Still haven’t signed up for a NCAA bracket pool? Join St. Andrew’s Pool (Pw: debruin). It’s free and totally pointless.
Barack Obama’s NCAA bracket will be posted online at ESPN.com sometime today. Which is great, because he can’t seem to pass a budget or stop any of the bailout money from being blown on private jets and upscale whores. I think it’s the first time a sitting president has ever wasted his time in such a public fashion. The whole reason Clinton never did this was because Clinton always had seven teams in his Final Four.
The First Hoops Fan indulged in one of the week’s most popular pastimes, filling out his NCAA bracket Tuesday for ESPN. The network, which is posting Obama’s bracket online Wednesday and showing Andy Katz’s report on “Sportscenter” at noon EDT, will reveal the president’s pick for NCAA champion then.
The president stuck primarily with No. 1 seeds. The sole exception was Memphis, seeded No. 2 behind Connecticut in the West regional.[...]
Katz extracted a promise from Obama that if elected, the new president would reveal his NCAA picks to ESPN when the pairings were announced in March.
I understand that Barack has his own NCAA pool going, and if you correctly predict the final four, you win $100 billion in bailout money and free health care for life. Oh, but he’s more personable than Dick Cheney, so I guess I can’t make fun of him. You think AIG would be buying whores under a Cheney administration? Hell, no. Edward Liddy would wake up with like three whores’ bloody heads tucked into his sheets. Whores’ heads. See what I did there?
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Yeah, Cheney was a master at curtailing inappropriate behavior by corporate America. Oh, wait, did I say curtailing? I meant profiting from.
Hey punte,
While you are busy ruining the site, could you maybe keep the political rhetoric to a minimum? This is a sports blog, not a republican teething ring.
Yes, if there ever was an administration that was no-nonsense with corporations, it was the Bush Admin.
Hows about you keep with the funny and stop with the politics, k?
I’m currently using my unemployment money for booze and upscale whores. No really.
\Starts slow clap
\Realizes nobody else is clapping
\Stops clapping
Yes, but how is he voting in the Nasty Fetish Final Four?
@ Diz, while my whoring days are well past me now, I can’t disagree that my unemployment dollars for booze is a far safer and happier investment than the market (sunk and fucked me), mortgage (waiting for the bailout money to hit), and lottery tickets.
Seriously, you’ll never hit the lottery. You’d have a better chance at fucking Marisa Miller on Pluto. In 1066. In your time traveling Delorean.
This kinda stuff makes you sound like a complete asshole. Which might just be because you are a complete asshole.
…So I guess this kinda stuff makes you sound like an oblivious complete asshole. There we go.
I think it’s the first time a sitting president has ever wasted his time in such a public fashion.
When Obama spends 40% of his time in office on vacation like W. did, we can talk.
I take issue with the premise of this post, as I consider the final four to be waaay more important than our global financial system.
This is why I’m a Movementarian.
/standing ovation for Punte
Glad someone isn’t afraid to take the kid gloves off in talking about this guy. W was not the anti-christ, Obama is no messiah, they’re really just two different faces of the same thing, fucking get over it and yourselves. Liberals and conservatives alike should die in a fire
Another step closer to giving up on this site all together
What everybody else said.
This is a sports site, not a politics site. If I want to hear right-wingers complain, i will go to foxnews.com. So please shut the fuck up about the politics and eat you a handful of sour grapes, you whiny bitch.
Another step closer to giving up on this site
/Airplane!
Didn’t Bush have like 8 months of vacation every year?
Are you really shitting on Barack for taking 2 minutes to fill out a bracket?
Punte, what the hell were you thinking? Although entirely correct in your assertions, you KNOW you’re not allowed to criticize Obama. Everything he does is in some way Bush’s fault- why I bet Bush even rigged the NCAA tournament just so Obama’s bracket will get fucked up!
It’s not like he sat an read my Pet Goat while this country was under attack or anything.
Fuck…late to the PoFlaWa party. Look, Obama’s had almost two months, and nothing’s been made perfect, so he clearly sucks.
The Bush Administration was an eight-year abortion, so please preface any Obama criticism with “I know Bush was infinitely worse, but I have an issue with…” Otherwise, we’ll assume you’re a lockstep Dittohead, and will treat you with the contempt normally reserved for incestuous Austrian killer guys.
Stay out of Malibu
Although entirely correct in your assertions, you KNOW you’re not allowed to criticize Obama.
Fuck, criticize him all you want. Jon Stewart rightly ripped him a new asshole last night for considering a proposal to make combat vets use private insurance if they had it.
But bitching that Obama — or, more likely, someone on his staff — filled out a March Madness bracket and taking that as a sign that this “the first time a sitting president has ever wasted his time in such a public fashion” is batshit craziness on the level of Glenn Beck.
And yeah, a comparison to George Bush is useful. He literally spent 40% of his presidency on vacation, and when he was “working” he still halfassed it and was in bed by 9pm.
Christ, and conservatives wonder why they’re polling worse than monkey AIDS these days.
Leave the guy alone. Filling out a bracket is the first thing he’s done this year for which he’s qualified.
Ahahaha, poor lefties. Suck it!
this is worse than that time obama used government orphanage money to buy floor seats to a Wizards game.
oh wait. that was bullshit conservative rhetoric. well surely there are no flaws in this story…
@ Ottoman
Clearly, none of your “polling” was done in urban-suburban hip hop settings.
@ Stankleberry
Do you mean “suck it” in the Mark Foley-with-a-16-year-old way? Or “Suck it” in the Larry Craig-anonymous-airport-bathroom way? Or “suck it” in the Ted Haggard-high-on-meth way. So many ways to suck it, after all.
@ Bacon
Do you mean “qualified” in the “President of the Harvard Law Review” way, or do you mean qualified in the “Judges and Stewards Commissioner for the International Arabian Horse Association” way?
Punte, you really know how to throw a party.
However you’d like, lefty. Suck it.
LMAO. You’re citing his law review experience?!?!? That’s your big go-to card?! Thank you – you’ve proved my point admirably!
My my, you lefties sure get touchy when someone criticizes barry.
Jesus Christ. I spend one day playing Zelda and this place turns into a shit storm of politics. Check that shit at the door, Punte. Sounds like many are ready to walk.
Obama’s done more for this country in two months than that cocksucker Bush did in eight years. Keep talking shit about his experience while he continues to fix the fucking mess those retards left for him. You’re out-matched, righties. Stick to burning crosses.
If people are ready to walk b/c someone made fun of their sacred cow, they’re truly pathetic.
That would be pathetic, Bacon, but I think people are ready to walk because they don’t want to read about politics on a sports blog.
Kinda hard to avoid those worlds colliding when the President fills out tourney brackets on espn, no?
So you guys liked the post, right?
Yes. Well, probably. It would’ve been more effective if his tourney picks were criticized rather than his office. Not as funny, but better for a sports blog. I should say that know I’m bitching more about this than I need to.
HAHA, I would love to see ass clowns jump ship over this. For someone that hasn’t had time to fill out 17 of the top 18 spots at the Treasury, the Overwhelmed One does seem to have plenty of time to fill out this bullshit. You lefty jerk offs are such so helpless. As for politics on a sports blog, I’ve read plenty of underhanded silly comments and posts about Bush, why hold back on Obama, who on alternate days proclaims the sky is falling and then switches to everything is peachy. Barry is shitting a brick and you guys know it. You got what you deserved.
He’s got Duke in the Elite 8. His legacy is forever tarnished. Every Freedom Loving Patriot knows that the Blue Devils will never make it out of Greensboro.
Maybe once Obama is done cleaning up the disaster created by the Bush presidency, he can push through the Panties Unwadding Act of 2011 and give the conservatives here some relief, at long last.
And Fierce Semen — I love the handle and I, for one, support your being able to serve openly in the Navy.
You’re going to stop reading a blog which constantly makes jokes about people dieing, shows videos of it, runs a filthiest fetish final four, because he criticized the savior of the country for going on ESPN and revealing his bracket to the country. I have no problem with any of this shit, but perhaps you should check your priorities if that’s your tipping point.
Also are you going to boycott ESPN for involving politics with sports for bringing him on in the first place? Not just now that he’s president, but showing him shooting hoops with Stu Scott during the campaign.
Who’s the “you” the conservatives are talking about? Sex Cannon said it sounded like some people might leave. Did anyone actually threaten to take their ball and go home?
If so, then fuck them. If not, then lighten up, Francis.
Otto Man, thanks for the underhanded slap at my sexual orientation. No idea what clued you into that one. Here I was thinking I was only making a funny but no, turns out I’m actually gay.
When is blaming Bush not going to work anymore? Was it all Bush’s fault that Clinton and his ilk forced Mae and Mac to loosen their lending restrictions all in the name of housing equity? Eat some of this fierce semen, jerk off.
Sorry, Fierce, but most conservatives are deeply homophobic, so I thought I’d try tweaking that. My bad.
But sweet Jesus, if you don’t think Bush deserves any blame for the shitty economy — unemployment doubled on his watch, and the federal budget went from a $128 billion surplus to a $1300 billion deficit during the same time — then we might as well just stop talking now.
Sure, some of the blame is on him, but if you think that the federal budget deficit is a bad thing, how can you reconcile what Barry already has accomplished in his first 60 days? A deficit that has blown all previous ones out of the water. The spendulus was a spending bill designed to pay of lefty interested and cost more than half of the previous deficit. Thats what I call an epic fail.
Look, no matter what your political leanings are, you gotta admit, Punte’s post about the Wizards tickets was petty and it was fucking gay (not gay sex, just gay). And so was this one. But that’s not the worst part. The worse part is neither post was funny. Punte’s job is to make us laugh or to find pictures of great tits–that’s it. When he gets on his Sean Hannity/Keith Olbermann soapbox that’s where he loses me.
if you think that the federal budget deficit is a bad thing, how can you reconcile what Barry already has accomplished in his first 60 days? A deficit that has blown all previous ones out of the water.
The two situations aren’t even remotely comparable.
Bush took a humming economy and drove it into a ditch. He blew $1.6 billion and counting on a war of choice in Iraq, as he set up the costliest federal entitlement program since the Great Society in the Medicare Part D proposal, and at the same time passed two of the three largest tax cuts in American history. You want epic fail? That’s the economic version of getting a stomach staple and then trying to eat a dozen turduckens.
Now that the entire economy is in the crapper, worrying about the budget deficit is pointless. Obama — following the blueprint of Keynesian economics that got us out of the Great Depression with the massive spending of the New Deal and, more important, WWII — needs to keep up the spending. Most economists argue he should be spending even more than he is now. Worrying about the budget deficit now (like FDR did briefly in 1937) is only going to cause things to stall.
I know conservatives believe that tax cuts will solve everything, but those of us who weren’t in a coma the last eight years know different. You’re welcome to make the judgment that this is “epic fail” after a whole two months — such patience! — but I’m going to wait and see.
But Papa Shango has it right. It’s not that Punte’s politics were wrongheaded, it’s that the posts were frankly a bit bitchy and not even remotely funny.
Re-reading my post I’ll add a quick ps, I don’t mean to tell Punte what his job is, or what this blog should be (not that he cares anyway). But I will say that I go to With Leather for the laughs and the boobs. This political stuff is a real drag. But again, that’s just like, my opinion, man.
I hope all those whining do leave. If you can’t grow a pair and get over some obviously sarcastic stuff like this, this site will be better without you here.
This thread is MAGIC. I’m sorry to bring it up, but a gay conservative??? That’s like a black conservative! Talk about self-loathing. You do realize you’re supporting a political group that, for the most part, believes you’re sub-human? You’re on the wrong side, my friend.
Otto Man: Well said.
Papa Shango: Right on
Punte: I’ll still read your shit even if I disagree with your politics. The funny times outnumber the unfunny ones, IMO.
This isn’t nearly as big a waste of time as when Obama played an entire Wizards game in JaVale McGee’s uniform and absolutely no one noticed.
Its funny and topical. Sorry your humor is so skewed to the left you can’t realize that.
The fact that you are even talking about entitlement programs while your savior is attempting to turn the entire country into a welfare state is laughable at best, obscenely naive at worst. FDR was worthless, what he did was about as close to fascism as we as a country have come, Obama is taking us even closer. Its not about tax cuts, its about spending the money on something worthwhile. When Obama talked about spending money on infrastructure, I was all for it, but instead we got a shadow of that with mainly bullshit spending that will do jack shit for the economy. Ask any of those same economists about that. And onto that several wildy expensive cap and trade programs and government health programs, you’ve got a great way to bankrupt the economy, all the while dismissing things that actually add to the economy, i.e. defense contracts that are 100% American. Who gives a fuck how patient I am. I’ve seen the MSM and you libtards blame Bush for everything in the last decade, I’m only repaying the favor. You have to admit that you have blamed absolutely everything on Bush, its only fair that I’ve blamed only 50% of everything on Obama. After all, I don’t have my rainbow flavored unicorn that sucks and fucks me yet. They are already talking about taking away our planes for these magical flying creatures.
Amen, Papa Shango. Let’s move on. No more withleather.foxnews.cnn.huffingtonpost.left.right.com
@Fierce: Wow. Building bombs to drop in other countries > Cheaper and more effective healthcare in this country? FDR = worthless? The mental instability just drips off of that one. Get me some of that meth you are smoking, because it must be some good shit, although I bet the flashbacks are a bitch.
And the “bullshit spending that will do jack shit for the economy”? Just remember who signed the $700 billion bill into law that bought failing banks’ bad assets AND gave AIG execs their bonus money – that’s right, George W. Fucktard Bush.
@diggydocyall: there are plenty of gay conservatives. what you refer to is gay REPUBLICANS, which are plentiful, but rarely seen in the wild because they are closeted and relegated to airport bathrooms.
youaretigerbait: are you an LSU fan? I really hope you are. As far as building bombs, you are very naive when it comes to what defense means. But I guess in the dumbed down sense of defense you could be partially right. Really I mean why not commit to spending money on things that we know will help the economy by providing Americans jobs that will help our country. Defense contractors employs hundreds of thousands of americans and those sorts of jobs are unlikely to be outsourced any time soon. So if you want to brush me off with silly statements about bombs, go ahead but you really should pull your head out of your ass. FDR was worthless, he created entitlement programs that have created entire segments of our population that have little or no will to take care of their selves.
Signing the bill doesn’t mean that Bush created it, and your little knowledge of how our government works is really shining though. The Senate is controlled by Democrats. The House is controlled by Democrats. Sen. Chris Dodd (D)ickhead has specifically taken ownership in allowing the AID exec money to be added to LAST MONTHS STIMULUS BILL. Its not Bush’s fault that your leaders have buddy fucked you. Its what all politicians do. On top of that, Barry O took over $100,000 in campaign contributions from AIG. What does that mean? Please write back and tell me you are an LSU fan, that will really make my day.
Ah, what the hell, I’ll take the low-hanging fruit.
FDR was worthless? Exactly how? In his first term, he managed to lower unemployment from 23% to 10%. The nation’s GDP grew by an average of 9% a year, and the Dow Jones more than quadrupled in value. There’s a reason he was re-elected in a landslide in 1936 — he had done a tremendous job.
And why exactly is infrastructure spending worse than defense spending? The New Deal built a shitload of massive developments — 10 percent of all new roads in America, 35 percent of all new hospitals, 70 percent of all new schools. They created water-supply and flood-control systems, sewers, ports and bridges. They built the Lincoln Tunnel, the Triborough Bridge and Boulder Dam. And guess what? The WPA was responsible for funding the creation of the USS Yorktown and USS Enterprise too.
What entitlement programs did he create that have created “entire segments of our population that have little or no will to take care of their selves”? Most of the welfare state stuff that conservatives hate — food stamps, AFDC expansions, etc. — were creations of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. What did FDR do that was so bad?
Are you talking about Social Security? Are you mad that those 70-year-old retirees are living off their SSA contributions? Or are you mad about the FHA funding that expanded the middle class in this country, broadening the percentage of people who owned their own homes from 40% to 68% in the postwar era? Do you worry about the hordes of undeserving suburbanites?
Or are you mad about the Veterans Administration and the GI Bill of Rights which gave all those shiftless, really undeserving veterans a break on housing and college education?
Yes, FDR was just worthless. Everyone hated him. That’s why he was elected president four times.
Judging FDR presents an interesting case: should he be judged based upon what he did in office, or the long-lasting effect of what he did? Some of his alphabet programs worked, some didn’t, and ultimately WWII put a lot of people back to work and ended the Great Depression and the mini depression that followed. While Otto correctly points the entitlement finger at LBJ and his Great Society programs, it was FDR who introduced the concept that the federal government was there to act as the nanny of the populace which concept has created the entitlement state that now hangs around our collective necks like an anchor.
If you really want an example of what FDR did that was so bad, I’d have to say rounding up and imprisoning American citizens in concentration camps based upon their nationality is the most heinous thing ever done by a President. But hey – bygones!
Otto, you have points, obviously. Perhaps my wording of worthless was a bit much, but I was basing my opinions on more of the Bacon point of view. A lot of his ideas have reverberated in our society in good ways and also in bad ways. I just hate how leftists always champion FDR when he wasn’t always what he was cracked up to be, just as Obama isn’t the savior for everything and it has always been ridiculous to think he would be.
Sure, FDR should be judged by the longterm effects of what he did.
He saved capitalism and set the stage for the postwar era, when America underwent the single greatest expansion of its economy in its entire history. He basically created the middle class, built most of this country’s vital infrastructure, made America a military superpower, pulled the country out of the Depression and beat the Axis Powers. Wow, what an incompetent.
And yeah, internment was a horrible mistake. But that black mark doesn’t change the fact that he — like so many other Democratic presidents — came to power after a Republican fucked things up royally and made the country much stronger and much safer.
just as Obama isn’t the savior for everything and it has always been ridiculous to think he would be.
It is ridiculous to think Obama is the savior. Could you do me a favor and find a single liberal here who has actually suggested he is?
It is the general way that Obama is treated. A perfect example was the original post. When punte dared make a snarky comment, every little bitch liberal came out of the wood work to criticize him like he is some sort of god and the answer to everything. On the other hand, you whiners are still blaming Bush for everything. You won the fucking election, how are you still running against Bush? That shit won’t work for too much longer.
every little bitch liberal came out of the wood work to criticize him like he is some sort of god and the answer to everything.
It wasn’t that he was some sort of god. It was that criticizing the president for filling out a March Madness bracket — which takes what, three minutes? — and then saying it was “the biggest waste of time for a president ever” was just pathetic.
And sorry, but Bush did fuck everything up. It may hurt your feelings to point out these pesky facts, but that’s the way it is. You act like the economy was humming along fine until January 20th, like Obama was the one who pushed through the first bailout of AIG and the rest.
And don’t lecture me on the dangers of blaming the past president. Bush and company blamed 9/11 on the Clinton administration, even though that happened eight months into their watch.
Listen, it’s clearly pointless arguing with you so this little bitch liberal is done. Go listen to Glen Beck or Rush Limbaugh with the other 24% of the country that agrees with you.
The rest of us will be sitting here watching the Republican Party wither and die, and trying to once again clean up after a conservative clusterfuck.
“It is the general way that Obama is treated. A perfect example was the original post.”
Fuck off Seamen. It IS the general way Obama is treated, and a perfect example WAS the original post. Except the “little bitch” was Punte and tightwad cunts like yourself.
Everyone, even (and perhaps especially) Presidents, needs a little distraction in their life. Obama likes college basketball. So what? Bush liked baseball. We’re not running against Bush–we’re running against the cunty double standard from a-holes like yourself. No liberal cried foul when Bush threw out baseball’s first pitch year after year. But the lead story on Drudge right now is Coach K whining about Obama’s brackets.
We’re not saying Obama is God. What we’re saying is that Punte, you, and Coach K are a bunch of goddman whiney cunts.
Get it?
Wow, WL suuuuuucks now. The comments on this post are further testament to that. This is why we can’t have nice things.