Not really a political question, although it involves politicians, so it's here in the Break Room.
Scenario: You are a famous athlete or some other person of celebrity. You perform some feat noteworthy enough to attract the attention of the President of the United States, prompting him to personally call to congratulate you. You vehemently disagree with his politics (you can go ahead and use Obama for this example, although I don't mean him specifically).
Question: Do you take the call?
It seems to me that depending on what business you are in, rejecting the call outright could get you branded a pariah or worse. In Hollywood, for example, the Right is routinely blackballed.
If you decide to take the call (and thereby avoid any resulting bad press), do you nod and smile or at least make the attempt to call him to task for his policies? What do you expect the result of that attempt to be?
My question is prompted by White Sox's Mark Buehrle's no-hitter he pitched a few weeks ago. He got a call from Obama. If you know anything about baseball, you know it's important to have the fans behind you. It seems like if it were me, this is something I'd just have to suck up and take. Snubbing the President (any President), or making a "scene" by taking him to task would ultimately serve no real purpose, not to mention spoiling my no-hitter. However, I don't live in a world where any of this is likely to happen to me, so it's all hypothetical. I'd like to know what you think.
Scenario: You are a famous athlete or some other person of celebrity. You perform some feat noteworthy enough to attract the attention of the President of the United States, prompting him to personally call to congratulate you. You vehemently disagree with his politics (you can go ahead and use Obama for this example, although I don't mean him specifically).
Question: Do you take the call?
It seems to me that depending on what business you are in, rejecting the call outright could get you branded a pariah or worse. In Hollywood, for example, the Right is routinely blackballed.
If you decide to take the call (and thereby avoid any resulting bad press), do you nod and smile or at least make the attempt to call him to task for his policies? What do you expect the result of that attempt to be?
My question is prompted by White Sox's Mark Buehrle's no-hitter he pitched a few weeks ago. He got a call from Obama. If you know anything about baseball, you know it's important to have the fans behind you. It seems like if it were me, this is something I'd just have to suck up and take. Snubbing the President (any President), or making a "scene" by taking him to task would ultimately serve no real purpose, not to mention spoiling my no-hitter. However, I don't live in a world where any of this is likely to happen to me, so it's all hypothetical. I'd like to know what you think.