{"id":3906,"date":"2008-10-11T15:11:11","date_gmt":"2008-10-11T19:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=3906"},"modified":"2008-10-11T15:11:11","modified_gmt":"2008-10-11T19:11:11","slug":"is-this-just-crazy-uncle-joe-or-something-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=3906","title":{"rendered":"Is This Just Crazy Uncle Joe or Something Else?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.riehlworldview.com\/carnivorous_conservative\/2008\/10\/its-time-to-sma.html\">Dan Riehl <\/a>notices a change in the talking points coming from the left.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ST. JOSEPH, MO \u2013 Joe Biden echoed the campaign\u2019s response to continued Republican efforts to highlight Obama\u2019s past associations, adding a personal touch to the idea that McCain wasn\u2019t willing to make the attacks in person. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of the things they said about Barack Obama in the TV, on the TV, at their rallies, and now on YouTube \u2026 John McCain could not bring himself to look Barack Obama in the eye and say the same things to him,\u201d Biden said this morning. \u201cIn my neighborhood, when you\u2019ve got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Riehl makes an excellent point that seems to be very strange behavior from a campaigning point of view.<\/p>\n<p>With three weeks until the election and an RCP polling advantage of +7.6 it seems very risky to launch an \u201cin your face\u201d attack against a bona fide war hero.  Maybe they are trying to provoke McCain into saying something very angry to paint him as mean spirited and lacking the temperament to be president.<\/p>\n<p>To me that might make sense but it doesn\u2019t address the risk.  If McCain blows up screaming like Howard Dean, it will work.  If he calmly smacks Obama down (Face to Face), Obama is punked and his already perceived weakness is confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Why take the risk?<\/p>\n<p>Running a successful presidential campaign is not unlike coaching a Super Bowl champion.  Every play is measured in terms of risk and reward.  Without reward you rarely see risk.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point, November 19, 1978 in the Meadowlands.  New York Giants fans recall it simply as \u201cthe fumble\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On third and four with 31 seconds to play against the visiting Eagles, everyone in the stadium expected the Giants to snap the ball, take a knee and win the game 17-12.  This was even more predictable as the Giants had taken a knee on the previous play forcing the Eagles to use its last time out.<\/p>\n<p>There was no way in hell the Giants were going to try to run a play.  But they did.<\/p>\n<p>Amazingly they decided to hand the ball to Larry Csonka who promptly fumbled it.  The Eagles\u2019 cornerback Herm Edwards scooped it up and ran it back for a game winning touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>Why is the Obama camp not taking a knee?<\/p>\n<p>And with time running out, why on earth give the ball to Joe Biden?<\/p>\n<p>Interesting times indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Riehl notices a change in the talking points coming from the left. ST. JOSEPH, MO &hellip; <a title=\"Is This Just Crazy Uncle Joe or Something Else?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=3906\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is This Just Crazy Uncle Joe or Something Else?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}