Time to Vote Sports Fans

…as a potential ambassador for Blazer’s Edge, it needs to be stated that your choice of photos is a little bit one-sided. It’s not so much that the Obama pics are so grand… it’s just that it looks to me from the photo on the left that Obama is thinking: “Mc..Cain… tell me how my (Bleep) tastes”.

  Don’t you just love it when politics and sports collide? Good stuff Phoenix Stan… good stuff.

Yes I am Canadian and can’t vote in your election. It’s ok. We had our federal election recently with the lowest voter turnout in some time. Everybody I have talked to likes Obama, but I respect McCain too. I’m a bit electioned out. Our civic elections are next month, and provincials are next year.

Dave Zirin does have some great commentary. I but SLAM all the time, and his articles are definite eye openers. I wrote to SLAM about one he did on the Sonics move to OKC.

If these are the best 2 people we could get, then the U.S. is in trouble…oh wait…we are in trouble…recession, etc.

It really bothers me after watching a debate, then reading some fact checker and seeing both sides were wrong about many of their comments!! Then Obama and McCain repeat their mistakes in the next debate.

Some things that bother me to no end, that this country uses oil when we could’ve pushed for alternative fuels decades ago. It’s very clear that Bush and McCain are sleeping with the big oil companies so to speak, I don’t hear Obama doing anything different though. Both candidates say we need to research and develop alternative fuels, then that’s all they say.

That Obama has 280 million behind him to run ads, etc and McCain has 85 million. That McCain lists his donors online and Obama doesn’t. We’ll likely never know, but I wonder how much of that 280 million is coming from outside of the U.S.??

That we’re in a war that likely has as much, or more to do with Oil than terrorism.

That abortion is coming up again as a subject in this election….I strongly don’t believe in abortion, but I don’t think it should be against the law…I’m not the type to go around and push my beliefs on anyone, I just search for and follow my own.

That the media is so clearly pushing for Obama.

That Obama has so little experience

That so many are upset about Palin being the republican v.p. choice, I like her.

That Biden is such a hypocrite, he was McCain’s biggest supporter and wanted desperately to be the v.p. running mate with him. now he trashes McCain……what a joke

I don’t care what side your on, but to flip flop like that, that’s messed up.

That both Obama and McCain blame the greed on wallstreet and the mortgage companies for the real estate problems, when in all honesty, it’s also as much the fault of stupid people buying homes they have close to no chance of being able to afford within a year unless the home value goes wildly up. Guess the public doesn’t want to hear that,

That both are clearly reading rehearsed material, and with the exception of Palin, you feel like you don’t know the candidate as well as the person or group of people writing the speeches…

There are answers for many problems, it’s just the U.S. isn’t a leader anymore in using them,

On the flip side…there’s still a million wonderful things about living in the U.S. like the term for a president is only 4 years…ok sorry :-)
 

I think that will tell me if he’s legit or not. I can tell any man by their analysis of the Suns.

The reason you don’t see more “political-sportical cross talk” is that sports fans are overwhelmingly unintelligent when it comes to the real world. I see it whenever sports boards try to venture out of the teenage boy world of sports fanaticism. What would you expect from a buch of folks whose greatest passion is’my team’s better than yours’ and ’how’d your fantasy team do?’ o ’I’ve collected the whole topps set, I’m better than you’.

All you have to do is look at how the poll results are running, You have two rather unimpressive candidates. One looks great on TV. What are the dumb sports jocks going to go for? You might as well poll a Hollywood set. Let’s face it. This outlet of ours is pure fantasy.

I could post my views on the importance of this election being the most important of my 49 years on this earth. I could argue debate effectively with anyone about the real reasons for the economic troubles. I could point out the stark and real differences between the candidates, and the foolishness of the media presentation to the American people. but why should I? I have an audience that spends huge amounts of time on something that doesn’t really matter, an audience that knows more about movies and seasons and post defense and point guard play tha about human nature, real life, and geopolitical undercurrents.

No big deal. I’m not griping. If the Suns finally win that elusive championship the same year that the US slips into European style socialism with its economic stagnation and moral neutrality, what’s the big deal? At least I get to wear my Suns championship T shirt whilst reminiscing on the demise of the American dream with all of its distinctiveness. Oh. Excuse me. I’ll have to wrap up my rant. I just heard the Islamic call to prayer. I just can’t get used to that five times a day.

You asked.

I, for one, cannot wait to welcome our new socialist overlord. Although, if only there were some way that we could give “the Decider” another four years…