Obama showed up at the Bulls/Wizards game.

HOW DARE OBAMA ENJOY A FROSTY LIBATION DURING THE GAME

http://www.wwl.com/Obama-beer-sparks-controversy/3951383

 

Hmmm sounds to me like he did what alot of people do after a long day....have a cold one. I approve.

 

Now that we're in D&D, I'll note that we have a President who has the self control to have a beer without turning into a mean drunk and putting the world at risk.

I'd much rather have a beer with Obama.

 

Maybe, but I could see the arena just giving it to him (as they would have for any previous Presidents) just for the publicity. Besides, taxpayers have paid for just about every courtside side in this country for the last 15 years or so.

 

This is like the crazy b**** yelling at Condoleeza Rice for buying shoes during Katrina or some ****.

 

I just find it ironic that when Barack is asking the people of America to sacrifice more and while he goes on his little rants about executives spending lavishly, he enjoys a basketball game court side. I've heard that the seat was given to him by the owner but I don't know for sure. But still, it's pretty funny when he criticizes other people for worrying about the pork in his stimulus bill, yet he doesn't realize the wall street exec spending he him self criticizes is the same percentage of the wealth lost.

 

He paid for his own beer.

 

He was watching the Bulls play the Wizards. I call that sacrifice.

 

Are you sure about that? I thought taxpayers paid for that beer!

 

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ba...dent-Obama-talk-a-little-trash?urn=nba,145551

Unless you've been living under a rock (and it's okay to admit if you have, I'm told rent is cheap), you probably heard that President Barack Obama sat courtside at D.C.'s Verizon Center Friday night, watching his hometown Chicago Bulls take on the Washington Wizards.

The First Fan drank beer, read the game program and left early (with four minutes left) during a blowout. "All common American activity," as Tom Ziller put it, "except most of us don't sit courtside, nor are we important enough that the NBA will hold up a tip-off until we get to our seats." (Speak for yourself, Z!)

But Obama's night of "Joe Plumber Americana" didn't stop there. He also exchanged a few playful words with a diehard Wizards fan sitting a few rows back. Yes, that's right, the 44th President of the United States joined in a little trash talk. Awesome.

The vocal instigator: Miles Rawls (above, standing, "heckling"), the commissioner of the Barry Farms' Goodman League — a big-time summer circuit in Southeast D.C., which has starred Gilbert Arenas and Kevin Durant, among others.

Dan Steinberg of the D.C. Sports Bog, in a fun must-read, talked with Rawes about trading barbs with the President.

Here's a snippet from the interview:

[Rawls] said his chatter, like always, was unscripted, "right off the top of my head. I just had to see how he was gonna take it," Rawls said. "Once I knew he was a big trash talker, too, about them Bulls, that means the gloves came off." [...]

"I wasn't heckling the President and I don't heckle the players. I talk about their weaknesses. We was having a good time. He was talking trash and I was talking trash. I couldn't believe he was that laidback and real. I loved it."

And while they talked through much of the game, Rawls — who had never met a President — said no lines were crossed. "I wasn't disrespectful," he said. "I know my limits."

So, for example, he told the President that if he was rooting for the visitors, he was "gonna have to keep it to a low roar, because we're cheering for the Wizards over here." Obama, in turn, repeatedly needled Rawls about the Wizards' habit of letting leads evaporate, especially when the Bulls made a run.

"We was just going back and forth," Rawls said. "Once Chicago started coming back, he told me, 'Now I think you need to sit down.' When Tyrus Thomas dunked on somebody, he turned around, was talking smack. Then JaVale McGee had that alley-oop, and he gave me the high five. We was just supporting each others' team, having a good time."

 

Some people need to get a f---ing life! There are people *cough*Baptist hypocrites cough* complaining about the President enjoying a beer at the game. GET OVER IT!

 

Well, at least this is solid proof that he's not a Muslim right TJ? This is real folks!

 

drinking is against their religion. I thought liberals like yourself preached tolerance.

 

**Edits due to it not worth getting into it**

 

And they are free to not drink. But they are also Americans and in America, a guy can have a beer at a game.

I can respect your faith while still disagreeing with your beliefs, particularly if you attempt to impose those beliefs on me or the greater society.

 

Kind of like stealing tor fund welfare etc, right?

 

I can tolerate a lot of things, where I lose my tolerance is when other groups, people, whatever try to impose their will and beliefs on everybody else.

 

I guess it is possible that you could do that but this isn't it

 

BS, you do that all the time.