Remember back when the Round Mound of Rebound was flirting with the idea of getting into politics? I heard another nail being pounded into that coffin recently, when — in the midst of a half-time report — Barkley responded to an aside about some player involved in a fight being Christian by saying (from memory here): “Christians have killed more people on Earth than all diseases combined.”
Well, maybe he could still get a job on the Edwards campaign. Or, maybe not, as the man is an Obama fan: “I’m going with Senator Barack Obama. I like him a lot. I respect him. I really — I really think he’d make a fantastic president.”
He supported Edwards last time.
He was famously Republican awhile back. “I’m rich,” was his reasoning, which can’t be faulted, but he now claims that what he meant to say was “I said one time I was rich like a Republican.” (Said like a true Democrat!) As for the change in political direction, it’s not because that has changed: “I still am, I might add. But I think the Republicans have took the country in a terrible situation.”
He’s got mad pundit skills, too:
And let’s get one thing straight about the last elections. The Democrats did not win. They won because the other team wasn’t any good.
You have to admit, the basketball analogy totally works. I mean, imagine what would happen if the Dems played Kucinich.
