Barack Obama is just as much a woman-hater as the late conservative North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms in the wild eyes of radical abortion-mongering feminist and PBS "To the Contrary" host Bonnie Erbe.
And just why is Ms. Erbe so steamed at President Obama? Because, and I kid you not, the commander-in-chief doesn't shoot hoops with women.
Erbe -- who has still not gotten over Obama losing to her favored Democrat Hillary Clinton -- explained in her October 27 Jefferson Street blog entry in U.S. News & World Report:
President Obama drew heat last week for a story that surfaced outing his private White House male-only b-ball games. The story was that even though two female members of his cabinet were members of their college basketball teams, they were excluded, as were all women, from this most private of male-only clubs. The story became a metaphor for how the president views women generally and threatened to reveal some inconvenient truths about the man.
Now we see reports that gender-insensitivity charges have resonated with the Obama White House. According to Politics Daily, the president dragged chief domestic policy adviser Melody Barnes to the golf course on Sunday, and she became the first female to join his golf foursome since he took office. The event produced a photo op of global proportions.
President Obama could invite Chamique Holdsclaw to the private White House basketball court and Billie Jean King to play tennis with him. I still wouldn't believe he's any more comfortable dealing with women or concerned about "women's" issues than the dearly departed former Sen. Jesse Helms. President Obama talks the talk a lot better and a lot louder than Helms. But Jesse Helms was so rooted in his atavist traditions, he chose to remain true to his misogyny rather than pose for cameras with faux female golfing partners. President Obama must hide the side of his personality that is clearly uncomfortable with women because he needs their votes much more than Helms ever did.
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2012 Presidency and Hoops Shoot Out
October 29, 2009 - 11:59 ET by John Galt1776Obama and Palin one on one, head to head and toe to toe on the court for the Presidency in 2012.
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and helped the Warriors win the State Championship. Her nickname on the
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NO CONSERVATIVE CARES
October 29, 2009 - 12:18 ET by TexndocThis "sexism" "the boys" BS is being shoveled by columnists like this Bonny and Kathleen Parker to distract from Government Takeover of Healthcare and Cap and Tax. I can't think of one serious thinking Conservative Republican who cares one whit about this nonsense.
It didn't start men only
October 29, 2009 - 12:23 ET by ceedubyabut Michelle kept beating them in arm wrestling matches so the guys complained to Barack and that was that.
Well, to be fair
October 29, 2009 - 12:25 ET by RESTLESS 1To look at the guy, one would think him better suited to knitting with the girls.
"If the man, with the power, can't keep it under control...some heads are gonna roll." -Judas Priest
But the President is just
October 29, 2009 - 12:54 ET by G. MayBut the President is just so damn good at basketball he'd make the women look bad! His skill is misogynistic.
This is what I love about the left, they can eat their own for so many different reasons that it's impossible for them to present a coherent front. There's so much guilt, moral vanity, self-flagellation and loathing, tribalism, and hectoring that they defeat themselves long before anyone else can.
She looks familiar
October 29, 2009 - 13:32 ET by sevenJanet Reno has a sister?
No. . .
October 29, 2009 - 14:03 ET by JustAlbut maybe an ugly brother in drag.
I don't read him as comfortable with women, either
October 29, 2009 - 13:58 ET by StarAZYet, he doesn't come off as a man's man. Whatever. What happened to his body guy who used to spot him in the gym during the campaign--what's his name?
I Pity Him
October 29, 2009 - 14:07 ET by JustAlHe has told so many lies he isn't sure who or what he is. And so can not be comfortable with anyone, likely, not even himself. He isn't so much a man as a product, one that was pruned, shaped, packaged, and sold by others for their own reasons. If he is bright enough to be an ideologue in his own right, he has kept it well hidden.
For pity's sake, leave him alone in the one place where he seems to be in control, playing with his ball, all alone.
Pity him--
October 29, 2009 - 15:54 ET by matthewdeanAl:
THAT explains why the posprez seems so feckless, so unmanly, so at times, effeminate; why he dithers, why he cannot "man" up, why he appeared at a sporting event in Mom jeans (in addition to having Mom genes) ---
The last six words of your post make it all so abundantly clear; Obamas' scrotal sac is rented out to a lone occupant.
MD
"I may not agree with what your bumper sticker says, but I will defend to the death your right to stick it." (Unknown, but derived from Voltaire)
Re Spotter
October 29, 2009 - 15:21 ET by slickwillie2001Larry Sinclair?
"Did I doooo that??"
October 29, 2009 - 14:26 ET by RukusErbe's irked at Urkel! : )
Gary
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I dont defend Obama on
October 29, 2009 - 15:21 ET by dark_dsI dont defend Obama on much (ok a first time for everything) but he should be able to hang with whatever friends he has .... this is what its come to.. Libs want to choose even your friends ....course they arent upset with Marxists in the WH but no women on the basketball court is a crisis
_______ Him and the Unicorn he rode in on
Oh let him play
October 29, 2009 - 15:51 ET by ParagrouperI wish the lefties would leave BO alone on this. The more time he spends on the courts, shooting hoops, the less time he has to "fix" our economy.
"Beware the fury of the patient man." - John Dryden
Play with the girls?
October 29, 2009 - 20:38 ET by cajun2He has enough ass kissers in the media, he doesnt need them in his down time. Be angry with him for tripling the deficit, failing to protect our troops, failure to stop rising unemployment, his attempts to stifle the truthful media, control of gov. agencies with his Maoist radicals, policies to penalize citizens for being self reliant and independant. That list is just a start. Come on MsErbe, get angry.
Disgruntled feminist PUMAs
October 30, 2009 - 05:08 ET by RR GOPDisgruntled feminist PUMAs don't equate to serious enlightened opposition. If it were President Hillary up there doing the same exact things with her girlfriends from the lesbian boarding school she went to, they'd be down with the whole program.
One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 86% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.