Which disqualifies Obama more—his racism or his bowling?

(Note: I’ve been told by readers that Obama only bowled seven frames, which contradicts earlier reports that he bowled a whole game. Though I have no links to back this up, let’s assume it’s true. If Obama had played a full game at the rate he was going, what would his score have been? 37 is 70 percent of 52.8. So his score would have been 53. Not as catastrophic as before, but still terrible. For aficionados, info nailing down the number of frames is below.)

Rocco DiPippo writes:

I just read your commentary on Obama’s stellar bowling performance and fell down laughing. Last week, I went bowling (seriously) with a group of around 20 Arabs who, shall we say, aren’t exactly career bowlers. I myself bowl about once every ten years. The lowest score that day was in the low 50s and that was attained by a woman who weighed 90lbs soaking wet and who bowled using a two-handed, underhand approach. Some of the other scores weren’t too bad—I saw a few numbers up on the board that were close to 200. I averaged around 130 for three games, which rather sucks.

Obama bowled a 37?!!!

Besides showing what a complete spastic he is, it reinforces my suspicions that the man is a freak—I see freakiness in his effete mannerisms, I see freakiness in his gait, I hear freakiness in his tone of voice. His weird, disjointed upbringing reinforces my perceptions of those freaky traits. I know I’m not being exactly concrete here, but I have killer intuition when it comes to sniffing out phonies, whack-jobs, psychos and freaks. Believe me, his gross politics aside, Barack Obama is a freak—a weirdo of the first order. I think the depth of his weirdness will be exposed the more he comes under scrutiny by the media, both Old and New.

I don’t think Barack Obama really knows who or what he is. He’s just pretending to be something.

Given the fact that he didn’t choose his useless parents or his disjointed, formative surroundings, even I, who truly despise leftists and their sick, destructive beliefs, feel a twinge of pity for him.

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Adela Gereth writes:

Definitely Obama’s bowling is the greater disqualifier. A score of only 37 by a healthy adult male is not merely dismal but positively un-American. He should now be disqualified from becoming POTUS based on non-citizenship.

The blogger zombietime inadvertantly pointed out yet another disqualifier. He photographed Obama just prior to the latter’s making now-infamous remarks and noted that “He sometimes has a sort of Harry Belafonte-esque calypso sashay to his walk.” Leaving aside the horrific Harry Belafonte comparison, it need hardly be said that any man whose ambulatory movements can fairly be described as a “sashay” is patently un-American.

What next, I ask myself? Will we be treated to another batch of Michelle’s embarrassing domestic revelations? Does the stinky Obama sashay around the kitchen whipping up a batch of cornbread to go with the hamhocks and beans? Or, more ominously, does he sashay upstairs to accessorize his outfits?

The photo is no less unnerving than the description.

P.S. You’ve really done it this time! I laughed so hard at the heading of this thread that my husband insisted I tell him what was so funny. A delightful example of your wit and most welcome on a Monday morning. Thank you!

LA replies:

Thank you.

On the photo, maybe there’s a hint of a sashay, but mainly I just see Obama standing with his weight resting on one leg.

In this connection, the video of him bowling, which I just got around to watching, was not the devastating portrayal of a hopelessly uncoordinated Obama which several people had described it as. Yes, his score was devastating and disqualifies him for the presidency, but to me his bowling form looked normal.

Harry the Horse writes:

You wrote:

“In this connection, the video of him bowling, which I just got around to watching, was not the devastating portrayal of a hopelessly uncoordinated Obama which several people had described it as.”

I agree. And if there were to be any doubters of his athletic prowess, the media (HBO) are rapidly riding to the rescue:

REAL SPORTS host Bryant Gumbel sits down with the lifelong hoops lover, providing a rare look at this side of Obama’s personality in a feature that includes footage of the presidential hopeful in action on the court.

After GWB fell off his Segway, I don’t recall the media providing apologetics to our President, who is the most athletically fit to ever hold the office.

Did Obama play seven frames or ten?

This is from CNN’s story, March 30:

On his first warm-up ball, Casey rolled a gutter ball. Obama’s first ball flew gracefully off his hand but also ended up in the gutter. On his second try, he knocked down four pins.

About five lanes over, a young man in a T-shirt that said “Beer Hunter” fell on his backside while bowling and still recorded a strike.

The crowd of regulars pressed in to take pictures, get autographs, and rib him on his poor skills.

Obama did improve, nearly getting a strike in one frame, and in the seventh, picking up a spare, giving him a score of 37. Casey had a score of 71 after getting a strike, and Hart, with one less frame, racked up a score of 82.

“I was terrible,” Obama laughed as he shook hands with a crowd that had gathered outside the building once word spread he was there.

Asked about his game, Hart sounded like a politician, saying: “He has potential.”

Nothing is said about this being an incomplete game. It says he got a spare in the seventh frame, it doesn’t say that his score after seven frames was 37 or that he stopped after seven frames.

Now here is a story from the Detroit Free Press, March 31, which begins with this:

Editor’s note: The original version of this story neglected to say that Barack Obama bowled only seven frames, not the full 10. This version has been corrected….

… Obama let everyone know he hadn’t bowled since Jimmy Carter was president . He bowled seven frames and had a score of just 37…

It could be true that it was only seven frames; in fact it’s more likely that it was seven frames, since a score of 37 in ten frames is so unbelievable. But I have doubts. Look at the CNN story again. Evidently the reporter was on the scene, describing the game in some detail, and gave Obama’s score as 37, without mentioning that this was the score of an uncompleted game. Why wouldn’t the reporter mention that? When do you even give the score for an unfinished game?

We know that reporters today are exceptionally incurious and unthoughtful, but this seems unlikely

On the Web there are stories saying he bowled seven, not ten. But all those references, such as this one led back to the same bland statement in the Detroit Free Press. This item also has some good readers’ responses to his score, including a joke about him having trouble because the pins were white.

However, this story, from Salon.com on March 31, has more detail and seems more believable. It’s saying that when he got a spare in the seventh frame, he stopped the game.

But by the time Obama and Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey Jr.—his newest, and most heavily trumpeted, supporter in the Keystone State—had finished seven frames at Pleasant Valley Bowl, the Illinois Democrat’s game had slowly, but steadily, improved. He kept his shots in the middle of the lane, though he rolled them without quite enough force to knock down all 10 pins at once. So what if Casey (who also hadn’t bowled in years) wound up beating him? When Obama finally cleaned up a spare, he declared victory, changed out of his Velcro bowling shoes and hopped back on the bus that will carry him through Pennsylvania’s small cities and towns until Wednesday.

But again, assuming it was seven not ten frames, this is still a problem for him with many voters. This was at Media Matters:

While discussing the 2008 presidential campaign on the April 14 edition of MSNBC Live, Reuters Washington correspondent Jon Decker raised the issue of Sen. Barack Obama’s bowling performance during a March 29 campaign stop at Pleasant Valley Lanes in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and stated: “You know, this cuts to ‘is this person real? Do they connect with me as a voter?’ You know, for someone who’s in a bowling league in northeast central Pennsylvania, in Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, they can’t identify with someone getting a 37 over seven frames.”

And here’s an amusing article at the Post-Tribune of Northern Indiana, by someone who is apparently a bowling columnist, unless that’s a joke:

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Obama an embarrassment on bowling lanes
April 9, 2008

Editor’s note:

Steve T. Gorches’ usual bowling column will return next week. Enjoy his light-hearted take on Barack Obama’s bowling prowess (or lack thereof).

We still live in the United States, so we still have the right to make a choice.

We have the right to vote our conscience, no matter what issues drive that conscience.

Indiana’s primary election is about a month away and it will be the most important presidential primary in the state in 40 years.

So right here and now, I implore the bowlers of Northwest Indiana, the only area in the nation to host four Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) events in the calender year, to vote for bowling.

And a vote for bowling is a vote against Barack Obama.

The candidate who promotes change has made a mockery of himself and the all-American sport.

Remember, bowling is the No. 1 participatory sport in the country and fastest-growing high school sport. President Richard Nixon even promoted it by installing a lane in the White House. But Obama showed he cannot be the president after rolling a pathetic 37 game.

Yes, that’s right … 37. When my 13-year-old son was 4, he averaged 89 for an entire season.

And to think Obama was visiting a bowling center lobbying for votes. It can only hurt his chances.

Obama’s ineptitude came on a campaign stop in Altoona, Pa. His excuse was that he hasn’t bowled since the 1970s. How can we vote for a president who hasn’t participated in the nation’s No. 1 participatory sport for that long?

“My economic plan is better than my bowling,” numerous media accounts claim he said. The response from a cynical man in the crowd was, “It has to be.”

Visit www.youtube.com to watch Obama’s disheartening, unathletic form and the subsequent gutter ball.

I don’t know if Hillary Clinton is better than Obama (Bowling is as good of a campaign issue as anything since this country’s perception of important issues has been skewed for years.), but I’ll go out on a limb and predict she can beat 37.

One Hillary-ous Internet report on April Fool’s Day said she challenged Obama to a bowl-off for delegates. It may have been an April Fool’s joke, but why shouldn’t she go after his lack of bowling ability?

You say jobs is a big issue; I say bowling is more important.

The economy? Well, it’s important but Americans haven’t thought much of it in the last two elections. Bowling would be a better issue.

Thirty-seven! That’s less than four pins per frame, though some reports say it was 37 in seven frames. But that still prorates to only 53 in 10 frames … still bad.

That’s still pathetic Mr. Obama. You don’t see presidents who can’t golf. Bowling is more of a blue-collar sport compared with golf, which makes it more important for the president to know how to bowl since he’s supposed to be able to relate to us peons.

There are several groups out there supporting each candidate—Hoosiers for Hillary is one in these parts—so I’m starting a new one: Bowlers Against Obama.

I know this isn’t a political column and the Post-Tribune hasn’t given its official endorsement, but as the voice of bowlers everywhere, my choice is ABO (anyone but Obama).

As for an official endorsement … it can be Clinton or McCain, who I’m sure can bowl better than 37, even at his advanced age. But it shouldn’t be Obama.

He bowled a freakin’ 37!

We will be united. We will make sure our sport isn’t made a mockery by the leader of the free world.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at April 14, 2008 10:01 AM | Send