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by John McCormick
As a resident of Chicago's South Side, Sen. Barack Obama is a natural White Sox fan.
But on the 4th of July, the presidential candidate is apparently planning to spend some time with the Cubs. The Iowa Cubs.
As he ends a two-day swing through the first-in-the-nation caucus state, Obama is expected to attend an Iowa Cubs game in Des Moines. The Triple-A affiliate of the Chicago Cubs will be playing New Orleans.
The Des Moines Register is reporting that Obama's campaign has purchased 500 tickets for the game.
In his home state, where it is easy to offend one set of fans over another, Obama has in the past pledged his preference for the Sox over the Cubs. He issued a statement when the White Sox won the World Series in 2005.
But, truth be told, the Illinois Democrat is bigger basketball fan than baseball fan.
Comments
Future President Barack Obama has the magic touch.
He does a commercial for the Bears and they go to the Super Bowl, he becomes a Cubs fan and they win 7 out of 8 games.
Barack is a UNITER, not a DECIDER, he's not like the guy the Republicans have given us for the last six years.
He has a great future and so do we if we elect him and please don't buy into the trash that the GOP is throwing on him and Hillary, they're scared of them, that's why they're worried about him and Hillary, they know that they've screwed the pooch for the last 6 years, if the GOP had something new to offer us they would be less worried about Dem candidates and more concerned about pumping up their own candidates.
Posted by: John E | July 1, 2007 1:29 AM
geez. a uniter and not a DECIDER ?
Surely a DECIDER is the last thing we want in a President!
Posted by: Justin | July 1, 2007 8:53 AM
If Senator Obama can throw a ball at all that will put him ahead of Bush on the motor skills test. I love Barack. He's got my vote.
Posted by: Mrs. Jesus | July 1, 2007 10:21 AM
Now THIS is a BIG story. One fully worthy of John McCormick's reporting skills.
Posted by: Bruce | July 1, 2007 11:13 AM
If he can hit a curve ball he has Michael Jordan beat.
Posted by: Howard C | July 1, 2007 1:30 PM
If the Iowa Cubs beat the team from New Orleans, Boy Wonder will probably blame New Orleans' loss on President Bush.
Posted by: Terry | July 1, 2007 2:08 PM
BO in '08!
Posted by: Lisa M | July 1, 2007 3:16 PM
Before you say Barak has a better "motor skills" than Bush, lets see him throw a perfect strike in front of 50,000 Yankee fans on national TV
Posted by: Jim | July 1, 2007 5:25 PM
"He has a great future and so do we if we elect him..."
Posted by: John E | July 1, 2007 1:29 AM
In all of your blathering about Obama since last summer, you've never, ever, given us a real reason why we should vote for him. Not once.
Can you?
Can anybody?
...I mean a valid argument, not a laundery list of vague superlatives like "uniter".
It's really easy to look at his paper thin voting record and say, well so what?
And it's also easy to look at his penchant for sucking up to lobbyists and big corporations and say that he's lying when he tells us he'll be different.
But it's not so easy to come up with a cogent argument for putting the man in the White House.
Nobody in The Swamp ever has.
Posted by: Anonymous | July 1, 2007 6:34 PM
He's still too young. In another eight years maybe,but not now.
Posted by: Thomas | July 1, 2007 7:08 PM
Anonymous,
If you really want to participate why don't you give yourself a post name?
Otherwise I consider you just another rambling Republican whose howling at the moon.
Posted by: John E | July 1, 2007 7:51 PM
Uniter?
How do Indians feel after his memo "gaffe?"
some Uniter
Posted by: Bobaky | July 1, 2007 9:55 PM
John E,
So you're saying that you can't come up with a single valid reason to vote for Obama.
I'm not surprised.
Anybody else want to try?
Posted by: Anonymous | July 2, 2007 8:03 AM
Posted by: Anonymous | July 1, 2007 6:34 PM
Anonymous:
Everything you say about Obama could have been said about Dubya back in 1999.
Posted by: BC | July 2, 2007 11:45 AM
Everything you say about Obama could have been said about Dubya back in 1999.
Posted by: BC | July 2, 2007 11:45 AM
Yes indeed.
So are you saying that Obama is just as bad as Dubya?
Posted by: Anonymous | July 2, 2007 3:56 PM