Like the Giants Beating the Patriots, Can Obama Defy the Odds and Topple Hillary?
At my son's basketball game last weekend, a father compared the upcoming Super Bowl to a battle between destiny vs. dynasty. Hmmm, I thought to myself, maybe the Super Bowl is also a metaphor for Super Tuesday. Doesn't Obama have a lot of similarities to the Giants?
No one believed that Barak Obama could make any inroads against Hillary Clinton as she steamrolled into the race as the anointed forerunner.
Both Obama and the Giants were considered the underdogs.
Like the Giants, Barack Obama gained grassroots support and achieved victories a little bit at a time.
Each success was dismissed as flukes and commentators pontificated that the Giants, like Obama, didn't have the momentum or talent to take on the other contenders before making it to the final stretch. Yet, Obama was able to beat John Edwards and the Giants outmaneuvered the Green Bay Packers.
Good judgment not experience prevailed. In the same way that Obama showed courage in denouncing the Iraq war, the Giants had the courage of their convictions to believe that they had the skill to lead the team to the Super Bowl even if others did not.
It is a battle of destiny vs. dynasty. Obama and Giants quarterback Eli Manning have less experience and flash than their dynastic competitors, former Super Bowl winner Tom Brady and former President and First Lady Hillary and Bill Clinton.
Ego isn't the defining strength of the team. As defensive end Michael Strahan said after the Giants victory, "We did it to prove to ourselves we could do it. We were stopping the best offense. Of course, they were surprised. We shocked the world. We shocked ourselves."
It is a victory for us all when the underdog can win. It shows the strength of possibility which is the underpinning of our great democratic system.
As Giants coach Tom Coughlin aptly put it, "every team is beatable."
Maybe Obama should wear a Giants jersey tomorrow for Super Tuesday.
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The Giants won because of a superb defense and by going after the quarterback. If you carry the Super Bowl analogy to its logical conclusion, Obama should defend himself against Hillary's offensive, and relentlessly try to sack Hillary every time she opens her mouth.
Today is the SUPER TUESDAY BOWL.
Time for us everyday citizens living in the 24 states at play to take the field.
The Giants won, true, but don't count out Hillary just yet, you might end up feeling like all of us Patriot fans do this week and you don't want that feeling.
At least as Pats fans, we have next year to fantasize over and three Super Bowls to cherish, but this is it for Hillary forever.
I hope she has a good last 2 minute drill in her.
The Patriots had a great season. The Giants had a great game. Wild card wonder? Or 16-0 before a loss? Maybe this analogy doesn't make the best recommendation for high office.
Oh, this post is great. I, too, watched the Super Bowl seeing all kinds of analogies all over the place. Obama went to Harvard. Clinton lives in NY. Obama is the underdog. Clinton is supposed to sweep into victory. The Giants are the young team (how many times did you hear the word "rookie" thrown around by the announcers?). The Patriots are the experienced older team. Obama is Eli Manning ... nice, talented, stable guy in a good relationship. Clinton is Tom Brady ... the "hot" guy who left his pregnant girlfriend for a supermodel.
Anyway, the analogies could go on and on ...
The real underdog is Hillary just by seeing how many attacks she has to undergo on this website alone.
Obama is playing the color card and Democrats are falling for it just like the Repugs play the terror card and Democrats yelp and roll over like beaten pups.
Obama wins, here is one ultra-liberal Democrat that will vote John McCain. Experience over the color card, thank you. I'm smart. I don't buy the media blitz.
I was thinking the SAME THING. I think if anything, the Giants' win could encourage people who were on the fence to vote for Obama. They might say, "the Giants were expected to get spanked, but instead they pulled an upset. Perhaps Obama could do the same thing."
We'll see, won't we?
Belabored decreasing expectations. Turn the outsider into the insider, the underdog into the favorite. Obama had no establishment support, he built this from the ground up. He raised more money than she did from several times as many donors.
Pity then that Obama rooted for the Patrioits. You the ones who eavesdropped and stole their competitors signals. So I guess Obama's stand on FISA would be what? He choose not to root for the Giants (being the team I root for given that I both went to Iona Prep with a Mara and grew up in Westchester County, NY), who largely has a working class following. It's the average joe's team. So I read into these? Of course not.
Obama has less flash than Mrs. Clinton? Honey, all he is flash. I hope he's a flash in a pan but I honestly don't think so. I think he will win.
Defy the odds? What odds? Obama is closing the gap and I for one will be doing my part to help him. I don't understand all of the cynisism that I am reading here. I know Bush has made is all bitter, but times are about to CHANGE! Can't we be happy? Can't we be hopeful?
OBAMA 08!
YES
WE
CAN!
The fix is in. BHO is the newly designated POTUS #44, for this week. Next week HRC could regain the designation as POTUS #44.
Thanks, Jill!
I posted this yesterday, five minutes after the Giants won:
Can Obama Beat The Clock?
SUPER BOWL TO THE UNDERDOG: GIANTS.
TITANIC TUESDAY TO THE UNDERDOG: OBAMA.
LOOK OUT. posted 02/03/2008 at 22:19:06
YES... HE... CAN!!!
While I love your premise and how you drew comparisons, sometimes I feel too much change is not a good thing. I'd happily trade our situation today - unstable world, sour economy, for the Clinton era again.
Say no to St. Obama!
Hillary in '08!
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