Political basketball

I came across this thanks to Emmet over at the excellent Action81 .

During CBS’s coverage of this weekend’s Final Four semi-finals in the NCAA tournament CBS, the American audience were treated to their president, Barack Obama, take on former NBA star and co-commentator Clark Kellogg in a one-on-one game of H-O-R-S-E – though they played P-O-T-U-S (which stands for President of the United States, as all fellow West Wing nerds will know, of course).

As Emmet explains, ‘the clever thing here is how Obama essentially suckered Kellogg into spotting him a couple of shots, watch and learn folks’.

He didn’t see off the Clinton machine by being a nice guy.