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BenDavid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-19-08 06:48 PM
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Let's Make A Deal. Have you ever seen an old game show
called, "Let's Make a Deal?" Obama reminds me of that show. America has a choice between the team that beat the Fascist dogs twice,
OR they can have what's behind Door Number Two.

If you remember this show, sometimes the surprise behind the door was a new car but sometimes there'd be a goat or maybe a pile of bricks or 20 gallons of milk.

Obama certainly may turn out to be the brand new car we hope he'll be(if he even gets the nominee),but what if he turns out to be a goat? Are we a nation of high stakes gamblers? Are we willing to bet our future on what's behind Door Number Two? Monte Hall says: "C'mon, gamble a little bit! How bad could four more years of Republican rule be?"






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BlueJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-19-08 07:00 PM
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1. I've always believed that if Obama is the Democratic Nominee,...
.....We'll see Huckabee or Romney as our next President.
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-19-08 07:01 PM
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2. Hey, wasn't that on Taylor Marsh's site today?
I think she even included a kicky Monte Hall graphic! :eyes:
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parasim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-19-08 07:14 PM
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3. Yeah, I grew up with that show...
Edited on Sat Jan-19-08 07:14 PM by parasim
And I have to say that that's got to be one of the weakest analogies of this race that I've seen yet. (no offense intended)

In Let's make a Deal, the thing that people never think about when they say "Oh, I want the new car!", is all of the baggage that goes along with winning a new car, such as taxes and insurance, etc.

With that in mind, equating the Clintons (and that's plural because you mentioned "the team") with "a new car" could perhaps be appropriate. You may get the team that "beat the fascist dogs twice", but you also get things like NAFTA and the WTO, etc.

But equating Obama with a blank curtain with a big number 2 on it, where you have absolutely no idea what's behind it just doesn't work for me. Especially after just watching a 50-minute interview with the Chronicle editorial board that gave me a pretty good glimpse that there is no goat behind that curtain.

But, then again, I sure ain't no Monte Hall, so what do I know?
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