[loco4pablo]

Computer still acting up so I can't post the link
Maybe someone else can but according to JAYSKI.com
They say that the campain team for Presidental Hopefull Obama will sponsoring the #49 BAM car for the upcoming race at Pocono.

[jks812]

Obama Campaign to sponsor BAM at Pocono? SI.com has learned that for the first time in history, a major presidential candidate may sponsor a race car in NASCAR's premier series. According to sources, Barack Obama's campaign is in talks to become the primary sponsor of BAM Racing's #49 Sprint Cup car for the Pocono race on August 3. Details of the agreement are expected to be worked out over the coming days. A BAM spokesperson has revealed the team will hold a press conference July 23 in Miami to reveal the partnership, currently a proposed one-race deal with an option to continue.(Sports Illustrated)(7-11-200

[jks812]

If they put a political sponsor on the car, I'm gonna be hoping they don't make the race.

[Mindwarp]

<P>A politician on a go-or-go-homer car...makes sense. </P>

[Nevadastars]

With the billions of far-left wacko dollars behind Obama, they could afford to decorate every car in Cup.

[loco4pablo]

Originally Posted by jks812

If they put a political sponsor on the car, I'm gonna be hoping they don't make the race.

well military sponsorship could be considered political couldn't it?

[Quality88]

Originally Posted by loco4pablo

well military sponsorship could be considered political couldn't it?

How so? .

[loco4pablo]

Originally Posted by Quality88

How so? .

As a retired military veteran who had lost members of his family serving the US Military..... I am floored that you would ask HOW a military sponsorship could be considered political!!

[simple simon]

Originally Posted by loco4pablo

As a retired military veteran who had lost members of his family serving the US Military..... I am floored that you would ask HOW a military sponsorship could be considered political!!

ill admit i also dont really see the connection .... candidates come from all different points of view and change sides and such ..... the military however is there always and for everyone

i really dont see a presidential candidate and the military as the same thing ...... while the Army supports me in every way, and is in turn supported by me .... there are candidates that i would rather not have anything to do with

(please take note i did not name any candidate as to not turn this into a political discussion .. i ask that everyone else do the same)

[Quality88]

Originally Posted by loco4pablo

As a retired military veteran who had lost members of his family serving the US Military..... I am floored that you would ask HOW a military sponsorship could be considered political!!

I am askin you to explain yourself and your opinion. Be floored if you choose so. I am a descendent of many retired military veterans, as well as current military. Only one has seen sponsorship as political, but never explained. So I ask again for your thoughts without lip, how do you find it political?

[jks812]

Originally Posted by loco4pablo

well military sponsorship could be considered political couldn't it?

I really don't consider the military to be political. But for your convience let me rephrase it another way. If they put a sponsor on the car who is running for president, I hope they don't make the race. Maybe they'll hit the wall with the primary during practice, get the backout car out and then hit another wall with it.

[loco4pablo]

OK I don't want too turn this into a political discussion either. & I didn't want to sound abrasive. But in '68 when I was introducted into the military I knew it was a political action that got me there. Whoever is elected in November will become the commander and chief of our armed services.
Yes I am pro military and I am not pro Obama but I just wish the government regardless if it's a branch of the armed services, a government agency or ANY political canidate would just leave us alone on our Sundays or Saturday nights.
Yes I was a little floored when quality asked how a military sponsorship could be considered political and for that I appologize to him. What I was trying too say was most military actions are political. I mean show me a military action since WW 2 that hasn't been.
I do appologize if some took my statements any other way then the way I intented.
Now too something else........ AIn't that Kyle Busch awesome!!

[Quality88]

Well it looks like Obama won't be on the car afterall......


JOLIET, Ill. -- BAM Racing has presented Barack Obama's presidential campaign with a potential sponsorship deal in the Sprint Cup series later this year, but that doesn't necessarily mean an Obama car will be burning rubber on the track sometime soon.
BAM team spokesman Rhett Vandiver told The Associated Press on Friday that the team has made a sponsorship proposal to the Democratic presidential hopeful's campaign, and has made similar proposals to the campaign of Republican John McCain and at least one third-party candidate.
Late Friday, the Obama campaign said there would be no sponsorship.
"The Obama campaign will not be sponsoring a car in the Sprint Cup Series, though we will continue to look for ways to reach out to voters and convey Senator Obama's message of change." said Bill Burton, an Obama campaign spokesman.

article on nascar.com

[3fanforever]

Originally Posted by Quality88

Well it looks like Obama won't be on the car afterall......

Dang, I was hoping to see Obama's car wreck

Oh well, that's the end of that. Looks like it's time to move on...

[loco4pablo]

Originally Posted by 3fanforever

Dang, I was hoping to see Obama's car wreck

Oh well, that's the end of that. Looks like it's time to move on...

agree with ya