Hoops With The Prez? Call Rahm.

[Shiver]

The Presidential Pickup Game
Amy Chozick, The Wall Street Journal
Dec. 19, 2008

Mr. Obama -- whose jump shot earned him the nickname Barry O'Bomber at Hawaii's Punahou School -- has hired a team of cabinet members and aides with serious basketball backgrounds. Many of them are planning for regular court time with the president, according to Mr. Obama's transition press team.

"I think we are putting together the best basketball-playing cabinet in American history," the president-elect said at a news conference earlier this week.

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Not everyone is excited about basketball's arrival as the semiofficial sport of the White House. The bowling lobby is concerned that talk of removing the White House lane -- which was built under the north driveway -- will have a negative impact on their sport. In an effort to change the president's mind, top bowling associations have offered to refurbish the lane with a state-of-the-art scoring system, high-tech bowling balls designed to grip the lane and a digital surround-sound system.

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Whether bowling stays or goes, it is clearly basketball's moment. Basketball fans outside the president-elect's inner circle are clamoring for the chance to join a White House game. "The big buzz is pickup," says Gil Jackson, head basketball coach at Howard University. "People are already posturing as to how they'll get in on those games. Myself included."

Requests for pickup games are expected to go through White House chief-of-staff Rahm Emanuel's office. Mr. Emanuel, or someone on his staff, would screen the requests, with Mr. Obama getting the chance to assemble his own weekly games.

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Much more in the full article, at the above link.

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So... new indoor basketball court, or pimp out Nixon's bowling alley?

[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. No question -

B-Ball! For sure. Without a doubt.

I love the idea of a jock President who enjoys shaking it up with other guys. Compared to Fuckface riding his bicycle with his little helmet and his little kneepads and his little collar and leash, this is refreshing.

I just saw a lovely picture of Obama in shorts, stripped to the waist. Yummy.

Now, imagine if we saw Fuckface stripped to the waist..........................

:wow :wow: :scared: :cry: :hide:

[Shiver]

5. Hey, there is NOTHING wrong with cycling

If there is one thing I've been able to not hate about Bush, it's that he's an avid cycler.

That said, Obama could probably ride circles around him if he wanted to :headbang:

[Tangerine LaBamba]

6. Back off..........

I wasn't talking about cycling - it was about Fuckface.

That said, I think cyclists are the funniest-looking creatures around lately.

HEY, YOU brought it up!

:evilgrin:

[Shiver]

7. Yeah, we look funny

But can you outrun us? :evilgrin:

[Tangerine LaBamba]

14. Honey,

I couldn't outrun you if I were driving a Maserati. Mostly because I wouldn't know how to steer it.

But I gotta hand it to you folks - you have lovely thighs. Almost as nice as soccer thighs...............

:::: sigh ::::::

[Shiver]

15. I'd post a pic

But, y'know, no sex threads ;)

[Tangerine LaBamba]

16. Thank you

At my age, even the recollections of those thighs cause me to have to take a nap...................

[deaniac21]

12. Obama smokes. I don't think that bodes well for his success in

an endurance sport.

[Shiver]

13. A good point

Eris knows my smoking hasn't helped my times improve....

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. There's a bowling lobby?

[cali]

3. LOL! I don't know why that innocent question cracked me up

but it does.

:rofl:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

4. The world is in bad shape if people are more organized around bowling

than...just about anything else.

[Grey]

8. I think they are just putting hoops at each end of the tennis court.

The bowling lane is safe.

[firedupdem]

9. He said in the walters interview he wasn't removing the bowling alley. n/t

[Shiver]

10. Obama did say something about replacing

the bowling alley with an indoor court during the campaign. I always took it to be a joke myself.

And there is already an outdoor basketball court, next to the tennis court if I'm not mistaken.

[Shiver]

11. Shit, just realized the link didn't take for some reason

The full story can be found here ------> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122964718901120311.html?mod=yhoofront?987

Apologies, carry on.