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What the hell made USA Presidential candidate, Mr Obama bowl in public when he obviously can’t? As a man, as a politician, as a sane person surrounded by the media and handlers, it’s amazing he made such a public display of his lack of skill in this area. Hilary Clinton even challenged him to a bowl off on April Fools Day.

Miss Fidget is a very, very bad bowler - averages in the mid 60s. It’s hard to imagine HOW BAD Mr Obama was to score a paltry 37. Why did he focus on his “Fred Flintstone twinkle toes form” that got him nothing but gutter balls? If he just stood there and did a bend over tween the legs “granny roll” he coulda hit some pins. Perhaps flashbulbs and spectators hurt his performance, still.

Could his bowling be a metaphor to how he handles problems as a public official? Focus on your form-make sure you look good in the papers even if its completely ineffective and a 10 yr old girl actually does it better than you? Oh dear, time will tell.

Girl who knocks down more pins than Barack Obama offers bowling tips

Wednesday, April 2nd 2008, 4:00 AM | www.nydailynews.com | BY STEPHANIE GASKELL and MICHAEL McAULIFF

Gabriella Lamas, 10, gives Barack Obama some bowling tips.

Barack Obama scored an embarrassing 37 out of 300 at a Pennsylvania bowling alley last weekend. He may want to take a few pointers from Gabriella Lamas.

She racked up a 47 - and she’s only 10 years old.

“I get up close and aim for the middle arrow and then throw it as hard as I can,” said the fourth-grader from West New York, N.J., who studies at Columbia Grammar School in Manhattan.

“It’s pretty easy,” she crowed as she and her 48-year-old stay-at-home mom, Hilda Lamas, bowled at 300 New York at Chelsea Piers in Manhattan yesterday.

Like Obama, Gabriella got a few gutter balls, but she kept trying and eventually bested the 46-year-old presidential hopeful by 10 points.

Her biggest tip for Obama to improve his score the next time he heads to the lanes: “You have to look at the pins when you throw it.”

Gabriella said she didn’t see news coverage of Obama bowling but guessed that he probably “looked kind of funny.”

“It’s cool that he bowls,” she said.

Being a good bowler doesn’t make you a good President, she said.

“The President should be someone who cares and someone that’s going to do what’s best for people,” she said. “It would be good for the President to bowl sometimes - to have fun - but not all the time.”

Gabriella, who’s been bowling since she was 5, said her mom taught her the sport.

“It’s kind of sad because bowling is something everyone did growing up as a family - and it was affordable,” Lamas said, adding that she hasn’t decided who will get her vote.

“Now it’s all video games and cell phones. It’s nice to be able to get out and do something with the kids. Bowling is a nice, pure sport that the whole family can do together.”

With Gabriella showing how easy a victory over Obama would be, at the alleys at least, rival Hillary Clinton jokingly challenged him to a Democratic version of “Kingpin.”

“I am challenging Sen. Obama to a bowl off, a bowling night right here in Pennsylvania, winner take all,” Clinton said in an apparent April Fools’ offer while stumping in Philadelphia.

Clinton even offered to “spot him two frames,” a joke that let her play the jock card against the avid hoops player.

“It’s time for his campaign to get out of the gutter, and for all the pins to be counted,” she quipped.