Here’s the President throwing out the first pitch at the All-Star game this evening in St. Louis.
St. Louis fans have a reputation as being the most gracious fans in all of baseball so the boos were mildly surprising. Look, we’re not going to get preachy here but this sort of thing gets under our skin a bit.
Over six months ago, the American people spoke and chose Barack Obama to be the President of this country. He’s our President – deal with it. Perhaps because our formative experience at Seminary taught us that you are saluting the rank/uniform and not the man/women, this causes us more grief than it does others. Exercise your first amendment rights all you choose in public, with your friends or on a blog(?) but if you can’t respond in a courteous manner to the President of this country in a non-partisan public forum then shut the hell up!
Exit question: What’s up with the camera angle? Did Fox check out that rag-arm delivery of his in the warm-up tosses beforehand and figure they’d hedge their bets against him bouncing one?
P.S. In (booing) Cardinal fans’ defense, maybe they thought that going out to the ol’ ballpark was the only way they could escape the guy in the primetime.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
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3 comments:
I can't help but feel the contrast with George Bush throwing out the first pitch to open the World Series game in New York in 2001.
But I agree with your basic premise, you don't boo the Commander in Chief, at least not when he is performing a ceremonial function.
When does a boy learn to deliver a baseball? About the same age as the President was when he resided in Indonesia.
Our president missed out on the American childhood experience. He admittedly lived abroad during this time. Why is it so surprizing he throws like a girl?
Your right, the people elected him. Be ashamed, but don't boo.
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