Like the Giants Beating the Pats, Can Obama Topple Hillary?

[propol]

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."


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jill-brooke/like-the-giants-beating-t_b_84845.html

[meegbear]

1. The Giants gained grassroots support?

And to think I always thought they were a multi-million dollar football franchise.

The things you learn on this site.

[joshcryer]

2. You act as if Obama is the underdog. He's not.

[Thrill]

3. Yes he is........He's been the underdog since this has begun

He has had to come from 20 points down in almost every contest. Especially Nationally.

[joshcryer]

7. Distant polls always had him behind, but he's always polled high near a race.

In fact, Obama supporters love to trumpet that he has more pledged delegates, and the MSM has always given him subpurb coverage, to the point of making shit up about HRC.

[Nimrod2005]

4. Yes

[propol]

5. indeed

"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."

[NJSecularist]

6. I remember the same meme in 2004 with Kerry and the Red Sox

Suffice to say, that comparision didn't turn out as well as we liked...

[IDemo]

8. When he was in Boise, he said "a lot of folks didn't give me much of a chance".

followed with - "If I recall, that's what a lot of folks were saying about Boise State, as well."

[propol]

11. David vs Goliath

[DiamondJay]

9. No because Hillary, like the Giants is the NEW YORK team

nuff said

[zbdent]

10. actually, I see the Repukes using this analogy ...

with Hil as the Patriots and them as the "underdog" Giants ... despite the fact that they're the ones who get the soft push from the media, instead of the intense smackdown that the Dems receive ... no matter who the D candidate will be ...