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		<title>By: hotoffthepress2</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for the insight, Local.  Good stuff!</description>
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		<title>By: Local Warlord</title>
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		<description>Barack may be the pre-season favorite, and he  had a second victory celebration in Denver after the earlier celebration in Berlin.
Midfield is the place for the half-time shows , and not victory celebrations.
Obama already had one victory celebration in Berlin.  It was at the the Victory Column that the Prussians built to commemorate their win over the Danes in the Super Bowl of 1863. The Prussians won the trophy handily and also a lot of black and white dairy cattle and the land upon which they grazed.
Barack should have been aware that the Prussians built the column only after they won the Super Bowl, not before it even happened.   Evidently they were hard-up for building materials and labor, as building the column took about ten years, and by then the Prussians had also whipped the Gauls in the Super Bowls of 1871 and 1872.  They not only won the trophy and rings, but they were awarded possession of two members of the Gaul&#039;s cheerleading squad -- Alice and Lorraine, also known as Elsa and Lothringen.
After that the Unified Prussians won some minor league victories in Africa and elsewhere,  but in first half of the Twentieth Century they lost twice in World Series to the Yankees, who had a better farm team system.  Alas, even the Chicago Cubs have had a better World Series record.
Now come Barack Hussein Obama claiming he has already won the next Super Bowl.  Part of his reasoning is that because he was only candidate to have ads at the last Super Bowl, therefore he has won by default.
He acts as though he has already won the Super Bowl , even though it is still the pre-season, sort of like the New England Patriots.  Hey, Obama, remember the Super Bowl Game you advertised in -- the favorite lost .
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  Parable of the Spiked Ball.
-- A star running back or receiver has the ball and is in the clear to run for a long touchdown untouched.  But wait -- what -- he spikes the ball before he reaches the 50-yard line and his teamates rush to congratulate him and give him high fives, chest bumps and fist bumps, they goes into joyful and gay celebration mode, their families join in.  But wait --  the ball is on the ground at midfield.  The opposing team picks up the ball and takes it to the other end zone for a touchdown before they spike the ball and celebrate winning the game.
That talented ball carrier had the audacity to hope the other team would just stand around dazed until his team finished their celebration, and then they could pick up the ball and score and celebrate all over again.   That foolish ball carrier was wrong.  The opposing team has already picked up the ball and scored.
Obama already spiked the football, not volleyball, in Berlin, and he wasn&#039;t even at midfield. That doesn&#039;t say much for his experience, his wisdom, or his judgement.  Nor does it reflect favorably on his coaches or handlers or whatever.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Barack may be the pre-season favorite, and he  had a second victory celebration in Denver after the earlier celebration in Berlin.</p>
<p>Midfield is the place for the half-time shows , and not victory celebrations.  </p>
<p>Obama already had one victory celebration in Berlin.  It was at the the Victory Column that the Prussians built to commemorate their win over the Danes in the Super Bowl of 1863. The Prussians won the trophy handily and also a lot of black and white dairy cattle and the land upon which they grazed.  </p>
<p>Barack should have been aware that the Prussians built the column only after they won the Super Bowl, not before it even happened.   Evidently they were hard-up for building materials and labor, as building the column took about ten years, and by then the Prussians had also whipped the Gauls in the Super Bowls of 1871 and 1872.  They not only won the trophy and rings, but they were awarded possession of two members of the Gaul&#8217;s cheerleading squad &#8212; Alice and Lorraine, also known as Elsa and Lothringen.  </p>
<p>After that the Unified Prussians won some minor league victories in Africa and elsewhere,  but in first half of the Twentieth Century they lost twice in World Series to the Yankees, who had a better farm team system.  Alas, even the Chicago Cubs have had a better World Series record.  </p>
<p>Now come Barack Hussein Obama claiming he has already won the next Super Bowl.  Part of his reasoning is that because he was only candidate to have ads at the last Super Bowl, therefore he has won by default.</p>
<p>He acts as though he has already won the Super Bowl , even though it is still the pre-season, sort of like the New England Patriots.  Hey, Obama, remember the Super Bowl Game you advertised in &#8212; the favorite lost .</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br />
  Parable of the Spiked Ball.</p>
<p>&#8211; A star running back or receiver has the ball and is in the clear to run for a long touchdown untouched.  But wait &#8212; what &#8212; he spikes the ball before he reaches the 50-yard line and his teamates rush to congratulate him and give him high fives, chest bumps and fist bumps, they goes into joyful and gay celebration mode, their families join in.  But wait &#8212;  the ball is on the ground at midfield.  The opposing team picks up the ball and takes it to the other end zone for a touchdown before they spike the ball and celebrate winning the game. </p>
<p>That talented ball carrier had the audacity to hope the other team would just stand around dazed until his team finished their celebration, and then they could pick up the ball and score and celebrate all over again.   That foolish ball carrier was wrong.  The opposing team has already picked up the ball and scored.  </p>
<p>Obama already spiked the football, not volleyball, in Berlin, and he wasn&#8217;t even at midfield. That doesn&#8217;t say much for his experience, his wisdom, or his judgement.  Nor does it reflect favorably on his coaches or handlers or whatever.</p>
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