Barack Obama wants to prove he can out shoot Sarah Palin. On the basketball court, that is, not on the range. Gotta give it to the man, he knows his limitations. In an interview on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” Obama responded to a viewer-submitted question about a possible match-up with the Republican VP hopeful:
“You know, I would play her a game of horse,” said Obama. “She looks like she’s got some game.”
Palin was a standout high school basketball player whose skills on the court earned her the nickname Sarah Barracuda. But Obama said he doesn’t fear her.
“On the basketball court, I think I’d stand up pretty well,” he said.
Still, Obama said he wouldn’t want to go head-to-head with Palin in another sport: target shooting.
“I know she’s a sharpshooter, and I know that — I probably wouldn’t do target practice with her,” he said. “I think she’d be a better shot than me.”
Obama also said he was “puzzled” about why the Republicans would mock his community organizer creds. Maybe he should ask Michelle Malkin:
Let me clarify something. Nobody is mocking community organizers in church basements and community centers across the country working to improve their neighbors’ lives. What deserves ridicule is the notion that Barack Obama’s brief stint as a South Side rabble-rouser for tax-subsidized, partisan non-profits qualifies as executive experience you can believe in.
Explaining his lack of military cred, Obama implied that since there was no war going on when he became eligible for service, there was no point.
The Democratic candidate said he briefly considered joining the military after graduating high school, but decided against it.
“I graduated in 1979. The Vietnam War had come to an end. We weren’t engaged in an active military conflict at that point. And so, it’s not an option that I ever decided to pursue,” he said.
He also characterized his Saddleback Conference “above my pay grade” answer to the question about when life begins as being “too flip.”
But Obama told Stephanopoulos “what I intended to say is that, as a Christian, I have a lot of humility…all I meant to communicate was that I don’t presume to be able to answer these kinds of theological questions.”
Finally read the briefing, eh, Obie?
*I went looking for a basketball clip to accompany this post and found one of the most racially insensitive cartoons I’ve ever seen. Made in 1975, it’s still the first clip you find in a You Tube search for “Basketball Jones Cheech and Chong.” The one posted is the “Space Jam” remake featuring Barry White and Chris Rock.
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