Wednesday, February 20, 2008

The recent juggernaut that is Barack Obama is really starting to resemble the NFL's New England Patroits. Barack is on a ten primary winning streak, and the Patriots won 18 in a row at one point. Barack is starting to win these primaries by surprising and sizable margins, and the Patriots were routinely blowing other teams out by at least 30 points.. in the beginning. Barack hasn't really wavered off of his message of change, new ideas, and the thought that a younger, fresher mind needs to be occupying the White House. The coaches and players of the New England Patriots, no matter how much they were winning, always preached the message of one game at a time and the Super Bowl is the ultimate goal. Obama has been accused of plagiarism, because he took elements of a speech from his good friend Deval Patrick who happens to be the governor of Massachusetts. And even know the Patriots season is over, Bill Belichick is still being questioned about the extent to which he cheated by videotaping opponents. Now, the one trait that the Patriots took on towards the end of their season, that Obama needs to be leery of is overconfidence. Two days before the Super Bowl, Tom Brady was so arrogant, that he laughed at the notion that the Pats could lose a close game to the New York Football Giants. He had to go back and eat those words later after New England lost. Based on what I have seen of Obama, he is staying extremely grounded and humble, particularly because he knows that the Texas and Ohio primaries loom large.

By the way, if you are free around 9pm tonight, and you have ESPN, it behooves you to watch the Phoenix Suns play the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2008 version of Shaq vs Kobe. I think I'm inspired enough to write about this tonight.

Street Life - Randy Crawford

4 comments:

Jo said...

First of all, Obama has now won 10 straight primaries . . .

Second of all, The Giants were the underdog - in this case, Obama was, is, and always will be the underdog, so your analogy is a bit flawed . . .

Couple that with the fact that both he and wife Michelle are as humble as they wanna be and have never claimed vistory or acted like this is gonna be or has been an easy race . . . (you can translate my use of the word race here . . .anyway you chose.)

Come on know RM, these are colored folks . . . they know all too well what can and how you can be SLAPPED in the face by mainstream society at any minute . . .

No need to worry that the Obama's will get all big chested and disillusional . . .they live in REALITY!

Go OBAMA! . . .

Can you say bulletproof superstar?

rashad said...

jo-
over the past two weeks during this winning streak, obama is the frontrunner, not the underdog of the Dem party. Mccain knows it, because he's attacking obama, not clinton. hillary knows it because she's breaking out her angry ads. and the media knows it, because they are what mentioning hillary needs to do to catch up..not win. So obama is not the underdog in this democratic race anymore..not to me at least

tia said...

this is the song that was playing when i had my car accident. damn you, randi crawford!

Jo said...

So now you blogging on your bloggers, hunh? Well . . .here's what I have to say about that . . .any man of Color running as President of the United States and without power, prestige, or money is and always will be the UNDERDOG, no matter how much success he has had . . .have you not listened to Michelle Obama talk . . .have you not listened to Barack talk? Both of them speak of this . . .it's America's philosphy . . . people of color are always the underdogs of society. You really MUST read his book . . .make it a priority!