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Obama: Plays Like Nixon, Bullies Like Bush
What does President Barack Obama have in common with his predecessor Richard Nixon? A love of poker. And with George W. Bush? Hypocrisy in trying to stop people from playing it online.
Nixon’s love of poker is well documented: He reportedly financed his first campaign with poker winnings, and after reacting badly to losing a hand he was famously reprimanded by fellow poker player, House Speaker Tip O’Neill, who told him: “Any guy who hollers over a $40 pot has no business being president.”
Many other presidents, including Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, and Lyndon Johnson, were poker players too.
Truman may have been the keenest: He had a poker set embossed with the presidential seal, and he had a sign on his desk that declared “The Buck Stops Here” – another poker reference: On the frontier the dealer position was often marked by a knife with a buck’s horn as the handle, and so “the buck” would be passed.
What does President Barack Obama have in common with his predecessor Richard Nixon? A love of poker. And with George W. Bush? Hypocrisy in trying to stop people from playing it online.
Nixon’s love of poker is well documented: He reportedly financed his first campaign with poker winnings, and after reacting badly to losing a hand he was famously reprimanded by fellow poker player, House Speaker Tip O’Neill, who told him: “Any guy who hollers over a $40 pot has no business being president.”
Many other presidents, including Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, and Lyndon Johnson, were poker players too.
Truman may have been the keenest: He had a poker set embossed with the presidential seal, and he had a sign on his desk that declared “The Buck Stops Here” – another poker reference: On the frontier the dealer position was often marked by a knife with a buck’s horn as the handle, and so “the buck” would be passed.
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They're all good at lying oops I mean bluffing. 
I doubt that Bush cares one way or the other about online poker and it's hard to believe he hasn't enjoyed a game or two in his life being from Texas and all. I mean there's no game called Connecticut Holdem is there? 