Man, this is just brutal. While campaigning in Altoona, Pennsylvania, Barack Obama decided to swing by a bowling alley.
Bad idea. His score? An incredibly pathetic 37.
I think I got higher than a 37 when I was five years old -- my first time ever in a bowling alley. Check out how lame Obama's form is. Yikes.
Maybe Obama can take the advice of MSNBC talking head Chris Matthews and stick with basketball:
"[I]f you can't do something like that (bowling), you shouldn't do it. He should have stuck to shooting hoops — which he's very, very good at, by the way, and which translates racially, too, especially during the NCAA basketball tournament. Don't do something you've never tried before in front of a national television audience, OK?"You know, Michelle — and this gets very ethnic, but the fact that he's good at basketball doesn't surprise anybody, but the fact that he's that terrible at bowling does make you wonder."
A couple things are certain here. One, if Matthews was a part of the Clinton campaign, he'd be savaged for his "racist" and "stereotypical" statement(s). Two, since he's not a member of the Clinton campaign, and he's part of liberal cable punditry, he'll get a total pass on his remarks.
On the other hand, if he worked for Fox and/or leaned right, his comments would make headlines the world over.
God I hate Chris Matthews. Hube btw, thanks for the email but I have been too darn busy lately.
Posted by: AJ Lynch at April 1, 2008 05:22 PMMy darling wife used to be a pretty good bowler. Usually kicked butt in her leagues, and was able to point out folks she knew personally at the Bowling Hall Of Fame in St. Louis. The medical issues that put her in a wheelchair have precluded her continuing with the sport.
However, I think she could still beat Obama's score.
From her chair.
Left-handed.
Posted by: Rhymes With Right at April 1, 2008 08:54 PMPaula just saw my comment, and asked me to add one more point.
Blind-folded, too.
Posted by: Rhymes With Right at April 1, 2008 08:55 PMThe race obsession of liberals continues to astonish me. What some (like me) would see as Obama simply being a crappy bowler somehow flips a switch in the pea-like mind of Chris Matthews to apply a racial filter to it. I guess when you're "one of the good guys" like Matthews, the rest of the Hive doesn't perceive his constant stream of casually racist observations as anything unusual or worthy of scorn.
Posted by: Mark Engblom at April 3, 2008 01:12 PM