If only we could decide this presidential election by the simple game of basketball or a shooting game of H-O-R-S-E. Heck, we’ll even call it M-O-O-S-E.
Presidential nominee Barack Obama told George Stephanopoulos on Sunday that he’d like to go one-on-one with Vice President pick Sarah Palin. (One-on-one on the basketball court, that is.)
Palin was no cheerleader. She played point guard for Wasila High School and was captain of the 1982 state championship team. Nicknamed “Sarah Barracuda” for her tenacious full-court defense and gritty play.
“All I ever needed to know I learned on the basketball court,” Palin, a Title 1X proponent and beneficiary said during her run for governor.
Obama also played on a state championship team for Punahou High in Hawaii. By most accounts, he wasn’t the team’s best player but one of the hardest working. Sitting on the bench, he used to chatter in his coaches ear for more minutes.
Over the years, however, Obama has kept up with the game playing pick-up basketball. He’s described from teammates as fast and skinny, all elbows, with good wind. The lefty still has a smooth jumper. Another bonus, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, the NBA’s all-time leading scoring has endorsed Obama.
He joked about Palin, the experienced hunter, on Sunday’s ABC “This Week”.
“She looks like she’s got some game,” he said, “she played in high school,”
He added: “You know she’s a sharpshooter, and I know that – I probably wouldn’t do target practice with her. I think she’s a better shot than me. But on the basketball court, I think I’d stand up pretty well.”
Admittedly, Obama hasn’t shot a Moose like Palin – but I bet he can out-shoot her at M-O-O-S-E.
