I am a staunch supporter of Barack Obama so I would and should be the last person to give Hillary free advise about Obama. But today I feel compelled to give her free advise or as Michael Corleone said in the first Godfather movie, “Just this one time Kay.”
Hillary, I know it was some type of April Fools joke on your part but do not challenge Barack Obama to a winner-take-all bowling match. You cannot win this match. Ever.
I know how bad he looked bowling in Altoona, Pennsylvania but trust me, if you bet the Presidential nomination on a bowling match, Barack Obama will win the match. He will learn everything there is to know about bowling including, the origins, the fundamentals, the philosophies of bowling and he will read anything ever written about bowling. And he will beat you. I cannot emphasize that enough. You will be out of your league. And trust me on this: he will not throw one gutter ball during the entire winner-take-all contest.
Please Hillary, don’t do it. Not unless you are ready to give up this race now, which I must admit is an exciting prospect. Anyway, back to bowling and the subject at hand.
What you will discover about Barack Obama is that he is fundamentally a “student.” When he was elected to the Illinois State Senate, he studied everything about how state government worked. He was the go-to-guy when you wanted to know how something worked there. He studies issues from all sides. He absorbs everything and then proceeds to apply it. For example, prior to the Iowa caucuses, he learned everything there was to know about it: how it worked, the pitfalls, talking to people who had success there, talking to people that didn’t have success there. And then he proceeded to apply what he learned.
Come to think of it, this is what first attracted me to Barack Obama. He is organized. He is prepared. He leaves nothing to chance. He asks lots of questions. And then he proceeded to apply what he learned.
Well, Hillary, maybe I shouldn’t have told you all this. But I am starting to feel an empathy for you and it is that I hate to see you get blindsided. Ah, what the hell. Go ahead and ignore my advise.
Bowling for delegates (or even superdelegates) anyone. Reading on Walden Bookstore.
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Reading, you can take a few breaths now. This is the man who cannot work effectively without a teleprompter, who thinks we need to invade Pakistan and who says he would have left the church he’d been sitting in for 20 years, if the retiring pastor hadn’t apologized for statements he had been making all through that time.
The bottom line on the bowling is an indication of something else. Remember the great presidents of our times; do you ever recall a Reagan or a JFK voluntarily doing something that they clearly don’t do just to show ‘they’rer a man of the people’? Remember others not so great; the Jimmy Carters and Gerald Ford. Can you remember their tendencies to place themselves in situations where they tended to look a little (or a lot) inept?
Bowling a 37 isn’t any big deal. Voluntarily putting yourself in a situation to perform such a mundane act that you’ve clearly never done before, to attempt to score cheap political points, says a lot more.
I’d just like to point out that I go bowling for fun sometimes, but I still suck. Like.. 50 / 300 suck. Does that mean I’m not a man of the people, either?
Also, I’d hardly say Obama ‘needs’ a telepromter compared to other politicians of our day.
As for you Walden, I enjoyed the article. Thanks for the laughs.
I assume Barack was just studying the oil companies he doesn’t take money from.
Oops! Watch the oil spill!
I’m with Mike on this one. You sound more like a fanboy than a pundit, Reading.
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