For Obama, basketball with an important audience

babylonsister

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Sun Aug-08-10 02:00 PM
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For Obama, basketball with an important audience

Do you think faux will whine about this? Of course they will!

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBAMA?SITE=CONGRA&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

For Obama, basketball with an important audience

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is out for some weekend basketball - this time, with an important audience.

The White House said that the president was playing hoops on Sunday before a crowd of "wounded warriors" - troops injured in action - and also participants in the White House's mentoring program.

As for participants in the game itself, Obama was being joined not just by friends but also college and professional basketball players.

The president was playing at Fort McNair in Washington, a short drive from the White House.

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elleng

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Sun Aug-08-10 02:08 PM
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1. WE WANT PICS!!!

Glad he's getting 'out!'

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impik

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Sun Aug-08-10 02:19 PM
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4. I think they never take pictures when wounded soldiers are involved

But maybe the WH official site will have something.

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Clio the Leo

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Sun Aug-08-10 09:04 PM
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6. Here you go....

Edited on Sun Aug-08-10 09:05 PM by Clio the Leo

President Barack Obama jokes with Chicago Bulls players Joakim Noah and Derrick Rose. The President played basketball with friends, college and professional basketball players, before an audience that included wounded warriors and White House mentees at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C., August 8, 2010.

Their shirts say "POTUS..." something ... cant make it all out.

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jaxx

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Sun Aug-08-10 02:09 PM
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2. Bet that will be a good game.

I remember when he played with some vets at the WH earlier...they were tough.

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jefferson_dem

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Sun Aug-08-10 02:13 PM
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3. Funny...that you ask.

Sludge already has a link up ... to a foxnews story. Their perpetual poutrages have grown seriosly boring.

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Rosa Luxemburg

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Sun Aug-08-10 06:19 PM
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5. Cool!

look forward to seeing the photos!

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