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A POLITICIAN IN FULL br> Re: Jennifer Rubin's The Obama Economy : /p>

Ms. Rubin has an interesting analysis of what each candidate will need in order to topple the other. I am keeping a hard copy file of all, as they are all interesting and each has a different spin.

When I was a little girl our family followed horse racing. I could read a racing form and know what it meant. As a child I stood by, listening while my elders spoke with "touts," each describing what he knew about a given horse that "no one else knew." Weather and the condition of track was always a factor. Horses that were antsy in the starting gate were unpredictable. Some horses couldn't stand a rail position. I thought I knew as much as any racetrack tout -- and I probably did: zero.

However, Obama recalls a name to me that was never a winner. If a horse was said to have "early foot" that meant he was not a stretch runner, that he made a good show breaking out of the gate and when he saw a few horses coming up, he quit.

Let's hope that John McCain is a "mudder" because I imagine by September he will have plenty of Demo-mud to run in. A good mudder on a sloppy track can out-run a Derby winner, accustomed to dry track. They are all probably running on astro turf, these days, though and mud is not a factor. Which probably accounts for a lot of injuries, too.

My recollections are of quarter horse racing in Texas, Louisiana and Ruidoso Downs. In Louisiana, instead of "They're off!" the cajun announcer would shout "Ils sont partees!" (sp?) I loved that. I never saw a thoroughbred race (and I won't be seeing one in November!) until I moved to California where Del Mar was just down the road . That was probably the first time I ever saw a race that was not fixed, too. Louisiana was not known for keeping it the Sport of Kings.

p>Horse race or crap shoot, let's get it over with. br> -- Diane Smith /p> p> "How successful McCain is in bursting the bubble of the new and improved Obama will, in large part, determine who wins the election." Are you kidding? We'll be lucky if McCain doesn't vote for Obama to show how fair-minded he is, and then get all disappointed when that simple, barefoot Chicago politician doesn't return the favor. Study up on your Marxist dialectic, folks, and your Sharia law, too. It's gonna be a long four years. Maybe more...

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