Yahoo Reports Biggest Cheers at All Star Game were for George W. Bush's Taped Speech

[SemiCharmedQuark]

The more debatable point from the historic moment was the reception the President was afforded by the self-described "best fans in baseball." Though Obama was roundly cheered by the All-Star fans, his live presence still didn't attract the applause that George W. Bush did during a taped announcement by the four previous Presidents before the game and some boos could even be heard among the cheers.

Whether or not those fans were booing Obama's politics (Missouri voted for John McCain last November) or his choice of attire (he chose to wear a long-sleeved White Sox jacket in support of his favorite team and a pair of regular old blue jeans) was unclear.

"My wife thinks I'm cute in the White Sox jacket," Obama later told Joe Buck and Tim McCarver in the broadcast booth in a conversation that seemed very loose and free-flowing instead of scripted. "I'm not a Cubs hater, I'm not one of those guys. I just don't root for them, that's all."

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Obama-reps-Chicago-s-South-Side-delivers-first-?urn=mlb,176561

Is that true? If so...sad.

[smoochpooch]

1. If that's true, you couldn't tell on t.v. I couldn't tell that shrub got any response at all. n/t

[SemiCharmedQuark]

2. Thanks for the reply...I'm dying to know if it was true. I couldn't watch it tonight.

[Cha]

3. I didn't see it but no one mentioned it

on the the All Star thread with the people who were watching it.

Why would yahoo come up with something like that?

[SemiCharmedQuark]

4. I want to know the same thing. I can't believe a group that big could be so stupid.

[JamesA1102]

21. Guess you've never been to St. Louis nt

[rasputin1952]

7. There was nothing during the taped portions...

It was like watching a commercial...:shrug:

However, the president walked out onto the field and there was a lot of cheering, some jeering, and when he jogged to the mound, the cheers rose markedly. To top it off, he didn't throw either a trench digger or a dustball...it was a clean toss...:D

[SemiCharmedQuark]

11. So we'll never know what happened with the cheering then, huh?

That's kind of lame.

Thanks Ras.

[rasputin1952]

13. I'd like to have seen what was going on at the park...

on TV...it was a humanitarian/volunteer infomercial kind of thing. carter and Clinton looked good, Poppy looked his age, but sounded like he still had some mental accuity...bush, the usual stupid look, but he really aged and looked like real crap...(what's new..:evilgrin: ).

the president looked excellent in the taped portion, and when he jogged to the mound,, just like a pitcher would, the crowd went wild...and I felt it as well...:D

[Cha]

14. He sure had a triumphant look on

his face:D

And, the baseball org was over the Moon!

'The 44th president threw out the ceremonial first pitch, something no one in office had done since Gerald Ford at the 1976 All-Star Game in Philadelphia, won by the NL at a time when it was dominating. It was important that he was part of this, because his call to public service by all Americans was the catalyst for the "Go Beyond" theme that pervaded this entire All-Star Week as well as the moving tribute to 30 winners of the All-Stars Among Us campaign."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8529280

[rasputin1952]

15. I thought he looked great...one minute, like he was going into the

bottom of the ninth trying to hold a one run lead; the next, looking like he just pitched a no-hitter...:D

[kwolf68]

5. I read the comments on that story

Disgusted.

People calling Obama "pResident"...

Do those fucking nitwits even know WHY that vernacular was used to begin with for Bush? Because we never considered him the legally elected PRESIDENT...I still call Poppy President Bush and Reagan, President Reagan, beccause no matter their politics, they were rightfully elected.

"W" was certainly not...it took an activist Supreme Court to get him into office...an activist Supreme Court, which is something the Righties are bitching about now!!!

[Engineer4Obama]

8. If anything

Right wingers completely lack creativity they just copy whatever liberals do when we're out of power and think they are being clever.

[kwolf68]

10. Well..

Right wingers are ANYTHING but creative. But they make up for that lack of creativity by being batshit crazy mean assholes.

[zbdent]

20. Conservatives embrace what liberals fought for and won ... 20 years before ...

Gee ... the Repugniconvicts put forth a FEMALE VICE PRESIDENT(!) candidate in 2008 ... 24 years after the Dems did it ... and in 2008, they were afraid of a woman being in the highest office in the U.S. (despite the fact that there have been plenty of women as national leaders ...) but then, some airhead from the Welfare State of Alaska was acceptable to them ... but not endorsable in 2012 by the guy who put her in the VP candidate position ...

[tanyev]

22. Oh, yeah. I remember reading here someone saw a bumpersticker

that said 1/20/12 - The End of an Error. Here's a clue, morans, 1/20/12 isn't the end of anything. Even if you manage to field a candidate that by some fluke manages to win the 2012 election, that person would not take office until 1/20/13. Idjits.

[Pool Hall Ace]

23. Remember, so many of those nitwits are still insisting he was born in Kenya.

That's why the dumbasses are calling him the pResident. Never mind that copies of the birth certificate are all over the internet.

[MarjorieG]

6. And the postings anti-Obama, which makes me wonder about Yahoo.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

9. Yahoo comments are a nightmare. They had to remove them from the news stories because they were so

bad.

But would Yahoo just make up something like that? I thought only 20 something percent of Americans liked Bush.

[kwolf68]

12. 20% do

Hell, his approval ratings are getting worse. The stench still hasn't worn off yet. I didn't hear the response to the video stuff, but let me tell you the people who decide election in this nation ARE NOT

baseball fans with the means to attend the All Star game.

I love baseball, but I think generally speaking the fanbase is more Conservative. I'd say hockey fans (my other sport i love) are more Liberal mainly because the areas hockey is most popular are more Liberal.

[d_b]

16. and now he does rodeo in buttfuck oklahoma

[PretzelWarrior]

17. the people going to St. Louis games are a lot of racists and bigots

they were one of the only "bell weather" states to NOT vote for Obama when all of the others did.

You know Missouri is fucked up when Virginia, N. Carolina, and Indiana go for Obama but Missouri doesn't.

I grew up in Missouri and now live in Oregon. I know of what I speak.

[PVnRT]

26. Really? I didn't know I was a racist

'Cause I've been to games out there.

Or maybe you're just doing your usual broad-brush horseshit trolling.

[MyUserNameIsBroken]

27. St. Louis City and County

Went for Obama. Heavily so. The state went to McCain by a fraction of a percent (less than 10000 votes) due to the rural and exurban vote. There is no denying a racial factor in those votes. However, as a rule, those rural and exurban voters don't go to ballgames in the city, precisely because they live in mortal terror of the place. So: please check your tirades and gross generalizations at the door. There are rural parts of Oregon that are just as bad as anyplace in Missouri.

[hileeopnyn8d]

28. Thank you!

I'm not even from here (St.Louis) originally, but that comment was bugging me. We had over 100,000 people show up for an Obama rally, and that's not counting the ones that attempted to go but couldn't get anywhere close. Those people instead went to bars and restaurants from downtown all the way out to the counties to watch it on TV.

Everywhere I went that day, people stopped to ask me if I went to the rally, how close did I get, was I able to see him....and I wasn't even wearing an Obama shirt!

The margin McCain won by was so small, less than 4,000 votes, that's hardly an indictment against the whole state.

I will say, however, that St. Charles County did vote for McCain 54.4% to 44.7% for Obama, and they, unfortunately do make it into "the city" for sporting events. But these are the same idiots who voted for that horrible woman - Cynthia Davis.

[MyUserNameIsBroken]

29. The demographics of a ballgame crowd...

...are also skewed. Seats are expensive and the whole marketing structure is geared toward corporate sales. So even if the crowd was unfriendly--which I have yet to see any real evidence for--it shouldn't be taken as a valid cross-section of the St. Louis area.

[Webster Green]

18. I almost puked when I saw the fucking war-chimp..

all of Yahoo's shit sucks anyway. I avoid it at all costs. :thumbsdown:

[Zomby Woof]

19. Was that an AP feed?

Yahoo usually gets its "news" from the AP, one of the worst offenders.

[Thrill]

24. If True. Missouri just made my list with Tenn and OK as states I never

want to move to

[Arugula Latte]

30. Missouri has some damn scary parts.

I'm sure St. Louis is fine, but I've been through some of the rural areas and my husband's family lived there for some time ... :scared:

[PVnRT]

25. If they have proof, maybe they should offer it

It wasn't on the broadcast, that's for sure.