Isn't it cool that when President Barack Obama threw out the ceremonial first pitch at last night's 2009 Major League Baseball All-Star game he wore jeans and his White Sox jacket?
“Everybody knows I’m a White Sox fan, and my wife thinks I look cute in this jacket,” he said on Fox. “Between those two things, why not?”
I love it when politicians show candor.
I also appreciate that we've seen the jacket before at his kids' soccer games - it wasn't just some jacket that was handed to him a minute before gametime because some strategist knew he was a Sox fan.
Not that I pick my leaders on the basis of with whom I'd prefer a beer, we all can imagine how that'd turn out, but I admire the fact that Obama is as comfortable in G8 meetings as with mouth-breathing morons Buck and McCarver in the Fox broadcast booth, as at ease with jeans and a jacket or in a tux.
He's just a cool dude.
Anyway, I was pleased with the outcome as well as the speed of the game last night, although it would have been nice if Tim Wakefield got to pitch.
Also, this is the second time in my life that the sitting president tossed the first pitch at an All-Star Game. The last time was Gerald Ford in 1976. I was three and a half months old.