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bigtree

(85,986 posts)
Mon May 21, 2012, 10:27 AM May 2012

President Obama Goes For The Long Pass on Soldier Field

Last edited Mon May 21, 2012, 12:26 PM - Edit history (1)



President Barack Obama throws a football on the field at Soldier Field following the NATO working dinner in Chicago, Illinois, May 20, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)


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President Obama Goes For The Long Pass on Soldier Field (Original Post) bigtree May 2012 OP
If I was President I would Drale May 2012 #1
He's a White Sox fan frazzled May 2012 #2
Yes but I'm a Cubs fan Drale May 2012 #4
I think you should run for office, then! frazzled May 2012 #5
he's got the football bigtree May 2012 #3

Drale

(7,932 posts)
1. If I was President I would
Mon May 21, 2012, 10:45 AM
May 2012

get all my staff together and use my authority to play a game of Baseball at Wrigley Field. "P

frazzled

(18,402 posts)
2. He's a White Sox fan
Mon May 21, 2012, 10:52 AM
May 2012

Why would he want to play a game at Wrigley?

(Besides: Wrigley was in use yesterday for the "City Series" that was the focus of most Chicagoans this weekend, and in which the White Sox swept the Cubs. All in good fun.)

frazzled

(18,402 posts)
5. I think you should run for office, then!
Mon May 21, 2012, 06:13 PM
May 2012

Then you can at least throw out the first pitch on opening day.

bigtree

(85,986 posts)
3. he's got the football
Mon May 21, 2012, 01:16 PM
May 2012

. . . he's got the field. SS and the Prez vs. the press, quick game of touch will do.

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