Comments on: Obama Takes The Lead In Iowa http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/12/22/obama-takes-the-lead-in-iowa/ Summum nec metuas diem, nec optes - Marcus Valerius Martialis Tue, 02 Aug 2011 22:27:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Quilly Mammoth http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/12/22/obama-takes-the-lead-in-iowa/comment-page-1/#comment-72868 Quilly Mammoth Sat, 22 Dec 2007 23:01:43 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/12/22/obama-takes-the-lead-in-iowa/#comment-72868 To me the primaries feel like the last few rounds of selection for a sandlot pickup game. The remaining kids aren't exactly what you would like to have on your team. Sooner or later you'll have to pick one of 'em; but meanwhile there is intense debate amongst the kids you already have on your team about whom shall be chosen. Meanwhile the last kids left are mocking each other in the hopes that by tearing down another kid _their_ chances improve. Calls of "Jimmy eats boogers" and "Danny wears dirty underwear" ring out as each vies to win and not be the one walking home unpicked again. To me the primaries feel like the last few rounds of selection for a sandlot pickup game. The remaining kids aren’t exactly what you would like to have on your team. Sooner or later you’ll have to pick one of ‘em; but meanwhile there is intense debate amongst the kids you already have on your team about whom shall be chosen.

Meanwhile the last kids left are mocking each other in the hopes that by tearing down another kid _their_ chances improve. Calls of “Jimmy eats boogers” and “Danny wears dirty underwear” ring out as each vies to win and not be the one walking home unpicked again.

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