Noemie Emery at The Daily Standard quickly alludes to a great comparison and then moves on…a comparison that I hadn’t thought about before, but realize how perfect it is:
In her article, The Charisma Machine — What the media mistakes about itself and Obama, she writes, “Anything can happen, in the Belmont Stakes and in politics…”
In case you live in a cave, Big Brown is a thoroughbred race horse that had already won the first two legs of racing’s Triple Crown — the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes — and last weekend attempted to become only the 12th Triple Crown champion by winning the 140th running of the Belmont Stakes.
Much like Barry Obama, Big Brown was an exceptionally inexperienced horse…with the Belmont being only the sixth start in the young colt’s very short career. But he had dazzled in all six of those starts — winning them all.
The same can be said of young Barry’s political career.
And the Belmont is as different from the other two legs of the Triple Crown as running for President is from running for Senator — state or national.
The Belmont, at a mile and a half is the longest Triple Crown race. And it has been especially unkind to the last ten horses that have come into the race with a chance to become the next Triple Crown winner since Affirmed did it in 1978.
All ten of those horses failed at the race dubbed the “Test of Champions.”
Like the Belmont, the race for President will be much longer and tougher than the local and state races that Barry has won. Even the race against Hillary will be nothing compared to the upcoming “Test of Champions” that he is about to face.
Big Brown’s trainer, Rick Dutrow Jr., was confident that his horse was destined to join Seattle Slew as the only undefeated Triple Crown winner. He described Big Brown as:
I’m confident in this horse because of the way he’s run his races and the level of competition he’s faced.
This horse has an aura about him, and people who will come out to watch him race will be in for a thrill.
I’ve heard lots of people talk about Barry Obama in almost the exact same terms. Especially the media.
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So, how did Big Brown fare this weekend in his attempt at history?
In case you weren’t watching, he ran near the lead for most of the race. Until the back stretch, where that extra quarter mile was just too much for Big Brown.
He faded.
And came in dead last.
After the race, the jockey Kent Desormeaux simply said, “I had no horse. He was empty.”
I think come November 4th, a lot of Democrats are gong to realize the same thing about the pony they’ve been flogging throughout this race — they just didn’t have enough horse. He was nothing more than an empty suit.
And, much like The Belmont Stakes, the results will be devastatingly similar for their pony.
*please don’t try to read anything racial into the me comparing Barry Obama, a partially black man, “Big Brown”. That is the horses name that I’m comparing him to. And it has nothing to do with either of them actually being “brown”. But everything with each of them coming in dead last in the biggest race of their lives.
Are you partially white? [Editor --- Nope. Both of my parents are 100% white. Fine German ancestry. Unlike Obama, whose mom was white, but his Muslim father was black. Making him only partially black. And partially white. I'm not sure what about that confuses you.]
McSame digs his grave ever deeper…
John McCain, June 3, 2008:
You will hear from my opponent’s campaign in every speech, every interview, every press release that I’m running for President Bush’s third term. You will hear every policy of the President described as the Bush-McCain policy. Why does Senator Obama believe it’s so important to repeat that idea over and over again? Because he knows it’s very difficult to get Americans to believe something they know is false. So he tries to drum it into your minds by constantly repeating it rather than debate honestly the very different directions he and I would take the country.
John McCain, June 15, 2005, Meet the Press:
MR. RUSSERT: And what people point to — and this is an article in your hometown paper, the Arizona Republic, “At Odds With Bush. John McCain repeatedly has taken maverick positions that have put him at odds with President Bush’s administration” . . . . The fact is you are different than George Bush.
SEN. McCAIN: No. No. I — the fact is that I’m different but the fact is that I have agreed with President Bush far more than I have disagreed. And on the transcendent issues, the most important issues of our day, I’ve been totally in agreement and support of President Bush. So have we had some disagreements on some issues, the bulk — particularly domestic issues? Yes. But I will argue my conservative record voting with anyone’s, and I will also submit that my support for President Bush has been active and very impassioned on issues that are important to the American people.
mmm…
Left by Pat on June 11th, 2008 at 4:51 pm