Not since Harry S. Truman sank a 21 foot jumper during a campaign stop in Keyser, West Virginia in 1948 have we seen a presidential candidate hit a genuine three-point shot. Ladies and gentlemen, our long wait is over.
As part of the "3-on-3 Challenge for Change" voter registration drive in Indiana, students who registered 20 people to vote were eligible for a drawing to play Sen. Barack Obama in a game of 3-on-3 at their school. In the following video, we see clips of the historic game at Maple Crest Middle School in Kokomo, Indiana.
But, wait. I know what you're thinking. Kokomo? Yeah, Kokomo. Is there a problem?
B. Brandon Barker is the author of the novel Operation EMU.
B. Brandon Barker's writing has appeared in Global City Review, The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror (St. Martin's Press), Verbicide, The Feed and online at McSweeney's. He's also the author of the novel Operation Emu. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, he was born in England, raised in Arkansas and now lives in Virginia.
Obama mentioned his church during his appearance with Oprah. It's the 'Trinity United Church of Christ'.
It is very alarming. Barack Obama is a member of this church and is running for President of the U.S. If you look at the first page of their Web site, you will learn that this congregation has a non-negotiable commitment to Africa. No where is America even mentioned. Notice too, what color you will need to be if you should want to join Obama's church? Does this surprise anyone?
Doesn't look like his choice of religion has improved much over his Muslim upbringing. This guy wants to rule America while his loyalty is totally vested in a black Africa !
I cannot believe this has not been all over the TV and newspapers. This is why it is so important to pass this message along to all our family and friends. To think that Obama has even the slightest chance in the run for the presidency is really scary.
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SamTexas
3:13PM Apr 30th 2008
The hell is this about. I can't freakin' believe this would even be put up for discussion. I guess I failed myself in even getting as worked up as I am about this freakin' nonsense. Here we are listening, yet again, to Obama and his campaign cryin' about issues issues issues and you put on this BS about basketball. Makes no sense to me. This man keeps getting such free passes. The media is "light" on him is makes me sick to my stomach.
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ellen
3:18PM Apr 30th 2008
Can't debate Hillary. Don't have time. But he's got time to play basketball. Oh but I forgot they have had 21 debates. But the fact of the matter is there have only 3 or 4 head to head debates. And if he was really interested in letting the people get to know him then he would go head to head with her, no moderator just them.
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JOHN
3:24PM Apr 30th 2008
During a Michelle Obama appearance at Carnegie Mellon University, the school paper The Tartan reported the attention-getting phrase: The Tartan's correspondents observed one event coordinator say to another, "Get me more white people, we need more white people." To an Asian girl sitting in the back row, one coordinator said, "We're moving you, sorry. It's going to look so pretty, though."
"I didn't know they would say, 'We need a white person here,' " said attendee and senior psychology major Shayna Watson, who sat in the crowd behind Mrs. Obama. "I understood they would want a show of diversity, but to pick up people and to reseat them, I didn't know it would be so outright."
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TJ
3:23PM Apr 30th 2008
WRIGHT VERSUS OBAMA --- THE WAR OF THE MESSIAHS. A COUPLE OF BLACK WARRING MESSIAHS, JUST WHAT AMERICA NEEDS. "AMERICA'S CHICKEN IS COMING HOME TO ROOST.."
THE ONLY WINNER HERE IS THE ONLY CHICK STANDING. hillary clinton. FORGET THE SHARADE BY OBAMA AND HIS PASTOR WHO THESE TWO CLOWNS FOOLING? "THE AUDACITY OF A LIE" IM NOT BUYUNG IT!!!! Too little , Too late.
NO MORE FREE RIDE FOR OBAMA CONTRIBUTE TO HILLARY. tripling our donation before midnight today.
ALL OBAMA'S DONE IS REST ON HIS LAURELS AND PLAY BASKETBALL IN INDIANA HIS CULT WILL SEND HIM $50 MILLION . THEN COME ELECTION DAY. HE'LL GET TROUNCED AGAIN BY A "penniless" GIRL- hillary clinton THEN THE MEDIA WILL BE ASKING TWISTED QUESTIONS.. "IS IT HILLARY'S FAULT THAT OBAMA CANT FIGIURE ANYTHING OUT?.. LETS HEAR THE PUNDITS-KEITH OLBERNMANN. WHAT DO YOU THINK , KEITH, IS IT ALL HILLARY'S FAULT?
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John
3:30PM Apr 30th 2008
SamTexas, Oh, get over yourself. The media has not been "light" on Obama ever since Rev Wright became a youtube star and the soundbites became the perfect size for prime time coverage and the simple-minded. Speaking of "light," the media goes out of their way to avoid questions about Whitewater, Susan McDougal, Travelgate, etc. Not a word. Hmmm. I wonder why? If Hillary gets the nomination, we'll hear a lot about all of it. Again. And again. And again.
HoosierDaddy
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David S.
3:31PM Apr 30th 2008
Oh, come on, Ellen, get a grip. What do Obama and Clinton have left to say to one another? Do you honestly believe another useless debate is going to change anyone's mind? Besides, folks have already made up their minds who they do and do not support. Just how people are. Does anyone honestly believe Hillary or Obama would say something so brilliant the other side is going to come flooding over to vote for them? Sheesh....enough of the debates. Get on with the primary.
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Katherine
3:34PM Apr 30th 2008
Obama has some pep for a smoker. Sorry, I'd rather vote for Kermit than Obama.
BTW, this basketball game happened days ago. Old news. AOL would rather report this than Hillary getting a superdelegate today?
$%#%$#$%$!
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Time4Change
4:24PM Apr 30th 2008
How come no 1 questions why Hillary and Bill Clinton seem to stay in fund-raiser fraud cases (Peter Paul vs. Hillary and Bill Clinton)? Why Tony Rezko also did a fund-raiser for one of Hillary Clinton's Co-Chairs (Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa)? Why did Bill Clinton pardon those 2 members of the Weather Undergroud? Why is it that EVERYONE in the Clinton Administration, including Hillary has faced fraud charges, tampering with files, lying under oath, accepted large illegal donations into the DNC, the Clinton Library and Hillary's 2000 campaign from Drug Dealers (Jorge Cabrera) and other corrupt persons? Funds from foreign powers for favors? Why they won't release the names of the Clinton Library donors? Why has no one made mention that their Tax Returns for the past 3 years were just done this past October and the dates were left out on their tax returns from 2000-2003? Why we're no longer asking to see Hillary's earmark requests for the past 8 years?
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JimM
3:54PM Apr 30th 2008
Out playing hoops again. Where is the discussions of the issues Obama says is important?
If he needs anything to relax, he should try bowling. But watch out for the gutters, they ar on both sides. You must take a relevantly straight path to score.
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JimM
3:58PM Apr 30th 2008
Face it, Obama is a wimp. This is why he will not debate. It is simple as that.
If he does not debate, he will lose a lot of voters because he will look like a wimp.
If he debates and does well, he can put her away.
Or can he, she is truly a "Rocky."
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SamTexas
4:16PM Apr 30th 2008
John,
You can not honestly say the media has been light on Clinton. Then we have very different perceptions of what LIGHT is. Yes, since Rev. Wright came out they have actually been asking him questions. The media has been down Clinton's throat since the beginning mockin everything from policy (which Obama conviniently brushes up then calls his own) to her laugh to what she wears. She is constantly ridiculed and ran over the coals. It hasn't been very fair. I also see by the questions you want to have Clinton be asked you are doing exactly what your "candidate" is fight against. I find it interesting how when it comes to Clinton, you all want to touch on everything she's witnessed in her life, her husband, Chelsea...but when it comes to your "candidate", you want to stick to issues. That's odd!
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JefFlyingV
4:47PM Apr 30th 2008
Smart move by Obama. Hoosiers pride themselves as basketball afficienados.
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Good at Basketball, Bad at Leading!
5:12PM Apr 30th 2008
Barack Obama is being exposed for the propagandist that he is. He denounces but won't walk away from his campaign "spiritual" advisor and Reverend Jermiah Wright. Why? Because he's learned everything he needs to know from Wright! How to BRAINWASH people.
Propagandists try to appeal to the "heart" instead of the "mind". BELIEVE in CHANGE and HOPE. These are said like they are mantras. The gulible audiences then project their own beliefs into these empty vessels. Belief, change and hope then become anything that YOU think they are and NOT what he has in mind.
Ask youself, what CHANGE is he talking about?
What DOES he BELIEVE in?
WHO is he to ASK us to HOPE that he is President?
WHAT is his RECORD? WHERE did he COME from and WHERE did he come up with these ideas if he doesn't have ANY EXPERIENCE bringing these THINGS to fruition?
If you have fallen for Obama, you have fallen for the skillfull manipulation of a propagandist. He learned how to do it from Reverend Wright, a guy who is trained to seperate Church goers from bills in their wallets so that he can build himself a big mansion in a fancy rich WHITE neighborhood of Chicago.
Obama too is building himself this same kind of mansion. He did it in a real estate deal with a guy named Tony Rezko who is CHARGED in FEDERAL courts WITH BRIBERY KICKBACKS and FRAUD!
Mind manipulators will tell you that you cannot trust your own thinking, in order that THEY may do your thinking for you! Beware of wanting to believe. Instead of wanting to believe, want to know the truth! Don't believe the LIES and SPIN they will try to TRANSFER to their opponents like Hillary Clinton!
Hillary Clinton is NOT responsible for Obama's problems! Obama is!
Vote for Obama if you want to be SEPARATED from your MIND and your WALLET!
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tzada
5:33PM Apr 30th 2008
Watching Florida news.. Corrine Brown SD for Clinton just said, that Florida would shut down the convention, in Denver if Florida votes are not counted.
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John
5:33PM Apr 30th 2008
SamTexas, You misunderstand me, Sam. I do not want those questions raised--I think they are immaterial and idiotic diversions, just as I believe the Reverend Wright nonsense is overblown hyperbole. I am also not saying that the media has been light on Hillary. What I am saying is that they have NOT been light on Obama. And no matter who the nominee is, they each have enough of these ridiculous sidebars to keep the Republican hate machine in overdrive. We should not be helping the Republicans, and by we, I mean both Hillary and Barack, as well as their supporters.
As for "Good at Basketball, Bad at Leading!", where have you been spending the last several months? Planet Uranus? Who is leading in pledged delegates, states won, and the popular vote? Who has narrowed the gap in superdelegates down to 30 at last count? The junior senator from Illinois has done that. Senator Obama has demonstrated his leadership in the way he has run this campaign-- from being a virtual unknown stacked up against the wife of a popular former president, he is now on top. She was better known and better connected--many more friends in high and influential places--and she had more money by far in the beginning of this campaign. Someone said it here before, but it bears repeating: running a campaign MUST be easier than running the nation. Barack Obama has outcampaigned Hillary CLinton. That, my friend, is true leadership.
HoosierDaddy
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Tom
5:35PM Apr 30th 2008
CLINTON OR MCCAIN
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tzada
5:49PM Apr 30th 2008
JefFlyingV4:47PMApr 30th 2008
Smart move by Obama. Hoosiers pride themselves as basketball afficienados. _______________________________________________
From me: hope they are smart enough to realize they are being pandered to.
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JefFlyingV
5:56PM Apr 30th 2008
Tzada, isn't the campaign a "Pandering Trail" for all candidates? Hillary and McCain pander to voters, but Obama isn't allowed the same?