Eightball with Barack Obama

Some say he was just trying to score points with working class voters. But when Democratic hopeful Barack Obama on Monday picked up a pool cue in a West Virginia bar and started running balls, he was simply following a long, proud and very presidential tradition.

Consider this: George Washington reportedly won a game of pool in 1748; John Quincy Adams installed a table in the presidential quarters in 1828; and Abraham Lincoln extolled the virtues of pool as a "scientific game lending recreation to the otherwise fatigued mind."

Even Founding Father Thomas Jefferson was said to have a table at Monticello.

But Obama should also be careful about pocketing balls for political gain. After Adams used his own money to purchase a pool table, his political opposition in 1828 took him to task for installing "gambling furniture" in the White House.

How am I the possession of so much ridiculous trivia? Don't even ask.

-- R.A. Dyer

Comments

[Herb]

Ok, so he can play pool and shoot hoops. He can also give a great speech. What else can he do? What has he done? He is the epitome of a candidate for the far left.
I am a senior living on social security, but even I can see through this guy. He can't pay for all the programs he suggests. The only jobs he creates will be in the government.
Where there's smoke there's fire. His past really needs to be investigated, and not by the left wing media.

[Mr. Struck]

Herb,

For the past eight years the only jobs the Republicans have created are overseas, outsourced, or in the military (government).

You want experience? The two most experienced people in the last administration were Rumsfeld and Cheney. What did they do that was positive for the nation.

Please remove your blinders.