there's been a lot of talk this week about barack obama's bowling in altoona, trying to do what the locals do. he bowled, by the way a 37 in seven frames. i asked him about it in "hardball." what are the perks, senator, of being president of the united states is you have your own bowling alle ysks. are you -- own bowling alley. are you ready to bowl from day one? >> obviously i am not. chris: and back in 2003, up in new hampshire, john kerry gave it his best roll. even though it was not so hot, he tried to show his wife, teresa, how to get that ball down the lane. >> ooh. chris: four years before that george w. bush went bowling in new hampshire, no strikes there. back in 1992, bill clinton bowled frames in clinton. hillary didn't join him. then there was the senior george bush, just the thought of the older bush bowling was enough for dana carvey. >> going to go down in that area, got that thing here, roll her down, get her right in that baby, cradle it in there, pin here, pin here, there's the ball sitting right there, call it, pin fell down. didn't have a chance. chris: here's the real