Brad of Sadly, No! (his last name’s Reed! Who knew?) writes on Alternet about Obama’s “elitism” “problem”:
Bloomberg columnist Margaret Colson said that Obama’s low bowling score was a “doozy” of a mistake, since voters apparently want someone who’s good at “looking, acting, or sounding like the locals, eating homemade specialties, even if it’s funnel cake and smoked meat products, or wearing a Teamsters or Yankees cap for the first time.” Yeah, Barack, come on — you don’t want these people to know that your life is a billion times more interesting than theirs! You’re running for president!
You know what to do.
Update: By the way, I’d like to see even one of these armchair bowling coaches judged on their athletic, such as bowling is, skill. Some people choke in their own professional sport in front of a few million people (including TV, obviously). Obama choked at something most Americans do a few times a year in front of, effectively, 300 million people. Frankly, I’m somewhat impressed he didn’t hit one of his secret service agents in the groin on the backswing.
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voters apparently want someone who’s good at “looking, acting, or sounding like the locals, eating homemade specialties, even if it’s funnel cake and smoked meat products, or wearing a Teamsters or Yankees cap for the first time.
Or, perhaps, driving a tank like the locals?
Hey, my bowling average when I was ten was 147. I should be galactic emperor by now.
Is that how Bush got into the WH? Someone mistook his bowling score for his IQ?
“even if it’s funnel cake”
What do you mean EVEN? Funnel cake is delicious!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uhxQoWHBbaw
That’s about all I have to say about that.
Of course, if Obama and whirled around and hit a companion in the face with a bowling ball, that would be OK, wouldn’t it?
Just what the hell is wrong with smoked meat exactly?
Great line and best chuckle of the day so far.
Of course, the last really good bowler we had in the White House was Richard Nixon. Not exactly someone to emulate.
stuff like this just makes me want to give up.
i don’t know why it’s these tiny idiocies that do it…the big ones make me want to fight, yell, start fires…
but then I hear stories like these and just think, what is the point? if people are just this fucking stupid, what is the point?
I saw a graphic of the string he bowled, and in one of the later frames it looked like he had picked up a spare…
Any ideas for further scandalous information that might disqualify Barack Obama for the White House?
-Barack Obama sometimes plays the TERRORISTS in Counterstrike. And his kills-per-death ratio is about 0.07.
-Barack Obama’s Dungeons & Dragons characters are horribly unoptimized. His wizard banned transmutation and conjuration.
-Barack Obama is still hasn’t gotten past the Prisoner of Azkaban in the Harry Potter series.
-Barack Obama missed seven episodes of Lost in a row.
-Barack Obama’s sole World of Warcraft character, a troll shaman, has gained a total of five levels over three years.
First time I went bowling nobody told me how to hold the ball, so I held it with my palm facing backwards. Nearly ripped my fingers off. Stupid bowling.
I’m totally bitter about the bowling score.
He didn’t’ even bowl 10 frames, did he?
Why is the media still pushing the “we want the village idiot” meme? The economy sucks, we’re bogged down in Iraq, and the whackadoodles in charge want to attack Iran. We don’t need another “great guy to have a beer with” for president. We need someone with a brain.
Isn’t everyone sick of having incompetent people in high profile/important government roles? Say what you will about Daley and how corrupt he is, but the garbage gets picked up and the streets are always clear of snow.
How does bowling outrate competence?
Grumble grumble grumble. I bowled a 147 once. Nearly broke 150. Those mad skillz have absolutely no relevance to getting us out of Iraq and back to the Constitution.
I bowled an amazing 47 last weekend. Does that make me an elitist?
I was also really really drunk, does that make it OK?
I was really really drunk on imported beer, does that turn me into an elitist again?
My favorite “Obama is an elitist!” comment so far, from tonight’s ABC News:
Apparently Obama is an elitist because he’d never had Yuengling beer before.
Ummm, OK, who outside of PA and a few nearby mid-Atlantic states is familiar with Yuengling? Does this make every redneck in Alabama and New Mexico an elitist by default? I mean, it’s not like he accidentally admitted that he’d never heard of Budweiser.
I’m convinced that the media is pulling for Hillary so McCain will be our next president.
He’s a bit trapped on the athletic font, I mean here a guy who’s probably in better shape than anyone we’ve e;ected president in hell, in memory (sorry but dubya was a a lkutz and seems addled and Bill was always um, robust) but he can’t play the one suport he apparently plays on primary days because well, um he’s black and him rippingin it on the hardwood is basically kind of (due to prejudice) beleieved to be a given (it’d be like if we were electing an asian preisdent and he did kung fu to chill).
I suspect that no one explained spot bowing to him, or he would have done a lot better. I used to get 35’s pretty regularly until someone told me what those spots were for — after that I did a *whole* lot better — at least consistently over 100.
So here we go on the six steps to anyone — pass the message to Obama about spot bowling!
opoponax, I dunno, but Yuengling is pretty common and popular here in NC. Can’t say as how it’s my favorite beer or anything, though. I’m a dark-beer person.
I just can’t get over the tremendous vapidity of the whole bowling thing. I mean, what? I can’t bowl for crap (except in Wii bowling, where I kill). I guess that, combined with the beer thing, disqualifies me from all jobs ever because I can’t just be one of the guys.
Oh wait, being female already did that.
(That was not intended as a Hillary/Obama comment, just a general sarcastic remark.)
Candlepin!!!!!!!
I just bowled 198 in this online game. Does that count?
How is he on Elf Bowling?
Hm, had no idea Yuengling’s reach had spread as far south as the Carolinas… I grew up in Louisiana and never heard of it till I moved to NYC, which is all of 2 hours away from Philly.
Yuengling just got to South Carolina last year. I hadn’t heard of it until then. Now, it’s my favorite reasonably priced beer.
I don’t think they have it in Illinois, which would explain why Obama had never heard of it.
Unfortunately, a large part of our political culture is that it hasn’t progressed beyond high school. Our political parties have become the “jock” party vs. the “nerd” party. It doesn’t matter how good the nerds are at, well, actually running the place, they simply aren’t as cool as the jocks.
Obama’s bad bowling scores are just another way to paint him as a nerd.