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2009-07-15 02:56:20 PM
I'll take a President who throws a ball a bit wimpily over a President that send our soldiers off to die in a worthless stupid invasion anyday.
 
2009-07-15 03:07:49 PM
This is exactly what is wrong with the right wing right now.

Seriously, you're going to attack the first pitch at the All-Star Game?

As I've mentioned before, opposition is meaningless when you criticize every single thing the President does. Jesus farking Christ, the guy does typical, prosaic, completely uncontroversial ceremonial stuff, and it's "OMG JIHAD JIHAD SOCIALIST GRARRRR!!1!".

Please, oh please, Republicans, come into this thread and defend this particular criticism so I can farky you as "chowderhead with an extra chromosome".
 
2009-07-15 03:10:36 PM
I think there's a lesson to be learned here; if you're a black basketball player from Chicago who's a fan of the White Sox, don't try to play baseball. You'll just look foolish.

/window seat
 
2009-07-15 03:11:32 PM
www.foxnews.com
 
2009-07-15 03:11:47 PM
daychilde: I'll take a President who throws a ball a bit wimpily over a President that send our soldiers off to die in a worthless stupid invasion anyday.

I think misplaced machismo and homophobia is responsible for more bad decisions than anything else on Earth.
 
2009-07-15 03:12:58 PM
Girls throw harder and with better accuracy.
 
2009-07-15 03:14:26 PM
ragekage: I think there's a lesson to be learned here; if you're a black basketball player from Chicago who's a fan of the White Sox, don't try to play baseball. You'll just look foolish.

/window seat


From Brooklyn, but still foolish:
www.realclearsports.com
 
2009-07-15 03:14:51 PM
Oh for f*cks sake.
 
2009-07-15 03:18:56 PM
Cagey B: Seriously, you're going to attack the first pitch at the All-Star Game?

Meh, big deal. I think it's kind of funny and I'm the furthest thing from right wing.
 
2009-07-15 03:23:27 PM
Someone joking about the President?

i24.photobucket.com
 
2009-07-15 03:25:55 PM
This is an outrage; up there in the "high crimes and misdemeanors" ranks, along with spicy mustard, his daughter's T-shirt and looking at a woman's butt!
 
2009-07-15 03:26:35 PM
If I wanted a President who can pitch well I'd vote for Roy Halladay.

/don't watch Scarborough, could his "complaint" been said tongue in cheek?
 
2009-07-15 03:31:04 PM
Actually, from the angle they showed on Fox's coverage of the game last night, it looked like a good throw, with a nice fluid motion. Then I saw different angles on the internets, and it looked pretty wimpy. Damn liberal Fox!
 
2009-07-15 03:38:18 PM
So he's into a different game(p) (vid)
 
2009-07-15 03:48:43 PM
jehovahs witness protection: Girls throw harder and with better accuracy.

Yes, we do.

/Catcher
//could nail second from home without standing up
///please don't turn that into something sexual
 
2009-07-15 03:51:56 PM
Gamer Grrrl: Yes, we do.

/Catcher
//could nail second from home without standing up
///please don't turn that into something sexual


Sexual innuendo or not, that's hot.
 
2009-07-15 03:55:45 PM
www.tribuneindia.com
 
2009-07-15 04:01:37 PM
Another unhinged take on the pitch:

I see I was not the only one watching last night's All-Star Game who wondered if David Axelrod had negotiated the bizarre angle (there is no other word for it, if you're a baseball-watching fan) used to showcase President Barack Obama's ceremonial "first pitch." I have never seen a president throw a pitch, before, where the angle left out the catcher at the plate.

Yes, I had to wonder if the shot was planned that way, if the White House was so insecure about this teleprompter-addicted president, and in such a habit of safeguarding his every image, his every press-conference question, that they had to make sure a bad throw wouldn't end up on You Tube (and if in doing so they aren't exposing that insecurity to the world.) If this angle was planned - and simply based on the WH's (and the media-in-general's) instinct toward shielding and over-promoting this president, I'm thinking it was - then I wonder if the WH is going to make this president seem increasingly remote and inhuman by editing out (or managing) his real stumbles or suspected imperfections. That can't be a good thing.

[followed by lots of bush fellating]

...These freaks are providing entries for the Poupon Files faster than I can add them.
 
2009-07-15 04:03:44 PM
Well, of course! They only played soccer in Kenya where he was born and at the Indonesian Muslin madrassah Barry Soreto attended (Karl Marx Middle School -- go Fighting Proletariats!) when he renounced his non-existent U.S. citizenship!

This was all part of the long-term plan he used as he coerced the Hawaiian government into changing their state laws to prevent him from being able to release the "true" birth certificate he had manufactured by the KGB to fool the entire U.S. government into allowing him to run for president!

First, of course, he had to change his Muslin name to something that would be easily sellable to the gullible "flyovers" in the American Heartland so the KGB/Islamofascists chose the all-American name "Barack Hussein Obama!"

/did I get them all?
 
2009-07-15 04:08:36 PM
Oh great.

Bush Sr. invaded Iraq to overcome the "wimp factor".

His son invaded Iraq again, to compensate for totally missing the Al Qaeda "Bin Laden determined to attack in the US" warnings.

Now you say Obama throws like a girl? White House houseflies better be careful or he's going to roundhouse kick them all.
 
2009-07-15 04:19:39 PM
FloydA: and looking at a woman's butt!

Republicans are just jealous of the preponderance of actual heterosexuals on the other side of the aisle.
 
2009-07-15 04:36:25 PM
Goddamn...people can't even have a little fun picking on B.O.'s throwing motion now without being accused of partisanship?
 
2009-07-15 04:39:23 PM
p-e-t-e: Goddamn...people can't even have a little fun picking on B.O.'s throwing motion now without being accused of partisanship?

No shiat. Apparently, they can't even proclaim that the ability to throw a pitch is irrelevant to the job without being accused of partisanship, either!

Waaaah!! It only works one way! You're a VICTIM!!1!
 
2009-07-15 04:40:31 PM
elchip: Another unhinged take on the pitch:


The pitch was clearly filmed from the Grassy Knoll, and again from above the triple overpass. There is no way that the pitch could have been filmed from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book depository. The view would have been blocked by the live oaks. If you look closely, when he throws, that his arm goes back and to the left...

Back, and to the left...

back and to the left...

back and to the left...

The only explanation is that Obama killed JFK.

How do you like your messiah now, lib-tards?
 
2009-07-15 04:44:28 PM
p-e-t-e: Goddamn...people can't even have a little fun picking on B.O.'s throwing motion now without being accused of partisanship?

Yes, that's all they're doing. As my link demonstrated, they're not spouting conspiracy theories about David Axelrod forcing the media to turn their camera away from Albert Pujols in case the pitch didn't make it.
 
2009-07-15 04:56:25 PM
elchip:
Yes, that's all they're doing. As my link demonstrated, they're not spouting conspiracy theories about David Axelrod forcing the media to turn their camera away from Albert Pujols in case the pitch didn't make it.


Gotta admit, I didn't read your post/link and commented on the headline and its link (imagine that); everyone in it seemed to be having a good laugh. The link you posted is just nonsensical crap.

For the record:

He threw it a little soft.
It has ABSOLUTELY NO bearing on his ability as President.
 
2009-07-15 05:12:50 PM
Rush was on this shiat for farkin' EVER today.

"George Bush threw like a MAN! Obama throws like a girl!" Blah blah. For minutes.

I saw it. His pitch wasn't anywhere near as good as George W Bush's first pitch after 9/11. George W Bush would get utterly schooled in basketball. I'd put my money on Bush for bowling, golf, billiards and possibly darts, and Obama for a swimming competition. None of these things matter, at all, regarding farking ANYTHING.
 
2009-07-15 05:29:00 PM
p-e-t-e: He threw it a little soft.
It has ABSOLUTELY NO bearing on his ability as President.


The GOP disagrees.
 
2009-07-15 05:35:39 PM
The GOP Core Philosophy: Offer nothing more to the American people other than fifth grade insults. Fail to Get Elected.
 
2009-07-15 05:41:06 PM
he tossed from the mound. dont presidents usually, minus dubya, throw from infront of the mound?
 
2009-07-15 05:41:40 PM
AHAHAHAHA that really was a girly throw!
 
2009-07-15 05:42:00 PM
I don't know if it was a good pitch or not, since FOX DIDN'T SHOW IT!!! >:(
 
2009-07-15 05:42:52 PM
godofusa.com: AHAHAHAHA that really was a girly throw!

Here boy!

Go fetch!

ladybunny.net

Go get it!

Good boy!
 
2009-07-15 05:42:54 PM
Gamer Grrrl: jehovahs witness protection: Girls throw harder and with better accuracy.

Yes, we do.

/Catcher
//could nail second from home without standing up
///please don't turn that into something sexual


Is there something sexual about being a catcher? nevermind
 
2009-07-15 05:43:50 PM
Pair-o-Dice: Is there something sexual about being a catcher? nevermind

The catcher was Pujols. Pronounced Poo holes.
 
2009-07-15 05:43:54 PM
John Paul Jones: Oh for f*cks sake.

To be fair, it's not quite as stupid as when they tried to make hay out of Obama requesting mustard on his burger.

Almost as stupid, but not quite.
 
2009-07-15 05:43:58 PM
For a pretty young guy to not reach the plate is pretty weak.


It doesn't say anything about him personally, but it's a pretty damn wussy throw


The people who feel a need to defend Obama and lambaste the people making fun are just as stupid as the people who are using it as a serious point of criticism.
 
2009-07-15 05:44:04 PM
daychilde: I'll take a President who throws a ball a bit wimpily over a President that send our soldiers off to die in a worthless stupid invasion anyday.

This just in: Afghanistan death toll hits all time high for July.
 
2009-07-15 05:44:36 PM
I bet Sarah Palin would have shaken off Pujols' signs, checked the runner at first, then reared back and thrown a 102MPH heater, tailing away, that painted the outside corner. BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT LEADERS DO.



www.mediabistro.comweblogs.newsday.com

Palin/Rice 2012: biatches With Pitches
 
2009-07-15 05:44:50 PM
one thing i always said was Bush does throw well. like best throwing president evar... but you gotta bring a bit more than that to to table....
 
2009-07-15 05:44:57 PM
Wow, that's too bad. This will damn him amongst all the Real Americans that have been supporting him thus far.
 
MFL
2009-07-15 05:45:21 PM
My brother always threw like a girl. Turned out he plays for the other team.

/Not that there's anything wrong with that.
 
2009-07-15 05:45:30 PM
Squawker: daychilde: I'll take a President who throws a ball a bit wimpily over a President that send our soldiers off to die in a worthless stupid invasion anyday.

This just in: Afghanistan death toll hits all time high for July.


Damn that Obama for starting these wars and putting us in this position.

Baseball is a shiatty sport anyway. Call me when Obama whiffs a 35 yard field goal.
 
2009-07-15 05:45:46 PM
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2009-07-15 05:45:49 PM
Is this that manufactured outrage you liberals keep going on about?
 
2009-07-15 05:46:07 PM
FloydA: elchip: Another unhinged take on the pitch:


The pitch was clearly filmed from the Grassy Knoll, and again from above the triple overpass. There is no way that the pitch could have been filmed from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book depository. The view would have been blocked by the live oaks. If you look closely, when he throws, that his arm goes back and to the left...

Back, and to the left...

back and to the left...

back and to the left...

The only explanation is that Obama killed JFK.

How do you like your messiah now, lib-tards?


Fark nuclear deterrence, our president can kill people THOUGH TIME.

WWI? Obama had old Francis taken out, as he insulted his mother.

Hitler didn't shoot himself, Obama had him capped.

St. Valentines day massacre? Obama's idea. They interfered with him getting his drink on.
 
2009-07-15 05:46:08 PM
Foreign leaders all over the world will see this wimpy, girlish pitch and conclude The Obamessiah is weak, and easily intimidated...all is lost.

/many Bothans died learning how to pitch authoritatively
 
2009-07-15 05:46:43 PM
I heard Obama sits when he pees... IMPEACH! IMPEACH!
 
2009-07-15 05:47:00 PM
Cagey B: This is exactly what is wrong with the right wing right now.

Seriously, you're going to attack the first pitch at the All-Star Game?

As I've mentioned before, opposition is meaningless when you criticize every single thing the President does. Jesus farking Christ, the guy does typical, prosaic, completely uncontroversial ceremonial stuff, and it's "OMG JIHAD JIHAD SOCIALIST GRARRRR!!1!".

Please, oh please, Republicans, come into this thread and defend this particular criticism so I can farky you as "chowderhead with an extra chromosome".



I read the article, watched the video, and read the headline. There was a comment that a clip of him bowling was a little "dainty," followed by others criticizing the comment. How does that become the GOP criticizing that he throws like a girl?
 
2009-07-15 05:47:03 PM
Man, do I feel dumb for liking this guy. He's got so many flaws, I wonder what I was thinking.
 
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