The Politico seems shocked that Barack Obama is telling two different crowds of people two different stories as to who he’s showing solidarity with in the World Series. While in Pennsylvania, Obama’s rooting for the Phillies. While in Florida, The One is showing love for the Devil Rays.

Barack Obama, campaigning in the key swing state of Florida, is seeking to capitalize on the excitement over the World Series-bound Tampa Bay Rays, telling a Tampa crowd he was “showing some love for the Rays,” several members of which joined him onstage.

Only problem?

Obama, a self-avowed Chicago White Sox fan, declared his allegiance earlier this month for the Rays’ National League opponent in baseball’s championship, the Philadelphia Phillies.

On Oct. 11, Obama told a crowd in the City of Brotherly Love – the biggest city on the key swing state of Pennsylvania: “My White Sox are gone, so I’ll go ahead and root for the Phillies now.”

Yet in Tampa Monday afternoon, where he was introduced by Rays’ players Fernando Perez and David Price, Obama also seemed to express support for the Rays, telling the crowd that he had just met with several members of the team backstage.

“I have said from the beginning that I’m a unity candidate, bringing people together. So when you see a White Sox fan showing some love for the Rays and the Rays showing some love back, you know we’re onto something here,” Obama said.

He added that he considered cutting his hair in a Mohawk to show solidarity with the team’s players, but “My political advisers said they weren’t sure how that would play with swing voters.”

“ I congratulate them,” he said of the Rays, who beat the Boston Red Sox Sunday night to win the American League Championship. “It is going to be an outstanding series. We are all looking forward to it,” Obama said. He added, “They are making Tampa proud.”

Gee, ya think that he may just be a regular politician willing to say anything to get re-elected, and not the harbinger of HopeChange New Politics?

Via HAH.