By Red State Reporter - April 5, 2010
Obama Can’t Name One White Sox Player?!?
The folks over at Three Fingers of Politics posted this video today of Obama throwing out the first pitch for the White Sox @ Nationals opening day baseball game. Afterward, Obama was interviewed by Washington Nationals booth announcers Bob Carpenter and Rob Dibble. They asked him to name some of his favorite White Sox players from years gone by. A self-labeled “South side kid”, Obama wasn’t able to name a single player from his home town team. Not even one. In an answer that rivaled the yawner he gave Doris the other day, Obama said he liked a lot of the Cubs, but was an A’s fan growing up in Hawaii. He then made some weak jokes about the Cubs being “up at Wrigley sipping wine” compared to the “blue collar baseball” the Sox play. Is class warfare all this guy thinks about?
I guess there’s not room for a teleprompter in the broadcast booth.
And by the way, judging by the speed and trajectory of Obama’s first pitch, I wouldn’t be surprised if he never set foot on a ball diamond before today. He walked out, waved a bit, stepped on BOTH first base lines on his way to the mound, waved some more, put on his cap, waved some more, did some kind of weird quadruple pump, and then tossed a lollipop in the general vicinity of the mascot. Compare that to the rocket George W. Bush fired at the Nationals’ opening day in 2008. W walks out, grabs the ball, fires a strike, and heads for the dugout. That’s how it’s done, Barry. That’s how it’s done.
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