If you know anything about military strategy, you know the importance

[Jackpine Radical]

of holding the high ground.

Obama just took it.

Let that thought rattle around in your skull for a while, like a B-B in a can.

[rucky]

1. Isn't that where the term came from?

and in military strategy, it's meant literally?

[Jackpine Radical]

3. It's meant literally.

You want your opponent to have to struggle up the hill to attack you. As in "it's an uphill battle."

[jody]

2. Apparently you would look at a dried cow patty and believe it's a chocolate chip cookie. n/t

[Jackpine Radical]

5. Hell yes!

I'm from Wisconsin.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

12. I think you're a big, steamy chocolate chip cookie, Jody.

:hi:

[BuyingThyme]

4. Is he in Denver again?

[Jackpine Radical]

6. I dunno but the original high ground

was Haight-Ashbury.

[BuyingThyme]

7. I think that intersection is at the base of a pretty serious hill.

[Jackpine Radical]

8. That was a joke.

Or an attempt at one, anyway.

[BuyingThyme]

10. Me too.

:hi:

[Jackpine Radical]

11. I guess the yolk's on me.

I think I was kinda fried when I wrote that.

[davsand]

9. Sounds like John Buford at Gettysburg.

He survived that battle. (He did die of typhoid later that year, and I do hope Obama isn't comparable in THAT sense as well...)

Frankly, as a Dem I am happy to be gathering around a banner of racial harmony and fairness. Sounds a lot like what our party used to say we were all about.




Laura