
I love it when any politician or pundit injects football into the political discussion and Pat Buchanan is someone I've noticed doing it alot. Buchanan continues his prolific use of football metaphors in his new essay,
"Mr. Obama, Welcome to the NFL!". In this essay Buchanan is using football metaphors to describe Obama's recent experience with the rash of negative campaign ads by McCain and accusations of Obama using the race card. He is saying that against Hillary, Obama was essentially in the "amateur college league" and now that he is in the general election and playing against the "pros" of the "NFL" he is "getting hit in the mouth" and he is going to have to learn how to hit back! This is SMASH MOUTH FOOTBALL, BARACK! That goody two shoes, aloof "new kind of politics" might have worked in the Democratic primaries but the Republicans have no reason to hold back!
Buchanan is definitely a brawler and he seems to like football alot. I can see him making a pretty good linebacker back in his younger days. Buchanan made a good football analogy on Dan Abrams' show last night. He said that when Barack Obama warned people that Republicans would try to make them afraid of him because "he doesn't look like the other guys on the dollar bills," he was essentially guilty of making a "false start". What Barack said was fairly inocuous but the McCain campaign, analogous to a defensive lineman responding to a false start and brutally busting through the unprepared offensive line to tackle the quarterback, went for the jugular and accused Barack of "playing the race card". It was a brilliant use of football metaphor on Buchanan's part. Football fans nation-wide should be thankful for a guy like Pat Buchanan who has the skills, cleverness and admiration for football to so meaningfully make it a part of the election process. How cool is it that we will soon have the NFL season starting at the same time one of the most historical presidential elections in our nation's history is heating up?
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