Politically speaking, I think Obama has a lot more appeal with the ESPN crowd than many former Presidents. 1) He is younger, 2) He is good at sports, 3) He really likes basketball, 4) He likes to appear on the channel, and 5) it never really seems fake or artificial when he does appear on the channel. He genuinely likes sports and is trendy enough to fit in in that kind of environment.
Great way to keep up political rapport with the kind of audience that he otherwise might have trouble winning over. I don't think he will ever win over the NASCAR crowd, but what can you do.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
