97 Replies to “Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?”

  1. Did no one get the memo? That wasn’t booing. That was the crowd having a mass Obamism.
    OOOOOOOOOOOOO!

  3. They never showed the part where the ball didn’t quite make it to the plate. The man pitches like he golfs.

  4. Where were the boos? At what time? I couldn’t hear anything but a nice, pleasant, overall tongue-bath from the crowd.
    mhb23re
    at gmail d0t calm

  5. A great President, doing great things. Cleaning up the CIA mess left behind by George Bush and his thugs Cheney and Rumsfeld. The disarray that the Republican party is now in and their lack of funds, we can thankfully look forward to Obama being in office for two terms.

  7. The better part was the roar of the crowd once George W. Bush appeared on video. I could only listen on radio but the cheers overwhelmed the broadcaster.

  8. In fairness, showing up in a a White Sox jacket probably didn’t help.
    But just throw the pitch, shake a few hands and get out of the way. It’s not about you, Barry. But of course he didn’t quite see it that way.

  9. Agree with mhb. I didn’t hear any signficant booing.
    However, the guy pitches even worse than Harper. And that’s saying something.

  10. I commented on this at 8:12 under readers tips, my wife said to me when we were watching the opening ceremonies “Are they Booing Him”
    I watched the CTV National News & You did not here the Booing but heard instead cheering, So not only croping photos but Sound Mixing too now from CTV.

  11. I disagree, you could distinctly hear the BOOING.
    You know, it seems every where you go now, there is this lil minority faction defending HBO.
    Hahaha, either way, the Messiah pitches like a wuzzy.
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  12. John g: the guy pitches even worse then harper & thats saying something.
    Never ever seen the pm throwing a baseball please provide the vid proof.

  13. How come when Obama throws a crappy pitch you can’t even find a video clip of the ball falling short of home plate, and the media shuts up about it, but relatively unknown Gary Dell’Abate (producer of theHoward Stern Sirrius XM Satellite radio show) throws a poor pitch and the media plays multiple clips for a week and a half over and over and over and makes fun of the guy to the extent that a bad pitch almost became known as a Ba Ba Booey (that’s Gary’s nick name)?
    Don’t answer, it is a rhetorical question.

  14. My husband, a baseball fan, and I watched Obama entering the stadium. We definitely heard booing: not as loud as the cheers, but the booing was definitely audible.

  15. @bryanr
    Can’t find a vid but I recall seeing him throw out the first pitch at a Blue Jays game during the 2004 election campaign. Suffice to say it wasn’t pretty. And there was a lot more booing there than what Obama got last night.
    But given Obama’s, er, natural advantages, that was an epically bad first pitch.

  17. It was a great pitch, A sweeping curveball, unprecedented in the history of baseball.(The sport Al Gore invented) It sent a tingle up Chris Mathews leg.

  18. It was probably global warming that knocked that ball down.
    He throw’s like my sister.

  19. John that was 5yrs ago No one hardly even new him & besides he was Not the PM at the time, You might as well use the comparison Trudeau’s Failed kick-off at the Grey Cup game back in the What 70’s?(of which the MSM did not critique him like they did Robert Stanfield in his football throw)

  21. You people are looking for something that isn’t there. Everyone was cheering until he clearly came into view and noticed he was wearing a White Sox jacket. That was when the boos started. And the pitch hardly bounced short of the plate the player behind the plate still caught it, it did not bounce.
    Kate, I understand that you and 99% of the folks who visit this site are upset that Obama is president but why the need to post such garbage? Why do you all want him to fail so bad? Give the man a fair shot. All this negativity is starting to come across pathetic. It’s going to get real old after 8 years.

  22. Anybody who booed him is wrong. It’s wrong to boo your country’s President. I voted for John McCain, and I’d certainly do it again, but Obama is my President, and I won’t boo him. I like the fact that he wore a White Sox jacket, too, and I’d like it even if I weren’t a White Sox fan. The fact that Obama is a White Sox fan is, I think, one of the few genuine things about him.

  23. “Why do you all want him to fail so bad?”
    I don’t care if he fails “bad” just as long as he fails.

  27. TYLER DURDEN, you are an idiot and a fool. Check this video about 24 seconds in…
    http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=5573797
    The player who caught it was even on top of home plate, because he knew Obama throws like a girl.
    Now that I have displayed your ignorance, it there anything else in your comment that you would like to reconsider?

  29. Tyler Durden: I recommend that you read Andy McCarthy’s article “Meet Me in St. Booie!” in “The Corner” on National Review Online (http://corner.nationalreview.com/). As he points out, not only did the ball bounce, but the player who caught the ball, the great Albert Pujols, was not behind the plate but standing on it!
    None of that really matters, of course. But what does matter, as McCarthy explains, is the way that the whole event had to be stage-managed — surprisingly for a President who until recently couldn’t seem to put a foot wrong — and the way that the sports media are shown by this incident to have consumed the same koolaid that the political media have.
    At least you acknowledge that booing took place (from a substantial minority of the crowd, I’d guess). But to claim that they were booing his White Sox jacket is just fanciful — a real stretch.
    And while the 53 ft. floater is no big deal, the booing for a 6-month President, at the All-Star game of his country’s national pastime, IS a big deal. Don’t you think Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod and all his other deep thinkers in the back room noticed that? (I also think they noticed the 53 ft. floater.)

  30. Dogbert – lol ! What if the catcher would have missed O’s pathetic one-hopper ? Would the media have buried it ? Do fish swim ?

  32. Give the man a fair shot
    Hmm… let’s see:
    – nationalize banking industry, forcing banks to accept TARP money that didn’t want it, and blackmail them into giving up shares when they pay it back
    – nationalize auto industry & exceed presidential authority by firing CEOs
    – push through cap/trade without giving public or congress time to read the bill
    – bow down to saudi prince
    – disgraceful foreign policy stand on honduras & oppression of iranian students
    – quadrupling of deficit, with hints of more “stimulus” to come. Incidentally, of the “emergency stimulus” that was required upon certain death of the country, only 6% has been spent
    – hypocrisy in face of iraq: working actively to block the Surge while he was a worthless US senator, and now taking credit for it while he’s POTUS, and implementing another surge in afghanistan
    – lying/backpedalling on gitmo
    – pushing hard to implement socialized medicine
    I think that’s a “fair shot”, don’t you, Durden?
    I also think Dogbert described you perfectly at 11:25am.
    mhb23re
    at gmail d0t calm

  33. Part of the reason that he couldn’t throw a strike was because he was pitching from on top of the rubber. Pehaps the muslim school he attended in Indonesia didn’t offer baseball in its sports program? Just thinking out loud here.

  35. He couldn’t even get it to home plate? BWAHAHAHAAAA!!!!
    I’m wheezy and old, even I can still get it to home plate! Wadda maroon!
    In other news, they are going to ram socialized medicine down your throats kids. Open wiiiiide, its a big ol’ bite of the fabulous Obama Socialist Sh1t Sandwich (TM), brought to you by a guy who throws like a CHICK!

  36. No Dogbert, he threw that way on purpose it’s called a change up
    Pray tell us of The One’s Masterful Pitching Strategy, O Mighty Cy Young Aspirant.
    But maybe you’re right, at that. The pitch behaved just like obama’s “economic change-up”, as the bottom completely fell out.
    mhb

  37. Alright, alright I’m sorry, I admit the guy cant throw a baseball. I just think the man is going to be president for Eight years and we should all hope that he is sucessful and the world will be a better place when his term is complete. I just don’t understand all of this trashing of his character and hoping that the man fails as a president. Please explain it to me.

  38. SVG said; Anybody who booed him is wrong. It’s wrong to boo your country’s President.
    Really ? Why don’t you sing that tune to the Liberals who bashed Bush for 8.5 years and still are. Double Standard there, Bud.
    TD said; “Why do you all want him to fail so bad?”
    Because I can’t agree with Socialism no matter what color it comes in.
    Besides; for you folks defending Obama and his policies, you need some serious help. The man bypassed both houses and appointed over 32 Czars who are not accountable to Congress, the Senate, or the American People. He has taken over 4 Hedge Funds, 19 Banks and 2 Car Companies without a single vote, or debate in the House or the Senate. Obama has tripled the American Debt, is trying to shove Government Run Healthcare down the Tax-Payers throat, trying to sneak in Amnesty, trying to pass in the nite with scare tactics the Cap&Trade, better known as Tax the Wealthy to pay off his Democrat Constituents, and finally the Global Warming Carbon Tax that actually taxes mainly White Businesses. Don’t you see SVG and TD every bill Obama and the Democrats are trying to pass taxes mainly, you guessed it; White People.
    You don’t see a problem with that ?
    Let me tell you something, the US Gov’t has run Social Security, Medicare and Medicaide into the ground. They have no business speculating in the Private Sector. It should be painfully obvious now that Obama hates White Capitalism.
    We The People could have had some great deals if there had been no Gov’t Stimulus Bailout. No one is too big to fail, even Governments run by Liberals.
    Personally, they should release his Harvard Transcripts and show what he made in Economics 101, we already know what he made in Chaos 450.
    Do you know what a Illinios Community Organizer has in comon with a cow, well, according to the State-run Media they are both out-standing in their field.
    And, don’t get me started about the Gov’t run whorehouse in Nevada that couldn’t turn a profit.
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  40. “Alright, alright I’m sorry, I admit the guy cant throw a baseball. I just think the man is going to be president for Eight years and we should all hope that he is sucessful and the world will be a better place when his term is complete. I just don’t understand all of this trashing of his character and hoping that the man fails as a president. Please explain it to me.”
    Yeah but what’s Ogabe’s definition of success? I think it’s becoming clearer everyday that he’s trying to destroy the USSA economy so he can institute his own system. Fascism here we come!

  41. TYLER DURDEN said: “I just don’t understand all of this trashing of his character and hoping that the man fails as a president. Please explain it to me.”
    Its because he’s a raving fascist, whose social and economic policies have already done serious damage the United States and are certainly going to do much more. The USA is Canada’s largest trading partner, and we need them to be in one piece so we can all afford to buy food and shoes and stuff like that.
    Clear now, Tyler?
    BTW, with any luck he’ll be out in four, like Jimmah Carter. Unless he does something AMAZINGLY bad, in which case he could get impeached. I’m hoping for that one, myself. Even Joe “Dumbkopf” Biden would be better than Barry.

  42. TYLER DURDEN, I know what you are but what am I?
    I hope he fails because I do not agree with his proposed policies.
    I want a President who does not lie to the public.
    I want a President who does not rely on shady crooks to buy a house.
    I want a President who brings a full life of experience and accomplishemnt to the office.
    Obama provides none of those.

  43. TYLER:
    May I add to dogbert’s observations.
    I have noticed Obama talks one way and acts another.
    His supporters will give him full marks for attempting to keep his promises which, of course, are impossible to deliver on because their cost would totally bankrupt the US.
    Hope and change is all about the impossible dreams and it is a rhetoric that appeals to dreamers, who believe their dreams can be delivered with other people’s money.
    Sure worked in the no job, no income, no problem mortgage crisis, didn’t it?
    Obama is just a symptom of America over-reaching reality and his mistake is to solve a problem of over-spending by … drum roll please … overspending.
    Other than that, it was a tactical error to put on a Chicago White Sox jersey in a National League city.

  44. Tyler Durden: “I just don’t understand all of this trashing of his character and hoping that the man fails as a president. Please explain it to me.”
    There is a great deal to dislike about his policies, which, if implemented, will be extremely wide-ranging, and some things about him too (the nature of his rhetoric, for instance, which is unusually disingenuous and deceitful). Nobody who dislikes his policies can possibly want those policies to succeed; and nobody who wants to hear the plain truth and facts presented plainly can like the way he speaks. I don’t see what’s complicated about that.
    There’s nothing wrong with criticism. Freedom to criticize is one of the things that distinguishes western civilization. So we should hope that the Republican opposition in the US finds its voice. No President deserves a free ride. In the Bush years the Democrats used to say that dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

  45. TYLER
    1) 8 years from now there will be a republican vying for a second term.
    2) If we were to give O the same “fair shake” you ignorant leftards gave any GOP pres but W in particular, we’d have to get really nasty.

  46. “Hope and Change-up”
    “This is the pitch we’ve been waiting f…”
    BALL!

  47. Was the teleprompter out of order?
    Oh, by the way,to our American friends. Looks like you might soon be finding out what waiting lists and rationed health care is all about.

  48. No teleprompter go go gadget to assist with that non masculine bounce pass to (way in front of) the plate. Watching the O toss a baseball, America’s pastime, and whiff at golf balls, business’s pastime,leads me to think that the O has no clue about the society he supposedly is leader of. And to say he throws like a sissy is an insult to all sissies. Some one should have also shown him how to use the rubber on a pitching mound, maybe someone did, maybe he didn’t listen. He is definitely getting harder on the eyes and ears.

  50. Roc, which “centre” is it you’re supposed to be right of, again?
    Your guy showed up, got booed. And throws like a girl too. Deal with it.

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