by John McCormick
INDIANAPOLIS - After his recent gutter ball bowling experience in Pennsylvania, Sen. Barack Obama says he has some renovation plans, should he make it to the White House.
"I have sworn that we're taking out the bowling alley in the White House and we're putting in a basketball court," he said, according to a pool report of his visit this afternoon to the Indiana High School Basketball Hall of Fame in New Castle, Ind.
The Illinois Democrat is a big basketball fan and player. He shot a few baskets and looked at display cases and walls filled with pictures, pennants, jerseys, trophies and other memorabilia.
In a state where basketball is practically a religion, Obama has been mentioning the game at virtually ever stop since he played a three-on-three game Friday evening with the winners of a voter registration effort organized by his campaign.




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He won't debate, to answer pertinent questions about:
1. That letter releasing that friend of Rezko wanted by Interpol
2. The Rezko=Kjellander=Rove connection
3. Rev Wright--Bill Moyers' imitation of Walter Cronkite pitching softballs at Da Mare in'68 failed to explore the 'special' relationship he has with Farrakhan-who came out in support of Obama right as da Messiah denounced da minister.
Give me a break!
He knows Generation whatever is in sneakers won't care about news--they've never read a newspaper before this year!
No wonder he has the support of the sexist Michael Moore.
Posted by: whatta punk | April 26, 2008 7:52 PM
Great...taking out the bowling alley and making it into a basketball court?
What's next Barack...draining the water from the swimming pool, pour in vegetable oil and making it a giant deep fryer?
Extra crispy or original....
Paulo
Posted by: Paulo | April 26, 2008 8:08 PM
Hillary has become especially hard to take because she can’t get what she wants without lying a lot, and nobody any longer believes a thing she says. It would help were she as good a liar as her nominal husband is, but even Bill Clinton can’t lie like a Clinton any longer. Even the price of Clintons in China has gone through the floor.
Posted by: Hillary Is Like The Annoying Contact Lens Stuck In My Eye | April 26, 2008 8:39 PM
Obama lost the campaign back when he got Oprah to pile onto the ill-advised bashing of Don Imus (and he's emerged again--more powerful--censorship NEVER works).
He certainly must have KNOWN that his wins in Iowa were FAKE--that the caucus system of voting encourages behavior in the open which will NOT be replicated in the privacy of the voting booth come fall.
He should have been Edwards' veep. Prideful, deceitful--telling people 'if not now and me--then never''.
Wisconsin was fishy. Minnesota fishier.
And now he's appealing to basketball fans? Stop hurting america, Barry and quit this stupid race!
Posted by: thanks for nothing | April 26, 2008 8:44 PM
Words of wisdom from Billary:
http://hillaryclintonexplainsitall.com/confessions/17
Posted by: Billary Clinton explains it all | April 26, 2008 8:45 PM
So the bowling alley stays. Got it.
Posted by: Barry Obamma | April 26, 2008 8:56 PM
ROLLING STONE Magazine:
by Tim Dickinson
4-08
The Hillary camp is now saying that the candidate simply mispoke in concocting an elaborately detailed Bosnian war story of sniper fire and corkscrew maneuvers and running, heads down to armored vehicles.
Balderdash.
Hillary is a habitual teller of tall tales. She’s far worse than Al Gore ever was.
Let us not forget that she long claimed to be named after Sir Edmund Hillary, long after it was pointed out that Edmund was an anonymous beekeeper in New Zealand at the time of her birth, when, she long claimed, her mother read a news clipping of Eddie’s exploits and gave his name to a daughter who was also destined for great heights. (Shortly before she jumped into presidential politics, Hillary kinda sorta fessed up that this just wasn’t true.)
And then there’s this idea that Clinton, in 1975, attempted to become one of the Few. The Proud. The Marines. Right after moving to Arkansas and marrying Bill. Really, I’m not making this up.
But she may well have been.
Hillary claims she was turned away for being a bespectacled woman. Not entirely improbable. But fishy, because it’s almost identical to another mythical tale from her childhood, in which Clinton says she wrote away to NASA, asking what it would take for her to become an astronaut, only to have her childhood hopes dashed by the sexist culture of the space program.
I for one am less troubled by the fact that the senator is a teller of parables and tall tales, than by the fact that she cannot, for the life of her, admit fault.
She didn’t misspeak.
SHE LIED!
She was caught in a whopper. Perhaps several.
Don’t compound the error with double talk.
It’s time to fess up to all of your lies, Billary
http://www.rollingstone.com/nationalaffairs/index.php/2008/03/25/lies-damn-lies-and-mispeakings/
Posted by: Misspeaking is code for Lying | April 26, 2008 8:57 PM
He should not count his chickens til the eggs hatch!!!
Posted by: kaye m. | April 26, 2008 11:23 PM
Senator Obama is emerging in this race as a hero to young and older Americans, like me. It has also become evident that Hillary Clinton, as with the Bosnia sniper fire delusion, suffers from a fantasy that she is the front-runner. With her forever shifting goalposts, her new fuzzy math and kitchensink-sewer, failed and bankrupt campaign, Mrs Clinton wants Obama to give her FREE AIR TIME to debate her for the TWENTY-SECOND time. I am a feminist older than Mrs. Clinton and as an American patriot, I need to do the right thing and tell Mrs. Clinton, shut up already! The Clinton dynasty has been spoiling not just Obama's race in November but also the entire Democratic Party and its representatives'--congressmen, governors, district officers, mayors, etc, etc--abiliity to win in future elections. Bill is fighting Obama to return to the WH for a third term, and Obama has been fighting not just two Clintons (both playing every dirty card in politics) but also the GOP and the mainstream media who want to see the contest continue and their high ratings maintained. Senator Obama MUST denounce and reject Hillary's shameless agenda, to gain free public airtime off his back. He MUST stop treating Hillary as an older white woman like his mother and therefore to be respected and see her for the corrupt (25 million dollars gained from influence peddling last year alone), lying (Bosnia sniper fire), bullying (Judas name-calling), ruthless (just look at her ads), unelectable (highest negatives ever in a presidential candidate, and negatives increasing every day) small human that she is. He MUST begin to draw the contrasts in campaign tone, character, and track record on community work and protection of our constitution that show Hillary as the base candidate that she is.
Posted by: shirl | April 26, 2008 11:28 PM
And if Hillary wins, the only renovation will be setting up more rooms so their donor friends can spend the night at the White House as it was during Bill's presidency.
Posted by: Rusty Bedsprings | April 27, 2008 2:57 AM
You gotta love a man with game! This man has major game! Can't wait to see Jordan, Kareem, and Barkley hoopin' it up at the WhiteHouse. What a hopeful change!
And sure, getting our troops outta Iraq, hunting down Bin Laden, feeding the poor, curing HIV, bringing jobs to our city and towns... Oh yea, a hoopster can definitly do that, too!
Posted by: American Woman | April 27, 2008 4:40 AM
How about those Bulls!!! Yikes.
Posted by: Logic Prisoner | April 27, 2008 6:09 AM
So he's going to spend the people's money on the "infrastructure" of the WH instead the bridges he's always talking about?
Posted by: lochnessmonster | April 27, 2008 6:57 AM
Ugh! maybe he should try winning before he remodels...
Posted by: Austin Tx | April 27, 2008 9:58 AM
Great...taking out the bowling alley and making it into a basketball court?
What's next Barack...draining the water from the swimming pool, pour in vegetable oil and making it a giant deep fryer?
Extra crispy or original....
Paulo
Posted by: Paulo | April 26, 2008 8:08 PM
Thanks, Paulo. Now it is clear to all that your true nature is one of deep seated racism.
Posted by: JollyRoger | April 27, 2008 1:18 PM
Jolly Roger or Roger Jolly or whatever--look--Paulo is damaged. Don't spend time on that.
Here's what's important---your Messiah is a LYAH and a FAKE.
First-=an article from a NEWSPAPER (very convenient things year round for decades before getting politically mouthy) about how he FAKED being a commmunity activist who HELPED POOR PEOPLE--instead he helped Rezko.
www.chicagotribune.com/news/ local/chi-070403obama-ballot,1,57567.story - 183k -
and second---4 debates with Hillary--the only candidate not eliminated FOR HIM by the news media (they want McCain to wipe the floor with him and eliminate the guy's chances at all to be prez in 8 years--FOLD NOW BARACK---BECOME HILLARY'S VEEP) 21 with all of some of the other people eliminated already.
But all those lies about Geraldine Ferraro, Hillary, Bill---were preceded by what he did to Alice Palmer.
Posted by: Karma! Karma who? | April 27, 2008 1:57 PM
He's has plans to go to the WH? On a tour?
Posted by: brigitte | April 27, 2008 2:09 PM
Yes, brigitte--he'll visit it on furlough with Blagojevich and Daley.
http://blogs.suntimes.com/rezko/2008/04/aiham_alsammarae_and_tony_rezk.html
Posted by: Dry your eyes and work for Hillary | April 27, 2008 6:35 PM