It's comforting to see him making his NCAA picks when the entire balance of the future of our economy and children rests in his hands.

I cant watch the video, but Im assuming its a rant about the fact that obama takes the time to make his bracket picks?

Seriously this is even a thread? Every president in my lifetime has had sports teams over to the white house after winning their respected
championships in whichever sport they partake in.

Hell, our last president even was at one time a part owner of the Texas Rangers.

People, can we please stop whining about dumb things. Jesus Christ, it's whining about things like this that makes me wonder if depopulation would be a good idea.

I'm not an Obama fan, by any means, but I don't think he should be demonized for making his NCAA picks. Allow the man some leisure, just like anyone else deserves.

It's a sad thing that the best they can come up with is Obama makes his bracket picks. It's really sad since I'm sure they were quiet as Bush raped and bancurpted the entire country and then bailed out all his wall street cronies. Sad

I get the guys point. if barry takes a poo, the media would cover how many sheets of tp he used. in the midst of all of this trouble america is in, barry goes on vacation. I agree he should get some leisure time, but do you and I get that much leisure time? like the guy says if your family is about to crash, maybe you should put some more effort into fixing it. whats more important, jobs and the economy, or drinking beer at the whitehouse with two guys that had a misunderstanding? picking ncaa teams?

Priorities people. obviously the recession does not affect politicians, otherwise there would already be a fix.

Originally posted by DocEmrick
It's comforting to see him making his NCAA picks when the entire balance of the future of our economy and children rests in his hands.

That's right...he should spend 24/7 doing nothing but work. No leisure time, no joy in life, neglect his family...his friends...how dare he have any "me time".


Now back to reality...he is nothing more than an ordinary man with an extraordinary occupation.

You guys are missing the point...

Why was this televised? He wasn't in his bedroom doing this, it was like a publicity stunt to show how cool and real he is for the younger generation.

There are a whole bunch of d-bag replies in this thread. It's sickening.

Yes, Barry is an ordinary man (very, very ordinary apparently) with an extraordinary job. When he took that extraordinary position, he became the leader of the "free world". He took on great responsibility. Paramount to that responsibility was restoring this country to a level of goodness. Not greatness, that would be too much to ask of one man. All we're looking for is to have a little faith in our government, and to not have the rest of the world pointing and laughing at us, saying, "What idiots those Americans are". Assuming this position, taking on this task assumes that you will have little "me" time. When big things are going on, like, oh, you know, trying to ram a complete healthcare overhaul down our throats on Sunday, you wouldn't expect to see your President on TV filling out his college hoops bracket. It seems kinda trivial, and should make any average, half-way intelligent American look at the TV and scream, "WTF!?!?!?".

Apparently, we don't have many of those left.

Nancy and Rahm (nervously): Barry, what are we gonna do about this healthcare bill? We don't have all the votes we need!

Barry: Yeah, uh, hold on guys. I'm, uh, filling out my bracket here.

No. Absolutely not.

It has nothing to do with having a championship team to the White House, because that's not what's happening. If it were the case, I'd hope it would be postponed.

To the guy that brought race into the equation...seriously? You are part of what's wrong with the world.

And let's not forget this...

The president earns a $400,000 annual salary, along with a $50,000 annual expense account, a $100,000 non-taxable travel account and $19,000 for entertainment.

Yes...poor Barry. He's gonna make 1.6M for his four years in office, regardless of what he accomplishes (or doesn't accomplish), gets all those benefits, and all of the benfits of being President that we don't hear about...but he just doesn't get enough personal time anymore.

This post is dripping with sympathy.





[edit on 20-3-2010 by DOcean]