Obama's rooting for the Steelers

[Bill McBlueState]

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09020/943157-66.stm

"He's a Bears fan first, he admits that,'' Dan Rooney said yesterday at the Steelers UPMC training center. "But he's a Steelers' fan. He's said it, and all his staff, they're rooting for us ."

Nice.

[cboy4]

1. That's a shame to hear Obama sounds like a front-runner.

He probably says he roots for Dallas too. :eyes:

[madinmaryland]

2. Nice post, Eddie!

:eyes:

[TZ]

4. Give Obama a year or two..

And he'll be a Skins fan. Goes with the territory..:)

[jakefrep]

3. That's it! Nader in 2012!

[LisaM]

5. Aren't the Steelers' owners openly Democratic?

That may have something to do with it.

[Capt. America]

6. Hate to be the grammar Nazi but the apostrophe "s" designates possession behind Obama's name, rather

than say a contraction like "he is" to "he's". You wouldn't say Mother's for "mother is" or car's for "car is".

[cboy4]

7. If you're going to come into the sport's forum and correct

someone, please use insult's and curse word's.

It's the sport's forum.

:patriot:

[Bill McBlueState]

8. Sure I would.

I don't know what a manual of style would say about it, but I see nothing wrong with using that kind of contraction in an informal situation.