“Hillary is hedging all bets on Super Tuesday”
Hillary’s defeat in South Carolina was according to their campaign a minor “upset” on there road to the nomination in Denver , Colorado. It was amazing because during her concession speech she acted like nothing happen and said just only four words of congratulations toward Barak Obama’s victory. Then “slick willy” Clinton compared Obama to Jesse Jackson by saying he was victorious in South Carolina in 1984 and 1988. Bill and Hillary are banking on Super Tuesday because of their strong national machine and their pandering for the latino vote. The tag team approach by Bill and Hillary seemed to be in formidable combination but Barak has teamed up with a heavy weight in the Democratic Party Ted Kennedy.
The contest between Hillary and Barak reminds me of the rumble in the jungle, the fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman. Ali was the peoples champion and Foreman represented the establishment champion. During this time in Ali’s career he was on the comeback trail because he was incarcerated for not registering for the draft for the Vietnam War. On the other hand Foreman was the Olympic champion who refused to raise his fist along with the other black athletes in a public display of protest during the Black Power movement, but instead waved his American flag while winning a Gold medal. Barak is one of a few politicians that opposed the Iraq war, while Hillary supported the war that up until now can be called a “colossal mistake!”
Foreman going into the fight was a dominating character in and out of the ring. He had a reputation of being able to knock you out with either hand and was merciless once you step into the ring. Ali was not the odds favorite to beat Foreman but Ali was the people’s favorite by chanting “kills Foreman, kill Foreman”. Days before his fight, Foreman wanted to forfeit the fight and Don King discourages him for doing so. In contrast Hillary conceded South Carolina primary to Obama and instead of campaigning to the day of the primary she went to other states to get a leg up on Barak before Super Tuesday.
When the fight began Foreman beat Ali like a punching bag a left to the body and a right to the body. During the primary Hillary and Bill hurled combinations of distortions that at times made Barak go on the defensive. At times during the fight in Africa, it seemed like Ali was allowing Foreman to hit him without counter punching. Later on Ali would describe his defensive tactic as the “rope a dope!” The simple theory of this strategy was to allow your opponent to hit you so much that while you relax on the ropes blocking shots, that eventually your opponent would tire himself out. Bill and Hillary over zealousness to beat up on Obama, began to tire out potential voters when the time came to cast ballots.
The way I see it is Barak used the” rope a dope “technique on Bill and Hillary during the South Carolina primaries. I forgot to tell you how the “rope a dope “technique ends. It ends when you sense that your opponent is dead tired, and then you execute a surprise counter attack and knock your opponent out. This is what exactly Ali did and his upset victory over Foreman and it secured his place in boxing history as the “greatest of all times”. Obama’s counter punch came in two phases, phase number one happen when he won South Carolina by 28 points. Phase number two came when the patriarch of the Kennedy family, Ted, gave Obama an endorsement to be president and rebuke every distortion that the Clinton’s said