The Odds Makers Have Spoken, We Have a New President

Anyone who watches sports knows it is amazing how close bookmakers come to setting the line for a sporting a event.  If there success translates to the Presidential election Obama is a heavy favorite.  The line is about what it would be if Oklahoma played SMU.  Sportsbook.com has the line at 2-9 in favor of Barack Obama.  That means you need to bet $9 to win just $2!

The bookies are calling for a romp.  I would assume the line would mimic the nation.  Bookies are the most neutral, undecided group in the world.  They don’t care who wins, as long as even money is split on both sides.  When the money flocks to Obama, they move the line to make McCain more of an underdog in hopes of enticing people to bet on him for the big pay off.  They way the line is set right now, shows that everyone is betting on Obama.

Here are some links where you can find the odds and watch them change:

1. Sportsbook.com
2. Oddschecker.com
3. World Sports Exchange

Obama vs. McCain it’s Game On

Barack Obama may be one of the greatest speech givers our nation has ever seen.  From an oratorical stand point, he knows how to draw a crowd in and connect with those watching him.  How many people besides, The Jonas Brothers could fill a football stadium with adoring, captivated fans. 

Though last night’s speech was well written there are a few jabs that may have bought Obama a fight.  Last night Obama said, “John McCain likes to say that he’ll follow bin Laden to the Gates of Hell – but he won’t even go to the cave where he lives.”  Just as Republicans can acknowledge Obama’s true desire to make life better for his followers, Democrats can acknowledge McCain’s true desire to keep this country safe.  At the Lakewood Theater that comment even drew a hushed cringe from the crowd.  I can only imagine what it drew from John McCain.

Barack Obama may have just poked a sleeping lion.  I can’t see John McCain take a comment like that sitting down. 

I think what we witnessed last night was history, but it was also a look into the future.  This Presidential battle is going to turn into an old fashioned slug fest where only one candidate will be left standing, the other may be destroyed.  It’s any one’s race to win or lose.

The V.P. Pick that Would Rock the Political Universe

John McCain has not picked his running mate, yet.  But NBC5 IT man, now turned political analyst, Joe Rushing, has come up with a blockbuster idea for the McCain Camp.  “How about Hillary Clinton as McCain’s running mate,” Rushing stated boldly in the newsroom today.

Wouldn’t that be fun.  The Democrats would have a heart attack.  The Republicans would too!  I could just see the right wing extremists organizing their militia’s now.  I can’t think of anything more fun to cover, the controversy would be everywhere, but mostly deep inside each party.  The everyday, average American may actually like the idea.  For a reporter McCain-Clinton would provide endless fodder too.  So many angry people, I can here the yelling and screaming on the cable news outlet shows now.

The reality is, a McCain-Clinton ticket would most likely trounce Obama-Biden.  No Democrat or Republican would ever admit it, but unlikely duo would be more powerful than Batman and Robin. 

It wasn’t long ago that McCain was considered a Republican outsider.  Many of his views were to far to the left for the conservative radio hosts.  Some of them even vowed to leave the country if McCain was the nomination.  (They didn’t.)

Hillary Clinton and John McCain are known to be friends, surprisingly they agree on a lot of things.  But to quote “Jolten” Joe Rushing, referring to the McCain-Clinton ticket, “It’s an impossibility, it will never happen, but man would it make political reporting exciting!”

Bad Hair Makes a Great Leader?

The pick of Joe Biden as Obama’s Vice-Presidential Running mate makes one thing perfectly clear.  The old time politicos, Democrats and Republicans alike, know the importance of an old white guy with silly hair.

John McCain has what us New Yorkers call, an old fashioned “Long Island Sweep.”  More commonly known as the comb over.  It looks like his fine white hair is weighed down in some kind of not to greasy Dipsy Doo. 

Joe Biden rocks, “The Trump plus 20.”  The Biden due looks great from a far, but its far from good.  Up close the thinning hair seems to float above the scalp somehow defying earth’s gravitational pull.  And if you look very closely, Joe Biden’s hair could almost fit into the mullet category.  Just a tad to long in the back.

Maybe these two great Americans know something we don’t know about the power of the bad white hair draw.  We do know each candidate is hoping the other will be, “hair today and gone tomorrow.”  (At least gone by mid November anyway.)

McCain-Romney Like Ali-Frazier

Could it be, the foes of the past are joining forces?  John McCain and Mitt Romney on one ticket is like putting Elmur Fudd and Buggs Bunny on the same ticket.  That analogy has nothing to do with their personalities only the fact that the two don’t like each other.  (Though Democrats may snicker at the comparison.)

Last I checked the two went through a knock down drag out brawl of a primary.  But forgiveness is key if you want to win a trip to the oval office.  I imagine the thought behind the ticket is with both of them running, there is something for everyone (who will vote republican).  You have to wonder if the Democrats will follow suit and team up Obama with Hilliary.