Not Even Barack Obama Can Save Brown Basketball
Barack Obama, the senator from Illinois and likely Democratic presidential candidate, is probably feeling a little blue these days after his Chicago Bears were picked apart by the Indianapolis Colts at the Super Bowl.
But Obama has another Bears team to cheer for these days -- the Brown Bears!
Why? Turns out Brown men's basketball coach Craig Robinson is the Democratic superstar's brother-in-law. Robinson's sister, Michelle, is Obama's wife.
You'd think this could only be good for the Bears. After all, everything Barack "Son of God" Obama touches -- or, in this case, touches the sister of the coach of -- turns to gold. But somehow, despite the tangential presence of the likely Messiah himself (ever notice how his middle initial is also "H"?), the team remains terrible. Robinson's squad is winless in Iowa and New Hampshire this year (OK, so they didn't play in Iowa but the did lose at Dartmouth). Obama himself better put up a stronger fight, lest these guys have to wait another four-to-eight years to enter the work place.
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February 5th, 2007 at 7:33 pm
I liked this better when it first appeared on Pablog days ago:
http://www.thecrimson.com/blogentry.aspx?blogID=25&ref=350
PSYCH!
February 5th, 2007 at 9:05 pm
Who the Hell still says “psych?”
February 5th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
1. Obama is your typical ignorant FAR-left liberal who knows jack shit about foreign policy, other than Darfur is bad.
2. Nobody would be talking about this over-hyped youngster if he wasn’t half-black.
3. His wife will devorce him once she finds out he has (on many occasions) recieved fallatio from the mainstream media.
4. The world is yet to hear anything even remotely relevant to his ability to lead this country. Who the hell cares if he wrote a rallying book for weak-minded readers to sing his praises. Who cares if he can take good notes in class. He’s a foreign policy middle-schooler who has no experience. The only think noteworthy is that his brother-in-law looks EXACTLY like his wife. I think I’ll use that feature as a supporting argument as to why Barack Hussen Obama is White House material.
February 5th, 2007 at 9:18 pm
but he’s SO charismatic!
February 5th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
I love all my children. I think.
February 5th, 2007 at 11:39 pm
obama went to columbia…look there for the gold treatment (i.e. prestige boost once he’s elected)
February 6th, 2007 at 1:09 am
dear, crimson 07,
you’re wrong. on most points.
but in particular, #1. obama’s actually not far left, mainly because he’s no where at all. he hasn’t stood up or spoken out on many issues in the senate, except his damn exploratory committee. as a liberal myself, i would like to see him go left, but his move from “a story of race and inheritance” to “audacity of hope” discourages my dream.
he’ll likely drive squarely center for fear of the L-word label (thanks to people who think like you) and be knocked around by traffic in both the right and the left lanes.
February 6th, 2007 at 8:43 am
Crap. Sorry Pablog!
February 6th, 2007 at 9:59 am
col 07: does L-word mean what i think it does. that is a great show. but i dont think obama wants to be associated with it :)
February 6th, 2007 at 11:40 am
Actually Col07, he is far left (maybe not to you and your fellow Columbia “jihadists” who repeatedly embarrass your school). He voted against banning partial-birth abortion, voted to hike taxes, and favors gay marriage. Those are the three largest indicators of your typical left-wing loon.
Obama also knows nothing about running a campaign, as apparent at the College Dem Nationall Convention. His team was the most unprofessional, unorganized in attendance. Such a loser.
February 6th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Uh, you’re basing campaign ability on what, exactly? I guess I missed the part where college conventions took over for caucuses and party conventions…
February 6th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
Crimson 07, you’re being a total douche.
1. Obama is your typical ignorant FAR-left liberal who knows jack shit about foreign policy, other than Darfur is bad.
Ignorant? Please, prove that. And far-left? The right to abortion, supporting gay marriage, and hiking taxes are left perhaps, but not necessarily FAR left. Plus, of course, you’re taking these votes out of their context (i.e. exact content of bills, riders, etc…). And frankly, I don’t know how much foreign policy cred GWB had when he first got elected.
2. Nobody would be talking about this over-hyped youngster if he wasn’t half-black.
Or maybe he’s over-hyped because he’s so ridiculously charismatic (and young, and handsome, and eloquent unlike)? How many other candidates out there have energized young people like Obama has? But apparently all of that is due solely to his having a black father. If charisma and charm come bundled with the half-black gene, sign me up!
3. His wife will devorce him once she finds out he has (on many occasions) recieved fallatio from the mainstream media.
WTF????? I don’t even want to go there.
4. The world is yet to hear anything even remotely relevant to his ability to lead this country.
True. But why don’t you stop being so cynical for 1/2 a second and work on your envy/anger/sterotyping issues?
February 7th, 2007 at 3:36 am
h06: I’m glad you graduated, you’re a bit behind the times.
February 7th, 2007 at 8:17 am
Good call Crimson. Anyone asking you to post some sort of rational basis for your argument instead of a bunch of unsubstantiated inflammatory rhetoric is “a total loser”.
February 7th, 2007 at 10:19 am
Crimson 07,
I too am glad that I graduated! It’s good that we can agree on a few things. Although I’m quite puzzled as to how exactly I am “behind the times.” Would you be so kind as to enlighten me?
February 7th, 2007 at 10:41 am
Totally, although I have 2 midterms tomorrow, a paper due Friday, and a midterm on Monday. Perhaps sometime next week?
Anon.
February 7th, 2007 at 11:42 am
How do you have midterms and papers already if classes only started last week?
February 7th, 2007 at 2:12 pm
Graduate school @ Stanford (I, too, graduated).
February 8th, 2007 at 3:32 am
“He’s a foreign policy middle-schooler who has no experience.”
I agree with Crimson 07; foreign policy experience automatically means great governance. Cheney and Rumsfield had years of foreign policy experience between the two of them and look how well America is doing now. Why would we want an extremely bright person with fresh, innovative ideas to try and undo all the foreign policy achievements of the past six years(e.g., “mission accomplished” in Iraq, North Korea constructing several nuclear weapons, Iran on the path to constructing nuclear weapons, American credibility shattered, etc.)?
February 10th, 2007 at 2:20 am
wow, someboy’s taking this way too seriously. “innovative ideas” haha, I won’t even go there. good job listing cheney and rumsfield (who had loads to do with n. korea and iran’s nuclear weapons) as your examples. you forgot every single other us president with foreign policy experience.
February 10th, 2007 at 10:04 am
“good job listing cheney and rumsfield (who had loads to do with n. korea and iran’s nuclear weapons) as your examples.”
You are right; I forgot to mention Condoleezza Rice. Perhaps I should list all of her major accomplishments as Secretary of State. Oops, there aren’t any. But at least as National Security Advisor she made sure that the intelligence about the weapons of mass destruction was correct. If that intelligence were false it would pretty much discredit the whole rationale for going to war.
North Korea did not expand its nuclear arsenal from between one to two bombs to between nine to twelve bombs during other President’s administrations. Other Presidents were not dumb enough to label countries with such vast differences as Iran, Iraq, and North Korea as part of an “axis of evil.”
No other President invaded Iraq with the intention of regime change. Instead of focusing on countries that had nuclear weapons, or were attempting to acquire them, this administration attacked the country that did not have them. They sent out a clear message to America’s enemies — we will only attack you if you don’t have nuclear weapons. Is it any surprise that both North Korea and Iran stepped up their own nuclear programs?
I can’t wait to see what another two years will bring from this administration. I mean with all their foreign policy experience, they can’t possibly be wrong about anything can they?