Obama to Reward Students Who Register Others to 3-on-3 Basketball
Barack Obama will play three-on-three with students — and possibly a former Indiana University basketball star — as he taps the state’s rich basketball tradition to help get out the vote for next month’s primary.
An 18-year-old high school student who registers 20 people to vote will choose two students to help challenge the Democratic presidential candidate on the court, said Kevin Griffis, a spokesman for Obama’s campaign in Indiana. If the winning student decides not to play, he or she can choose all three players.
Obama’s team could include Calbert Cheaney, a former NBA player and NCAA basketball player of the year, and a college student who registers 30 new voters.
“We just were looking for a way to engage young people,” Griffis said. “There simply is no better state to do this sort of thing than Indiana, where basketball is important to so many communities across the state.”
Obama was a member of Hawaii’s championship high school basketball team in 1979; the Illinois senator grew up on the island state. A recent YouTube video clip shows him casually sinking a three-point shot at a school gym in South Carolina during a visit to promote his education policies.
Cheaney, an Evansville, Ind., native who played for Indiana University and most recently was with the NBA’s Golden State Warriors, said he has supported Obama from the “get-go.”
“I’m just one of those guys that think he could be the man to change everything for the better,” Cheaney said.
The game would be held at the winning 18-year-old’s high school on a date to be determined, and likely be played according to standard three-on-three rules, in which the first team to reach 11 points wins, Obama’s campaign said.
The contest is the latest effort by Obama and rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to reach out to voters before Indiana’s primary May 6, where 72 delegates are at stake. A Rushville woman won a dinner with Obama in an online donor initiative, and two Indiana women were chosen to follow Clinton for a day during a swing through the state last week.
Why don’t they play the game in Kenya that way his family could be in attendance.
Negative Comments about OBAMA ….MANY
Comments about John Mccain…..FEW
Seeing the faces of OBAMA haters (Dem & Rep alike) on the day of his Presidential Inauguration
PRICELESS!!!!!,
Folks, getting people to register to vote isn’t buying votes. That’s the same thing as down south, having a fish fry and then getting people to register to vote. Buying votes is , “If you vote for me, you’ll get XYZ. Getting them involved in the process isn’t buying votes. And I am not an Obama fan either. I’ll be voting Republican.
Getting people to register doesn’t mean they will vote a certain way. They are trying to get people invloved in the process, not buying votes. It’s called GETTING INVOVLED…..
Obama is full of intelligence and grace. What a change we’ll have in the White House.
THIS IS WHAT WE NEED. ONE WHO CAN MOTIVATE THE YOUTH (AND THE NOT SO YOUNG).
LIKE IT OR NOT, THEY’RE THE FUTURE OF THIS COUNTRY. I’M NOT A DEMOCRAT, BUT OBAMA
HAS DONE SOMETHING THAT NONE OF THE CURRENT CANDIDATES CAN ACCOMPLISH. AS A
REPUBLICAN, I WISH MCCAIN CAN DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
Don’t forget Hillary. She could challenge her supporters to a game of Liars Poker.
Obama will be the next President of the United States so if you don’t like it pack up and leave. How can you support a candidate that blantantly lies and overstates her role in foriegn affair initiatives? Hilliary is a liar and crook. Obama has clearly spelled out all of his positions and exactly how he would go about enacting change in foriegn affair policies, income taxes, troop withdrawal from Iraq, healthcare etc. etc. You people don’t care to listen simply because you don’t like him, his wife, or his pastor.
What Rev. Wright said was disgusting and downright wrong, but until you can prove he used this type of rheotoric on a weekly basis and that O’bama was present during the sermons how can Barack be held accountable? For God’s sake Barack is bi-racial and was raised by WHITE mother and WHITE grandmother. To insinuate that Barack agrees with the views of Rev. Wright is to insinuate he has hate in his heart for his mother, grandmother, and all the rest of his white relatives. GIVE ME A BREAK!!! If you don’t like the man please come up with a legitimate excuse not to vote for him instead of jumping on the bogus Rev. Wright bandwagon.
Hillary doesn’t have time for recreation, she is too busy dodging sniper fire. Remember she all over the country helping on peace keeping. Good for you Obama!!!!!!!!!!!!! You are so down to earth and that’s why people can relate to you. I look forward to seeing you in the Oval Office making decisions and answering the 3am phone calls.
You couldn’t pay me to vote for Hillary Clinton.
Her husband publicly cheated on her, and she didn’t even have the guts to leave him… yeah, that’s who I want defending our nation!