Bowling for Barack
Hillary challenges Barack “37″ Obama to a bowl-off.
Question: Does Barack get bumpers? And can he use that rail thingy my four-year-old uses?
He needs all the help he can get.
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Biggest fools of the day nominees: The goofballs at Media Matters incensed at light-hearted commentary about Obama’s gutterballs.
Commenter Larraby recommends duckpin bowling. I second that.
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This is something Obama should expect to be made fun of. Everyday working Americans know what 37 in bowling means, and they are all laughing.
The dude couldn’t even break 50! Why would this guy do this to himself if he knew he couldn’t bowl. He shouldn’t have been in a bowling alley. . . especially not with cameras. More evidence of his poor judgment.
I’m thinking that someone this disadvantaged at bowling needs some bowling affirmative action to help even the outcome.
I thought it was kind of slick on her part. She managed in a light-hearted way to mention Michigan & Florida, and makes herself seem a little more blue-collar.
woah.. even first timers with a decided lack of natural ability fare better than that.. 37.. that’s like.. retarded.
Does Obama have the “necessities” to be a big-time league bowler?
Maybe Barack Obama can try his hand at duckpin bowling. You get three tries instead of two although the bowling ball is lighter and smaller. So that may make things easier for Barack. Both Hillary and Barack are elitists who would never do anything so low brow as go to the local bowling alley and put on those bowling shoes and shirts. Both Barack and Hillary prefer chablis and brie.
This man and I say that loosly,cannot even figure out how to roll a ball. Throwing gutter ball after gutter ball he was not able to visualize and adapt. Maybe reading to much into this but I wouldn,t trust him to run a donut shop.
Like you wouldn’t trust me to grade your english papers
LOL… I’ve seen the bumpers, but never the launching rail.
I would rather watch a pay-per-view steel cage death match between the two. Obama would be toast. After all she is the Rocky of politics. I’m listening to the Rocky/”she who must not be named” montage on Hannity right now.
Someone with a 37 avg would have a 147 pin handicap.
C’mon guys, you know it was probably some “typical white person” keeping his score down.
I say let him use the rail thingy.
I also say your 4yo is more qualified to run for POTUS than Glowbama is.
As I said on another post a few days ago, if this guy can’t bowl better than a “37″, should he even be considered for the Presidency? 2-4 year olds can do better than that.
Well. Honestly, I can’t bowl much better than that, and I don’t see a “bowling score” requirement in the Constitution. Not to mention there’s a bowling alley in the White House–all he has to say to respond to childish “my 4-year-old is better” taunts is say, “Don’t worry, I’ll get in a lot of practice before 2012″ and his devotees go wild. *shudder*
I do get a kick out of weaselly DNC POTUS candidates pretending they’re men, though. Put the footage of this next to John F’n Kerry trying to catch a football, Al Gore pretending to hunt, and Dukakis pretending to drive a tank.
Oooh, Obama pandering to the Midwest during pheasant season, that should be a hoot.
HeatherRadish said:
I laugh because it’s true. I cry because it’s true.
But can he handle Candlepins?
His pastor referred to Americans of Italian descent as “garlic noses.” Next he’ll be playing Bacci Ball to try and get those votes back.
Yes, media matters gets huffy over small things, just like MM.
Barack needs a couple of things to become a great bowler. First he needs a fingertip 16lb ball. Secondly he needs a good coach like myself, having averaged over 200 for the past 25+ years in our leagues. I can even average over 160 bowling left handed with no problema.
Looking at the tape of Obama bowling you can tell he is an excellent athlete. He has decent form. With a REAL bowling ball, custom drilled for his hand, he will have a devastating hook from the left side as so many excellent athletes do who are left handers. I’ not saying Barack would ever rise to the level of Parker Bohn III, Mike Aulby or Earl Anthony, but he could be an excellent league bowler.
Ah, candlepins. The only place I’ve ever encountered a candlepin bowling alley is in the Northeast. The size of the ball is exactly the same as the arcade bowling games. It’s a lot of fun slinging that little ball down there at what seems like 90 mph. My brother and I got tossed from an alley in Maine for trying to hit the pins on a fly.
Maybe the bowling ball was too heavy. Perhaps, duckpins is more his speed. Colored balls too.
Well you know the rich don’t go into “peasant sports” such as bowling. He and his big mouthed wife probably have never picked up a bowling ball before in their lives and they’re going to make darn sure their precious offspring don’t either-they must take piano and dance (hence why the obama family is broke according to the mouth).
Seriously, I am not the best bowler in the world but my lowest score was in the 60s.
Honestly, how is it possible to get a 37? The worst game I ever bowled in my life was an 86, and I’d had a bit too much to drink before hitting the alley with friends in college. And I’m the whitest, least coordinated person I know… or I thought I was until Barack hit the lanes.
If this is in ANY way indicative of how four years of an Obama presidency will play out, we’re in trouble. I realize having keen athletic ability isn’t a prerequisite for leading the free world, but a “37″? Come on. If anyone thought the world was laughing at us because of Ford or G.W., wait ’til they get a load of this guy’s prowess. Geesh!
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HeatherRadish said:
“Oooh, Obama pandering to the Midwest during pheasant season, that should be a hoot.”
I’m giggling at that one!
If ever I needed a reason not to take up hunting, that’s it. I don’t want to be within a hundred miles of the “Messiah” when he has a loaded gun in his hand. Hope he knows which end is the dangerous end.
I agree, 37 is pretty bad. I had a 76 in my first game as a 11 year old and that was with an 8lb ball that could barely knock over the pins. For Obama to bowl a 37 he had to throw at least 10 gutter balls in a ten frame game. If I have a chance to coach him for 10 minutes he’d break 100 for sure and probably get closer to 150 after just one game.
BTW, my YOUNGER brother beat me with an 84 that first game, something I still hear about anytime we bowl, play golf, softball or anything competitive.
Consider this though… Barack Obama will be the first President in USA history who can dunk a basketball.
That’s a score of someone that lacks a backbone.
Wimpynerd is NOT someone I want making decisions from the Oval office. And any 40 year old man that rolls a 37 is a Wimpynerd.
I saw a Barrack ad today and realized he looks just like Alfred E Neuman. This will also occur to Democrats in about 3 years when they wake up and consider ‘What were we thinking?’
It’s the what wakes them up that has me worried.
He’s been throwing gutter balls long before he ever tried bowling.
I was wondering what a guy who can’t hit 10 pins with a large ball thinks of a strategy to shoot missles out of the sky. It stands to reason that if Barack finds it difficult to keep a bowling ball out of the gutter, he might think a missle defense shield is impossible.
You might want to go to his web site. There you will find absolutely nothing about missle defense. As a matter of fact, you will find nothing about national defense.
He should get Rev. Wright to show him how to knock those white pins down with a black ball.
To answer the question about why he’d do it if he hadn’t bowled before, the only one I could come up with is that he thought “It’s only a game dumb crackers play, how hard could it be?”
How hard could it be, indeed?
I just have a hard time imagining a grown man not able to break 50. My first game back in fifth grade was something like 76. That’s just super embarassing, but he probably couldn’t have cared less, since it’s just a game dumb crackers play.
The more I find out about this guy, the less plausible I find it that he can possibly become president. First he turns out to be so far to the left, he makes George McGovern look like Barry Goldwater, then there’s the Tony Rezko business, and his race-baiting America-hating pastor of his, and his terrorist friend from the Weather Underground, and the Black Panthers, and the Million Man March with Farrakhan, etc…etc…
Seriously, when are the Democrats going to finally tell us that this has all been a huge practical joke, and tell us who they’re REALLY going to nominate for president? Andrew Jackson has to be spinning like a gyroscope in his grave.
According to an article in Salon, he only bowled seven frames. (but I can’t get the link to work anymore):
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/04/01/bowling
He had recently left a rally in Pittsburgh with ex-Steelers Franco Harris and Jerome Bettis. He should have taken Bettis with him to Altoona (where he bowled the 37); Jerome is an excellent bowler.
For the record, it’s candlepiin bowling in which three balls are thrown for each frame (called a “box” up there in New England). Additionally, fallen pins are not cleared away between balls. Duckpin bowling is played and scored the same as tenpin bowling, with two balls per frame.
That “rail thingy” is a valuable part of the sport for the severely handicapped; and it’s also preferred by some wheelchair bound bowlers with otherwise normal abilities.
That Salon link works OK — my browser settings were on hyper-paranoid…