What Air Force One has in common with Frontier and JetBlue


Barack Obama, an avid basketball fan, has filled out his NCAA Tournament bracket.

When ESPN's Andy Katz asked the president he would manage to watch the Final Four despite the fact that it will be held next month while he's traveling to the NATO summit, Obama explained: "Air Force One has DirecTV."

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Anonymous said…
How could our president not think WI will win?? that state was VERY important for HIS win!! I protest.
March 19, 2009
Josh said…
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/reliable-source/2009/03/rs-obamabracket19.html

Charlie Cook, political analyst, editor and publisher, the Cook Political Report: "If the president wanted to shamelessly suck up to swing-state schools, he would have made very different choices. Instead, he went with solid, though certainly conventional, choices. A panderer would have picked Ohio State over Louisville in the second round of the Midwest, and Missouri over Memphis in the third round of the West. Of course, he would have looked ridiculous to make those picks, but that never stopped some politicians."
March 19, 2009
Josh said…
Obama won the electoral college comfortably: 365 to 173. Wisconsin was no more or less important than any other state with 10 electoral votes.
March 19, 2009
Anonymous said…
It wasn't the election I referred to, it was the primary.
March 22, 2009
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