Liberal agrees with Limbaugh: Obama is a man-child
Uh-oh. Washington Post über liberal Dana Milbank just explained the difference between Teddy Roosevelt and Barack Obama and agreed with Rush Limbaugh’s assessment of Obama as a man-child.
Uh-oh. Washington Post über liberal Dana Milbank just explained the difference between Teddy Roosevelt and Barack Obama and agreed with Rush Limbaugh’s assessment of Obama as a man-child in the process:
“You must always remember that the president is about 6.”
Let him win or he'll take his ball and go home
This advice was offered more than 100 years ago by a British friend of Teddy Roosevelt’s. The nation has matured since then, and so has the presidency. Now the president is about 12.
We think Milbank is over-estimating Obama, but let’s not quibble about a couple years here or there.
While President Obama’s wife and younger daughter were conducting international relations in Majorca on Sunday with Spain’s King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia, the commander in chief was at home hosting a fantasy camp for himself. He and his buddies had a birthday weekend barbecue and basketball game with LeBron James, Alonzo Mourning, Magic Johnson and other legends of the sport.
In other words, Obama dribbled while Rome burned.
The day before, it was a four-hour golf outing for Obama and the boys. On Monday, he hosted the Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints at the White House and talked about his own exploits on the gridiron last year with Saints quarterback Drew Brees. “He tossed me a nice tight spiral that I then lateraled to a kid on [Dallas Cowboys linebacker] DeMarcus Ware’s shoulders,” the president recalled. “I also want to point out I beat [Pittsburgh Steelers safety] Troy Polamalu over the middle on that throw.” Obama turned to Brees. “You remember?”
Boys will be boys — even if they’re presidents.
It’s a good thing Michelle Obama is back from her foreign trip. Otherwise Obama might have already invited the networks to film him playing H-O-R-S-E on the White House basketball court. Oh, wait: He already did that, in the spring, when basketball star and CBS Sports announcer Clark Kellogg shot some televised hoops with him.
We may need to pause now and remind you that this isn’t Rush Limbaugh condemning Obama as a man-child, it’s the liberal Washington Post’s Dana Milbank.
According to unofficial presidential statistician Mark Knoller of CBS News, Obama has left the White House to play basketball 16 times so far, in addition to the countless times he has played on his home court. He’s shot 44 rounds of golf, gone fishing and played tennis. Total sporting-related events hosted at the White House: 45. That’s about six times the number of news conferences he has held.
Tread lightly here, Dana, or they’ll take away your Journolist membership card.
