What up! Thug-life Matthews is in da (White) House!

(Right?)

It makes you wonder if there's a GE Bowling division to balance out GE Healthcare and GE Financial and thus force the NBC Obama shills to hedge their bets a smidgen.

NBC is the only network where an entire political agenda can be divined by reading the corporate annual report.

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Also worth noting that you'd be back on MSNBC in a flash, Ezra, if you were willing to start aping Matt's intellectually dishonest slash and burn slime politics towards Clinton.

It'd be bad for your soul, and it'd be bad for your long-term prospects in town. But they'd definitely be giving you lots of airtime if you'd preach the Boulware Gospel...

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Most importantly, it implies that Barack Obama is no Jeffrey Lebowski. And without being The Dude, I'd say his electoral prospects out West are rapidly dimming. Say goodbye to Montana.

The smartest thing Obama could have done is say...I'll have a bowling contest with Hillary if she will go one on one in a half-court basket ball game!

That would shut her up!

PS-Ezra...your captcha letter are not always easy to read and descipher!

Apparently Matthews was under the impression that Obama was Polish, and now he's wondering about that.

What makes this whole story sort of surreal is that the sport in question is bowling. "Journalists" are questioning Obama's capability/masculinity based on an activity that mostly exists for drunk people to have something to do with their hands.

It is fairly idiotic to equate sports ability with level of masculinity (as if the latter could be measured scientifically) but if the sport he had done poorly at was a UFC fight, I could at least understand why the point was being made.

And apropos of nothing, am I the only who finds it absolutely flabbergasting that one of the main stops for reliable news of the Democratic race from outside the Obama bubble is ... wait for it ... Armando ?!?!?!?!?

I mean, WTF...

I know politics is all about strange bedfellows and all, but this seems to go several degrees beyond strange to me.

is it possible for one person to be good at basketball AND bowling? it'd be like being into good AND evil....

"Journalists" are questioning Obama's capability/masculinity based on an activity that mostly exists for drunk people to have something to do with their hands."

"Journalists" are questioning Obama's capability/masculinity based on an activity that Obama voluntarily chose to participate in in front of a wall of television cameras in an effort to make himself look good.

Petey, It's easy to explain. You both have a bias against Obama. I mean, even John "douchebag" Kerry is starting to be rehabilitated just a little after being dead to me in 2004, so stranger things can happen. The difference of course, that at some point I actually liked Armando...

"Petey, It's easy to explain. You both have a bias against Obama."

Some kind of bias.

Armando is supporting Obama. I'm supporting Clinton, but I like Obama and would've supported him instead if he'd stepped up with a comparable universal healthcare program to the Edwards/Clinton plan.

Reality looks weird to folks stuck so deep inside the bubble that they don't know there's an outside.

Matthews makes me wonder... if he knows the word Lou Dobbs was planning to use after "cotton" while he was denigrating Condoleezza Rice.

You see, Ezra, basketball is the sport of black people so it is not surprising that Obama is good at it. But bowling is the sport of "real Americans" so the fact that Obama is bad at it makes you wonder... if he is not a real American.

Ron has it. Before you know it basketball, like windsurfing, will be portrayed as sport practiced only by elite fancy-pants out-of-touch snobs.

bring on the badminton!

I'm na Irish-American from the north-east who has bowled his entire life.

I still suck at it. Not quite 37 in 7 frams suck, but I'm lucky if I break 100 on any given game. Nobody has ever been 'OMG, what a pansy. why can't he bowl.'.

Despite petey's 'man of the people' act, I doubt him and his friends ever spent a friday night knocking down pins.

Petey, the fact that you think Armando 'Black People don't count' BTD is a great source of information really says it all.

Top it off that Obama is left handed and was using a right handed ball and you pretty much have a wash on the story. My mom is a spectacular bowler but I doubt that she could have done much better under the spotlight and using the wrong equipment.

The MSM is just showing off its level of 'teh stupidity' again.

If Hillary Clinton bowled badly it would show that she was human. If John McCain bowled badly it would highlight the irreparable injuries he suffered for his country. If Barack Obama bowls badly it shows he's an un-American wimp.

If you've hardly ever bowled before, then you'll suck at bowling. So Obama's probably bowled seldom before (so what?), and he sucked at it when he bowled just now (no surprise).

Matthews makes me wonder... if he knows the word Lou Dobbs was planning to use after "cotton" while he was denigrating Condoleezza Rice.

I couldn't believe it when I heard Lou Dobbs say that. If he would have followed up with "picking", it might have been the end of his time on CNN - particularly given that he was complaining about her comments on race.

Matthews makes me wonder... if he knows the word Lou Dobbs was planning to use after "cotton" while he was denigrating Condoleezza Rice.

I couldn't believe it when I heard Lou Dobbs say that. If he would have followed up with "picking", it might have been the end of his time on CNN - particularly given that he was complaining about her comments on race.

Apologies for the double dribble.

"Petey, the fact that you think Armando 'Black People don't count' BTD is a great source of information really says it all."

Calling all Clinton supporters racists no matter what is so March, soullite. You might need to send your Obamabot back to the factory for new firmware to get installed. They've decided that overuse of that particular card is causing far more self-inflicted damage than anything else at this point.

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And I've never agreed with Armando on anything, which is why I find the current state of affairs so odd.

Have a totally unserved market that comprises a bit more than half of the Democratic Party, and all kinds of fools and knaves will rush in to make a buck or a name for themselves. What Armando is doing is pretty much what Markos did in early 2003.

I just find it funny that Petey is seriously putting Armando out as an Obama supporter.

Obama concern troll, maybe. But supporter? please.

"Whiote men can't jump"

"Black men can't roll"

I've been reading Petey's anti-Obama comments for a while, and I still have no idea why he keeps referring to General Electric and talking as if Obama is a stooge for GE. I mean, I know GE owns NBC and that sucks, and people on NBC have said bad things about Hillary, but otherwise I got nothing. I figured if "Obama=GE" was even a rumor or a common line of attack, let alone a legitimate concern, Google might tell me something, but nada. It's not so much that I care whether Petey is just angry or totally nuts, but I do care about corporate influence. Anyone?

Here I was starting to wonder why I would support a black man as president when Senator Obama up and shows that, yet again, we have more in common than just not wanting war in Iraq, needing more military support in Afghanistan, national healthcare, more emphasis on personal responsibility, being tired of sound bite politics, balance of constitutional powers, pushing back the rampant deregulation, making taxes more progressive again, expanding financial aid for college, having young people serve their country for said financial aid, not labeling yourself, and accepting that everyone has (at least) a little bit of an asshole in them, but you don't burn them at the stake for it.

Now I know we both suck at bowling too. Then again, I also suck at basketball, so maybe I'm just confused.

Oh, and Petey, get some therapy dude.

It makes you wonder if he's a fag, a faggoty faggy fag, a Muslim rag-head uppity colored boy gay boy fag fag fag! What part of that didn't you understand?

Did Tweety and Scarborough share their top scores? Did they hell.

ESPN's Jon Miller, who generally doesn't inject politics into commentary -- I'm looking at you, Al Michaels -- swoons over Bush's high and wide pitch; the pundit class ask whether Obama's bowling form matters.

And if that's what decides the fucking presidency, then really, it's time to take the heroic dose.

It's fascinating, though: their shows are predicated, I suppose, upon the idea that there's an audience interested in politics. And then they talk about choosing your president by his bowling score.

That's infotainment!

You'd think the O-man's former spiritual advisor would have encouraged him to take up bowling since it involves hard black objects clobbering white red neck things....

You'd think the O-man's former spiritual advisor would have encouraged him to take up bowling since it involves hard black objects clobbering white red neck things....

In fact, bowling balls come in all colors, and Obama transcends race. Coincidence? I think not!

Maybe he's speculating that Obama's not really half-white, because white people can bowl? Or that the black half really does overrule the white half?

Either way, my hate for Chris Matthews is still entirely justified, I guess.

soullite

we think you are a pansy for reasons other than your sucky form on the lanes

Maybe he's speculating that Obama's not really half-white, because white people can bowl?

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