Hardcourt Politics
I believe a round of applause is in order for Ms. Clinton. She spanked Obama pretty hard for the past week or two. Regardless of your feelings about how she did it, she did it, and now she has every right and argument to keep marching along.
As I’ve said before I support and voted for Obama, but I’m down with Hillary. She annoys me sometimes, but I think this is more my own shit. Like, for instance, I think her campaign can whine a little too much. Whiners annoy me. It’s a big trigger for me, makes me nuts. I don’t like whiners. Deal with it y’all. Deal with it, and create something different.
The fact is when you’re losing you’re a loser, and you can expect to be treated as a loser. Ask any sports team in Philadelphia, a brutal sports town, or any major city for that matter. Win, and it’s all good. Lose, and you suck hard. I’m not saying this is fair. In fact, it blows, and is typically a symptom of asshats and idiots writing the news and asking the questions, but there it is.
So if you want the media to be nice, don’t whine, win, which is what she did, but I could go without the damsel in distress routine. If you’re running as the hardened vet who’s used to unfair and negative treatment then playing the poor me card is antithetical to the narrative.
Anyway, this is probably best for Obama anyway. Get spanked, get back up, move forward. There’s lessons in there, and if he’s half as wise as I think he is then he’ll learn these lessons, and be a better candidate for it.
I do think, when it’s all said and done, he’ll be the Democratic nominee. Math is a bitch and all. If this comes to pass, much will be written about how it all happened, but here’s one reason you probably won’t chance upon, and my personal one. Barack will win because he plays pick up basketball.
No joke. If you play pick up basketball, and you’re an introspective person, then you know pick up basketball imparts essential lessons in how to target weakness, and exploit it, how to feel the flow of a game, and dictate it, and how to take your lumps, but minimize them. Pick up basketball y’all. Heard it here first, and, no doubt, will only hear it here because it’s a bit silly, but it’s my opinion, and I’ll stick with it because it’s a good one, not good, like sound of reason, but good, like, can’t really be disproved, my favorite kind.
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