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MikeIt’s great that President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize! But what about including women in his weekly basketball games. The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank, under the title of “So Much for Shattering the Glass Backboard,” reports that:
President Obama hosts a basketball game at the White House on Thursday evening for Cabinet secretaries and members of Congress. Of the 15 participants whose names are put out by the White House, not one is a woman — even though Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was a college basketball player and U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, who was in town for the afternoon, played high school ball.
At a daily briefing,Obama’s press secretary was asked if Obama had ever invited any women to play and replied “The point’s well taken. The president’s certainly played basketball and other sports with women in the past, and I anticipate he’ll do so in the future.”
The article also reports this about Seblius:
On Jay Leno’s show Wednesday night, HHS’s Sebelius, who played college ball for Trinity Washington University, was asked: “Who would win in a game of HORSE, you or President Obama?”
Sebelius talked trash. “I actually made my college basketball team, so –”
“Whoa!” Leno exclaimed at this taunting of the president.
“Bring it on!” Sebelius dared.
Filed under: Politics, Workplace Tagged: | Barack Obama, Basketball, Sports
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