Mr. President now is not the time to be talking basketball.

The Gulf of Mexico is dying and you are talking basketball? WTF were you thinking?

http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/nba/news/story?id=5212674

Obama explores LeBron's options

If LeBron James isn't sure he can win in Cleveland, President Barack Obama thinks there's an opportunity with
his hometown Chicago Bulls.

"You know, like I said, I don't want to meddle," Obama told TNT. "I will say this: Rose, Joakim Noah it's a pretty good core.
You know, you could see LeBron fitting in pretty well there."


Obama was interviewed about a number of basketball subjects by broadcaster Marv Albert on the White House basketball court.
The interview will be shown Tuesday night at 8 p.m. ET.

BTW what a bone headed thing to say too ..... Mr. President you already have the Illinois vote sewn up but Ohio is the important
vote.

There's nothing wrong with him taking a few minutes out of the day to talk about sports.

.... could lose Obama @ least 50,000 votes in Ohio in 2012.

It is fine for him to watch, play, and talk basketball ..... I am all for that and I am sure
it helps him deal w/ the stress of being President but to go on the record at this time
was not a smart thing to do.

a sports team or player then they truly have no brains. But I have never heard on this happening in any election.

N.E. Ohio and his leaving Cleveland will really hurt an already hurting city. From the
cab drivers, to the restaurants, street vendors, janitors, and so on. James can do what
he wants but for the President to take a public position on it was a stupid thing to do.
Cleveland / Ohio still hurts from the Browns' move.

And yes some people live their lives out through College of Pro Sports and take things
to a strange level.

I mean, isn't there other things to to be mad at Obama over? Sports, really?

Where she accused Boston Red Sox legend Curt Schilling of being a Yankee fan. She lost votes big time because of that.

.... big outdoor Boston Bruins game saying something like (rough quote)
"Why should I it is cold and I really don't like hockey."

Those folksy chats got many people through the post depression/WWII blues. Basketball is a useful and enjoyable pasttime that helps people cope.

If there is a single person that would change his or her vote for a President based on an off handed, obviously lighthearted comment they can simply go fuck themselves.

Whatever will we do?

Bush had no clue what was even going on and had to be told the level of disaster. And then he fought with Gov. Blanco. This is not Katrina, no matter how many people want it to be.

swim down to the break to stop it magically?

It'd be a lot faster! :7

Maybe he can wear this:

Doesn't he have like x-ray vision and lasers and stuff that he can shoot out of his eyes?

How about he just looks into the water and seals the geyser from up above?!!elevens!

Kewl, huh? :)

:spray:

No they are not this problem needs to be federalized ASAP because BP has been and is still lying their
asses off to the American people along w/ telling the Coast Guard and the EPA what they can do or
what BP will keep doing.

to do the job which is why BP has to do it with the govt.'s guidance.

There are many things that can be done and are not being done.

I see BP having the coast guard tell reporters that if they try to film the oil
hitting the beaches they will be arrested ..... I just heard this morning that BP
told the EPA they will keep using the very toxic chemical oil dispersement
material even thought they were told to stop using it. It turns 10,000,000
gallons of oil into 10,000,000 gallons of oil. Any sort of ecological restoration
will require trying to remove as much of the oil as possible .... spreading it
out or sinking it to the sea floor just makes the problem bigger.

BP has been lying from day one and seems more interested in protecting
the company then the gulf.

The response should be federalized ASAP.

to slow down the response.

I said now was not the time to be talking b-ball (in public) and that
it hurts him w/ certain voters in Ohio. Many in Cleveland/Ohio still
hurt over the Browns move to MD and James' very real economic impact
to N.E. Ohio are not minor issues.

Ooooh Kaaay. Sorry, you just proved yourself to be insincere in your OP AND your other posts in this thread.

things can be complex w/ more than one issue @ stake.

BTW was I being insincere when I worked for then Senator Obama in doing voter protection in
Ohio ..... election day 2008 5:00 AM to 10:30 PM?

My "fave" text that I saved on my phone says:

We just made history. All of
this happened because you
gave your time, talent, and
passion to to this campaign. All
of this happened because of
you. Thanks, Barack

taking over from BP/etc. In your OP, you said the "Gulf of Mexico is dying" and then proceeded, in other posts, to say what you think the admin. should be doing to fix it. That's what I was referring to.

...and that's really hard to do and type at the same time.

jesus now they'll know how wealthy you are!!11!
:hi:

What do men clutch in outrage? Don't answer that. :rofl:

I think this is the second time. Could be the third.

about anything that isn't the crisis of the day.

And make sure that he is all over the outrage of the day-- EVERY SINGLE day.

This is the biggest joke of a post that I've read here in quite some time, and that is saying a lot.

Essentially in the Gulf we have an unlimited source of toxins that has the potential
to cause ecological devastation on a huge scale.

Get real.

Would you prefer he stop eating, tear his hair out and rend his garments 24/7?

Help to ensure the populace that the President is a true Merican and is distracted by stupid shit as easily as the rest of us.

imho.

Once upon a time we used to want to elect people better than us. Now we won't people who are as dumb as the rest of the population so the people in charge have to pretend to be "average joes"

I think the President is a genuine fan.
I like basketball, football, baseball. Went to games with my Dad, good bonding time with him. That is what sports means to me, brings back good memories of my Dad taking me to Yankee Stadium at 12 years old. And I was a girl, but he didn't treat me like I wouldn't understand any of it.

As long as he was an effective talking bear.

:hi:

It gets more ridiculous by the day. It's really becoming my number one entertainment option. Well, that and watching monkeys fling shit at each other.

Wouldn't they?

dying and an oil leak that the govt. has been dealing with from the very first hours? :eyes:

fault Obama for anything and everything regardless of the facts.

.... protect the rights of the voters and to make sure the votes were counted too.*

I am hardly a person who blames Obama for everything. I am very proud to have him
as my President.


* BTW in my work I made sure that all the voters who were forced to vote a provisional
ballot gave us their names and phone #s ..... after the election when the lists we put
together and with some follow up work we able to get one more democrat elected to
the U.S. House ..... Mary Jo Kilroy

There were things the government could do in that case.

Watching your favorite programs, listening to music, taking a bath, eating, sleeping, crapping etc, etc
because of the oil spill. I HAVENT.

:eyes:

Really, that's what we're getting to.

:wtf:

If one has to halt the rest of one's life because tragedy happens somewhere else in the world, you might as well just hang it up and stop living. Life happens.

Did the Obama girls have a fun weekend? How could POTUS and FLOTUS have let that happen??

:crazy:

:eyes:

Why, I bet he's even talked to his *family* at some point! Why won't he focus on the oil spill? :cry:

:sarcasm:

And no one else should do anything else, either, but sit on the internet and make posts about it.

We'd have utopia by now! The NERVE of him. :tinfoilhat:

It's astounding how clueless the prez is about this.

A little less histrionics and a lot more common sense is what's need in this discussion!

the wetlands and estuaries that are being hit w/ the oil can longer serve their prior ecological functions
these areas are the "nurseries" for much of the ocean life.

the areas of sea floor underneath the large plumes of deep oil show thousands and thousands of dead and dying
"things"

scientists have found 30% reductions of O2 in the water in many places ..... add that to the seasonal hypoxic zone and you have
added one more ecological insult to the sustainability of the gulf ..... lower O2 = more dead things .... the more dead things in the
water then the more demand on O2


and when that oil hits the coral reefs off the Florida Keys it will not be pretty

***********

God knows how many billions if not trillions of gallons of oil are in that formation that BP tapped into

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Really? Someone out there is going to see President Obama engaging in a few minutes of harmless sports gab and be think, "Good God, I can't believe he is sitting there talking about basketball and oil leak hasn't been plugged? ... IMPEACH NOW!"
And people in Ohio are so shallow that they will vote Republican because a Bulls fan wants His Lordship, LeBron James, to sign with Chicago?
Really?

Is he allowed to eat while the oil is still spewing? What about smiling . . . is that allowed? Can he pet the dog?

Why don't you make a list of things he's allowed to do and forward it to the White House so they don't offend you.

Amare Stoudemire :rofl: