Ricky Bobby Obama? (NASCAR Event today at WH Live on ESPN2)

[Clio the Leo]

Great googley moogley! What kind of Pied Piper have we elected! He's actually got me planning to watch a NASCAR event!!! EEEEK! He's controlling my brain!!! I no longer have control of my TV!!!!

(POTUS to do a NASCAR event live from the South Lawn today at 4:30pm to be broadcast on ESPN2's "Nascar Now.")

Ain't NASCAR's first presidential rodeo
Notoriously right-wing NASCAR's visit to a liberal Democratic president at the White House on Wednesday (NASCAR Now on ESPN2, 4:30 p.m. ET) is not nearly as groundbreaking as you may think.

I know, I know: This is the NASCAR of warplane flyovers and fervent invocations at every race, troops in attendance by the battalion, tacit instructions given at drivers' meetings on which way to vote (wink-wink, with the right eye) … the NASCAR that quickly proved absurd the New York Times' assertion in 2000 that "NASCAR dads" were in play politically.

Truth is, NASCAR's deepest roots with the American presidency run back to one Jimmy Carter of Georgia, who was as passionate a NASCAR fan as he was a liberal Democrat. He and Cale Yarborough were so tight, their friendship became a skit on "Saturday Night Live."

The living legend Junior Johnson remains a staunch Democrat today, having endorsed candidate Barack Obama last summer, even though it was a Republican, Ronald Reagan, who'd granted Johnson a presidential pardon for moonshining.

Today's visit with President Obama will be but a quickie, a virtual pit stop, much like the in-and-out trips to see George W. Bush -- who, if you ask me, never looked comfortable with the NASCAR folk, either at the White House or the Daytona 500.

http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/nascar/cup/columns/story?columnist=hinton_ed&id=4408359

[NYC_SKP]

1. awesome!

[Zomby Woof]

2. I've been a NASCAR fan for years

I would say my interest in auto-racing, like my interest in other sports, is apolitical.

I ignore all the packaging, the flyovers, prayers, etc. It's bad enough EVERY baseball game now has to suffer through "God Bless America" during the 7th inning stretch, but it wouldn't be the first time such idiocies associated themselves with a sport I enjoy. To me, it's about the competition, whether it's hitting or throwing a ball, making a jump shot, catching an interception, or pulling ahead on the straightaway.

I don't think liking NASCAR makes me an unusual liberal. My niece's husband, a hardcore fascist conservative if there ever was one, considers ultra-liberal Pearl Jam his favorite band. That requires a lot of cognitive dissonance, whereas I would say my enjoyment of auto racing does not cause any.

(For the record, he is indifferent to NASCAR).

[Clio the Leo]

3. yeah, but the cars are still just going 'round and 'round in a circle.....

...... never getting anywhere.

I dont get it. ;)

[Jackeens]

5. Oh..........

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[VWolf]

8. Reminds me of the Jerry Seinfeld bit about horse racing

He's doing it from the horse's point of view, after the race, and he's panting, gasping for air, looking around:
"But we were just here! Couldn't we have just stayed here and let the other horses run?"

[Cha]

4. I remember Junior Johnson during the

campaign! He's one of my heroes! Thanks, Clio..way for the White House to get different kinds of people's interests piqued!

[Schema Thing]

6. He wrote passionately for Obama and change.

[Cha]

10. Yes, and probably considered an

oddity by some of his fellow brainwashed travelers.

[SIMPLYB1980]

7. Boogidy Boogidy Boogidy!!!

:kick:

[HopeOverFear]

9. is that a real car????