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If you want to be President, you’ve got to have a mean jump shot:

(H/T Marc Ambinder).

Of course, it’s not beating the point guard of the Bobcats at HORSE, but it’s something. Just one question: what would CNN be saying if he missed? I can almost see it now: “This is a HUGE gaffe by Obama, thinking that he can play, when he can’t even make an open three. Very damaging… Why is he distracting voters from the issues?”

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