I seriously want to see the "bowl off"

[Jennicut]

I really am curious to see who would win. I think Hillary would take Barack pretty handily. I am an Obama supporter, by the way. I thought it was actually funny. Good to see she has a sense of humor and can show it.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

1. He's Athletic And Coordinated

Given some training he can bowl a respectable score- in the 130's to 150's...

[BigDDem]

28. He bowled a 37

I could do better than that blindfolded (really)

[DemocratSinceBirth]

29. I Don't Think He Plays Much

Maybe his buddy , Jerome Bettis, who bowled a perfect 300 can teach him...

[BigDDem]

30. Clearly.

The folksy/working man thing didn't work out so well.

[bunnies]

2. I think whomever wrote that for her should be fired immediately.

It was worse than the Rocky thing.

[JimGinPA]

6. It Was Lame - But I Will Give Her Some Credit...

For knowing it was April Fool's Day.

[bunnies]

11. lol.

True enough. She does seem to know what day it is. :hi:

[Coexist]

and the delivery tone was odd...

really tense - everyone understood it was satire - she would have been better served to keep it light.

it was awkward to watch, instead of charming and funny.

[bunnies]

22. It was painful!

Charming and funny isnt something she seems to be able to pull off well. And adding all those attacks in there made her little "joke" a little less than light-hearted to say the least.

[Bonobo]

3. It was funny stuff. It really was. I wonder why no one laughed though...

1. Either her delivery sucked, or

2. She is not seen as funny because of all the posion from her mouth lately, or

3. She is not seen as funny because her campaign is a tragedy.

[bunnies]

7. Did you hear the ohhhhhhh's from the crowd when she made that gutter comment?

Even in a "joke" she cant stop the low blows. Its sad.

[polichick]

13. She used it as an opportunity to roll in the gutter herself.

[bunnies]

16. Totally.

They took all her personal attacks on Obama... twisted them into a bowling pun... and then tried to call it a "joke". Come ON. How stupid and obvious can they be?

[RaleighNCDUer]

20. I think maybe she just doesn't have a funny bone.

The "snipers in Bosnia" thing actually would work, if delivered as a joke. I think that maybe she first presented it as a joke, but nobody laughed and she was stuck with it. C'mon, really. "If a place is too dangerous for the President, they send the 1st Lady. And their daughter." Classic absurdity. "We had to duck and run from the sniper fire." A fundamental tenet of humor is exaggeration.

Problem is, when a joke falls flat, you gotta make a joke of the joke, not just let it lie there. Any comic, or politician, knows that.

[ericgtr]

4. Colbert showed a clip of Hillary bowling under sniper fire last night

It was hilarious!

[Georgie_92]

10. LOL.

[Coexist]

17. oh man, I'm hitting the TiVo list now

thanks for the heads up, I thought it was another week of re-runs.

[ericgtr]

26. Don't get me started about the reruns lol

I get really bent out of shape about that.. See here if you really want to see me bitch :rofl:
http://www.politicalgroove.com/jon-stewart-stephen-colbert/5467-another-vacation.html

[Georgie_92]

5. That was terrible, not very funny at all.

[rox63]

8. She might beat him at bowling

But he would clobber her at basketball. (which he plays to relax)

[tridim]

9. They can have a bowl off in the WH basement after Obama moves in.

[book_worm]

12. Then they could play hoops.

[BuyingThyme]

14. Wasn't she on a bowling team at Yale?

[pkz]

15. LOL...spare me

can you imagine Hillary picking up a bowling ball?
don't think so.

My family owns two bowling centers, the elites think bowling is the poor man's sport.

btw~ lefties are naturals, I could have Obama bowling a 200 in two weeks.

[TwilightGardener]

19. She's done it for photo ops before--I swear I saw a pic of her bowling somewhere.

I didn't see whatever the OP is referring to today, though--was it in her "Rocky" speech?

[pkz]

21. she did say she was a "gutterball bowler"

Clinton: "I am a gutterball bowler"


http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2008/01/clinton-i-am--1.html

[TwilightGardener]

24. Ah, thank you.

[tridim]

18. How about a bowel-off between McSame and Obama

No "Depends" allowed.

[kwenu]

23. When Hillary hits a three pointer she'll get my support. Otherwise...

[Jennicut]

25. I thought it was kind of funny, but yeah everyone did go "ohhh" over the gutter comment

It was just a joke. I guess I have a weird sense of humor. I loved Al Gore's macarena at the 1996 convention as well. Brilliant stuff.

[bunnies]

31. It might have been funny...

If the Clinton camp hadnt launched serious attacks against Obama for "gutter tactics".

They were serious then.. but now its a joke? I dont think so. Its just creative insults.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Clinton_campaign_attacks_Obama_for_gutter_0324.html

[RichardRay]

27. I haven't bowled in 40 years, or more...

and I'm an out of shape 60 year old who can barely huff and puff my way up a little mountain. I used to bowl in the mid-200's. I'm pretty sure I could break 200 again with about 8 hours of practice.

I therefore believe that Senator Obama could clean my clock with about the same amount of practice. Argue his fitness to be president of you care to, but look at him hanging in the air, stacked up over his center with the basketball on his chest and looking around to see where his opponents are and you see a pretty fair athelete for somebody who must spend the bulk of his time these days trying to sleep on a bus.

(Save me from the freakin' little duck pins, though. I'd rather just thow rocks at them.)

[BlooInBloo]

32. It's no surprise he's good at basketball, though....

http://mediamatters.org/items/200803310018

[SoCalDem]

33. It was a well-rehearsed comment..and funny only in the way

Henny Youngman was "funny"..

Funny in the way a parent dresses like their kids and tries to be "hip"... :rofl:

Had she truly tossed it off as a flip remark or better yet, as a press release..that would have been funny..

scripted humor is hard to deliver..that's why there are so many part-time/unemployed/starving comedians :)

Obama should send her a bowling ball, bag & shoes..

That would be funny :)