Obama watches No. 1 Tar Heels beat Spartans 67-55 in Carrier Classic
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President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama during the Carrier Classic NCAA basketball game as Michigan State University play the University of North Carolina on the USS Carl Vinson, Friday, Nov. 11, 2011, in Coronado, Calif. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
CORONADO, Calif. (AP) — With President Barack Obama watching from midcourt, No. 1 North Carolina beat Michigan State 67-55 on Friday night in the Carrier Classic on the flight deck of the USS Carl Vinson.
Harrison Barnes scored 17 points and John Henson had 12 points and a career-high nine blocked shots as the Tar Heels put their size advantage to good use. Michigan State’s Draymond Green had 18 rebounds.
Fitting with the Veterans Day theme, the Tar Heels and Spartans had U.S.A. rather than their names on the back of their jerseys, which had a camouflage design. At dusk, the game was paused for the lowering of the American flag. The players gave their jerseys to servicemen after the game.
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Obama watched intently, chatted with wife Michelle and service members seated near him, and at one point appeared to check his BlackBerry. When the game ended, he applauded and then shook hands with coaches Roy Williams and Tom Izzo.
North Carolina has beaten Michigan State six straight times, including in the 2009 national championship game.
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Comments (60)
Unix
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 2:18pmAs Rome burns Nero fiddles – yeeehaw!
Report Post »David11
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 2:15pmI think Obama will go down as one of the best Presidents this country has ever had. Several historical studies have him currently around 11th on the top list and ahead of Reagan but below Clinton. One thing this country needs to do and is starting today down in Alabama is make practicing religion illegal. If anyone is interested in attending the conferences that will be taking place starting today let me know. Religion is killing peoples minds, its like poison. Theirs nothing more dangerous than religion and those that practice it. Time to ban together and stop the madness.
Report Post »Unix
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 2:20pmI sure hope you are being SARCASTIC, otherwise, you will go down in history as one of the dumbest SOB’s that ever lived…
Report Post »Unix
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 2:24pmAfter re-reading your stupid post, I KNOW you will go down as the most stupid SOB that ever lived. Get a life you lemming, it’s amoebas like you that are ruining our nation.
I blow my nose in your general direction, you infantile bedwetting type! honk
Report Post »David11
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 2:52pmActually I’m being quite serious!! In the opinion of more than half the people in this country, religious people are the most vile evil human on this planet and they need to be stopped. They’re causing so much damage to our society, we may never recover from their hurt they have put on the rest of us. Obama is our hope.
Report Post »VoteBushIn12
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 4:23pmHahaha! Obvious troll is obvious
Report Post »1789Patriot
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 4:24pmOh, yes. Because atheist leaders who have killed over 100 million and counting are such a peaceful lot and not vile at all. Why do want to burn Jews David?
UNIX – I read your post on another story looking for a video comparing OWS/Tea Parties/Dems. I think this is pretty close to what you are looking for: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-puI-_XwSw&feature=player_embedded
Report Post »matinva
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 5:42pmThe verdict is in. My box of rocks is smarter than you are.
Report Post »mario
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 6:20pmAre you stoned or just stupid or maybe talking out your a$$?
Report Post »Unix
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 7:21pmI am seriously scratching my head…ya, I vote for the box of rocks too, I could not imagine the IQ differential, David you have a negative IQ, I really feel sorrrry for you. Tell you what though, I’ll pray for you, and think good thoughts for you. Nity Nite now.
Report Post »jordan2
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 7:22pmSorry, but you sound like you are doing drugs.
Report Post »lillymckim
Posted on November 13, 2011 at 9:33amThis picture makes me sick…
Report Post »VanGogh75
Posted on November 14, 2011 at 11:04amDavid11 – you are a complete bozo…no way is Obama going down as one of the best Presidents…put down the crack pipe and please provide your liberal site you used to make such a dumba** comment? Better than Reagan but below Clinton? 11th? LOL! HA! More like 43rd…George Bush will go down when all the history is written 50 years from now as a good President.
What has Obama done to make him go down as one of the best Presidents ever? Name one thing he did better than Reagan or Clinton?
As for the game; only Obama would use what was supposed to be a celebration of our military into a political speech about his jobs bill. I turned the channel and never looked back after he started making a political speech for a college basketball game.
Get real dude…you‘ve been smoking too much crack or someone’s pole….
Report Post »jmgair
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 1:30pmSo how many jobs did he create for this event ??
Report Post »georgeisn6
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 12:25pmSports, the most corrupting influence in the nation, that is where we see the most corrupt person this nation has ever prodused.
Report Post »mikee1
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 11:54amHow nifty. What will the gov. think of next to waste your money? How about a cage fight in Congress: 1 dummycrap vs. 1 rino TO THE DEATH. LOL.
Report Post »neverending
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 11:15amAt least the sorry sob is good at something. Probably doesn’t even realize he was on a ship?
Report Post »100 Million Patriots Standing
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 11:35amMore preparation and softening for mixing of things Federal with things non-federal. As is often the case in the Obama admin. the plan advances a little further to get people used to ‘one way’.
—-the big central government is everything way —-
Report Post »RightThinking1
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 11:12amI’m wondering when a NCAA basketball game was last played out of doors?
Report Post »libh8er
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 11:05amI am repulsed by this man, pretending to be a part of the military, when he should be hanging his head in shame. He is responsible for the imprisonment of an officer in the military, simply because he refused to prove he was a citizen…. That proof still evades us today.
Report Post »last frontier
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 10:58amThe only time they look happy is when they are not working.
Report Post »100 Million Patriots Standing
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 11:38amre “The only other time they look happy is when they are working….to change our government to one that is non constitution based.
Report Post »MissionToast
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 10:54amI can only imagine what the dress code was like. When the George Washington pulled into Japan, it was dress whites for everybody 2nd deck and above (the artery for foot traffic below the flight deck). Which meant for us nuclear operators that we had to look both ways along the ship for uniform patrol so we could relieve the watch.
Report Post »napoleon_solo
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 10:48amHe doesn’t look very happy does he? Looks about to cry in fact. Of course, he is did just break up with his longtime lover boy Reggie. Why else would he be accompanied by the beard?
Report Post »the point
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 10:13amDid obama just say that he was going to cut spending ?? Well, he just paid the highest price in the history of the world to see a basketball game.
Report Post »Buttercup
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 9:27amMaybe he could stay home in DC intead of flying across the country for a basketball game, photo op/campaign stop — or whatever it was. It would add to all that money saved from unnecessary “frills.”
Report Post »100 Million Patriots Standing
Posted on November 16, 2011 at 11:06ambasketball games on ships are non-sustainable
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 9:16amWell, where were the OWS gang? They LOVE disrupting events on military vessels, especially on Veterans Day! Guess there were no CONSERVATIVE SPEAKERS????
Report Post »BillyPenn
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 8:53amSickening to see him on a a warship wearing a military jacket. In that he would have been ruled ineligible
Report Post »for military service, due to his close association with known radicals and convicted terrorists. Besides which, he would have had to produce a birth certificate and a legit social security number.
techengineer11
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 8:57amlol. Wish he was as interested in fixing the American economy as he was in Basketball.
Report Post »kgutman
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 9:49amI couldn’t agree with you more. We’re going to see alot more sucking up to our military before 2012.How many holidays (Memorial Day’s, etc ) has he NOT attended, but payed golf instead. He doesn’t give a damn about our men and women, just need to look at his rules of non-engagement in Afghanistan, and budget cuts. He’s now promoting jobs for vets, if he was really concerned about the lack of jobs in this country he’d stop illegal immigration, therefore opening the job market for all American citizens and reducing much of our economic burden. It’s all about his trying to be re-elected, he knows many of our service members do not like him. Let’s see if the military overseas gets to vote in 2012, or if they screw things up again and not get the nessessary forms to them in time.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 8:43amFigures, it takes a basketball game to get him on board a military vessil.
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 9:14amThink maybe if congress had a basketball game he might be more attentive?
Report Post »grannyrecipe
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 6:54amHey Obama, quick, what do they launch planes with…catapults or arresting gear?
Report Post »Is the “tow bar” a critical part of an aircraft or is it a cozy transgender lounge in the hangar bay?
When they launch alerts, does it mean that they are testing the national alert system?
Are “sorties” planes or are they cute expressions meaning “maybe”?
Are “barricades” used to trap disabled planes or are they used to protect OWS protesters on the bow?
And lastly, does the term “ball state” refer to a planes approach position or does it mean that you, the chosen one, has arrived for a basketball game and everyone is having a ball?
hottips2011
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 6:54amMoo watched the game? I figured she spent the whole time touring the galley.
Report Post »napoleon_solo
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 10:43amShe took advantage of the opportunity to be in the company of real men for a change.
Report Post »Living In NYC
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 6:15amGeez..you noticed he wasn’t home protecting MeeShell from the AK-47 gunifire in our Whitehouse’s front yard!
Doesn’t DC have some of the toughest gun laws in the United States and we have crossfire yards from the front door of our Whitehouse!
Funny living in a red state with carry laws we don’t have AK-47 crossfire yards from our Govenor’s house! Hey Barry “free will” not “government regulations” maintain peace in the United States!
Report Post »manster35
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 3:25amBarry is such a suck up. I hate him being on an American Warship. I am sure he would be much more at home on an Iranian Ship, or dingy. Can November 2012 get here any sooner.
Report Post »piper60
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 4:51amHe was clearly just going through the motions. He doesn’t care about any game he is not in charge of.
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 5:52amWho said he wasn‘t in ’charge of’ the game?
Report Post »He probably had the teams researched to see who had the ‘blackest’ blacks ,then dictated they would win.
Now that’s sick! Possibly true, but sick!
decendentof56
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 5:57amAnyway, here’s the thing…….
Report Post »Barry gets to cover the ‘honoring the Veterans’ thing (which he doesn’t really care about), by being on the ship , and….. watch a basketball game, which he loves.
You gotta hand it to him. He is a slick son-of-a-gun.
Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 2:12amIt must have been pitiful watching him try to “no vote” who to root for..
Report Post »PATRIOTGRUNT
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 1:05amWatched the whole thing . The shameless pig used this for onother campaign speech .
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 5:12amYep
Report Post »chimarathon
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 6:59amThat pathetic excuse for a “pep talk” was absolutely disgusting. I turned it off and didn’t go back.
Report Post »Jezcruzen
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 7:26amAs a Navy vet, I am irritated that he and the Vacation Queen even set foot on an American warship. How much did all the prep work on the flight deck cost the American taxpayer, BTW?
Report Post »tucsondon
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 9:19amYeah, instead of merely thanking our veterans and current military personnel for their service, he managed to make it about him and Michelle by playing up what they were doing or going to be doing legislatively for the military.
Why couldn’t he just do what is expected of a sitting president, then sit down and watch the basketball game? He used it as a campaigning opportunity to court the military vote. I suspect it didn’t work as there were no long ovations for his entrance or speech, just polite applause. These people get it.
Report Post »LookingforJustice
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 12:52pmHAVE LOVED THE TARHEELS MY WHOLE LIFE…graduate-1979….
HAD TO MUTE THE TV when the Bamster INTERJECTED himself ONCE AGAIN into an event that ultimately should have ONLY honored those in uniform, past & present. SHAMELESS & TOTALLY EXPECTED!
Loved the game & loved watching our military guys & gals enjoying this part of basketball history!
Report Post »NotPoliticallyCorrect
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 12:51amWhat, is he waiting for a biscuit, or what?
Report Post »marine249
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 12:36amwhen it comes to bo who cares?
Report Post »pwatkins
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 12:19amWay to go Tarheels! It is funny in this photo no one is even noticing the Obamas.’ It appears they are trying to ignore them. Barry looks a little like he is seeing a moment no one else is seeing too, but he always does.
Report Post »asybot12
Posted on November 12, 2011 at 12:32amEverybody is watching the game . He is looking and applauding himself on the big screen!
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