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Obama’s Speech – Reaction from the Constituency

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

Since President Obama’s speech today was directed at the nation’s school children, I took an informal poll in my house (sample size: two)

Brandon (age 6), before the speech: The President is speaking at 12 noon? What about kids on the west coast? Will they still be asleep?

Brandon, after the speech: If the President asks for help all the time, then we can too.

Avery (age 9), after the speech: If the kids with all those challenges accomplished their goals, then we should accomplish our goals more easily than them. Not easily, but more easily.

Avery, when asked if Barack Obama should visit his elementary school one day: I’d rather he wait until next year and visit our middle school, because when you’re the youngest in the school, you get to sit closest to the stage during an assembly, and then I’d be the first one to shake his hand when the speech is over. If he visited our elementary school this year, I’d be way in the back.

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Respect the Office

Monday, September 7th, 2009

Four years ago, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, I wrote this about the way the nation was treating President George W. Bush:

This is a bad sign for our country. Much as Watergate lifted the

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Inside Baseball

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

I’ve just returned from my first indoor baseball game – the Minnesota Twins played host to the Chicago White Sox in the soon-to-be football-only Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome here in Minneapolis. I realize domes have been around for a very long time, and that almost all of them are retractable nowadays, but since it was my first time, I feel the need to crack wise about it anyway.

And so, without further adieu, here is a list of the Top Ten things overheard today in the Metrodome during the Twins/White Sox game:

10. Good afternoon, sports fans, it’s a beautiful day for baseball here in Minneapolis, or at least that’s what I’m told by the folks who’ve been outside recently.

9. Tickets to the Twins game today? No thanks, it’s a beautiful day and we’re going to the zoo. Save the ballgame for when it’s cold & rainy.

8. Welcome to the ballpark. Before taking the field, please remove your shoes – we’ve just had the carpet cleaned.

7. Speaking of the carpet – you know how when you mow the outfield grass in a baseball stadium, you wind up with those horizontal stripes that reflect which way the mower was riding? Is it really necessary to put horizontal lines on AstroTurf? I mean who, exactly, do they think they’re fooling?

6. “Take me in to the ballgame, Take me in to the crowd…”

5. Ground ball to third base, the third baseman fields it . . . and calls for the five-ball in the corner pocket.

4. Only 12 more home games until the first game canceled due to severe weather…

3. Of all the available colors, why in the name of all that is holy would you make the roof the same color as a baseball?

2. Dome, Sweet Dome.

…and the number one thing overheard today in the Metrodome during the Twins/White Sox game:

1. We might not win it all this year, but wait ’till next year. Sky’s the limit!!

 

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