03.18.09 DON’T YOU HAVE SOMETHING BETTER TO DO?
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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DON’T YOU HAVE SOMETHING BETTER TO DO?
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…
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