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football analogy? wth ...

just read Krauthammer's column. heh.
 
 
OK, let's do football analogy. Obama's using an effective ground game and running out the clock, and maybe throwing a few short, high percentage passes. The refs (media) are partial to Obama, and the calls have all gone his way. This simple blueprint worked against Hillary (although just barely - after she made a furious comeback in the second half).  Hillary had hoped to take the game into overtime, and perhaps even into the Convention, but it was not to be, and Obama took a knee to seal the win and become the representative of the Democratic Football Conference.
 
In the Republican Football Conference, McCain and Giuliani both came out of the Moderate Eastern Division, and Romney and Huckabee came out of the Conservative Mountain and Southern Divisions.  McCain had an easy victory over Giuliani, who never showed up until it was already over.  Romney and Huckabee showed no love for each other and fought a bruising battle which Huckabee came out of as the weakened survivor.  This set up a surprisingly easy win for McCain to gain the Conference title.

In the big match, Obama controlled the game early with superior field position, but neither side could gain any momentum.  The first big play of the game occurred when McCain threw a stunning TD strike to the rookie, Palin, and briefly took the lead, but the refs called it back on a questionable penalty. The drive then stalled with a couple false starts and other calls against the inexperienced Palin, so they had to settle for a long FG which just grazed the uprights, but made it through.

The economic crisis suddenly put McCain on the defensive, and Obama methodically drove down the field and put up more points to widen his lead. McCain tried another deep bomb by streaking to Washington, but it got intercepted in the end zone with excellent coverage by Obama's safeties.

With time running out, and McCain down by more than one score, McCain might need to try some exotic blitzes or D-line stunts to force a turnover and regain possession. Obama will counter by using the quick, precision passing of his Left Coast offense to avoid the sack, or just hand the ball off to Biden for a few yards up the middle to grind more time off the clock. If McCain does regain possession of the ball, Obama just needs to go into a prevent and not let McCain get a big play to secure a Democratic victory.
 
My Score Prediction: Obama 278, McCain 260 - with McCain scoring late to make it look closer than it really was.
I predicted that Obama would win this game, but McCain has been more competitive than I expected.  McCain could still win, but he's running out of time.  After back-to-back Bush titles, an Obama win would represent a solid shift in power towards the Democratic Football Conference, but also a weakening of the last Democratic repeat titleholders, the Clintons.
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it's George Bush! Run away!!!

i'm just sick and tired of everyone running away from Bush.
 
did the guy make mistakes? yeah.
 
but at least defend the guy on one thing.  There hasn't been an al-Qaeda attack on American soil since 9-11. 
 
if you want to go further, al-Qaeda is nowhere near as strong as it once was.  Iraq looked like a defeat, but Bush helped turn it around.  He dramatically shifted American power into the Middle East to try to blunt the radical Islamic forces there and to give an alternative meme of democracy to brainwash, er, inspire, people.  but whateva ... McCain doesn't seem to like Bush, so I suppose he'd rather let Bush twist in the wind and let the Dems bash him around like a piñata and get a few pokes in himself for good measure.
 
I think Biden won the debate.  Palin was adequate, but Biden was much more effective and specific and did a better job in directly answering the questions.
 
(I could go on and on, but I was rambling and all over the place so I just deleted the nonsense that I wrote.)
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How Palin could win the election in the debate ...

(edit: for a more conservative, and less entertaining option, just do the limited gov't thing - see way below)

Palin has a perfect opportunity to blast Obama by attacking him via the media attacks against her.

Here's how.

She shouldn't complain about unfair media coverage.  She should say something like ...

The media SHOULD ask questions and look into people's backgrounds.  The danger is in UNEQUAL media scrutiny.  When one side is treated differently than the other.  When one candidate is handpicked by the media over the other in the primaries or in the general election.

There are many questions about Obama that have NEVER been asked or that he's been given a free pass on.

1) Obama has admitted to cocaine use.  Why was this hidden under the rug and never even asked as a question by the media?  The public should at least be informed and allowed to decide for themselves.

2) Obama tried to excuse his ties to the terrorist Ayers by saying he was 8 yrs. old during the bombings.  What kind of an excuse is that?  Was he 8 yrs. old when he sought Ayers' political assistance and continued to meet with him?

3) Obama's economic advisors have direct responsibility for the collapse of Fannie and Freddie, even giving themselves big bonuses through fraud.  Obama is the number two recipient of money from them.  Where are the media questions and scrutiny?  Why hasn't he been asked these questions?

4) Obama has exercised bad judgment in selecting his closest political, economic, and spiritual advisors.  His selection of Vice President wasn't that bad (ha ha ha).  But his choices call into question his judgment when selecting a Cabinet.  Whom does he rely upon for advice?

5) How much foreign policy or executive experience does Obama have?  He's had a year to polish his words and his theoretical knowledge, but how much real experience does he have?

6) Obama was asked eight questions at a press conference and then he ran away.  And that was it.  Why does the media think that level of scrutiny is good enough for him, but not for everyone else?

7) In the last debate, Obama was asked which policies he would cut.  He had no answer.  John McCain did.  Ask Obama again.  Sen. Biden, which policies would he cut first?

8) Obama keeps saying that he'll tax only the rich and give 95% a break.  Yeah, gimmie a break.  Doesn't he understand that the taxes will be passed on to you, the consumer, through higher prices?  Isn't the price of gas high enough, or do we need to have the gov't add another tax to it?  Does it matter if you get taxed directly or indirectly?

9) Obama wants to create more big gov't programs.  The more, the merrier.  Just why is it that we keep having to BAILOUT OR FIX these big gov't created programs or institutions?  Fannie and Freddie.  Social Security.  Medicare and Medicaid.  Welfare.  Well, you can add Obama's socialized healthcare to that list.

10) Obama keeps saying that he wanted to send more troops to Afghanistan from Iraq while the war in Iraq was still going badly.  Doesn't he realize that the war in Iraq would have lasted longer and we would have suffered more casualties, and yes, even possibly lost the war in Iraq, if we had done that?  It's just common sense.  You don't worry about burning the roast when the kitchen is on fire.

meh. losing interest, but something along those lines.

could also go into a general riff / theme about how gov't creates problems, underperforms, don't get your money's worth, public schools, blah blah blah.

"DO YOU TRUST BIG GOV'T?"
palin should gesture towards biden.
"then he's your man. vote for him. vote for obama."
"or do you trust small gov't?  a limited gov't that solves problems without creating them.  a gov't that doesn't create messes that you have to keep bailing out.  there are a lot of ideas in washington that may sound good at first - but are terrible when you actually implement them."

"this election is about change.  but it's not the kind of change that the media would like you to believe.  the change - the choice -  is between big gov't bailouts vs. small gov't.  a gov't that's too big for its own good or a gov't that's in touch with main street - that trusts in the common sense of the average american."

yadda yadda yadda.
 
essentially, you want palin to be a symbol of small gov't, main street, common sense vs. big gov't, washington/wall street, highly educated idiots

yadda yadda yadda

edit: more blah blah blah.  also, the thing is to attack obama by attacking the media.  instead of asking, "what about obama's cocaine use?" you ask ...

"why didn't the media bother to question obama about his cocaine use?" 
"why did it take the media so long to ask about his pastor?" 
"why hasn't the media pushed more on his connections to ayers?" 
"why hasn't the media asked obama about ..."
"why has the media ignored ..."
"why has the media covered up ..."
"why hasn't the media looked into this issue?"
etc.
 
if biden counters that she's attacking and smearing obama, she should counter that she is not.  she is merely pointing out the fact that the media has failed to live up to its responsibility to the american people. they have been directly advocating one candidate over the other.  even hillary clinton would agree with me on that. or something along those lines ... i suppose.
 
bleh, my support for mccain is tepid, but he is lesser of two poopoo heads.
 
edit edit edit edit: also, she should light her hair on fire as she's eviscerating the media and obama.  she should also interrupt biden often throughout the debate by shouting out "c-c-c-c-combo breaker!!!!11!!!"  common sense, small town values are sooooo 20th century. wuh the heck am i talkin 'bout?  yes.  many people think kansas is a myth that sank into the oceans 10,000 yrs ago after they built the pyramids. but kansas does still exist in the hearts of all mankind.  and in their music.  no.

 
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Why I don't trust Biden ...

The one thing people tout about Biden is his foreign policy cred, but there's something about him that bugs me.  There are some people that know a lot of facts and can repeat ideas that other people have formulated.  Then there are people that can actually think critically and analyze facts on their own.

Biden has always struck me as the first type and not the second.  This is Biden's plan for partitioning Iraq in 2006 in a NY Times op-ed piece.

Unity Through Autonomy in Iraq
 
Personally, I thought partitioning might have been a good idea - if that was our strategy from the start of the war.  I was worried before the war about sectarian violence and my fears ended up becoming a reality.  However, since Bush pushed a plan for a stronger central gov't, the idea of falling back to partitioning didn't make sense to me.  To do so would have been perceived as an act of desperation - and their perception would have been correct. 
 
Also, it'd be difficult to impose a partition if the Iraqis didn't want it, and I wouldn't be surprised if the Kurds would have just said, "Screw this" and declared independence.  Bye bye, central gov't.  Hello, chaos. 
 
Iraq may still eventually fragment in the future, but trying to partition Iraq would have greatly accelerated the process.  His op-ed felt more like theorycrafting, than sound policy.
 
To me, Biden seems to mouth words and policies, but they lack proper sensibility.
 
Furthermore, Biden's strident stance on shifting troops to Afghanistan while the war in Iraq was going poorly would have undercut the efforts in Iraq.  It's sort of like someone saying, "Hey, I think your toast is burning" while the kitchen is on fire.
 
Dunno.  I'm not a foreign policy expert or anything, but that's my impression about Biden.  He never seems to be ahead of the curve, and he only seems to say things after other people have already said it.  Biden also didn't seem to be clued into Petraeus' strategy, or the fact that the Sunni movement against al-Qaeda had become significant enough to turn the tide in the war.
 
Now, I'm not saying that it's an easy task to predict world events, but given his position as chairman of Foreign Relations and his access to information and analysts ... I tend to expect more insight.
 
Meh.  I dunno.  I could be wrong, of course.
 
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