Barack Obama ready for Barry Bonds now?

Yes, when he becomes president Mr. Obama should receive Barry Bonds in the White House as is the custom when Americans achieve something noteworthy. Bonds has not been tried or convicted of anything. None of the allegations against him have been proved. Most of the charges have been made by unscrupulous, shady people who do not merit the kind of trust that many in the public have given them. Every hitter in all of baseball could be given steroids their whole career and not accomplish anything. I liked Obama's response to the question and his reference made to Henry Aaron. Furthermore, major league baseball should be held to account for modifying the ball from time to time to give it greater resiliency, thus generating more home runs. If Bonds, and other, home run sluggers had been hitting the same quality of ball as Aaron and Ruth who knows if he would have produced fewer home runs, or more?

Wow! What a decisive, courageous answer!

Of course, have Bonds come to the White House. Then he can say the following " See kids, cheat, take steroids and you too can be a record holder. Don't wait, start injecting now". Obama could go a long way to getting my atttention by refusing to acknowledge Bonds. HE cheated, and will forever be known as the man who cheated.

GW,
Barry Bonds admitted to a grand jury to rubbing cream on his legs and putting drops called "the Clear" under his tongue. He is the shady character who says he did not know what he was putting into his million dollar body.

I don't belive presidents have ever honored an individual record. The president routinely host "teams" (or groups of individual athletes like the olympics) that have won a championship.

Am I wrong? Please enlighten me if I am. But I don't recall Mark McGwire being invited to the White House to celebrate his record setting '98 season. Or Bonds a few years later.

Who cares?

How is the game of baseball or the individual accomplishments of players of any political or governmental importance?

I'm pretty sure President Obama will have better uses for his time than hanging with athletes and stars. Bonds will simply one more citizen for whom President Obama will be President, nothing more, nothing less.

Bonds should go to the White House today. Then he can ask Bush "Hey, what about all of the steroid abuse that happened in the Rangers clubhouse while you were their CEO? You know, the drugs that Canseco, Palmeiro, etc. took on your watch - no big deal, right?"

GW, have you read Game of Shadows? It is pretty convincing. I don't think you can just dismiss its authors as "unscrupulous" or "shady".

Your point about what other players could or could not do on steroids is irrelevant to whether Bonds cheated. The argument about MLB tinkering with the ball may or may not have merit, but again, it is irrelevant to the issue of whether Bonds cheated.

Why was the Bonds dilemma presneted to Mr. Obama and not the other candidates?

OK, they're both black men. That's it - the only commonality. One's a boneheaded athlete; the other an intellectual family man, U.S. senator and family man. I dougnt if they've ever been in the same room with one another.

True racial progress comes when whites stop expecting blacks and other racial groups to account for one another. I'm very disappointed in Mr. Olbermann.

So now we can criticize Obama for evading a stupid, irrelevant question. If I ever decide to run for President, shoot me please.

Upon realizing what he took and what effect it had on his homerun output, Bonds should have resigned from baseball.

THEN, and ONLY THEN, would he have been worthy of "the call."

A stupid question? Yes but one without the politics and complexities of others like health care, the war etc. If Obama can't handle this one, I don't have much confidence in his answers to others. He demonstrated he is like all other politicians who will duck questions they don't like. I was disappointed.