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(5,811 posts)LAWD! the jealousy and envy are real.
liberalnarb
(4,532 posts)Jealousy of a man that can make it into a baskeball hoop at 74?
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)I think it's pretty obvious. But we understand. PBO is the most admired man in the world and HRC is the most admired woman.
liberalnarb
(4,532 posts)Just because he plays basketball means hes jealous of President Obama? I love President Obama, but Bernie was playing sports before the President was born.
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)Show me video of Bernie playing b ball while running for the senate.
liberalnarb
(4,532 posts)Maybe you have one, but I can't find a video of Barack Obama playing basketball as a candidate for senate.
appalachiablue
(41,132 posts)~ CATCH!
appalachiablue
(41,132 posts)and since he was a kid. This is not pandering, envy and jealousy of Pres. Obama playing the game.
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)senate campaign trail. Damn he even pilfered PBO's campaign slogan
Ned_Devine
(3,146 posts)Man! I just got douche chills!
Duckfan
(1,268 posts)They tend to be ridiculous sometimes.
Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)having a little fun on the campaign trail?
desmiller
(747 posts)but i don't speak nor translate "Bullshit".
NAUGHTY LIST YOU GO!!!
appalachiablue
(41,132 posts)Fast Walker 52
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(31,406 posts)'From mid-range he could kill you': Bernie Sanders' basketball days
Team-mates from 1970s Vermont remember the presidential hopeful as an on-court leader with very sharp elbows
Every winter Wednesday night in late 1970s Burlington, Vermont, a small group of men met at the gym behind St Anthonys Catholic Church to play basketball. They huddled against the cold in work boots, sweaters and jackets and were relieved when the most enthusiastic of them arrived with the key he had secured from the church office.
Inside, they quickly changed into gym shorts and T-shirts, careful to keep snow off the tile floor that made up the court. There were almost always 12 to 15 of them, most in their mid-to-late 30s men with college degrees still unsure of their position in life, clinging to youth as responsibility approached. Among them were several woodworkers, a teacher, a college professor, an aspiring filmmaker, a religious man, a car mechanic and a wild-haired film-strip maker from New York named Bernie Sanders.
All these years later they remember him well. He was not the best player but certainly not the worst, with a deadly set-shot, rugged elbows and a brusque, Brooklyn twang that echoed through the tiny gym every time he spoke.
Give me da bawwwwwwl! shouts Clem Nilan, one of the games participants, doing his best impersonation of Sanders on the court.
They laugh when they watch him on the debates. For the Sanders everyone sees now speaking with his arms, flailing his hands and waggling an index finger is the same one they recall from those long ago Wednesdays angling stork-like for rebounds and barking for passes.
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/feb/17/from-mid-range-he-could-kill-you-bernie-sanders-basketball-days
It was the Iowa CNN town hall debate where Bernie Sanders was asked what kind of athlete he used to be. He fondly recalled his youth basketball days, where, he says, he was a star player on his Brooklyn grammar school basketball team. This appears to be true. Newspaper accounts tell of his school, PS 197, winning the Burrough Championship, just as Sanders recalled on CNN.
http://www.sportsgrid.com/video/the-electability-of-the-long-distance-runner-bernie-sanders-casually-brags-about-his-sports-background/