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Maybe Obama Should Have Watched More “West Wing”?

By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on July 15, 2009 at 5:01 PM in Current Affairs, President Barack Obama, Souter Vacancy, Supreme Court

I’m speaking of Obama, of course (h/t to Gateway Pundit for the video). Now some of you know I am a big baseball fan, as well as a big “West Wing” fan, along with other writers here (talking about you, Bronwyn!), so when I see this:



I think of this exchange:

Charlie Young: [telling the President that he has to practice throwing a baseball with a bullet proof vest on before throwing the first pitch out at a baseball game] Sir, everyone agrees.
President Josiah Bartlet: Like who?
Charlie Young: Leo, Josh, CJ, your wife, the Notre Dame athletic department…

Maybe Obama should have practiced more, too, since he barely made it to the plate – oh wait, the announcer doesn’t mention that. Good thing there is THIS video that shows the entire pitch:

And he gives himself a little fist pump for barely making it to the plate, too!! Perhaps that’s why some people are booing him? Oh, no wait – it started before he threw out the pitch. Funny, the announcer doesn’t mention that, either. Did you notice the driver of the golf cart in the first video barely shook Obama’s hand? Interesting commentary there, too, I think.

Since I mentioned the “West Wing,” and since we are in the midst of hearings for a new Supreme Court Justice, how about this classic clip regarding nominees for the Supreme Court:

Ah, the politics involved in selecting the next Supreme Court Justice…

By the way, in response to my post recently on the grave robbers, a number of people mentioned that Michelle Obama’s father was buried in Burr Oaks Cemetery, too. As it turns out, that was not true. Apparently, Michelle Obama’s Communications Director put that out there without bothering to check the facts first (oh, now THERE’S a surprise – hahahahahaha), and has now had to retract that statement. Turns out, her father is not buried there after all. Gee, it is a little hard not to be too cynical about that revelation…

  • Obama: Dubya’ 2 Electric Boogaloo

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBH5NBriO1c

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVZgQ9wcxw4&feature=related

    Now compare that to Dubya throwing out the first pitch at a Rangers game in April. Goddamn! Right down the pipe for a strike!

    • hokma

      The live TV shot was the first time I ever saw a sports network intentionally have a camera angle that excluded the catcher in a 1st pitch. That was no one would know what he did. Unfortunately David Axelrod didn’t know they had a centerfield camera.

      Also makes you wonder if Obama really did sink that 3 pointer in basketball since you all you saw was the ball leave his hands . . . and then the ball reappear going into the net:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j87k1j4CpOw

      • Naomi

        oh for crying out loud! suspicious of the 3 pointer? they purposely did not show the catcher because the media did not want to show how far obama pitched? this is ridiculous!

        • elise

          Open up them there eyes, Naomi. The media is all about making him look good. Some have even admitted their goal is to make him look successful.

        • Slim Tyranny

          “Ridiculous” is a pretty tame description of the conspiracy theories getting spun around here.

  • HARP

    Light travels faster than sound. That’s why Obama appears bright until you hear him speak.

    • jbjd

      I love physics.

      • Andy

        Me too jbjd!!

        Sharp comment HARP.

        • Mar

          Harp,

          That was a great, pithy comment.

          Mar

    • http://www.rabblerouserruminations.blogspot.com/ Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy

      ROTFLMAO – GOOD one!!! :-D

      • TeakWoodKite

        Does that make BO a wormhole? W.O.R.M. ??

        • elise

          He lives in a parallel universe.

  • Jay L

    FYI. The reason they booed him was because he wore a Chicago WhiteSox jacket in the home stadium of the St.Louis Cardinals. The home fans wanted him to wear their colors.

    • TeakWoodKite

      Jay….A great example of political tone deafness.\
      BO’s best pitch will neva make the plate.

      • Jay L

        This is true teak but remember this was a baseball crowd.

        • http://deleted BuzzisbackLatte

          He got booed. That’s the only point to be made.

    • fif

      fyi: his handlers suspected he might not be completely well-received and gave him cover. How gullible are you?

    • Dutch

      You had to go and burst my bubble telling me about the jacket! Bummer.

    • Karma

      Look I know that baseball has it’s fanatics. There are plenty of stories of baseball fans getting nailed for wearing the wrong jacket at the wrong ball park.

      But baseball fans aren’t stupid.

      Why would they expect a Chicago resident to wear colors from another team/state?

      Face it….Obama was boo’d for more than a jacket. Just like Bush was boo’d for more than a jacket at other tosses.

      However, no one was booing at Bush after 9/11.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=631knZM9Uiw

  • Chicago Joe

    Barry probably never played Little League over there in Jakarta.

    • Elder Jane

      They don’t play baseball in the madrassas?

  • Obama: Dubya’ 2 Electric Boogaloo

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0bVBdA7o9Q&feature=related

    Jimminy Crickets! Even Ol’Man Biden throws harder than our Throws-Like-A-Girl-In-Chief….

    • jbjd

      Do you mean, he throws like HRC, for example?

      • Obama: Dubya’ 2 Electric Boogaloo

        More like a “wise latina”….

        Of course, as a white male, I think I would come to a _better_ conclusion on how people throw…

        • http://deleted BuzzisbackLatte

          The pitch certainly helps answer a lot of questions.

          • ConfusedAmerican

            Remember he couldnt bowl either.
            Seems that for a basketball player and jogger he should do better. Is there something going on? As Lou Dobbs pointed out we never saw his medical records.

    • ConfusedAmerican

      Man they were booing him Oh man….
      Does that mean many dont like Biden either…

    • http://www.rabblerouserruminations.blogspot.com/ Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy

      Holy smokes – Biden did a MUCH better job (never thought I’d say that – never was a big fan of Biden’s. Apparently, most Dems weren’t either, which is why he never won ONE Primary. Just sayin’.).

      Obama would have done BETTER had he “thrown like a girl”! ;-)

      I have to say, I have now found out Obama did indeed practice his throwing. Oh, boy, that’s not good, right?

      Oh – Confused American, as Jay said, Obama was because he wore a jacket for a team they didn’t like. Oh, yeah, okey dokie. :-)

    • noproblama

      I googled “Obama throws like a girl” after the game and read a few of the many long brutal threads. Even Yahoo Answers took no pity; calling him out for his “dad jeans”. Guess the honeymoon is over.

      Yes, that was one weak ass throw, vest or not. And talk about a media whore. How’d talk him out of singing the National Anthem?

      • Kathleen Wynne

        A “girl” could throw better than obama. Don’t insult girls!

      • http://rabblerouserruminations.blogspot.com Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy

        ROTFLMAO abt the National Anthem – good one!!

        And yeah – ask some of the softball pitchers abt “throwing like a girl” – MLB players have a hard time hitting their stuff! :-)

  • tzada

    Maybe Obama Should Have Watched More “West Wing”?

    Doing some research prior to the election I found out that that show may have been based on Obama. I don’t have my notes any more, but Google search may pull it up for anyone who cares.

    He is just one huge yawn for me. A petulant, dangerous child. When I was about 7 a dangerous petulant child, chased me. When he finally caught me, he stabbed me in the back with his birthday knife. Same boring, narcissistic personality.

    • tminu

      Yikes about the knife. Obama needed a few drill sergeant Dad figures, instead he’s never been challenged his entire life.

    • Ellen D

      Wow! Where was the parental supervision?!!!

    • TeakWoodKite

      You read that interview with Axelrod too?

      Jimmie Smitz (sp)character was modeled after BO according to Axelrod.

      • http://www.rabblerouserruminations.blogspot.com/ Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy

        You have GOT to be kidding me!! There is no way in HELL the Smits character is based on OBAMA. The Smits character had some EXPERIENCE. Ahem.

        And Scranton, you are absolutely right – she could have done that LEFT-handed, and better! Sheesh.

        • WMCB

          No, Obama was modeled after the Smits character. Axelrod created Smits first, then he created “Obama”.

          • http://www.rabblerouserruminations.blogspot.com/ Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy

            Now THAT I can believe!! :-D

  • Scranton4Hillary

    What a chicken arm! I bet even in her cast Hillary could have thrown the ball right over the plate.
    His chicken arm goes right along with his incessant squawking and parading around like the cock of the walk!

    • http://firefox AnnieCollier

      Doncha love how he bounds up stairs? Elbows at his sides, arms bent trying to look like a jock. He looked like he had 3 layers of body armor on. Take a look at how thick the jacket, pants look.

      His BS is trying to make up for wussiness.

  • jbjd

    Unlike the fictional President Bartlett on WW, BO will not invest the time and effort to become expert at anything. Why should he? People seem to love him enough just the way he is.

  • Alicia

    That was a sorry pitch. Clip 1 and 2 didn’t even look like the same throw. Didn’t hear the boos though, and would really like to if there’s another clip out there. . .

    • http://www.rabblerouserruminations.blogspot.com/ Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy

      I know, right? Most of them, including the one in which you can really hear the booing, do not show the entire pitch. Gee, wonder why??

      And yes, Pujols had to reach forward for the pitch, and he wasn’t behind the plate, as far as I can tell. Pitiful.

  • ConfusedAmerican

    If I remember right didnt JFK do a better job when he threw out the opening pitch

    • Obama: Dubya’ 2 Electric Boogaloo

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVAHcyl_NeM

      It’s hard to tell from the footage, but I would say “yes”!

    • elise

      JFK had a bad back from hauling a boat mate to shore on his back during Vietnam.

      • Animal Control

        Make that “during World War 2″

  • ConfusedAmerican

    Off topic but there is a reported shooting in DC
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090715/us_nm/us_usa_shooting_3

    Cant find anything else

  • HARP

    Obama is a federal employee is in clear violation of Sec. 2635.101 of the Standards Of Ethical Conduct For Employees Of The Executive Branch, Subpart A, “General Provisions” – which states:

    (8) Employees shall act impartially
    and not give preferential treatment to
    any private organization or individual.

    Wearing a jacket with the White Sox logo is in violation of this standard. I seem to remember the loony left going nuts on Palin with Artic Cat on her coat.

    • Slim Tyranny

      You’re kidding, right?

  • ConfusedAmerican

    My mother had an really cute donkey pin she wore during the elections LOL….
    All knew what it was for but it was a piece of jewerly LOL…
    Just the mention of any of the elections or party could get you a few days of unpaid vacation

  • verminme

    Note the catcher. There’s no hugging in baseball.

  • http://www.homestudioessentials.com/ A-Nony-Mouse

    You have an active imagination.

  • ConfusedAmerican

    Sorry guys but Im starting to get a giggle out of this whole stupid health care mess that Barry is pushing.

    Looks like all those nice rich white folks who gave him the money and put him in office are going to get to lose some big bucks so we can have federal medical insurance. HMMMM

    Maybe if they wake up out of their rich caviar stupor they might be able to help stop this mess.

    • http://www.homestudioessentials.com/ A-Nony-Mouse

      Stop the mess of finally fixing our health care system? That’s a mess? Do you realize that the US spends more money on health care than any other nation in the world yet ranks only #37 in health care results? It’s unbelievable that anyone is still buying into the health insurance industry talking points. Watch “Sicko” ! It’s the truth.

      • tminu

        You’re nuts if you think Obamacrap care is going to be anything but an unmitigated DISASTER, it’s eugenics to clear off the social security rolls

        There’s no reason to gut and rape the entire system

        but his reason is power and control

      • Obama: Dubya 2 Electric Boogaloo
      • tango

        And while you’re at it, watch Steven Crowder and his friends little journey to a few Canadian health clinics, the ER, etc.

        A waiting time of 2-3 years just to get a primary doctor assigned to you? Without an assigned doctor, you can’t use the local clinic. Go to the ER and wait 2-10 hours. Geez, isn’t that what the uninsured in America do already?

        http://www.pjtv.com/video/Louder_With_Crowder/__PJTV_Undercover%3A_Steven_Crowder_Investigates_Why_CanadaCare_SucksWill_ObamaCare_Be_Any_Better%3F/2153/;jsessionid=abc2NQ5lqngnT7DgpEdks

        I love how it’s suggested (more than once) by medical professionals that Crowder and his friend just go to a private clinic and pay for treatment out of pocket.

        If you really think it will be any different for Americans in 10 years if the current clusterf*ck of a plan goes through, then you are naive. This isn’t true reform, this is taking a mess and making it even worse. And once again, the really rich can pay for private treatment but the middle and lower classes? They won’t have ANY other options.

        Lastly, I refuse to endorse any plan that exempts Congress/Senate and Federal Employees from being included. If it’s not good enough for them, then that tells me all I need to know about the plan.

    • tead off

      confused american — there is nothing funny about the Healthcare mess. Its not about the rich and their caviar. Its about a narcissistic nut case who wants what he wants when he wants it–never mind the chaos, lost jobs, high taxes on those who are already reeling from this economy, or the Seniors for whom the rationing of Healthcare is a life or death situation. Pass anything and make him look good–that’s all he cares about and if a few months from now it turns out to be as bad as its predicted to be–he will be onto something new. Some really big sweeping plan to awe us once again.

  • Babs

    Media hype casts him as a “jock”, but my kids are all “jocks”, and trust me when I tell you that even my girls make Obama look like he’s never thrown a baseball in his life. I’ve watched tape of him playing basketball, and even though that’s his professed expertise, I have always thought he looked pretty “girly” at that as well. Obama the “jock”, Michelle the “fashion icon”, an American fairy tale.

  • fif

    As I heard today, if you watch the video clip that includes the end of the pitch, Obama did NOT make it to the plate–the pitcher was standing ON the plate, and still had to reach forward. Let’s see, that’s bowling, golfing and baseball. Don’t you love how they keep trying to present him as such a jock?

    • fif

      oops–I mean the catcher.

      • tminu

        Reggie Love is likely Obama’s catcher.

  • Bob

    I sorrry that baseball had to stoop to playing up the thug Obama– There was as mugh booing as cheering- It was a sporting event not a political event– Most politicians suck–This country has been going down hill for years-Why American greed– a sell out press—- greedy unprepared politicians—and an unfair playing field(business crooks)America wil have a large contingency in hell

  • Bob

    Obama has experience playing with balls-
    Remember Larry Sinclair— I wonder what
    ditch Sinclair’s body is in

    • tminu

      It would’ve been in a ditch had he not made his youtube and exposed this all early on (Bland, Young, Harris were all shot execution style).

      Now he’s inching up the best seller list, well still down at #12000 or so but that book and its spill-all about Barry the Bisexual has got to be behind the recent ass-gawking in Rome and now this “really I AM a man” sissy pitch!

      • Bob

        Book What Book?

        • RPL

          No wonder Obama’s a baseball fan; he’s a switch hitter.

      • Slim Tyranny

        You are COMPLETELY wrong about Bland, Young and Harris, fyi.

        Seriously, this homophobia is disgusting, and the crazy conspiracy theories are insane.

        • tminu

          NOpe, they were all three murdered execution style.

          • Slim Tyranny

            No they weren’t.

          • Slim Tyranny

            Wrong. One of the three died from a long-running illness, and the other two were shot multiple times each, and no news reports anywhere reported “execution style” killings. And one of the three wasn’t even a member of Obama’s former church.

            You are spreading insane and false internet conspiracy theories.

            • TeakWoodKite

              Chicago Suntimes.

  • tminu

    http://caosblog.com/category/demonrats/obama-demonrats/larry-sinclair-obama-demonrats-demonrats
    Why Larry’s book about his sodomite sojourn with Obama, to whom he gave money and Obama brought back cocaine as well…

    • ConfusedAmerican

      People are going to buy it just out of curiosity whether they believe it or not…It is going to hurt Obama BAD.

  • Hank

    The boo’s were noticeable when they introduced him. I don’t think I recall seeing a white sox player, I guess they suck like you know who.

  • CG

    mlb.com has many video clips of Obama, just click the link for the All Star game videos, 5 or 6 pages of video, which include Obama with the game announcers and in the locker room schmoozing, and an interview with Bob Costas, where he states that he has been practicing bowling at the White House and at Camp David and now bowls in the 160′s, no mention of Special Olympics. He also commented that the CIA can get him any of the television stations the White House may not already have, referring to sports channels. And Obama answers questions of some of the All Stars, as well as a couple views of the pitch. P.S. there was an All Star from Chicago White Socks.

    • KZnextzone

      Obama bowls 160′s like I golf in the 80′s

      • ReddFoxx

        I was thinking Obot bowls 160s like Bush read those 6 Shakespeares :-)

  • CG

    RRRAmy… now there is this story Grave offenses at Arlington National Cemetery

    what next?

    • http://rabblerouserruminations.blogspot.com Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy

      Thanks, CG – I had planned on doing something completely different today, but this is important…

      And back to Obama and baseball for a second, there was THIS funny story, “Meet Me In St. Booie” by Andy McCarthy from a conservative’s point of view. One thing he points out is that the CATCHER is always the one to catch the First Pitch, but they set it up to have one of THE most popular players in the country, surely the MVP this year, Albert Pujols, catch the ball. Like, maybe they KNEW Obama wasn’t going to get this adoration he thinks he so richly deserves…

      Here’s the link: http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YzFmMjkyZGM4MzllNjczYTc1MDRmNDNhNDdkYWJmMWY=

  • Slim Tyranny

    Heh, gotta love the pettiness, with some homophobia mixed in, too.

  • shannon

    this is the least important story about Him, but….
    i can’t figure out why He gives the fist pump after not getting it across the plate (does he give himself a high-5 after he wipes his ass?!) and — not that it matters in the least but — what was with his jeans?!

    • so saddened

      seems to me he gave the fist pump so people watching the video he had made sure would be the one shown – the one that didn’t actually show where the ball went – would assume he threw it well and that’s why he was pumping his fist. one thing the big zero knows is how to pretend to be or do something without actually being or doing it.

    • tminu

      Jeanie Most said he was wearing mom jeans!

  • Natalie

    You are insane children.