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Is running a country similar to running three-wide at Daytona?
That’s what President Obama said, when he made a joke about the demands of both jobs when a handful of NASCAR’s top drivers visited the White House on Wednesday.
“NASCAR is a sport where anything that can go wrong will go wrong at some point during the season,” Obama said. “Similar to being President.”
PS to the Prez: If so, we’re about to spin out and need a fresh set of tires, sir.
The ceremony honored NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson and other top drivers, allowing the President to take a brief respite from the economic turmoil this country is facing, and give his speech writers plenty of fodder.
“I’m not allowed to drive much these days,” he said. “Basically just my golf cart at Camp David — which is called Golf Cart One.”
The visit generated controversy because Greg Biffle, Tony Stewart, Carl Edwards and Kevin Harvick declined, citing scheduling conflicts. The scheduling demands became further complicated matters after the AdvoCare 500, won by Jeff Gordon, was postponed for two days.
As I noted in an earlier column, “they may have well as burned the American flag and plucked the feathers off an eagle. Some critics are questioning their priorities and their patriotism, as if they are part of the lunatic fringe who claim that Obama is a Manchurian Candidate with a phony birth certificate.
As with all things political in this country, no one can have a legitimate conversation without it turning into a food right among both extremes.”
Some of the responses I received no doubt believe the Manchurian Candidate conspiracy theory, and went on to rip the President because he was trying to rope in the NASCAR crowd to rope in a few ropes.
Wow, a President inviting athletes over to the White House for an innocuous photo-op.
Well, that’s never happened before!
A food fight it is. Pathetic.
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