In this time of the NBA playoffs, I was struck by the fact that a basketball team can’t spin the way it plays to achieve victory. If the primary between Hillary and Barack were a basketball game, this would be the story in the paper the following morning.
BOTH TEAMS DECLARE VICTORY!
Last night in an amazing quadruple overtime time game, Hillary Prep School faced Obama High. The final score of the game was Obama 184 Hillary 168. In the postgame press conference the Hillary coach stated that she believed the final score did not reflect the actual victor. She was quick to point out that her team had possession of the ball 51% of the time to the Obama team’s paltry 49%. She also brought to light the fact that 2 of her players were forced to sit out the game due to the fact that they broke team rules prior to the game. She believed that had they been able to play, the outcome would be different. She thought that an automatic adjustment of score should be done to reflect this. After being questioned by a reporter, she also stated that due to the volume and rhetoric of some of the Obama fans, he could not win the championship. Therefore, she should be given the victory by the conference administrators. The Hillary assistant coach spent the night calling these administrators in an effort to get them to overturn the actual score. It would appear that this game will not be put to rest for some time. When a resolution is finally found, it will no doubt have come from the smoke filled rooms of the past, rather than the open dialogue sought by so many of today’s sports fans.
This comparison would apply with any sport in the world. Rule breakers cannot be rewarded by the rule makers without losing face. Old style politics cannot be allowed to overtake the fresh view of a young, invigorating form of politics. I will not vote for Hillary if she is nominated, and I can think of no one better than Obama to lead the country through the tough times and tough decisions that my generation will be forced to make.
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Wow! What a first post! I loved that analogy, and it really made me laugh. That does seem like exactly what happens sometimes. I just think, "I can't believe we're still talking about this!" You've set the bar pretty high, but I'm very glad you caved.
Oh by the way, can I connect your blog to mine? Or do you prefer to be anonymous a while longer?
Good way to look at it, I appreciate the perspective. And, enjoyable to read! Well done, whoever you are.
You left out a detail: the random people from McCain Consolidated School who on advice of the school DJ random scored points for Hillary Prep.
What a crazy election system. How weird would it be if all of a sudden Lebron James showed up at the Spurs/Hornets series and started shooting baskets for the Hornets because he thought his team had a better chance of beating the Hornets. The Spurs were left to just watch and hope he didn't score enough to much up the 7 game series even though it would take 7 instead of 4.
Funny AND relevant. Nicely done.
I like proportional distribution of delegates. The problem is the "super" delegates. If there were no super delegates, Clinton would probably go ahead and end it. But as long as even a slim hope dangles out there, I believe she will continue.
I think the presidential election would be better if every state apportioned their electoral votes. That would help end this "blue state" "red state" division that benefits so few.
I agree with the proportional aspect of things. What I disagree with is people voting for candidates that they can't stand in primaries to "better" their candidate's chances in the general. Heaven forbid we have a year where all Dems vote for Republicans and Repubs vote for Democrats. We would end up with Kucinich v. Paul for President.
Proportional representation makes so much more sense than the winner take all approach. You only have to win KC and STL in Missouri to get 11 electorate votes. Therefore why bother campaigning or discussing issues that really matter in West Plains, St. Joseph, etc.
I am both incensed and distraught today. Seems the Clinton Campaign is dropping some pretense and going straight for racial division as a topic. I'll give you the pertinent parts of the quote, and when you look for context it will not improve:
"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on ... Senator Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again ... whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me...There's a pattern emerging here." - Hillary Clinton
"We cannot win with eggheads and African Americans." - Paul Begala
I am incensed because it's evil and because it's wrong. It's evil because it continues to pit race v. race and it's just plain wrong as someone immediately responded to Begala:
"Do you think that Barack Obama would be leading in the pledged votes, the delegate votes, the money, if it was simply because somehow or another black people … became the majority? Barack Obama has won the hearts and the minds of white voters as well as black and Hispanics."
I mean, seriously, he has more votes and more money than Clinton! To outright say that he has done this with only eggheads and black people is simply an error, and too big of an error for me to believe that Begala doesn't KNOW it's wrong.
I am also distraught because these political people, the part of the population they represent, and the willing media act as if they have heard NOTHING Obama has said this entire campaign.
One more grievance from me: polling companies need to stop polling candidates by race. Every one of these companies that issues results by race is part of the problem.
I am not surprised that these white vs black issues are coming up again and again. I am incensed because it is a leader of a party whose entire belief system is supposed to around diversity. How can leaders of the democratic party sit idly by and watch one woman and her cronies do so much damage to the base of their party. How can they allow her to attempt to drive a wedge between people of different color only because they are of a different color? If Karl Rove were dead, he would be laughing in his grave. But all anyone is willing to say is, “she will leave when she decides it is the right thing to do.” Well I say, “Shut up! And get out!” You are doing more damage than Rev Wright ever could. She was booed on a college campus today. It took GWB years to get to the booing stage. What does she think she is really accomplishing, besides feeding her own megalomania. She is going to make a joke of their convention by feeding the FL-MI monster until it is too big to contain. She is going to put a bitter taste in everyone’s mouth except the extreme right. They smell blood in the water, and they won’t say, “wow, isn’t she tenacious.” She is condemning the nation to another 4 years of theocratic tyranny because she has been blinded by power. She has lost her conscience in the world of money, power, and greed.
Does she really think it is best to sit the FL and MI delegates. She was the only one to actively campaign in FL and Obama wasn't even on the MI ballot. How can she claim victory in those states? She can't. If she wins the nomination because of that; all hell will break loose and the Republicans will dance into another term in the White House and power for the foreseeable future as the damage done to the Democrats (from the inside) will be too great.
Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!
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