Obama Plays Hoops at the White House, but Where are the Women?

Okay. This MUST have been a slow news day. Picture this - the president of the United States playing basketball with a young lady. He blocks a shot, she lands on the pavement and ends up with a broken arm. The news media would critize the president soundly for playing rough with a female. For better or for worse, tradition calls for guys playing basketball with guys, and women with women.

what is wrong with you people, let this man be a man, you don't need a woman with you in everything you do, the presidents have a wife, if he want to play any games she's the one he should be playing with, NOT OTHER WOMEN, this is how things get started in the wrong way. PLEASE LET HIM BE A MAN. and if the women want to play a game,go find the husband to play with.

I think its great that the President of the United States is taking breaks from work and engaging in healthy physical activity rather than going out on the porch for a martini or smoke or some other unhealthy activity.
I say go Mr. Obama, thanks for setting a good example to our young people, no...all our people, on how to use work breaks, free time and leisrue time to raise the fitness level of our great nation.
If more people here and around the world follow this example, perhaps we will have less heart attacks, obesity and diabetes? Wouldn't it be amazing if the greatest nation in the world could reduce its medical costs through simply engaging in moderate exercise on work breaks etc, instead of overeating on breaks? And what if, just what if doctors might even start to charge less to be competitive because this president set the example that started peoople shooting hoop, walking, going to the gym, rowing, surfing, jogging, swimming, rdiing a bicycle, etc, etc, etc??? NOW, wouldn't that just be an amazing thing in this country where the leading cause of death is heart disease due to lack of activity due to overeating and lack of exercise?
My suggestion, don't just leave the man alone, applaud him. He may just extend the lives of our legislators, improve the quality of their lives and incrase their mental sharpness.
Come on America, maybe u 2 should join your buddies and buddettes, dudes and dudettes for a round of hoops at lunch or a round of walking around your business complex, or something, anything besides overeating, a drink, a smoke...and the list goes on.

it's "glass hoops," that's what it is!

liz...this isn't a place at the table. It's a bunch of guys playing basketball. This isn't the movies. Deals aren't being made and people promoted over a basketball game. Women have a place in the White House. Congress and the Senate. If these were corporate CEO's of an advertising agency, then maybe I'd worry. But do we have to scrutinize everything? Drive a wedge into something fun to make a story. I don't believe for one second they were discussing business while running up and down the court. The president needs a release. Stress of being POTUS is already turning his hair gray.Everyone deserves some down time. He has a very strong and independent wife, and two daughters. He would never get away with over looking a qualified woman for any deserving position and get away with it.Even the title of this story trying to influence people to even think there is anything other than a basketball game going on is disgusting. First the goof Glen Beck called him a racist and now the media is trying to suggest he's a chauvanist. It's basketball....

Seriously. It's a basketball game. He wanted to blow of some steam with the guys. It's perfectly acceptable to have some guy-only time. Maybe these are the people who ASKED to play. Or that were around when he wanted to play.

Give the guy a flipping break.

Some of you moan, groan and complain about each and everything this administartion says and does. When the last administration rushed into this war that seems to be everlasting, you heard moaning,groaning and complaining but nothing like like the ignorance going on now. Bush rushed into this war with no plan and now come to find it's afghan good ol America should have been concerned about. Now instead of ending this useless war, more troops are being sent to Afghan.And some of you want to look down your hollier than thou nose at this administration.PLEASE!!!!!!!!!

Are you kidding? Ask my wife and daughter, they don't want to play basketball with a bunch of sweaty, smelly guys. Can't this man do anything without being scrutinized? Geez, people, go find some real news - like who is suffering today without health insurance or who lost their house because they lost their job or like how many kids were killed in shootings today.

Some of you act like this man can't do anything outside of politics. I don't blame Obama, I would play some ball too. Anything to stay away from some of the hate some you and the media display. If he doesn't take a vacation, some of you will criticize that and any
plan or strategy he has so why not take some days off. He needs to take his time, he's moving too fast, he's not moving fast enough. He wants the govt to do do this that and the third. I would go on vacation too.

While Obama screws around, troops are dying because of his indecision and incompetence.

Obama is a disgrace. This hack has got to go. It begins with the 2010 elections.

Posted by: Derrick | Oct 8, 2009 2:38:53 PM
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I didn't hear you complaining when Bush was chopping wood, riding his bike, golfing, or fishing with Daddy.....you people are seriously really truly PATHETIC!!!

right Liz....but don't you dare expect a man to be included in "Girls Night Out"........get a life and let the boyz play ball for god's sake!!!

In answer to the other women who think this is no big deal -- well, simply you're wrong. You're once again thinking it's OK if women aren't allowed a place at the table. In this case, yes, they can be at the table, but not at the place where it REALLY counts. Women are once again shunted aside.

I'm not into sports. I have 3 girls and none of them are into sports. But i'm not so stupid as I don't see how important sports are to people like Obama, so blind as to see that other thingsare important besides sports. (And sports is what he sees, believe me.)

To have him not include women is shameful.

I think it is the writter who is making a big deal out of nothing. Are you bored. I wonder why she does not write about Mrs. Obama not having men along when she is visiting with the gals, oh could it be she is independant and does not need to be joined at the hip with the guys. Fire the writter, she is a jerk.

I am female and I think this article is just dumb... My gosh this President gets knocked for every stupid little thing.

I don't get why a bunch of guys blowing off steam and playing ball should have to include women... geez!
Come on man, do we want the guys with us on a shopping spree or at the spa with our girl buds... NO!

Please Mr. President, enjoy your game of hoops with the guys and ignore this dribble posing as something of substance...

Sad that the president turns his relaxation activity into an "event!" he thinks we will all go, "wow! He plays b-ball! He's so cool! " is he hoping this will distract people from his poor performance.

Oh, for cripe's sake. What a stupid story. Why on earth would a woman want to play basketball with a bunch of men? Most of us don't care what our significant other does to get exercise. And believe me I don't want a bunch of men at my weekly outing with the girls.Sometimes we want separate activities. I don't care to play basketball with a bunch of sweating, scratching, farting men. And I know no man wants to go get a manni-peddi with a bunch of cackling women.And that's the way we all want it. Trying to create a controversy when there is none. Annoying

somebody need to find something to do.

you sir, should not call your self a journalist. One, this is not news worthy, two, if you've ever been to a pick up game, you'd know there's hardly EVER any woman playing. Once in a blue moon.

Derrick: You must not have been alive when GWB was POTUS. Now, that was a constant display of incompetence and indecision ( mostly incompetence ). You make a great arm-chair quarterback, judging things that are far outside your sphere of understanding. Obama is dealing with the very complex issues that Bush left. You obviously have double standards.

Must be a slow news day...