March Madness: Obama Pickin the Ladies?!

BUSTED!!! A nosy coworker just caught you red handed filling out a college basketball bracket- the number one office production killer of the spring. Immediately you are turned in and summoned to the boss's office to explain your wrongdoings and beg for forgiveness. You enter the man's lair and proceed to mumble your way through the pitiful defense that you're formulating on the fly. The blank stare on the boss's face does not bode well for you, and you prepare for the worst. In the minutes of silence proceeding your ramblings, you begin preparing an excuse to tell you wife & kids as to why you just got canned. After what feels like an eternity, your boss finally speaks, "So you really think Butler can survive Pitt's stingy defense?"

While filling out brackets and following the NCAA tournament games on the Internet is regularly discouraged in the workplace, there seems to be an unspoken understanding that everyone is going to participate in the fun one way or another. Knowing that this is the norm, why shouldn't these same rules apply to the President? Barack Obama annually fills out his bracket on ESPN and like clockwork, outrage ensues. Democrats and Republicans alike cannot believe that Mr. Obama would take 10 minutes out of his presidential schedule to do anything other than his job. How fair is this?

Because this country was loosely built on the idea of equality, I would normally back the Presidents participation in his Barack-etology. My support of this event came to an abrupt halt when I was tricked into watching something so horrible, that my life will never be the same. With some weird guy named Doris beginning the interview with the President, I was confused as to what was unfolding in front of me. In the minutes that followed, Mr. Obama proceeded to fill out his NCAA Women's College Basketball bracket, making our country the most vulnerable to attack that it has ever been!

What do LeBron & Barack have in common. Zero Basketball Credibility.

Before this monumentally horrible event occurred, I was unaware that there even was a women's tournament, let alone a bracket to fill out for it. ESPN wasted 5 minutes of my life discussing which women's team was going to win "the big one," and I will never be able to get that time back.

 I understand that the President was trying to appeal to everyone by participating in this event, but he lost my support in this extracurricular activity forever. From now on Barack, please focus all your energy on preventing a worldwide nuclear crisis or something of that nature, because your sports credibility no longer exists with me.