Barack's Secret to Success: Basketball?

Some people look for luck in rabbit's feet, four-leaf clovers or shooting stars -- but the leading Democratic candidate for President, Barack Obama, harnesses his chi on the hardwood.

According to Barack's people, his one-and-only superstition falls on election days -- when he has to play hoops. Otherwise he fears the wrath of the election gods -- who will punish him with a loss if he doesn't play ball.

Barack's family is big into basketball -- his brother-in-law, Craig Robinson, is the head coach for the men's team at Brown University. This photo -- first seen on Wonkette.com -- was taken in 2006 as Barack played hoops with American soldiers stationed in Africa.

Let's see Hillary do that.



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31. great...

Posted at 4:43PM on Feb 29th 2008 by off the property

32. “In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01,” Wright wrote in his church magazine Trumpet. “White America and the Western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just ‘disappeared’ as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.”

Wright has been a key supporter of Louis Farrakhan, and in December, honored the Nation of Islam leader for lifetime achievement, saying he “truly epitomize[s] greatness.”

Farrakhan has repeatedly made hate-filled statements targeting Jews, whites, America, and homosexuals.

Direct qoutes from Obamas church get your facts before you speak Positive media rules

Posted at 4:45PM on Feb 29th 2008 by Want A Good Candidate

33. A regular guy??? What rock did this moron crawl out from under? I wonder what the NBA players will think when Obama raises their taxes to 68%? His wife is not only un-American in her views but is also just s socialist just like him and Hillary. We do not need more Government telling us how to live or take our hard earned money in more taxes. Obama is already pretty rich , so I know he will end up richer in the end just like Bill & Hillary. And we all know that the rich are not just regular people. Want more taxes? Want illegals to get amnesty and more Government benefits? Want to see this country be destroyed ? If so then vote for Obama or Hillary. Even McCain is not a great deal when it comes to most of this stuff. Obama talks a good talk, but in the end he is just a power hungry liberal spending big Government polotician like the reat of them. Face land of the free, home of the brave WE LOOSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 9:33AM on Mar 1st 2008 by stevei

34. #29...That's a DEEP statement to make about someone you really don't know. It just shows who YOU are. Not an intelligent thing to say, but BLESS YOU anyway.

Posted at 4:48PM on Feb 29th 2008 by Positive MEDIA Rules

35. Michelle Obama’s comment that, for the first time in her adult life, she feels proud of America helps crystallize who Barack Obama is.

To be sure, the wife of a candidate is perfectly free to have views that are distinct from her husband’s. But on a matter that is so fundamental to one’s being as love of country, it is difficult to imagine that Michelle Obama would publicly twice make such a statement suggesting disdain for America unless she felt it comported with her husband’s views.

Equally important, her statement aligns perfectly with the hate-America views of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama’s minister, friend, and sounding board for more than two decades. On the Sunday following 9/11, Wright characterized the terrorist attacks as a consequence of violent American policies. Four years later, Wright suggested that the attacks were retribution for America’s racism.


your future first lady...and the obamas minsiter...god help us......

Posted at 4:49PM on Feb 29th 2008 by Want A Good Candidate

36. Just a thought, I AGREE WITH EVERYTHING YOU ARE SAYING!!!!!!!!!! Does anyone know what he stands for? He sounds like a minister - a lot of words that say NOTHING! Do you realize what will happen if he wins? 9-11 all over again. He wants to go to IRAN and "talk" to the terrorists.....ok....please peole - do your research.....he has no experience...he doesn;t hold his hand over his heart for the pledge of allegiance....PLEASE....PLEASE reseaarch......He is a socialist!

Posted at 4:49PM on Feb 29th 2008 by teresa

37. Just a thought- Try all your local television stations, TMZ Tipline, All major networks. If that is true, is the media scared to report it.

Posted at 4:51PM on Feb 29th 2008 by jmo

38. If you think racial relations are bad now - just look at some of these very "mature" posts - putting Obama in the office will only make it worse. I hope you newbie voters know what you are voting for.

Vote on the issues - not color or gender

Posted at 4:52PM on Feb 29th 2008 by Truth

39. #31, You too want to make this election a B&W thing. I never saw this much hatred in our last election. Ummm, very interesting... Also, be careful where YOU get your facts from, I don't let news reports lead my intelligence.

Posted at 5:11PM on Feb 29th 2008 by Positive MEDIA Rules

40. Really don't know,,, Gee i just studied his career, Who do you the the The Underground Weatherman are???Hello TERRORISTS that lived here blew up businesses, and were Friends with OSAMA oops OBAMA and Contributed money to his campaign, But when they finally were busted by the FBI, He didn't want to admit he new them PERSONALLY... SO EVIDENTALLY I'M NOT TO STUPID TO READ BETWEEN THE LINES... BUT THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT POSITIVE MEDIA..

Posted at 4:55PM on Feb 29th 2008 by just a thought

41. # 27 - just a thought - is absolutely correct about the underground weathermen. The media doesn't report on it because.....drumroll - the media is totally biased..do your own research....make sure your decisions are based on the facts, not what the media is NOT telling you -

Posted at 4:57PM on Feb 29th 2008 by teresa

42. it was reported bozo 2 weeks ago...

Posted at 4:57PM on Feb 29th 2008 by just a thought

43. These are news reports you ingrain these are facts that were spoken or actions by Mr.s Obama and Barck Obama. Why does have to be a black or white thing ...just think if previous president belonged to whites only churches like the Obamas church which required you to be black..go to the church website his church since 1988 “We are a congregation which is unashamedly black and unapologetically Christian,” says the Trinity United Church of Christ’s website in Chicago. “We are an African people and remain true to our native land, the mother continent, the cradle of civilization.”

That’s just the beginning. The church has a “non-negotiable commitment to Africa,” according to its website, and its pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. subscribes to what is called the Black Value System.

While the Black Value System includes such items as commitment to God, education, and self-discipline, it refers to “our racist competitive society” and includes the disavowal of the pursuit of “middle-classness” and a pledge of allegiance to “all black leadership who espouse and embrace the Black Value System.” It defines “middle-classness” as a way for American society to “snare” blacks rather than “killing them off directly” or “placing them in concentration camps,” just as the country structures “an economic environment that induces captive youth to fill the jails and prisons.”

Posted at 5:04PM on Feb 29th 2008 by Want A Good Candidate

44. Just a thought, it's a disturbing thought for sure. Why is America ignoring it? I'm afraid it will be Obama vs. McCain.

Posted at 5:01PM on Feb 29th 2008 by Kelli

45. hey POSITIVE MEDIA, I'M HALF BLACK IDIOT...BY THE WAY THANK TERESA...WITHOUT AN H...HAHAHA

Posted at 5:01PM on Feb 29th 2008 by just a thought

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