Bowling for Donors

Bowling is not the president’s best game, but I am sure
practicing with some of his biggest donors gives him the energy to put more zip
on his ball.

Who can forget his efforts during the campaign, when he
tried to appeal to blue-collar workers by bowling during the Pennsylvania
primary? He threw more than a few gutter-balls, and looked like he had never
been to a bowling alley before in his life.

Hillary, who at the time was downing shots of whiskey to
prove her blue-collar toughness, cleaned Obama’s clock in the Keystone State,
but it was too little, too late for her. She had too many open frames in the
earlier primary states and couldn’t catch up.

It was Hillary’s husband who used to rent out the Lincoln
Bedroom to big-time donors. That didn’t play well with the American people, but
it didn’t really hurt him enough to lose his reelection. Of course, running for
president against Bob Dole cures a lot of campaign ills.

The trouble with this latest revelation about the Obama
White House is that it proves that all of the talk about the president changing
politics as usual was pure bull. He is, in his heart of hearts, a conventional
liberal politician, who takes money from the rich, taxes the middle class and
creates conditions that make it hard for the poor to escape poverty.

He campaigned on the theme “change you can believe in,” but
by bowling with his big donors, the president is showing that he isn’t exactly
throwing the ball in the middle of the lane.

A couple years ago, Robert Putnam wrote a book called Bowling
Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. His premise was that
America was ready to start fraying at the seams because Americans didn’t bowl
together in leagues.

Perhaps by “Bowling with Donors,” Obama is channeling his
old community organizer roots and trying to set an example for the rest of
America.

More likely, he just wants the money.

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