stores we're all familiar with and the 2nd one who got a ranch just before he took the presidency and now doesn't visit there virtually at all any longer, this president is much more real. He really does like basketball--he watches the professional games, has opinions on them, drinks beer publicly--not pretending to--and plays it--and well--too.
If you don't like him, fine, don't like him.
But don't say he's an "elitist", partly because that's a good thing to have in the highest position in the country and partly because he really did come from nothing, worked like crazy and earned his current position.
His Grandfather wasn't a Senator; he's not deeply indebted to anyone--especially and including the oil industry--for a family fortune because there isn't one; he doesn't have a "family compound" ala' the Bushies, etc., etc.
Oh, and he's gotten a lot of legislation passed that you and I--the common, working-class stiffs--need.
'nuff said.
Enjoy the long weekend, y'all.
Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/26/barack-obama-stitches-basketball-injury_n_788627.html#s192442
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Wow, so now our qualifications for the Presidency are that one must like basketball (or some sport), and must drink beer.
We've really lowered our standards.
Obama is now 'a man of the people', eh? Great. Hand him a pink slip like the one a lot of people have gotten during his reign.
He is insistent on raising taxes on employers so that unemployment will stay high. It's time that he joined 'the people' that he is 'one of' by becoming unemployed.
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