David Kranz chats up the sports-centric friendship between South Dakota Sen. John Thune and the POTUS:
…. the Obama-Thune ties go back to somewhere after Election Day 2004. That day marked Thune’s victory over Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota and Obama’s election as a U.S. senator from Illinois.
Not long after, maybe a few hours or so, talk began that the two new senators might challenge each other in a game of basketball.
From that point on, the two men’s mutual interest in the sport has become the subject of light discussion.
Not long after Obama’s inauguration, Thune and Obama injected basketball again into their ongoing conversation about the sport….The conversation doesn’t seem to bother Thune….With the basketball conversation, Thune’s getting national visibility with the president of the United States without even trying.
If Thune does, indeed, become the GOP’s head-of-ticket in 2012, you can expect troves of terrible basketball metaphors to line the headlines.
a. “Slam Dunk! Election provokes huge interest world wide”.
b. “The game is on.”
c. “In 2012, who will stand taller?”
And can’t you hear Howard Fineman and Gene Robinson finishing an in-studio chat with a “Why don’t they just settle it in a game of horse?” laugh line that leaves Keith Olbermann wondering why he ever left Sportscenter?
Swish!
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