Should Obama butt in changing the name of the Washington Redskins?

[Navy Pride]

I am thinking we have enough problems facing this country so should the President butt in?

 

[Robbymac]

The NFL is a joke anyways. Who cares?

 

[pbrauer]

I am thinking we have enough problems facing this country so should the President butt in?

Meh, I couldn't care less whether he does or doesn't.

 

[specklebang]

What problem should he work on instead?

Not that I disagree with you. I was just curious how you would like the extra hours he picks up to be utilized.





Be careful what you wish for.

 

[StillBallin75]

I am thinking we have enough problems facing this country so should the President butt in?

Who said he was going to butt in? And what's it to you? Are you a skins fan? Why are you butting into the affairs of the team and fans and the President?

 

[Anagram]

He shouldn't butt in and actually make them change the name, but I don't mind that he voiced his own opinion about it.

 

[APACHERAT]

Who said he was going to butt in? And what's it to you? Are you a skins fan?

Yeah, Obama has already butted in with his opinion that the Redskins should change their names.

I'm going to support the new name, the Washington Tea Party Animals.

 

[Ikari]

I am thinking we have enough problems facing this country so should the President butt in?

It's America, he's free to say as he wants.

 

[Linc]

When you're getting creamed on a screw-up of your own making, by all means come up with this straw man thread.
As for tonight's NFL game, I can still hear Rush singing "Gino the magic Negro".

 

[Your Star]

He said if he was the owner he could consider changing the name. He never said he was going force the Redskins to change their name. Invalid poll made by a partisan who just hates anything done by a democrat.

 

[Linc]

Yeah, Obama has already butted in with his opinion that the Redskins should change their names.

I'm going to support the new name, the Washington Tea Party Animals.

How about the Washington Semi-Automatics?
Or the Washington NRAs?
You could rotate the name for all the special gun donors.
And their AAA team could be the Coeur d'Alene Aryans.

 

[a351]

Yes, through Executive Order.

 

[APACHERAT]

How about the Washington Semi-Automatics?
Or the Washington NRAs?
You could rotate the name for all the special gun donors.
And their AAA team could be the Coeur d'Alene Aryans.

The NFL already has a team that is related to the Aryans, the Minnesota Vikings.

 

[StillBallin75]

Yeah, Obama has already butted in with his opinion that the Redskins should change their names.

I'm going to support the new name, the Washington Tea Party Animals.

Why are you butting into Redskins' private business?

 

[TheNextEra]

I am thinking we have enough problems facing this country so should the President butt in?

No, he should not be involving himself in this.

 

[Kobie]

Yeah, Obama has already butted in with his opinion that the Redskins should change their names.

I'm going to support the new name, the Washington Tea Party Animals.

That's not what he said. However, he was asked the question, and he answered it. I know the wingnuts go apoplectic every time the man dares draw a breath, but JHC on a cracker, the dude's not allowed to answer a direct question?

In Conservaland, the uppity President isn't allowed to have an opinion, and if he breaks that rule, he'd better not dare share it when asked.

 

[TheNextEra]

Who said he was going to butt in? And what's it to you? Are you a skins fan? Why are you butting into the affairs of the team and fans and the President?

He's already involved himself in this. The one thing I really don't like about today's age is president's lowering themselves to late night talk show appearences and getting involved with stupid stuff like a NFL name.

 

[Hatuey]

How about the Washington Semi-Automatics?
Or the Washington NRAs?
You could rotate the name for all the special gun donors.
And their AAA team could be the Coeur d'Alene Aryans.

Kudos on that last one.

 

[TheNextEra]

That's not what he said. However, he was asked the question, and he answered it. I know the wingnuts go apoplectic every time the man dares draw a breath, but JHC on a cracker, the dude's not allowed to answer a direct question?

In Conservaland, the uppity President isn't allowed to have an opinion, and if he breaks that rule, he'd better not dare share it when asked.

I disagree here. The president is allowed to have an opinion, but what he says carries weight because of his position and thereefore (in the professional world) he needed to just excuse himself from that question.

 

[Zyphlin]

The fact that in the middle of a shutdown, and the whole issue in Syria still happening, the AP finds it appropriate to ask and that they'll likely get a response is troubling. But I don't blame him for answering a question asked to him. Especially in the hedging manner in which he answered. I just don't think we should've had a presidential and news environment that would make a reporter think that kind of question at this moment was in any ways reasonable.

 

[Kobie]

I disagree here. The president is allowed to have an opinion, but what he says carries weight because of his position and thereefore (in the professional world) he needed to just excuse himself from that question.

I don't see any reason the president should feel obligated to silence himself when asked his opinion on a current event.

 

[StillBallin75]

He's already involved himself in this. The one thing I really don't like about today's age is president's lowering themselves to late night talk show appearences and getting involved with stupid stuff like a NFL name.

He was asked the question in an AP interview and he gave his opinion as a sports fan much as you or I would. I don't see why so many people have a problem with it. The fact that they're appearing more on late night talk shows says less about the Presidents and more about the transformation of the entertainment and TV industry IMHO.

 

[TheNextEra]

I don't see any reason the president should feel obligated to silence himself when asked his opinion on a current event.

Again, it's called being professional. Something Obama has not learned to be. What's next, answering a reporter's "incredibly urgent question" of "what sitcom do you like watching Mr. President?". Gimme a break.

The Mickey Mouse reporting and the unprofessionalism of the president is astounding. For the most part, I hated almost every decision Bush made, but he was far more professional than Obama is.

 

[TheNextEra]

He was asked the question in an AP interview and he gave his opinion as a sports fan much as you or I would. I don't see why so many people have a problem with it. The fact that they're appearing more on late night talk shows says less about the Presidents and more about the transformation of the entertainment and TV industry IMHO.

Again, Mickey Mouse reporting. The presdient has been turned into an entertainment stooge.

 

[jamesrage]

I am thinking we have enough problems facing this country so should the President butt in?

The president should butt out. The only people who view redskin as a racial slur are butt hurt pc-tards who have nothing else better to do than whine about a sports team( they are not fans of) calls themselves.