Obama's (Very Young) Fund-Raiser Delivers Predictions, Extended Baseball Metaphor
Barack Obama’s youngest fund-raiser might be 19-year-old Arthur Leopold of Manhattan. Today he gave me a brief interview over (appropriately) instant message. Below are some excerpts, beginning with his answer to my plea for predictions about February 5:
arthurleopold (2:44:07 PM): Contrary to popular belief, New York isn’t a winner take all state. We’re going to win a large chunk of delegates here in New York, and we’re really looking at a Feb. 5 surprise--the support here is incredible.
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Most campaigns would beg to have the support and volunteer-power that Senator Obama has here in New York.
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arthurleopold (2:45:00 PM): The Obama/Clinton rivalry here in New York is very similar to that of the Yankees and Mets rivalry. The Yankees are your home-town favorites, but the Mets always have a solid team—a team that has made it and won the World Series. In the end, though, if a New York team makes the World Series, you’ll be cheering for that team, just as we’ll be supporting whichever Democrat gets the nomination; this year, I think the Mets will prevail.
azipaybarah (2:46:55 PM): don't mets and yankee fans hate each other
arthurleopold (2:47:11 PM): we like each other more than we like the red sox
- Poll
- Obama (D)
- McCain(R)
- Spread
- RCP Average
- 46.5
- 41.7
- Obama +4.8
- Candidate
- Favorable
- Unfavorable
- Spread
- Obama
- 55.7
- 32.7
- +23.0
- McCain
- 52.4
- 34.7
- +17.7
Best analogy yet. lol
Come on out to the WALK FOR OBAMA tomorrow!
http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/4rc9j
Unfortunately for the young Mr. Arthur Leopold, the world is NOT a sports game, and it's NOT determined by whoever wins. Our culture since the end of WW II impels people to think in sports terms, which reflects the banality of today's culture, to the detriment of thinking more profoundly of the fact that our republic is being destroyed, as I write, by London-centered finance. I would hope Mr. Obama joins Mrs. Clinton in addressing the real day-to-day life-and-death questions facing the population in the LOWER 80% income brackets. Instead Mr. Obama's representative repeats the culturally deficient metaphor of a sports contest -- the "bread-and-circuses" actuality that occupied the people of the Roman Empire comparison with our populace of today, being apparently lost to his and the readers' purview.