I assume the "contest" was the Bears game, and he said, "Are you ready for some football?" Right?

Didn't see the game, but anyone who's watched Monday Night Football would be able to guess that....

have to "fall back and punt", perhaps Obama needs to "go long" and wait a bit to "score" or even try for a "two point conversion" which would require him to "huddle" with like thinkers for a "win on the road".

He doesn't stand a chance

... but I turned it on about ten minutes late. Did I miss it? Somebody please tell me. If it's over, I want to go to bed, so that I can start posting on Salon early tomorrow.

The "Who Among Us Does Not Love Football" quote must be a paraphrasing of Kerry's ALLEGED quote, "Who among us does not love NASCAR," depicting him as a world-class panderer (and thus also Obama). As the Daily Howler points out, however:

Kerry never made the laughable statement! Writing in Slate, NPR’s Mike Pesca finally laid out the basic facts:

PESCA (9/28/04): Dowd wasn't at the event where Kerry supposedly said "Who among us ... " She learned about it in a casual conversation with Times reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg, who said Kerry said it on Feb. 17 at a union rally in Milwaukee.

What Kerry actually said at that rally was "There isn't one of us here who doesn't like NASCAR and who isn't a fan." Because of the roundabout way in which the quote got into print, it didn't get the normal vetting, i.e., playing back the tape. Stolberg now says it's possible that she made a mistake and that Kerry never said “who among us.”

They first let them announce their candidacy during an NFL game.

Bobby Kennedy spent half his life in the political arena and a part of it as an attorney general risking his life going after the mob. He lost his brother, a president, and risked his own political life turning on the Vietnam War before anyone but those the media dubbed "fringe" had done so. When Martin Luther King died, he risked his life going into a black neighborhood and standing in front of a black audience and gave a speech that only his speaking could do to create the only city with a black minority that didn't erupt in violence.

Barak ran against a token black talk show host from Maryland. He wrote a nice vanity book about Hope and otherwise has accomplished absolutely nothing to make him presidential material. Bush at least owned a baseball team, served on the boards or ran a business and was a governor. Don't you think its time to put an end to the high cost of lowered expectations.

I like Obak Barama. I like the fact Dubya confused a campaign button for him with Osama. But I would really like to see what he does stand for, what real ideas, not hopeful ideals, he has to offer. I'm sick of living on hopeful ideals and empty platitudes. Unless this guy has a real plan for taking this nation forward (and he doesn't) he is no better than Hillary.

Al Gore again in 08, or prove him wrong.

Thank you Barack, but no thank you.

Why don't you try to be a good senator for at least one full term before you have the presumption to aim for President.

You've been listening to your own echo chamber. There is no way you can be elected. Yet. Prove yourself worthy first. Right now you will be seen as a great pretender. And fresh on the heels of the greatest pretender of them all.

Can we please, oh please, have a real President this time around?

During their mutual lovefest a few weeks back (supposedly about his book, but basically Oprah's breathless "are you going to run" foreplay), Obama actually promised Oprah that he would announce on her show.

I think he'd be an idiot to back out on a deal like that...

(FWIW...the Food Network line is a joke.)

The Food Network thing. If he wrote that himself, I'm pretty impressed, and it makes me like him. Not living in Illinois, I don't know much about Obama, but if that joke is an indication of his personality and sense of humor, then so far so good.

If he's not kidding, then we can kiss the 2008 presidential election goodbye 'cause I don't see the more racist portions of this country voting for him. Sad but true. And, like Hillary, he looks like he would put personal ambition before his party. I think he's fallen for his own media blitz and would do better to wait a few years when the younger, more tolerant generation become reliable voters.

I want GORE to be president. Obama could certainly do well by himself as a likeable Veep. These guys would complement each other so perfectly. And keep Obama from the dark side of the Democratic Party.

And No. 3, the Bears are playing.

???? must have missed that one. Anyone? Bueller?

A keen observation however- very coy of Obama's media consultants- good to see someone's ready for the political installment of 'The Information Age'

Show 'em some leg. Good, good, now show 'em a little more...