Barack Obama talked basketball this week with Jimmy Kimmel. Obama, whose high school basketball team won the Hawaii state championship in 1979, diplomatically said he was a Bulls fan when asked if he was rooting for the Celtics or the Lakers in the NBA finals. The presumptive Democratic nominee said he manages to play a pickup game about once a week while on the campaign trail and (jokingly?) said he'd replace the White House bowling alley with a basketball court if he's elected.
To Amy's likely dismay, the interview ended with a via-satellite fist pound between Kimmel and Obama.
-- Mark Young
I will accept the use of the fist pound because the situation called for it.
However, Barack Obama should not start using the via-satellite fist pound to end every interview. Or else he will get a sternly-worded letter from Stop the Political Fist Pound Now.