"Even when you're pitching a perfect game, you still need help,"

[Clio the Leo]

At Penny Pritzker's home in Lincoln Park, between 110 and 130 people gathered for a reception, enjoying gazpacho shooters, burger sliders and watermelon salad as Obama worked the room and posed for pictures.

Present were Bears Coach Lovie Smith, quarterback Jay Cutler and former Bull B.J. Armstrong.

Obama spoke to the group on a microphone, joked about being a Sox fan in a Cubs neighborhood and took a shot at the media for "a lack of sustained focus on the facts" concerning health care reform.

"That makes it very difficult," he said.

Referring to opposition to his efforts to pass a health care bill, he said "It gets on my nerves. It frustrates me that we'd even be suggesting the status quo is the best we can do."

He talked about his call to Mark Buehrle, and said he told him he should take DeWayne Wise out for a steak, to thank him for the perfect-game-saving catch.

"Even when you're pitching a perfect game, you still need help," he said.

That kind of team play is important, he said, but "That's not how Washington has been doing things."

He claimed credit for passing "12 out of 12" legislative initiatives, and also said his administration has "reset relations not just with Russia" but with the world.

"Anti-Americanism is no longer fashionable," he said.

http://www.politico.com/politico44/wbarchive/whiteboard07232009.html

[Canuckistanian]

1. That's true

Even Lindbergh had a ground crew.

NOBODY makes a momentous achievement entirely by themselves.

[Thrill]

2. "He claimed credit" Politico RW rag

Liberals stop giving them hits