Now I’m not looking for the President to betray his keen sense of basketball brackets–but considering that Broome County voted for him over McCain 52%/44%, you’d think he’d show just a little bit of Bingo love.  Like actually bothering to MENTION Binghamton as he filled out his NCAA bracket on ESPN this week.  But there he was, returning from the commercial break, with his entire first round picks ALREADY filled out.  "To save time."

For shame, Mr. President, for shame.  Duke had already been chosen on the board over Binghamton.  I watched the video all the way through, hoping we’d get a little Presidential love as Binghamton’s name occasionally bobbed into view on the whiteboard behind Obama.  And I took pride in the fact that the President had, for a fraction of a second, considered the Binghamton Bearcats.  And then, apparently, judged them unworthy.

But wait!  Was it just a pure case of favoritism??  Upon further research—(which was particularly necessary, because I know NOTHING, and I mean NOTHING, about basketball)—I discovered that Obama’s personal aide is none other than former Duke team captain Reggie Love!  For BIGGER shame.  Love was a forward for Duke when they took the 2001 NCAA national championship and it became a tradition for him and Obama to shoot hoops during every primary in the 2008 season.

So I’ll just assume THAT’S why Obama chose Duke.  That, plus Obama won North Carolina by a razor-thin 14,000 vote majority.  Isn’t it a little early to be suring up re-election, Mr. President?  That’s what I thought.