Obama bowled a 37 last night in Altoona

[splat]

Obama did improve, nearly getting a strike in one frame, and in the seventh, picking up a spare, giving him a score of 37. Casey had a score of 71 after getting a strike, and Hart, with one less frame, racked up a score of 82.

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[tekisui]

1. They are a bunch of sorry bowlers.

I've bowled a 279.

Good thing they are better at governing than bowling!

[Bonobo]

7. OMG! Am no bowler, but got lucky and scored a 201 once! 270=amazing.

[tekisui]

15. It was my high game ever.

But, 37 is just sad.

No respect lost for Obama here, though. Some people just don't like to bowl. Some people have never bowled.

[Thepricebreaker]

2. Im sure his mind isnt on bowling at the moment...

[stop the bleeding]

3. I suck at bowling

I'm always happy to get 130 or above.

:beer:

[tularetom]

14. I never wanted to put my feet in them rented bowling shoes.

I've delivered lambs and calves but that was too disgusting for me.

[stop the bleeding]

18. I completely understand

cool picture of the cats btw.

:beer:

[NJSecularist]

4. Was that with or without bumpers? n/t

[Jersey Devil]

5. Sounds like my scores, LOL

I think I bowled a 37 once. I joined a mixed league when I was first married because my wife said we needed some exercise and to go out a bit more. One night I threw 7 strikes in a game (I have no idea how that happened), a double, open, triple, open, double, open, and wound up with only a 191. I think I broke the record for the most strikes in a game with a score of under 200.

[TheDonkey]

6. They really should have had him practice before he went out and bowled or at least just done a few

frames and not an entire game. 37 is BAD, seriously haha.

[dkf]

8. The pics looks pretty good though...

[TheDonkey]

28. yes they did

Obama even though losing horribly looked like he was having fun and always looks sexy :)

[JayFredMuggs]

12. We really can't have a President that is such a lousy bowler!

It would be a disgrace to the entire bowling world !!!

How could America live with that?

By the way, does anyone know if Bush ever bowled?

[Hippo_Tron]

37. No, that's the kinda thing they do with Bush

For god's sake, he's human. I don't see any problem with letting voters realize that.

[quakerboy]

9. I can get with a prez

that I can beat at bowling, but not law.

[sudopod]

92. It could be good for diplomacy

"Ah, you won again Mr. Prime Minister. That was a blast! Now, let's talk about that trade agreement..."

[Nailzberg]

10. That's usually how bad my third or fourth game is, after the beers have kicked in.

Bowling sure is fun, even when you suck.

[SunsetDreams]

11. Oh noesssss!!!!

Being good at bowling is very much a requirement of CIC, why on earth, or how on earth did they let him slip through?

Guess I don't qualify either, the gutter ball is my friend.

[UALRBSofL]

13. Obama bowled a 37, that's just awful

This could be a sign you know. It could mean the percentage of populary vote he would get in a GE or it could mean the percentage of Clinton supporters that wouldn't vote for him in the GE.

[loveangelc]

22. Oh! Or, it could be how well he did bowling.......

[Hippo_Tron]

38. Nah! that's impossible

[NJSecularist]

25. Or it could be the amount of seats we lose in Congress in the next midterm elections

if we elect Hillary and HillaryCare #2 fails.

[Unsane]

42. so true

[AZBlue]

16. That's pretty much my high score!

[Johnny__Motown]

17. Isn't there a bowling alley (2 lanes) in the White House? Maybe he can practice up for 2012

[grantcart]

29. was two now one

That's a 7-10 Split, Mr. President




The White House Bowling Alley is a one-lane bowling alley in the basement of the White House under the North Portico.

Bowling lanes were first built in the ground floor of the West Wing as a birthday gift for President Truman in 1947 (in the location of the present-day Situation Room); Truman didn't care for bowling himself, but allowed staff to start a league. These were moved to the Old Executive Office Building in 1955 to make way for a mimeograph room.

In 1969, President and Mrs. Nixon, both avid bowlers, had a new one-lane alley built (paid for by friends) in an underground workspace area below the driveway leading to the North Portico

[Tribetime]

19. was that 5 frames..

[splat]

20. not if he got a spare in the seventh

[Tribetime]

24. was Hillary scoring sounds way too low

[undeterred]

That does it. I can't vote for anyone who bowls under 40.

I have standards. They're low, but I've got 'em.

[tishaLA]

21. Oh NOES! There goes the Pro Bowlers Assoc. Hall of Fame!

[NC_Nurse]

23. I'm glad I'm not the worst bowler ever. I've actually beaten that score, and I

am an AWFUL bowler. :-)

[blonndee]

26. LOL He bowls about like I do.

Ah well. I guess he can't be a master at everything! :)

[JeffR]

27. 37????????????

I haven't bowled in over 15 years and I could do better than that. Maybe I need to rethink my support of this guy.

[Forkboy]

30. The only real bowling is candlepin anyways.

That big ball picking on those teeny pins is just mean.

:hide:

[JVS]

31. Oh wow. I can bowl better than these dudes and I consider myself a poor bowler.

Don't bowl publicly unless you can break 100. Even then it's nothing to be proud of.

[jgraz]

32. BREAKING: Obama announces major speech on bad bowling for Tuesday, Apr 1st

Hillary Clinton comments on what good bowlers she and John McCain are.

[blonndee]

36. LOL!!

Cute. :thumbsup:

[adoraz]

44. HAHA!!

That made me laugh out loud!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

93. "We didn't break 40. Not this time."

Lauded as the greatest speech on bowling by a politician since Truman's famous "Hambone, Hambone Have You Heard?" speech.








Note: HAMBONE
Throwing four strikes in a row (Courtesy of PBA announcer Rob Stone). This is also known as a four-bagger.

[Hawkeye-X]

33. Obama better remind me to sign up for league this fall!

I need the exercise, and the $200 ball needs to be thrown!

[VolcanoJen]

34. So, he can't bowl.

But he can caucus his ass off. ;-)

[JVS]

35. PIC: Obama congratulates a fellow bowler on her victory over him

At least he's a good sport.

[PresidentObama]

39. The Peoples Candidate: I can't bowl worth shit either lol n/t

[babylonsister]

40. From 7:30am today, Obama (can't) Bowl...

but give him time, I bet he could. :evilgrin:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5312501&mesg_id=5314569

[Ichingcarpenter]

47. Bowl-gate the untold story that Obama doesn't want to talk about.

Is Obama's bowling an indication on how he could govern?

Would his economic policies be a gutter ball?

If he couldn't get the spare, how can he bring our allies together
to help solve the problems in the middle east?


Faux News asks this and more in an upcoming story and video.

[ecstatic]

41. Wow. How embarassing. nt

[JVS]

43. He must really love his country to be doing this on the campaign trail.

[spoony]

78. I think it's sort of endearing

Bit of a shrug and "aw shucks" thing. I may be biased as I'm in the same boat score-wise :P

[Unsane]

45. Nixon was agreat bowler, if that tells you anything

[MADem]

50. He was also an environmentalist and a foreign policy whiz. He just sucked at the domestic

niceties, like, oh, preserving, protecting and defending the Constitution!!

But 37, that's a BAD score! If it were 137, that wouldn't be awful. They shoulda put the kiddie bumpers in the gutters for them...!

Gee, wonder if he rented shoes? And if they'll turn up on EBAY???

[Hippo_Tron]

55. Yea, I'm sure the people of Chile and Cambodia loved his foreign policy

:eyes:

[MADem]

56. Well, my reference was plainly to the USSR and China. Certainly, he

wasn't too swift in our own hemisphere. He wanted to continue to keep a lid on things, and as he often did, he overreacted and over-acted. And behaved badly, certainly. Similarly, he didn't want to be the "first President to lose a war." He had LBJ-itis. And he behaved badly there, too.

But my reference wasn't to his continued and often misguided prosecution of events that preceded his administration.

So :eyes: whatever.

[dysfunctional press]

76. he even had a couple lanes put in at the white house.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

46. The real low point was when Obama tried to dribble the ball

then he went for a 3-pointer and took out half the snack bar.

[Unsane]

57. lol

[DangerousRhythm]

61. ...

:rofl:

All these bowling pictures have made me want to bowl again. I'm no great bowler, mind you, but it's a fun thing to do on a day off. Tuesday, I shall bowl!

[MADem]

48. Man, I am a shitty bowler, but that's beyond sucking. That's BITING.

They shoulda put the little blow-up channels in the gutters so their balls could make it all the way to the pins, like they do for little kids....

[Irishonly]

49. We have bad bowling in common

Years ago my husband and I joined a bowling league with the school where I was working. The whole place cheered when I broke 100/

[KansasVoter]

51. Hillary said she bowled 301 on the Bosina trip! On the runway!

[JVS]

52. with snipers shooting at the pins

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

68. She was later told about the casualty - a Brazilian pin-boy

fragged by splinters, poor soul.

Hillary put her face in her hands, and cried, "My God, we killed a Brazillion! ... How many is a brazillion?"

:cry:

[bklyncowgirl]

72. Good one! nt

[SoCalDem]

80. To be fair, she amended that press release

In the 6th frame, a sniper's bullet picked up her 10-pin and she took credit for that spare... she mis-spoke.

[OzarkDem]

53. Obama supporters immediately declared victory

stating that "Obama had more supporters at the bowling alley and their opinions counted more than the actual score".

[boppers]

54. Obama doges sniper fire and tries to defeat nafta (while approving it) and bowls a 37.

Maybe we're pushing him too hard?

[johnnydrama]

58. i've bowled over 200 a few times

But if I go bowl a frame after years of not bowling, I suck. I start to pick it up towards the end of the first frame, and then if i bowl a 2nd or 3rd I get back to being decent.

Same for golf and basketball. I shot some hoops the other day for the first time in a long time, and airballed up a few bricks, and then after 6 or 7 shots started to swish em.

[JCMach1]

59. My youngest could do better than that at 6yo

[zulchzulu]

60. I want a President that SUCKS at bowling

If a President is good at bowling, that means he's BOWLING A LOT. We need less bowlers in the White House.

:hi:

[krawhitham]

62. you get a 37 just by showing up

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

67. No, you only get 7

you get 30 more for buying the first round.

:hi:

[mucifer]

63. oooooo bowlinggate

:rofl:

[totodeinhere]

64. It's a good thing we're electing a president, not a bowling team captain. LOL.

[Spirochete]

65. Was he bowling lefthanded -

on PCP? That's a pretty bad score. He better win the election, because something tells me he won't get too far on the PBA circuit.

Fuck it, Dude - let's go campaigning.

[CreekDog]

66. Obama is left-handed

like a bunch of other presidents.

[Spirochete]

86. I didn't know that.

I guess he has more in common with me than just superior intelligence. :hide:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

69. The way things curve up there, it's a wonder he hit anything

:hi:

[Eurobabe]

70. OK, he should drop out now

That is embarrassing. :rofl:

GOBAMA!!

[Vinca]

71. That's funny. Probably 36 more than I would get. nt

[Orsino]

73. Sure. He's only able to knock over the small pins.

:7

[NDambi]

74. 37 damn O! lol thats pretty bad..he's better at BBall..got the booty for it too..lol

[rox63]

75. I suck at bowling too

So I can relate to him about this. But at least he was a good sport about it. And I hear that he plays a mean game of hoops.

[MyNameGoesHere]

77. Yes but he probably kicks ass at Polo. n/t

[SoCalDem]

79. First of all.. he probably did not bowl an entire game

and was probably a bit "distracted"..

Somehow, I think bowling was never "his game" anyway..

[madrchsod]

84. how can i trust a man that can`t finish!

can i trust a man that is distracted from the "game"?

if he can not bowl how can i trust him to run the country?


:silly::woohoo::silly:

[Prefer]

81. What? He skipped Hollidaysburg?

Wasn't it disco night at the roller rink?

[JVS]

85. I wonder if he spent any time at Breezewood.

[madrchsod]

82. 100 was mine -40 years ago-i gave up bowling

[TayTay]

83. Sounds like my score

I usually bowl a steady stream of gutter balls. It was so bad that the bowling alley I went too offered to put up the "bumpers" that prevented gutter balls every time I showed up.

Guess this means that Sen. Obama should give up that dream of going out on the Pro Bowlers Tour. Pity that.

[Barack_America]

87. I once bowled a 19.

And yes, I was trying. :cry:

[democrattotheend]

88. I set up a fundraising page in honor of that.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/outreach/view/main/democrattotheend

Donate $37 or amounts ending with .37 in honor of his bowling score!

[Awsi Dooger]

89. The problem wasn't the score, but how he looked doing it

Borderline effeminate. I saw the clips on MSNBC and it was ridiculous. At least fire the damn ball down the lanes. If you're finding the gutter every time you might want to abandon the dainty approach.

This is nothing, but let's not pretend we wouldn't have fun with any candidate who demonstrated public ineptitude in any type of game or sport.

[DefenseLawyer]

90. Yeah but that's not really fair.

Not after Hillary screamed "Over the line!", pulled out a piece on the lanes and made Obama mark it zero on the third frame. Better to bowl a 37 than enter a world of pain.

[AngryAmish]

91. Dude must have been smashed

37 is pretty bad.