Guess who the star player on this team is.

Requirements also include: must like fried chicken and watermelon

Subby, let's say you are the most powerful single person in the world. You hold the world's largest economy on your shoulders among about a million other things. On top of all that, you have 20 hour days 6 days a week and work somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 hours on Sundays. Time on the court makes for an easy method to clear one's mind AND working out in the process makes everyone healthier.

No, he's just a lazy black man who wants to play ball, right?

Yeah, because Hillary is really known for her ball-handling skills...

As opposed to the last 43 Presidents who golfed with all of their cabinet members?

At least our government is prepared now if the Dream Team starts to suck again.

netweavr: Yeah, because Hillary is really known for her ball-handling breaking skills...

FTFY

dletter: As opposed to the last 43 Presidents who golfed with all of their cabinet members?

This.
Golf skill is the traditional badge of success in business and political circles, and though I'm it requires skill I would imagine a team sport involving vigorous exercise is a better choice for building a working relationship and blowing of steam. Not to mention it doesn't require a one hour drive to the suburbs.
Besides, if Obama played golf then we'd have to suffer through all kinds of retarded Tiger Woods analogies.

_{/doesn't play either sport}

xanadian: Requirements also include: must like fried chicken and watermelon

You're a clever one.

Putin won't think he's so badass once Obama destroys him at H-O-R-S-E.

I hear he's quite the javelin thrower as well.

/ducks

Next President better start a soccer team. Obama's a West Ham supporter, so that's covered. I volunteer to represent Aston Villa.

Now to just get 18 more people. But who the hell is going to admit to being a West Brom supporter?

IMPEACH HIM!

One of the top skills required to be part of the Republican caucus?

The ability to say "Dinosaur bones were placed by Satan" while keeping a straight face.

xanadian: Requirements also include: must like fried chicken and watermelon

Low hanging fruit for low hanging fruit? Hey, noone saw that bit of originality and cleverness coming.

How is this page "Commie"?

USA Today: simple news for simple people.

xanadian: Requirements also include: must like fried chicken and watermelon

That's one thing I never really understood.

The whole "How dare people accuse us of liking delicious foodstuffs?" mentality.

I mean, sure, people calling you undereducated, profane, criminal and ape-like I can understand getting offended at, but liking fried chicken and watermelon?

So what? I'm white and I like 'em both.

DrMcNinja: How is this page "Commie"?

They didn't call him "Crazy Legs" Kruschev for nothing, yknow!

Hideously Gigantic Smurf: xanadian: Requirements also include: must like fried chicken and watermelon

That's one thing I never really understood.

The whole "How dare people accuse us of liking delicious foodstuffs?" mentality.

I mean, sure, people calling you undereducated, profane, criminal and ape-like I can understand getting offended at, but liking fried chicken and watermelon?

So what? I'm white and I like 'em both.

Because saying "fried chicken and watermelon" implies that they're uneducated and low class (by dint of the ethnic associations that that type of food brings). Just as "latte-sipping" conjures up images of yuppies in suburbs driving SUVs, fried chicken and watermelon conjures up images of poor, uneducated black folk from the south.

It's called a joke.

Hillary how my ass taste?

keflex: Because saying "fried chicken and watermelon" implies that they're uneducated and low class (by dint of the ethnic associations that that type of food brings). Just as "latte-sipping" conjures up images of yuppies in suburbs driving SUVs, fried chicken and watermelon conjures up images of poor, uneducated black folk from the south.

Funny, all it conjures up for me is images of a damned good company picnic.

"Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, 51, Obama's choice for the Department of Homeland Security, could coach. She has been a frequent "guest coach" for the University of Arizona women's basketball team."

This is so incredibly unsurprising. Sometimes the jokes write themselves.

keflex: Hideously Gigantic Smurf: xanadian: Requirements also include: must like fried chicken and watermelon

That's one thing I never really understood.

The whole "How dare people accuse us of liking delicious foodstuffs?" mentality.

I mean, sure, people calling you undereducated, profane, criminal and ape-like I can understand getting offended at, but liking fried chicken and watermelon?

So what? I'm white and I like 'em both.

Because saying "fried chicken and watermelon" implies that they're uneducated and low class (by dint of the ethnic associations that that type of food brings). Just as "latte-sipping" conjures up images of yuppies in suburbs driving SUVs, fried chicken and watermelon conjures up images of poor, uneducated black folk from the south.

It's kind of an outdated insult. It's like calling someone an Octaroon.

/i thought latte sipping yuppies drove priuses (prii?)
//SUVs are for fat suburban housewives

netweavr: Yeah, because Hillary is really known for her ball-handling skills...

If she was, she could have avoided a lot of problems.

Hideously Gigantic Smurf: So what? I'm white and I like 'em both.

Don't forget about BBQ.
mmmm

/had fried chicken for lunch.

DrMcNinja: How is this page "Commie"?

Well, the PITA classification assignment system is a complicated one.

Basically, the admins load darts into their asses and fart them out onto a dart board labeled 'Fascist' on the right and 'Commie' on the left. Where that dart lands determines the PITA gauge fpor the thread. Simple.

"Obama's interest in basketball had come a long way since his absent father showed up and gave him his first ball. Now it was his obsession. He was always dribbling, always playing, either on the outdoor courts at Punahou or down at the playground on King Street across from the Baskin-Robbins where he worked part-time. He was a flashy passer with good moves to the basket but an uneven and unorthodox jump shot, pulling the ball back behind his head so far that it almost disappeared behind him. Basketball dominated his time so much that his mother worried about him. In ninth grade, at least, he was the naive one, believing he could make a life in the game.

In Tony Peterson's senior yearbook, Obama wrote: "Tony, man, I sure am glad I got to know you before you left. All those Ethnic Corner trips to the snack bar and playing ball made the year a lot more enjoyable, even though the snack bar trips cost me a fortune. Anyway, great knowing you and I hope we keep in touch. Good luck in everything you do, and get that law degree. Some day when I am a pro basketballer, and I want to sue my team for more money, I'll call on you.""

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/22/AR2008082201679 _ 5.html?sid=ST2008082201770&s_pos= (new window)

ftfa:

"Reggie Love, Obama's personal aide, is 26 years old, 6-foot-5 and played both basketball and football at Duke University."


must anything else be said?

Rapmaster2000: thought latte sipping yuppies drove priuses (prii?)

Aren't "yuppies" typically ultra-capitalist Republicans?

So no Jews? Anti-Semites.

Gosling: Next President better start a soccer team. Obama's a West Ham supporter, so that's covered. I volunteer to represent Aston Villa.

Now to just get 18 more people. But who the hell is going to admit to being a West Brom supporter?


Approves

/not really

Doublek111: "Obama's interest in basketball had come a long way since his absent father showed up and gave him his first ball. Now it was his obsession. He was always dribbling, always playing, either on the outdoor courts at Punahou or down at the playground on King Street across from the Baskin-Robbins where he worked part-time.

Ever since I was a little baby, I always been dribblin'.

I used to put by basketball underneath my pillow. Maybe that's why I couldn't get to sleep at night.

imbrial: ftfa:

"Reggie Love, Obama's personal aide, is 26 years old, 6-foot-5 and played both basketball and football at Duke University."


must anything else be said?

Duke sucks?

DocsInOKC: Time on the court makes for an easy method to clear one's mind AND working out in the process makes everyone healthier.

What a change. All of the liberals around here were screaming bloody murder when our current president was caught playing golf. My thoughts at the time? "I'm just saying the guy doesn't have much of a life at all outside of his presidential duties...If golf was your only 'buddy' time, it would be a pretty big sacrifice, ya know?" Of course, I was roundly flamed. I have the same exact opinion about Obama's b-ball time; you've got to have something to take the stress off!

Donald_McRonald: Hillary how my ass taste?

Win.

docbenspock: Gosling: Next President better start a soccer team. Obama's a West Ham supporter, so that's covered. I volunteer to represent Aston Villa.

Now to just get 18 more people. But who the hell is going to admit to being a West Brom supporter?


Approves

/not really



/please work now...

bulldg4life: IMPEACH basket HIM!


fixed it for you

Game. Blouses.

// no Hillary on the "skins" team, plz

Hideously Gigantic Smurf: One of the top skills required to be part of the Republican caucus?

The ability to say "Dinosaur bones were placed by Satan" while keeping a straight face.

Thread over.

No worse than Golf....

My bad. I thought it was the only qualification.

What a silly negro.

We go play hoop.

Just for those who are keeping score at home, assembling a cabinet, some of whom can play a club sport which requires a lot of money and time, like golf, is a good thing.

Assembling a cabinet, some of whom can play a street sport which requires little time or money, like basketball, is a bad thing.

Did I get the Republican talking point down?

d'art: Just for those who are keeping score at home, assembling a cabinet, some of whom can play a club sport which requires a lot of money and time, like golf, is a good thing.

Assembling a cabinet, some of whom can play a street sport which requires little time or money, like basketball, is a bad thing.

Did I get the Republican talking point down?

This, if only minorities and poor folks played golf, there'd be three golf courses in the whole country.

d'art: Just for those who are keeping score at home, assembling a cabinet, some of whom can play a club sport which requires a lot of money and time, like golf, is a good thing.

Assembling a cabinet, some of whom can play a street sport which requires little time or money, like basketball, is a bad thing.

Did I get the Republican talking point down?

Just for those who are keeping score at home: Assembling a cabinet, some of whom can play a club sport on the side while still doing their job and requires a lot of money and time, like golf, is a good thing.

Assembling a cabinet, some of whom can only play a street sport and has little ability to do the job and requires little time or money, like basketball, is a bad thing.

Did I get the Republican talking point down?

Fixed.

/Also, it's not cheap when you see the bill for the new indoor White House Basketball court that's going to replace the bowling alley.

Hideously Gigantic Smurf: xanadian: Requirements also include: must like fried chicken and watermelon

That's one thing I never really understood.

The whole "How dare people accuse us of liking delicious foodstuffs?" mentality.

I mean, sure, people calling you undereducated, profane, criminal and ape-like I can understand getting offended at, but liking fried chicken and watermelon?

So what? I'm white and I like 'em both.

Dave Chappelle had a great routine about that. My favorite line was something like "Why do people assume that there's something wrong with liking fried chicken and watermelon? Fried chicken and watermelon are delicious. If you don't like fried chicken and watermelon, there's something wrong with you."

Two of my absolute favorite foods, and I'm as white as Wonder Bread.