McCain hits Obama for varying World Series support

Source: The Associated Press

In a region experiencing World Series fever, Republican John McCain questioned Democrat Barack Obama's character Tuesday after he expressed support for both teams playing in the upcoming baseball championship.

Standing just miles north of Philadelphia, whose Phillies will represent the National League starting Wednesday against the American League champion Tampa Bay Rays, the Republican presidential nominee noted Obama has identified himself with both teams while campaigning in their two politically important home states.

The Illinois senator said over the weekend in Philadelphia that while he was a Chicago fan, "Since the White Sox are out of it, I'll root for the Phillies now." On Monday in Tampa, Obama was introduced by a Rays pitcher and said, "I've said from the beginning that I am a unity candidate, bringing people together. So when you see a White Sox Fan showing love to the Rays _ and the Rays showing some love back _ you know we are on to something right here." ...

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Thank GOD John McCain brought it to our attention.

People don't give a rat's a** about this stuff, IMO.

Obama brings people together in ways McC once dreamed he himself did.

isn't exactly the same as rooting for. Obama is rooting for the Phillies but gave a shout out to the Rays. How hard is that to understand?

McCain is an idiot.

Does he even realize that he's making an ass of himself? Does he know that he's being laughed at? Does he realize that his reputation as an honorable man no longer exists?

Was it the Steelers? Or the Packers? Or does the story about how heroic you were vary depending on who you're pandering to?

McCain is in no position to criticise others for saying 'good luck in the World Series'.

:sarcasm:

has his NFL offensive line story...if he is in Wisconsin he tells supporters that while a POW to keep busy he would go over the entire offensive line for the Packers and if he is in Pennsylvania he says the Steelers and if he is in Florida he says the Dolphins....

OK, I guess I wasn't that surprised...

Anyway, to follow simple logic, Obama supports the White Sox. They lost so he told fans in Philadelphia that he'd start rooting for the Phillies. After this, the Phillies lose and Obama is in Florida being endorsed by several members of the Rays, the winners. Obama states: "I've said from the beginning that I am a unity candidate, bringing people together. So when you see a White Sox Fan showing love to the Rays _ and the Rays showing some love back _ you know we are on to something right here." Where is the varying support? Don't most sports fans choose another team when their own is knocked out of the running? Obama didn't say that he was pulling for the Rays (unlike mcRacist telling PA audiences that he ran through the lineup of their football team when he had told everyone for years it was the MN team), he told a joke about being a Sox supporter who could unify the fans from two competing teams.

Not only is this "issue" bogus, it is a complete lie - just like everything else that comes out of mcRacist's mouth.

they won!!

"McCain told several hundred people standing in a cavernous warehouse: "Now, I'm not dumb enough to get mixed up in a World Series between swing states. But I think I may have detected a little pattern with Sen. Obama. It's pretty simple really. When he's campaigning in Philadelphia, he roots for the Phillies, and when he's campaigning in Tampa Bay, he `shows love' to the Rays.""

Chickenshit motherfucker.

and when he is in Florida he is rooting for the Philies. :/

perennial losers

a ball team from LONG ago.

First a terrorist, next a socialist, and now what, a fucking sports flip-flopper? This guy ain't just gonna lose, he's also senile and really, really just like W.

the only thing he knows how to do is take sides and dig his heels in. He can't imagine being supportive of both teams.

I doubt McCain's been to a ball game in decades.......

Oh well, maybe he's just trying to Kerry-ize Barack Obama..........good luck with THAT...

didn't McCain flip flop on the team that he used for his squad during Vietnam.

has said she's for both teams. McCain is pissied off because some of the Rays endorsed Obama, and no pro baseball players have yet come out for McCain. There is a great photo with this story but I cannot paste it in.... and sorry, I don't have a link.



Players Endorse Obama AnywayTuesday, October 21, 2008Posted By Chris Mottram 9:30 AM

With two swing states (although Barack Obama has a 10-point hammerlock on Pennsylvania at this point) represented in the World Series, obviously the most vital topic on the tip of the candidates tongues has to be who they’re rooting for. This is the type of stuff that makes or breaks elections. Over a week ago, Barack Obama, a diehard White Sox fan, pledged his support in these MLB playoffs to the Phillies. His reasoning was this:
“I think that I’m going to have to root for Philly potentially because my campaign manager is a fanatical Phillies fan and I don’t want him mad at me for the next few weeks.”
Fair enough, Senator. And we dare say more savvy than Sarah Palin’s approach of siding with both teams. But despite Obama’s support of the Phillies, yesterday in Florida, six Rays players came out to endorse him:
Today he found himself at a rally at George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, and, well, six players from the Rays walked out — to thunderous applause — to endorse him. (For the record: outfielders Jonny Gomes and Carl Crawford, and Fernando Perez, the pitchers David Price and Edwin Jackson, and Cliff Floyd, the designated hitter.) “I’ve said from the beginning that I am a unity candidate, bringing people together,” he said. “So when you see a White Sox Fan showing love to the Rays. And the Rays showing some love back – you know we are on to something right here.”
Rays fans have to be deeply troubled by this: Their players shaking hands with a guy who once served on an education board with a reformed terrorist. Does that not make the players guilty of terrorism by association? Quick: We’re gonna need some robocalls in the Tampa-St. Pete area warning them of who the Rays are associating themselves with. Any fan will understand that the real problem facing the Rays this week isn’t the impending Cole Hamels Crisis and how the team will deal with that on the field, but rather who they’re spending their free time paling around with.

After all, he knew Abner Doubleday personally.

Indeed, one version of the story has it that Doubleday came up with the idea for the game when he used a stick to fend off rocks that McCain was throwing at him while yelling "Get off my lawn!"

:sarcasm:

We're screwed.

but, you know, whatever. :eyes: