Shaq's comment concerning Obama says everything.

[busterbrown]

The guy capturing the comment spews a lie and Shaq doesn’t respond.. I’m not blaming Shaq at all, you know he must love Obama ( my feeling), but probably didn’t know how to respond...The fucking guy mentions “credit rating problem” like its fact that its Obama’s fault..
Isn’t this a sad commentary on our state of affairs (politics) in our country now?

It’s not easy being on the side which does not control the media!

http://videos.huffingtonpost.com/shaquille-oneals-message-for-barack-obama-517140398

[MADem]

1. It was a stupid question, but Shaquille has only recently come back into the Dem fold.

I think he saw the light right before his brief association with the Celtics.

He also recently hung out with Chris Christie: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/22/shaq-chris-christie_n_2934361.html

That's probably why he doesn't have a VIP pass to the WH.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

3. Shaq was never a Republican. That was Charles Barkley.

[MADem]

4. I never saw him out on the hustings for the "D" candidates until the last few years.

He was always playing cop, http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2253684


but it's only recently that I've heard of him affiliating himself with overtly political causes. I don't think he was necessarily a Republican, but I didn't see him as super-political in the past.

[Anansi1171]

2. Scandal is intentionally facilitating a US Credit Downgrade

A literally jury-rigged pretext to make a false attack on the President and thereby racially smear and dog-whistle him for wrecked credit among the bigoted base.