Some pundits are using President Barack Obama's throwing out the first pitch at the 2009 All Stars Baseball game to find a new way to criticize him. Apparently, though it was not readily apparent to TV audience, Obama throws like a girl.
The account by Examiner Larry Amon was typical.
"Yesterday, at the major league all star game President Obama threw out the ceremonial first pitch. Now politically this doesn't matter much but for a president who has carefully crafted his image, especially as a sports enthusiast, it's worth noting that President Obama is not much of a baseball player. He pushed the ball rather than throwing it like a pitcher. It was a softball style throw except that it was overhand. All of the news media pointed out that Obama made it over the plate."
Amon points out that a Major League Baseball video shows First Baseman Albert Pojus has to reach across home plate to catch the ball, which he almost did not succeed in doing so.
Rush Limbaugh, himself a sports maven and a former employee for the Kansas City Royals, spent much of his program the day after the all star game crowing on the theme of Obama throws like a girl. He also suggested that half of the spectators booed President Obama as he walked out to the mound, citing eye witnesses.
Barack Obama's performance is being compared unfavorably to that of President George W. Bush at a Yankees game soon after 9/11 in which the former President through a hard fast ball across the plate, despite having to wear body armor, to the cheers of the ordinarily rowdy Yankees fans. This may be a little unfair. Like his father before him, President George W. Bush was a college baseball player and was once the owner/manager of a a major league baseball team.
President Obama's preferred sport in basketball. There is no custom in professional basketball of taking the first jump shot, but perhaps in deference to the President one might be created. He does not toss a basketball like a girl, unless the girl is Sarah Palin, herself a tough player from her High School days.
The account by Examiner Larry Amon was typical.
"Yesterday, at the major league all star game President Obama threw out the ceremonial first pitch. Now politically this doesn't matter much but for a president who has carefully crafted his image, especially as a sports enthusiast, it's worth noting that President Obama is not much of a baseball player. He pushed the ball rather than throwing it like a pitcher. It was a softball style throw except that it was overhand. All of the news media pointed out that Obama made it over the plate."
Amon points out that a Major League Baseball video shows First Baseman Albert Pojus has to reach across home plate to catch the ball, which he almost did not succeed in doing so.
Rush Limbaugh, himself a sports maven and a former employee for the Kansas City Royals, spent much of his program the day after the all star game crowing on the theme of Obama throws like a girl. He also suggested that half of the spectators booed President Obama as he walked out to the mound, citing eye witnesses.
Barack Obama's performance is being compared unfavorably to that of President George W. Bush at a Yankees game soon after 9/11 in which the former President through a hard fast ball across the plate, despite having to wear body armor, to the cheers of the ordinarily rowdy Yankees fans. This may be a little unfair. Like his father before him, President George W. Bush was a college baseball player and was once the owner/manager of a a major league baseball team.
President Obama's preferred sport in basketball. There is no custom in professional basketball of taking the first jump shot, but perhaps in deference to the President one might be created. He does not toss a basketball like a girl, unless the girl is Sarah Palin, herself a tough player from her High School days.
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Interesting article.
Larry Amon
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07/22/2009
He might not be able to throw a baseball because baseball is traditionally an American sport. Get us a birth certificate and we'll see if that's part of the problem.
Throws like a girl??
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07/22/2009
Yea... to be totally honest... his pitching arm is horrendous. But I happen to be a girl and at least I can make it to home plate (from center field ahahaha). Way to go Obama! A rating of 0 for your hand-eye coordination.
Ryan
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07/21/2009
you say his sport is basketball huh? lol take a look at some of his jump shot's. The man has no coordination. That said, he is extremily intelligent, harvard law and all. problem is he wants to reward people for not doing anything, he doesnt believe you should sacrifice anything for a better life. He thinks people that have sacrficed for themselves should sacrifice even more. Who's gunna want to work hard if you can get the same benifits for working less. His policy's will create a softer more apthetic country, much like his pitching style.
CB
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07/20/2009
Simply - Yes!
Charlie
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07/18/2009
Former President "through" a hard fast ball? I always thought it was spelled "threw", but then I am not a professional writer.
Maizee
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07/18/2009
He does throw like a girl, no getting around it. And I don't care for him politically, but I think it was vulgar for people to boo him, though his pitching did sorta beg for it.
Fred
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07/18/2009
I'm a republican that doesn't own an assault rifle,have bumper stickers plastered all over my vehicles or believe I'm a traitor. I was an active duty Marine three months after I graduated from high school. A mortar round shattered my collar bone and I can still throw a better pitch than Obama. He's all talk and no wisdom. He thinks he can run a country just as well as he thinks he can throw a fast ball.
Johnny Buffalkill
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07/18/2009
Funny that the conservatives keep trying to push the myth that they are manly and the left is not. Anyone remotely paying attention can see that the right is a bunch of pansy crybabies. They can't open their mouths without crying about a non-existant liberal media bias. They can't feel like a man without an assault rifle. They sport bumper stickers claiming they will fight for freedom, but won't enlist. They'll sell out their country because a pseudo-bully on the radio told them to.
The Republicans controlled all three branches of the government for six years, and two and a half branches for the next two. All of the problems in this country are the fault of conservativism. Anyone who is still a Republican is a traitor.
R
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07/16/2009
haha obama sucks. and not just because he can't throw a baseball.
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