Obama’s Basketball Challenge
[Guest post by DRJ]
No doubt hoping to lay to rest memories of his woeful bowling exhibition, Obama has challenged Indiana 18-year-olds to register new voters for a chance to play a 3-on-3 basketball game with him:
“Barack Obama will play three-on-three with students — and possibly a former Indiana University basketball star — as he taps the state’s rich basketball tradition to help get out the vote for next month’s primary.
An 18-year-old high school student who registers 20 people to vote will choose two students to help challenge the Democratic presidential candidate on the court, said Kevin Griffis, a spokesman for Obama’s campaign in Indiana. If the winning student decides not to play, he or she can choose all three players.
Obama’s team could include Calbert Cheaney, a former NBA player and NCAA basketball player of the year, and a college student who registers 30 new voters.”
Indiana’s primary is May 6.
– DRJ
i’d play just so i could stuff him as he came down the lane…. but i don’t think he’d play with a middle aged TWP to begin with….. %-)
Comment by redc1c4 — 4/3/2008 @ 10:04 am
I remember his comment awhile back about being the “best player in the Senate.” I think it was a joke, but still. That’s like being the best arm-wrester in a room full of quadriplegic fourth-graders.
Comment by Russell — 4/3/2008 @ 10:07 am
Reports that Obama would have offered the same challenge in Pennsylvania — but didn’t want to open up the possibility that the Penn State player abusing himself in a school library might try out — could not be confirmed.
Comment by L.N. Smithee — 4/3/2008 @ 10:21 am
i could beat barack obama one-on-one. he’s quicker on the perimeter, but i’m stronger in the paint. i could also beat him at chess and go.
Comment by assistant devil's advocate — 4/3/2008 @ 10:26 am
I could beat him at bowling.
Comment by DRJ — 4/3/2008 @ 10:31 am
Baracky is also trying to buy votes here in Indiana by giving away free tix to a Dave Mathews concert under the guise of voter registration.
And, the IN Dem Party Chairman is threatening to challenge voters in the primary and make them sign loyalty oaths, and prosecute Republican crossover. Count every vote.
I absolutely will be voting in the Dem primary now.
Comment by JD — 4/3/2008 @ 11:32 am
Gah. I can see it now. Hillary the Scrapper, not to be outdone, will finally make smart use of the albatross ex-prez in her campaign - the first woman to register 50 voters gets a candlelight dinner with Bill.
Comment by Dana — 4/3/2008 @ 12:23 pm
I honestly don’t have a problem, or criticism of these methods. I’m a huge fan of Dave Matthews, and would love tickets, though, wouldn’t make me vote for him. (though I already did vote for him in my state primary)
Comment by G — 4/3/2008 @ 12:43 pm
“Hillary the Scrapper, not to be outdone, will finally make smart use of the albatross ex-prez in her campaign - the first woman to register 50 voters gets a candlelight dinner with Bill.”
- Dana
That’s not all she’ll get.
Comment by Leviticus — 4/3/2008 @ 1:44 pm
My 95 y/o grandmother could beat him at bowling.
I’d bet a grand I could beat 37 blindfolded.
In fact, will try it tonight.
Comment by KobeClan — 4/3/2008 @ 2:33 pm
The bowling debacle has given me one good reason to make Obama President of the U. S., it would keep him out of bowling alleys.
Comment by Alan Kellogg — 4/3/2008 @ 6:43 pm
Obamaball is the new touch football.
Comment by Ed — 4/3/2008 @ 9:58 pm
Russell
There have been some decent BB players in the Senate Bill Bradley for example.
Dana,
For Slick Willy, sex is getting serviced orally without a quid quo pro.
Kobe Clan
Obama never bragged about his bowling unlike Hillary who bragged about dodging sniper fire in Bosnia.
Comment by Don Warner — 4/6/2008 @ 5:31 am