But I'm trying to look at things dispassionately — and where the best interests of baseball are concerned, I think Somebody was sending a message last night.
"I thought somebody was sending us newspaper clippings, because my husband has been in the paper a lot recently," Mrs. Wortman said.
There, Obama declared: "If somebody was sending rockets into my house where my two daughters sleep at night, I'm going to do everything in my power to stop that.
"If somebody was sending rockets into my house where my two daughters sleep at night, I'm going to do everything in my power to stop that," Mr. Obama said in July.
When Barack Obama visited Israel in July 2008 and toured Sderot, he observed: "If somebody was sending rockets into my house, where my two daughters sleep at night, I'm going to do everything in my power to stop that.
"If somebody was sending rockets into my house, where my two daughters sleep at night, I'm going to do everything in my power to stop that," he told reporters.
But in December 2008, as a presidential candidate, Mr. Obama referred specifically to these attacks, declaring, "If somebody was sending rockets into my house, where my two daughters sleep at night, I'm going to do everything in my power to stop that, and I would expect Israelis to do the same thing".
"If somebody was sending rockets into my house, where my two daughters sleep at night, I'm going to do everything in my power to stop that," he told reporters in Sderot, a small city on the edge of Gaza that has been hit repeatedly by rocket fire.
We call it self-defense, as Mr. Obama recognized when he, then a presidential candidate, stood in front of Hamas rockets in Sderot and said: "If somebody was sending rockets into my house where my two daughters sleep at night, I'm going to do everything in my power to stop that.
"If somebody was sending rockets into my house, where my two daughters sleep at night," he said in a southern Israeli town in July, "I'm going to do everything in my power to stop that.
