The Campaign As A Football Game

[Syrinx]

This is an amusing commentary from the local paper.

*snip*

Bush had a hard time getting any rhythm going -- his team scored some points with that Orange alert, reminding everybody that these are scary times! only to give them back with a couple of botched intelligence leaks.

Still, he was on his game going into the convention and actually had a chance to pad his lead when he got greedy and put in crazed old Zell Miller, whose frothing keynote speech was intercepted and was almost returned for a touchdown by Kerry, who had the ball down deep when time ran out.

(Kerry actually tried his own trick play -- that attempted onsides kick of an angry rebuttal tirade at midnight in Ohio right after Bush’s acceptance speech -- but he botched it when the winds of Hurricane Frances blew the ball off the tee.)

So here we are again, back in our seats, waiting for the refs to tee it up again as we anticipate a brutal second half.

Again, this game looks as if it will be determined as much by deteriorating field conditions as anything. In the next few days, the 1,000th American soldier will die in Iraq; Kerry is likely to continue to slip and slide in the mud slung by the SBVT; investigative journalist Seymour Hersh is coming out with a book next week that is said to be a devastating attack on the Bush team for the prison scandals at Abu Ghraib. And in what could be the Hail Mary to end all Hail Marys, Osama bin Laden still could be produced “dead or alive" by the Bush team.

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http://tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040905/NEWS/409050383/1013/EDITORIAL2

EDIT: removed italics that made the text hard to read.

[Rocinante]

1. That's pretty good

I can't find my password. Who wrote the article?

[Syrinx]

2. Tommy Stevenson

He's a good friend of my cousin. I've met him several times, but he never seems very friendly to me. Be he's a fifty-something guy with shoulder-length hair, and I usually agree with him.

[Rocinante]

3. Thanks

I think I'll set up a new account. I used to read The Tuscaloosa News pretty often.

[featherman]

4. If this is like a football game then

the tried and true formula for a visiting team (challenger) against a top-ranked (but somewhat overrated) favorite on their home field (incumbency), is to "keep it close, keep it close...win at the end" So far, so good.

[Syrinx]

5. I guess I'll buy that

:thumbsup:

[autorank]

6. Good analogy! Now about Osama bin Dick Head

It would be a smooth move. Given the choice between (1) people understanding this could have been done 2 years ago, thus realizing *ush is a failure or (2) thinking, 'gee, he's our prez and we love him,' I'm afraid the general public would veer heavily toward options 2. I don't think Pakistan is ready for a civil war just to get *ush elected and I don't see how bin Laden, even in death, will go quietly into the night. My hope is that somehow the French capture him alive. That would be a real trip!