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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76. How come Obama can dish it out but can't take it? When Hillary or McCain comes up with a good one to prove that he is inexperienced, etc he hits back whining that they are not playing fair? Case in point ....Recent ad in Texas. Please voters in Texas do not let this moron (Obama) win! Ohio get the poles higher for Hillary! Give me Colon Powel Condi,....My mind has gone blank! We will have a black person some day as president! NOT this one! He and his wife will destroy our country. His hands are dirty.
I want the goverment to check his books! I do not believe right off the bat he recieved millions of dollars off the internet!!!!!!!! He was an unknown, a junior senator going up against very experienced senior senators.

Come on people in Ohio and Texas lets have the election ticket Clinton/McCain. Lets let Slick go back to Illinois! And take that prejudice loud mouth wife with him. One thing they did do right is give birth to two beautiful children.

If Hillary or McCain wins I hope they do pick a true black person as vice president. Condi........Yes I am defending Hillary because she has been done wrong by the media but...my heart is with John McCain

God Bless America

Posted at 5:44PM on Feb 29th 2008 by My Thoughts

77. I'm new here, but what's wrong with being positive...Seriously?

Posted at 5:42PM on Feb 29th 2008 by What's all the fuss?

78. I heard that barack HUSSEIN obama did a fund raiser for islamic causes in1999. I do think obama and his pastor share the same views I dont think he denounced Louis farakan either. All those people fainting at his movement might not have health insurance. Obama camp should maybe get health coverage.I think obamas first name was changed some years ago. Maybe he should have changed the middle name as well.

Posted at 5:43PM on Feb 29th 2008 by mike

79. # 72 - I don't understand the point you are trying to make....please explain.

Posted at 5:42PM on Feb 29th 2008 by teresa

80. yeah we all remeber the "h" thing, the whole blog was about it. It was funny,

Posted at 5:44PM on Feb 29th 2008 by Ali

81. I know Ali. I'm sorry about that yesterday. I'm really not that sensitive. - was a bad day.

Posted at 5:45PM on Feb 29th 2008 by teresa

82. Anybody but OBAMA, I live in Illinois and he does nothing for the state, how can he be the leader of the free world.
I don't trust him AT ALL. I will vote for McCain, he is the lesser of evils running. WHAT A CRAPPY SELECTION OF CANDIDATES.

Posted at 5:52PM on Feb 29th 2008 by nana

83. “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

Posted at 5:52PM on Feb 29th 2008 by Want A Good Candidate

84. I'm sad that the women in this country didn't take a stronger stand to support Hillary. Shame on Oprah, I guess I'm doing the same, voting for Hillary just cuz she's a woman. Oprah's voting for Obama just cuz he's black. Men have done enough damage to this country to last for decades, let a woman have a chance to clean things up, like we always do!

Posted at 5:53PM on Feb 29th 2008 by colvinhilltop

85. 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 5:53PM on Feb 29th 2008 by Want A Good Candidate

86. 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 5:54PM on Feb 29th 2008 by Want A Good Candidate

87. here's qoutes from a redacted copy of the lady who only sees in black and white Michelle Obama's thesis paper at Princeton“further integration and/or assimilation into a white cultural and social structure that will only allow me to remain on the periphery of society; never becoming a full participant..”“There was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the black community, I was somehow obligated to this community and would utilize all of my present and future resources to benefit this community first and foremost. ““By actually working with the Black lower class or within their communities as a result of their ideologies, a separationist may better understand the desperation of their situation and feel more hopeless about a resolution as opposed to an integrationist who is ignorant to their plight.”“Attending Princeton has probably forced [black alumni] to compete intellectually with Whites more than with Blacks and, thus, they have probably become more familiar with Whites intellectually, but in other activities they are likely to have gained familiarity with Whites if they did not spend time with Whites in other activities besides intellectual ones. ““I hoped that these findings would help me conclude that despite the high degree of identification with whites as a result of the educational and occupational path that black Princeton alumni follow, the alumni would still maintain a certain level of identification with the black community. However, these findings do not support this possibility.”

Posted at 5:55PM on Feb 29th 2008 by Want A Good Candidate

88. God help us is right # 85.

Posted at 5:55PM on Feb 29th 2008 by teresa

89. what a bunch of freaks on this thread.

guess what - america is seeing through the hate lies and distortion of the rabid right and the plain stupid, and they aren't biting. that is why you are soo mad, you cant manipulate the public on this one and all the smear campaigns do is make peeople get even more tired of current politics and beg for, say it again, change. better learn to deal with it folks, he's probably our next president. :)

Posted at 5:59PM on Feb 29th 2008 by glee

90. I want to see a real not fake birth certificate to prove that he was born in Hawaii! Why is his back ground kept so quiet? We know almost nothing about this man! Where is his parents? I hear the father is dead lived in Solmalia. Where is the mother? Does he have any brothes and sisters? Come on people it is not being nosy! We have a right to know who we are putting in the biggest job in our country. President of the United States of America.

Posted at 6:07PM on Feb 29th 2008 by My Thoughts

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