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Obama Supports Dog-Killer Vick, Jinxes Philadelphia Eagles vs. Minnesota Vikings

Posted on | December 29, 2010 | 14 Comments

Exactly why the president of the United States felt the need to phone the Eagles’ coach to praise him for giving Michael Vick a second chance, I don’t know. What I do know is that it didn’t help the Eagles:

The NFL’s first Tuesday game in 64 years produced a fittingly unusual result as Minnesota stunned NFC East champions Philadelphia 24-14.
Minnesota quarterback Joe Webb threw for 195 yards and ran for a touchdown in his first career start filling in for the injured Brett Favre, while Adrian Peterson ran for 118 yards and touchdown.
The pair helped the Vikings (6-9) knock Philadelphia out of contention for a first-round playoff bye.
The Eagles (10-5) could have secured a first-round bye with a victory over the Vikings and Dallas next week, plus a loss by either Chicago or Atlanta next week.

What was Obama thinking? Was he trying to get the dogfighting vote? Did he figure that the ASPCA and the Friends of Animals would ignore his intervention on behalf of the dog-killer?

Maybe Obama was trying to shore up his support among Philadelphia fans, but if his jinx ends up costing the Eagle a shot at the Super Bowl, the backlash might be enough to put Pennsylvania back into the “swing state” column for 2012.

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  • http://thepagantemple.blogspot.com/ ThePaganTemple

    Maybe he is just inspired by the Michael Vick story of second chances and the potential for redemption. He might even be applying it to himself to an extent. After all, his stock has fallen appreciably since those days more than fifty percent of the voters seemed to really believe he could make the oceans rise, or whatever.

  • JeffS

    Well, the elections are over, so he can’t jinx any campaigns. Maybe Obama is just keeping in practice?

  • http://grandpajohn.blogspot.com/ Steve Burri

    TV announcer Al Michaels often used the phrase ‘underdogs’ in reference to the Vikings.

    Heh.

  • vermontaigne

    We know that Obama’s so great a fan of Chicago’s Southsiders that he can’t name a favorite player. I’m guessing he thinks it’s still a big deal to have a black quarterback, and thinks that there are black Americans who have that opinion, too.

  • Joe

    The irony…it burns.

    Ed Rendell should send the Vikings a case of TastyKakes and a lot of cheese steaks. They deserve it.

  • mike

    “Exactly why the president of the United States felt the need to phone the Eagles’ coach to praise him for giving Michael Vick a second chance, I don’t know.”

    You don’t? Really? Let me put it this way: he ain’t making that call for Ben Roethlisberger.

  • Tennwriter

    We’re all sinners, and by being rebels against the High King of the Universe, we’ve done worse than killing a dog. I think Obama did a good thing here.

    Its rare that a liberal does a good thing, but one should never fall into the kneejerk notion of ‘Obama breathed, so breathing is bad.’

    Now I’m not sure you’re doing that, but it does happen (Much more on the Left than on the Right).

  • http://waxingerratic.wordpress.com/ ECM

    Everything is about him, so it’s probably exactly what you stated, minus the part about actually caring one way or the other about Michael Vicks’ “redemption”. (For the record, MV should have been shipped off to Thailand for use as a Muy Thai practice dummy, rather than given millions of dollars in the NFL, and I”m not even an animal rights loon.)

  • Frank

    Vick is pure evil. I wish upon him the same thing he did to those poor dogs. And I am not talking about fighting them. I am talking about the torture he so enjoyed. And BHO should have kept his mouth shut.

  • Pkpiazza1

    Really Obama?? Second chance for vic? He got caught,and thats the only reason he appologized for what he did.He gets rewarded for his disgusting acts for what he did to those dogs. Dogs that got tortured didn’t get a second chance.
    BY the way i didn’t vote for You, or any of your peers,ALL POLITICIANS are a BIG JOKE,and people who support them are a bunch of sheep that follow the ass.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/EU5DQWQTTHTPO4A4ZYSL3AAV2U Adjoran

    I believe in redemption. I believe in second chances. But Vick’s work with animal rights now is part of his parole and community service. I reserve judgment on how he has reformed until after his probation is closed. If he is still doing all the school appearances against animal abuse, I’ll start to believe he’s for real.

    Obama was really angling for the felon vote, which he is likely planning to tap in 2012 through some DOJ decree. The guy seems to enjoy ruling by fiat and decree, like a dictator.

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