President Obama Weighs In On March Madness

You’ve got to love a world leader who can excuse himself from the war in Iraq, the occupation of Afghanistan, the daunting health care reform and the economic depression of his country to make his March Madness bracket picks (click here to view President Obama’s March Madness picks). I know that was probably read with a hint of sarcasm, but I actually like it. If we can escape from the morbid realities of life to enjoy sports, why can’t Barack Obama?

Barack-otology seems to favor the top-seeds in terms of March Madness betting. Obama isn’t one to go out on a limb when it comes to college hoops. Last year he picked the UNC Tar Heels to go the distance, along with the rest of the entire galaxy, and they came through form him and everyone who believed in Tyler Hansbrough and Ty Lawson as they should have.

click here to see full sized March Madness Bracket from Barak Obama

For the 2010 March Madness bracket picks, Obama has put through Kansas, Kentucky, Kansas State and Villanova to emerge from their respective regions and compete in the Final Four. Obama played it safe and made a championship game of Kentucky versus Kansas with the Jayhawks emerging triumphant. I know it’s all fine and dandy to say that the best team in the country is going to win the tournament, but shouldn’t a president who ran as an underdog be rooting for some underdogs?

Obviously he didn’t pay too much attention to how the Kansas State and Villanova Wildcats fared in their conference tournaments. Villanova was bounced handedly by a spry Marquette team, and Kansas State was crushed by the Jayhawks.

Most notably, Obama did put through a few underdogs in the first round and it should come as no surprise that a Harvard and Columbia graduate would take an Ivy League school like Cornell over Temple. He also has Siena upsetting Purdue in the first round, along with thirteenth-seeded Murray State sliding past Vanderbilt in the first round. The rest of his bracket was pretty much standard practice.

Let’s not forget that Obama isn’t just blindly throwing darts at a board, or just going with the cute team names like my girlfriend will. This guy is a basketball nutbag. I’ll take Obama’s advice on basketball over Clinton’s relationship advice or George W. Bush’s academic tips any day of the week.

While Obama fills out his brackets for the world to see, this is a good time to mention that the deadline to sign up for the March Madness tournament challenge at BetUS is 12pm EST, Thursday , March 18th. Visit the main page of the site and you’ll be eligible to win some big prizes! Are you smarter than the President? Your social reform methods and ability to politick with a bunch of stiff, old white guys may not be as sharp but you can certainly prove you’re a better March Madness player than Obama himself.

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