DATELINE: HUMOR!
If President Barack Obama wants to know how he’s doing with the American public, he ought to check on the odd reactions of New England athletes to him and his message.
This week two Boston stars, one from the Bruins and one from the Patriots, have had diametrically different responses to the man who would be president for another term.
Tim Thomas, goalie for the Bruins and a Stanley Cup champion, refused on Monday to go to the White House with his team and soak up the slobbering compliments heaped upon them for their achievements by a man who likely never saw them play.
Chad Ochocinco, highly paid non-starter for the Patriots and Super Bowl attendee next week, decided to watch his first State of the Union Address on TV Tuesday night. He never saw a man more slobbered over than Obama.
Though the teammates of Tim Thomas went to the podium to serve as a backdrop to the President, they all showed solidarity by saying cheese as the cameras caught them in mufti for posterity.
Though Ochocinco stayed up past his strict regimen of bedtime by 8pm, he flew in the face of all political novices by expressing amazement that Mr. Obama could memorize such a long speech.
Tim Thomas tweeted that he did not go to meet Obama as a protest against the dysfunction of the American government.
Ochocinco tweeted that, if Congress keeps applauding every line, the speech would last three hours.
Thomas is the only American left from the championship duck boat brigade that still plays for the Bruins a scant six months later. He thinks Obama is fiddling while the country burns.
Ochocinco is the only American who tweeted Speaker of the House John Boehner that he seemed angry and never smiled while sitting behind the President during his Union Address.
These two athletes–unwitting in their insights and unbelievable in their attitudes–may be the reason the country is in such stark contrast, a tale of two voting bloc heads.
We may be looking at the future nominees for President of the United States: Republican Tim Thomas and Democrat Chad Ochocinco.
Yes, indeed, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
