Obama picks us!

[jbindm]

That's cool. We'll take all the support we can get. I don't know if any of you guys heard, but Doug Gottlieb also picked us to beat UConn.

[Acylum]

This is a shot at ESPN, not the OP, but does anyone really care who Obama picks?

No kidding. This was somewhat cute the first time but now it's passe. Bush II has probably forgotten more about baseball than Obama will ever know about bball but you didn't see him on Fox every year predicting the playoffs. I don't get the fascination.

[CtownCyclone]

Baracketology | President Barack Obama's 2012 NCAA men's basketball tournament bracket

Picked all the 8 seeds. Picked all the 10 seeds minor upsets of 7s
Only 2 other upsets other than those 10-7 onse in the first round.
Sweet 16 is all 1-4 seeds, except 11 seed NC St and 5 seed New Mexico
Elite 8 is all the 1 and 2 seeds except for 2-duke being upset by 3-Baylor
Final 4 is all 1s and 2s.

Very 'safe' bracket.

Apparently, my employer believes that my work time is better spent not looking at the president's bracket. Got the dreaded "Access to this site is restricted" warning.

Luckily, CF is still OK!

[Angie]

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[Clonefan94]

This is a shot at ESPN, not the OP, but does anyone really care who Obama picks?

I wouldn't say it's a big news story by any means. Considering the President is a huge basketball fan though, and well, it's not like College basketball is saving the world, I don't think it's out of line to at least call it noteworthy. I'd feel different if it were the top story on CNN, Fox and other news channels (although Fox will only tell you when the president's pick loses and what a bad decision he made), the news channels are about as reliable as ESPN nowadays. But it's college hoops, the president has a bracket, why wouldn't they comment on it?

[Rural]

No kidding. This was somewhat cute the first time but now it's passe. Bush II has probably forgotten more about baseball than Obama will ever know about bball but you didn't see him on Fox every year predicting the playoffs. I don't get the fascination.

Yeah, The Dub has a huge baseball intellect. Sheesh.

[jboffer]

This is a shot at ESPN, not the OP, but does anyone really care who Obama picks?

Objectively, yeah. Millions of people, probably. These videos have been shared online and talked about by people the last two years. And last yeah at one point Obama had a bracket in the 99.9 percentile or something.

Why? It's just amusing. Huge novelty factor. The commander of the greatest military on Earth takes a second to engage in a yearly tradition with the rest of us. It also just fits Obama's personality--he's always been way into sports.

(And no I'm not an Obama supporter)

[Minnyclone]

Obama was also at the Mississippi Valley State game tonight... glad he has important things to do.

[Angie]

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Final warning.

[cstrunk]

Final warning.

But moooooommmmmm!!!

[ribsnwhiskey]

Final warning.

So you delete my post but not any of the others.

Awesome. Thanks all powerful mod.

[Angie]

So you delete my post but not any of the others.

Awesome. Thanks all powerful mod.

I deleted three other posts in here, if you want to count, and am about to delete another. I also gave two warnings. I'm liberal, why would I just pick on you?

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