The Real Story
Today’s non-story appears to be the gender makeup of President Obama’s pickup basketball games. The real story, however, is that our President, at 48 years old, still has fantastic form on his jumpshot. Seriously – check out the picture in the linked-to article.
Heh. After reading that article, I’m incredibly tempted to make a disparaging comment about the WNBA.Report
“Now watch this drive.”Report
It would have been nice for those attacking the President to come up with the name of one female member of Congress who plays basketball. There are barely any women in congress under 40, and aside from the worst vice presidential candidate in American history (and I’m not talking about Ferraro) most female politicians are strivers who focused on academics and their political careers (I gathered this from reading their bios.) Kirsten Gillibrand was a good tennis player, no mention of basketball, but she’s 5’8 and only 42 years old, so I suppose it’s possible she could be a candidate.Report
As a general matter you don’t want to pull your lower legs up behind you like that, but that might be a function of game context.Report