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This is just over the top. He even puts a Presidential Seal on it — wait till the election’s over, please? Anyway, to see the whole Presidential Bracket, check out this Washington Post article and READ THE COMMENTS. They are very concerned about the President promoting gambling with this popular American ritual:
What the hell was the person who released this to the press thinking? While I realize this is a widespread and generally harmless practice, I couldn’t help wincing when I heard about it. Harmless as it is, it is gambling - are we supposed to assume there isn’t a WH office pool behind it? - and the timing is just awful.
While I wouldn’t be surprised if other presidents did this, at least they had the sense not to release it to the press.Posted by: beegrace123 | March 18, 2009 2:08 PM
Exactly. If the press released this, the public might be retarded about it on Internet comment boards.
[White House Photo/Pete Souza, WP]
Wow, his bracket even trumps Recovery.gov on the White House website. Expect a congressional hearing if his picks don’t make it to the Final Four.
I’m shocked, SHOCKED, to find there is gambling going on here!
How’s he gonna know who to pick without a teleprompter?
Beegrace123’s gonna blow a gasket when he/she/it finds out about the Craps tables in the Lincoln bedroom.
“Exactly. If the press released this, the public might be retarded about it on Internet comment boards.”
I believe that is the reason Dick Vadar refused to release his VP Calendar and visitors’ logs.
What is that muslin’s problem with the PAC-10?
John McCain was caught filling out a bracket from the 1940 NAIA championship - and then ridiculed for picking the Tigers of Dakota Wesleyan over the Statesmen of Delta State.
I read that Walnuts released his brackets too? When is Nicole Wallace of Steve Schmidt going to tell Walnuts that the election was over a few months ago and he, um… lost?
OMG, a human president! This is *hysterical*!
You just can’t help falling for Hopey every now and then. Especially when he trips you up as you’re dribbling past the center line.
Jesus Tap Dancing Christ! Doesn’t our dear leader get to have any FUN in his job? It’s not like he walked into a cushy situation here. The man has a lot on his plate, or to put it more exactly, he has a fucking table full of full plates. Let him have his POTUS bracket, beegrace123, and shove it where the sun don’t shine.
Why is he just getting around to filling out his bracket now?! March madness has been on the schedule for months! Tim Geithner should be fired! Impeach!
That’s not a pen he’s holding, it’s a blunt, and he’s passing it to the left hand side.
If it helps the crazy commentor’s frayed nerves, I always fill out a bracket and never put money on it, since I don’t have any money. I do, however, curse like a sailor when reality does not comport to my bracket.
That thing’s going to be hard to crumple up and toss in the garbage when it all goes to shit in the first weekend.
SayItWithWookies: Maybe he’s been a *little* busy.
Also, what would Lanny Davis’s son say about basketball brackets?
Why isn’t he a real man like Ross Douthat and watching women’s volleyball?
That’s not a basketball pool. He’s making a list of the people in America who still have jobs.
The Historically Black Colleges will dominate the proceedings, am I right, fellow Fishbowl DC commenterz??
Examine his bracket carefully: he clearly wants to keep North Carolina in the blue column in 2012.
Maybe he could put some of the TARP money on 4-game parlay and help pay for a few more shovel ready programs… err.. jogging paths– dug, leveled and paved by illegals per Lou Dobbs.
He’s also ripping off that famous photo of JFK and RFK marking off all the chicks they banged in the Presidential steno pool.
The pool fee was $30 Billion of YOUR TAX DOLLARS!
That’s nothing. I shoot craps with my Obama Family dice set.
Who’s that helping him, HOSNI MUBARAK? Sure looks like it, and I for one am not surprised at all that he’d ask for a fellow Muslin dictator’s help with this task.
Fivetree: Plus, he inherited a lot of these shitty picks from the previous administration.
Yet further proof that Obama has put too many things on his plate. Shouldn’t he be working on solving the financial crisis, saving the economy, and ending two wars instead of putting together NCAA tourney brackets? He’s been President for 8 weeks people! Why hasn’t he fixed everything!
nestor: OMG! THe righty wingnuts are right! He’s hopelessly naive and in WAY over his head!
ForTheTurnstiles: Or that could be the explanation, since the Pac-10 teams are from mostly solid blue states.
Tomorrow there will be a cartoon in the New York Post of a chimpanzee picking its favorites for the NCAA tournament.
Is it too cheesy to say that I am still totally in love with this man?
What a shocker that he would be following the basketball.
Heh, heh, heh. Temple over Arizona State? Yeah, RIGHT, Hopey.
Lascauxcaveman: He also had no love for Arizona. Was this retaliation for McCain?
Muslins don’t play basketball, but they do have that awesome game where horseback riders drag a goat carcass back and forth along a dusty field. They also don’t gamble, so he is not endorsing anyone putting money on the Kabul Allahs over the Lahore Mecca in the final.
Seriously, why are wingnuts fascinated with him using a teleprompter? Jesus H.
Gambling is very patriotic as long as you don’t bet in Euros or Yen.
And Mr. President, please move your hand so I can see your pick for Pitt vs. Duke.
Hey, screw you, Mr. President. USC is totally going to beat Boston College.
But good work predicting ucla loses in the first round.
WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!!! Aside from the usual gang of Republican pedophiles, I mean.
PerhapsSo: What does he have against the Pac-10? Only Washington seems to have survived into the next round, for him.
Liberal bias my ass.
ForTheTurnstiles: Let’s hope his picks were political because otherwise we’ve found an area where Hopey’s skills are lacking. Temple over ASU indeed. Oy.
you cannot be serious: I know, me, too. He keeps doing shit that slays you. The skipping-the-Gridiron-to-be-with-daughters-on-Spring-Break move knocked me over, too.
The NCAA also posts a bracket, with a big warning about “don’t gamble with this.” So everyone chill. After all, the hypocrisy and double dealing done at NCAA HQ makes the White House look like a Unitarian church.
Jukesgrrl: It’s Duke (look at the next round)
assistant/atlas: Hey, I picked Temple, to. You have to have an upset, you know? (And I have the Philly loyalty excuse, too.)
Full bracket:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/images/brackets2009c.jpg
jagorev: I’m a retard, he picked Pitt
ForTheTurnstiles: If Barry had followed my example and picked Louisville to win the whole thing, perhaps Kentucky would have voted blue next time? What a wasted opportunity.
Doglessliberal: I went to Temple, so I had to pick them.
Does Mary Cary know about this latest degradation to the honor and prestige of the office? First Leno, now basketball? Get the smelling salts!
Next we’ll learn that Barry still fleeces all his colleagues at poker on weekends.
This guy is spreading himself too thin — he picked winners of sixty-three games. Trying to do too much to fast. Slow down pal.
Obama’s white half is why he has Duke going that far. Really, its the only explanation.
masterdebater: You can’t go wrong with a classic.
This is the most fucking awesome thing about the Obama presidency since the Reverend Mr. Lowery’s Inauguration shout-out to Big Bill Broonzy.
I am not even kidding about this. I LOVE MY LEFTHANDED BLACK MUSLIN PRESIDENT!
Towson is going to win the entire thing! I’m telling you, Towson. Vote for Towson. Pick Towson. Look on your brackets for the hidden game that no one knows about–it’s Towson! And Towson is going to beat Washington, Louisville, Connecticut and then North Carolina, and Towson will be the national championship. And I’m in the White House NCAA Betting Pool–it’s run from a small office in the White House basement, and Luciano “Bugsy” Bidenetta is in charge of the temporary office. To enter the office, knock three times and say “Git R Done” to enter.
PerhapsSo: Arizonans don’t have any love for Arizona ever since Lute Olsen married that PA Republican fundraiser and lost his job (and what was left of his mind). But at least he’s still earning money shilling for rightwing Christian radio stations.
PerhapsSo: That would explain not picking ASU which is in the “real” part of Arizona. But the U of A is in communist/immigrant loving, ACORN infected Tucson.
HE HAS AN EAST COAST BIAS 1!!!1!
Alabama St. over Morehead St? He’s already been wrong on every game played so far. This doesn’t bode well for the economy.
Jukesgrrl: Russ Pennel will dick slap you.
(I always thought Wonkette should be more like Deadspin. Thanks Jim!)
comradepaulson: No way - he throws bones.
Mr. Herpes: FTW!
WadISay: All the good teams were probably renditioned. waterboarded, stripped of their 401(k)s and poisoned with greenhouse gasses.
And denied their rights to marry each other.
Also.
Joey Ratz: Ha. No votes for picking Louisville, the mouthbreathers are all Big Blue fans and actively hate Louisville even though without Louisville, Kentucky would be West West Virginia.
Where is his love for the l33t? GO BIG RED! Go Ivy!
BTW, did you hear about the great new NYT columnist?
“Great. … (I can’t even count the number of times I’ve seen headlines along the lines of “Obama puts together a slam dunk of a team,” referring to his cabinet).”
Posted by: aucegypt2009 | March 18, 2009 5:21 PM
I don’t recall an aucegypt2009 post when George Tenet was reported to have uttered the same term, before face-planting our troops into Irag.
nestor: Tucson still elects its fair shares of Republicans. If the hippies who live near Sedona had a college basketball team, maybe Hopey would have had them advancing to the next round.
Until then, bear down, Arizona. May the Hopester be wrong.
Wait just a freakin’ minute here.
He’s a lefty. This cannot stand!
Syracuse will win, also.
Hell yeah, Obama picked Memphis to head to Detroit. I knew I (along with basically the entire rest of the school) voted for him for a reason.
Betting on sports teams is a venerated American tradition! Why, every year I enter the college bowl pool and I hate football!
Looking forward to when he shows his Elite Eight.
the Prez filling out a bracket is the least of my worries. I like a guy that places a bet with a smile on his face and is still the smartest politician in the world.
Mr Blifil: You don’t think he’s PACin’ 10?
(There, I ‘ve set up the perfect opportunity for one of you Midwestern wags to make a comment about the Hopester’s “BIG 10.”)
On their wedding night, I hear Michelle took one look at the thing and exclaimed “ACC!”
UNC over Louisville? WTF Hopey? I know you took down Hillary and McCain and are leader of the free world and all, but seriously, you do not fuck with Rick Pitino.
you cannot be serious: No I feel the same way.
This is clearly just a ron emailmanual ploy to convince the wingnuts that hopey really isamercun. It won’t work. They can tell he’s just faking it. Seriously, VCU over UCLA? C’mon ron, that’s a dead giveaway that he’s a muslin terrerist.
http://democralypsenow.blogspot.com/2009/03/barack-etology-obamas-method-to-madness.html
During the clip Pres. Obama said not to bet money in office pools. I will abide by his suggestion– and I think it will carry the same weight as the suggestion in Pot Psychology on your sister blog Jezebel not to do drugs.
He’s got Butler over LSU in the first round. Fuck that. I’m switching parties.