Now that he's approaching actually being President, Obama tries to identify with the ignorant rednecks he so clearly defined during the primaries. "I'm just like you... I can talk football!. See how long that holds up when he announces that he as seen the light regarding gay marriage. And gun control.

His transition-team questionnaire already includes a question about whether the applicant or family members own guns.

I wonder if the guestionaire already includes whether or not the applicant believes in God? Family or not?

I think it is just another example of Obama trying to include everybody, don't you?

Or maybe he just really likes college football and is sick of the BS BCS? Sorry to break it to you, but even us godless liberals have to do something to relax when we're not off hugging trees.

Clinging?

Barack Obama was an athlete, he played basketball, you idiots.

But who'd expect you to come out of your invented ideological la la land long enough to discover anything in God's real world.

Frankly, I don't mind if you want to live in la la land if that rocks your boat, but the second you try to use the government of the United States to inflict that world on the rest of us, then I do mind.

You don't see that the problem withyou ignorant rednecks is that you think you can just "roll it all together" and come out the other end with simple solutions. I don't mind being somewhat of an ignorant bad-ass myself (because my collar's still very blue, and I carry my weight), however I don't appreciate your lump being some measure of the man or solutions to the 3 different problems. 1) Just don't care about gay people, but I do feel the good Lord told me somewhere along the line - Judge not, and ye shall not be judged. Something I seem to notice rednecks choose to be ignorant of. 2) I like my hunting appartuses! I don't think I it's all that big of a deal for a non-criminal to be asked to register them. If you are ever shot and killed by a midnight special, you probably, in your ignorance, won't care, however your friends and family and a society that wants to feel a little safer might like to have the increased forensic abilities to get the "ignorant redneck" who did this to you. And I'd just like our new standard bearer of the Democratic party to keep in mind, that when guns are outlawed, only Republicans will have guns. 3) If you played 12 hard fought football contests, and lost a game or two, or came from one of non-darling conferences and were undefeated, wouldn't you like the chance to compete in a playoff scenario to become champion? I watched Ronald Reagan use his power to bust PATCO and his Supreme Court nominees screw the US STEEL retirees, and heard less screaming from you ignorant rednecks than I'm sure we are going to hear about Obama not liking the BCS!

Minnmule,

Great post!

I've never understood what was so threatening about gun registration. The nuts who opplse it, though, do so because they're paranoid and the weapons they have are not hunting, but "protection" weapons.

My own $0.02 regarding the BCS is: I think College Football was better off when the "national championship" was just water cooler/corner bar talk. What the BCS shows us is that there ain't no such animal. The only way you could generate a credible champion would be with a football equivalent of March Madness and you just can't do that with football. If you do a cost/benefit analysis (or, like me, just yank one out of the air), it's pretty clear that the championship trophy some football factory gets to hug for a year isn't worth the cost to the players. The absence of a national champion is part of the charm of the game, and the horror of the BCS, along with the insane proliferation of bowl games, stems from its attempt to impose a championship on a sport that doesn't need one, kn a futile attempt to nationalize what was always a regional sport.

It baffles me that people who are all hot and bothered about states' rights and regional identity want to throw away the regional character of the college game in order to fatten some fat cats' television profits and further exploit the players. It's a lose/lose/lose situation.

Me, about halfway through middle age, I regret every game I played. If every college program had to pay the carryover medical costs of the players, they'd all go broke in a week. Serve them right, too.

"I've never understood what was so threatening about gun registration"

1. It's never just registration. We're always assured that this next restriction-- whatever it is-- will do the trick and make the kids and other innocent citizens safe, and about the time the dust settles on that one it turns out we really need juuuuuuuuust one more law. Ask gun owners in Canada for clarification.

2. A tiny percentage of the guns in this country are ever used in the commission of a crime, and most of those were stolen (a crime itself). Creating a national registry of the lawful private property of millions of law-abiding citizens so you can figure out which law-abiding citizen a murder weapon was stolen from won't do a damn thing except provoke high-speed in-ground spinning from the framers of the Constitution.

are you also against the registration of automobiles?

Ownership of automobiles doesn't become illegal if the registrations expires, not true for registered firearms. Driving an automobile on public roads isn't a right, it's a privilege. Ownership of firearms is a right among those enumerated in the Bill of Rights.

But BCS sucks, if Obama can get changes made great!

I'm also unaware of any movement backed by politicians to confiscate automobiles, or any legislation intended to do so.

Doubtless one of our brethren can enlighten me-- is there a bill pending somewhere that bans black cars?

middleview,

A tiny percentage of the CARS in this country are ever used in the commission of a crime, and most of those were stolen (a crime itself). Creating a national registry of the lawful private property of millions of law-abiding citizens so you can figure out which law-abiding citizen a CAR was stolen from won't do a damn thing except provoke high-speed in-ground spinning from the framers of the Constitution.

Forgive me, I couldn't resist. :)

tiredandold: There is no national registry of cars, either. Cars are registered at the state level, but if a given state chose not to do so, that wouldn't be illegal.

I think you're misunderestimating the bipartisan draw of the pigskin, JonFrum.

This liberalish, Obama-voting, gun-fearing, legal-marriage-demanding lesbian is glued to her TV every fall Saturday... and Thursday... and sometimes Friday.