Lately I've been a bit depressed over the way this campaign is going. I keep thinking that the polls should not be this close, and I have this gnawing, inexorable feeling that the Obama presidency is slipping away.
I reminds me of over 20 years ago when I used to play in an "over-thirty" soccer league. My team was a bunch of guys who had not grown up with the game -- most of us had come to it by watching our kids play and then getting interested in playing. We were, in a word, the gringos of the league, winning only a couple of games over the three years I played. We were pitted against teams of guys who had grown up playing the game and each of those teams was a specific ethnic group. There were several Latin teams, a German team who had their own Mercedes bus, and an Irish team of skinny guys who talked trash the whole game and played mean.
My point is that every once in a while our team would get ahead, maybe even by two goals. But as the game progressed I had this gnawing, inexorable feeling that we were going to lose. The opponents played very aggressively, not being "gentlemen" at all. They pushed, elbowed, tripped, gamed the ref, faked injuries to get the foul call, etc. Most of the spectators dug it, or at least accepted it. And, of course we always lost in the end, no matter how hard we fought to hang on to our lead.
But the worst part was that we gringos did not even know HOW to do that stuff, and if we tried, we were so blatant and unschooled that the ref would call a foul or give us a yellow card!
I see the same thing in this campaign. We are just too fair --but we are also too inexperienced in the ways that ultimately win the game. I could cite countless examples of what I'm saying ranging from "Barack is an elitest" to the flag pin, to "he voted against the surge" to "he didn't visit the troops," and (the fake injury here folks) "he dealt the race card off the bottom." Lots of pushing, elbowing, tripping, and gaming the ref (media & press), right?
Shit, I just realized, we need a Pele.
Grimly yours,
Tom
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I'm afraid I've been feeling the same way. These guys should be running ads like the McCain bits on the Daily Show showing him changing positions and fighting mean and lying and being totally dumb about the economic, geographical and political realities of the world etc. etc. and other ads showing how Junior and his administration have come around to Obama's perspective on many issues (talks with Iran anyone?) etc. But instead they're being above it all or just, as you say, not aggressive and repetitive enough. Where's the jiice? The irish guys might be skinny and mean (I like to think of it as tough instead) but we sure knew how to politic. These guys are way too heady about it. Obama has got to get more like Clinton feeling our pain than Bush Senior looking at his watch.
The U.S. is simply too racist for a person of color to get elected. I will vote for Obama but will be amazed if he wins.
It's like the flooding in New Orleans. When I first heard about what was happening I thought, "Well, the government is surely mobilizing to help those desperate citizens." Then I saw the first news footage and all those black faces and I thought, "They're screwed." And, of course, the rest is history.
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