Rather than fixing the economy, dealing with the war, investigating the laws broken by the Bush administration, or legitimately dealing with all the screw ups his and his last administration propogated regarding AIG, et al, the President found time today to announce his picks for the NCAA Tournament. His final four includes: UNC (ok, we agree on something), Pitt (I disagree though I'm probably on the wrong side of this one), Louisville (not impressed), and Memphis (insert repeated projectile vomit noise here). Really Memphis? Not UConn from that region or Mizzou?
Memphis is in a shit conference so they're totally untested, have a really weak record in big time games against real opponents, and are totally and completely overrated given their weak and paltry ability (an ability that managed to win a C-USA tournament and go 1 for 3 against ranked opponents this season). Rather than basing judgment of Memphis on skill, records or fact, the media has made Memphis their love child creating a world in which everything they do, no matter how miniscule, meaningless, or easy it is, is considered the most dramatic of accomplishments. Sound familiar?
Wow, the Memphis basketball team is the athletic equivalent of the Obama campaign/administration. Now if only coach Calipari can act outraged at some kind of broad-scale corporate theft scheme that he had the opportunity to stop but absolutely and totally failed to do anything about, he would secure the role of his team as a perfect political metaphor. Maybe one of the players can throw a ball from half court ostensibly toward the basket, but miss and hit an 89 year old retiree in the head, killing her. Later, the player can deny ever have been in the arena, despite 26,000 witnesses and 11 networks covering the play.
The only thing that makes me seethe more than Memphis basketball is this President....
-Ginger
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Obama is definitely in the special olympics of picking a bracket.
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