Jill Brooke: Like the Giants Beating the Patriots, Can Obama Defy the Odds and Topple Hillary?

At my son's basketball game last weekend, a father compared the upcoming Super Bowl to a battle between destiny vs. dynasty. Hmmm, I thought to myself, maybe the Super Bowl is also a metaphor for Super Tuesday. Doesn't Obama have a lot of similarities to the Giants? No one believed that Barak Obama could make any inroads against Hillary Clinton as she steamrolled into the race as the anointed forerunner. Both Obama and the Giants were considered the underdogs. Like the Giants, Barack Obama gained grassroots support and achieved victories a little bit at a time. Each success was dismissed as flukes and commentators pontificated that the Giants, like Obama, didn't have the momentum or talent to take on the other contenders before making it to the final stretch. Yet, Obama was able to beat John Edwards and the Giants outmaneuvered the Green Bay Packers. Good judgment not experience prevailed. In the same way that Obama showed courage in denouncing the Iraq war, ... (link)