During the 1985 Laker/Celtics NBA Championship series, the matchups -- Bird/Magic, Kareem/Parrish, D. Johnson/Scott--were so overanalyzed that commentators were looking for something new to say. One day, Tommy Heinsohn weighed in by saying that Lakers backup center Mitch Kupchack was "the key." Uhhh...no, Tommy, he wasn't. Tommy was just looking for something counter-intuitive, something that wasn't obvious, to say.
Today, while progressives are savoring the strong performance of Joe Biden last night, tolerating the popular spin that Palin "stopped the bleeding" with her Stepford Candidate performance last night, I notice in various blogs the notion emerging that actually Palin's performance was good, that it was very strong, that unbeknownst to the liberal East Coast elite, her performance played very well in the heartland. I think this is like being reminded about Mitch Kupchack. "Hey, liberals--don't notice the obvious, don't use common sense, don't trust any of your instincts......the reality is different and scary and right there under your nose...Palin was terrific and you can't see it..."
Our guys are gaining momentum. They're going to win and possibly win big. And that scares us because we've been robbed and fooled and traumatically disappointed before. So--we're knocking on wood anytime we feel too hopeful or any time our experience and reality-sense detects positive hopeful things, like that debate last night. We pull back, warn each other not to get too celebratory, caution ourselves that we really are out of touch with the American people and that for all we know black could be white and vice versa.
In my view, it's not. We were not banking on Palin torpedoing the McCain campaign anyway, and Biden significantly helped us last night and we should be happy about it!
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Interesting!...and for you...
"love is the one who masters all things"
Mawlana Rumi.
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