President Barack Obama gave an extended interview to David Remnick of the New Yorker. Commenting on the Miami Dolphins-Carolina Panthers game in the background on Air Force One, The President responded to a question concerning the controversy over concussions and football by conceding that he would not let his son play pro football. Mr. Obama is a big sports fan thus he begrudgingly blessed other playing pro football as he chewed on some Nicorette gum.
Two curiosities about Mr. Obama's throwaway football comments. Firstly, Barack Obama does not have a son, despite demogoging that his son would look like Travon Martin during the George Zimmerman trial. Secondly, Mr. Obama tried to cast aspersions about individuals accepting risk, like smokers and football players.
Obama's risk acceptance analogy is tenuous . Daniel Flynn's recent book "The War on Football: Saving America's Sport" debunks the supposedly unique cranial dangers of football. Statistically, cheerleaders are more prone to concussions than football players. Moreover, science can not make a causal connection between football and CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy). This factual discrepancy could be cured if one were both intellectually curious as well as being intellectually honest.
But if President Obama honestly felt that people should be free to do what they choose, as long as they understand the risks--then why are almost all Americans being forced into Obamacare approved health plans? Perhaps the Little Sisters of the Poor do not need and feel morally compelled to not pay for contraception, sterilization and abortifacients? They must comply or they risk ruinous fines unless they comply.
The other odd phenomenon is Mr. Obama's persistent allusions to a hypothetical scion. Having an imaginary friend is a trait which most people grow out of in adolescence . However, Harry Reid has justified Obamacare and the Senate Majority Leader smeared GOP Presidential nominee Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) based on the word of an unseen friend.
Dennis Miller had a more charitable tongue-in-cheek take on Barack Obama's football prohibition for his "son".
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