You Gotta Admire the Ol' Guy
By Diplomad
Well, he's done it again. Yep, he sure has. McCain has just laid another trap for Obama, and Obama and his little Democrat friends walked right into it.
For those who read history, you have to see great similarities between the Obama campaign's planing and "war fighting" and that of the Japanese during WWII. Despite having the preponderance of force during much of the Pacific war against a relatively weak American foe, the Japanese lost key battles. Not because they were inferior warriors or cowardly or stupid. They were not any of those things -- quite the contrary. No their mistake, their fatal flaw was different. They did not understand the principle that "no plan survives first contact." They made elaborate, highly detailed even ornate battle plans that foresaw everything possibility but one, i.e., that opponent would not act as forecast, as dictated by the Japanese plan. You see this clearly in Pearl Harbor when the Japanese discovered the US carriers were not there, they had no plan to go find them. The battle of Wake: the small US force was not supposed to resist so magnificently, and the Japanese just kept repeating their attack plan over and over, suffering horrendous losses, and winning in the end only because the defenders were ordered to surrender by Washington. At Midway, the same thing. The defenders on the island were not supposed to resist; the American carriers were not supposed to be where they were; the American dive bomber pilots were not supposed to be so skilled; the Japanese naval was not supposed to be cracked, etc. Even later in the war, you see the same thing, most notably at the Battle of Leyte Gulf; the Japanese had a magnificent opportunity to wipe out the entire US landing in the Philippines, but got thrown off by a handful of "tin can sailors" who fought (that wasn't supposed to happen) the enormous Japanese fleet to a standstill long enough for the US carriers to arrive and sink the Imperial fleet.
The well-oiled, ostensibly smooth Obama campaign has the same problem the Japanese had. Obama does fine until McCain does something he's not "supposed" to do: skilfully distance himself from Bush; delay the GOP convention to deal with the hurricane; pick Governor Palin; call for a ceasefire on September 11; and now "suspend" his campaign to deal with the financial mess in DC and to call for a delay in the debates. Obama is left sputtering about the debates; about not injecting himself into the process in Washington, up until, of course, he sheepishly does. Then comes the ever-stupid and easily frightened Nancy Pelosi, the worst House Speaker in memory, who states that she won't support any "bail-out plan" unless a majority of Congressional Republicans do likewise. Bang! The trap is shut! Now, of course, McCain is indispensable to the bail out; if there's anybody who can craft a deal to get the (rightfully) skeptical conservative House Republicans to buy off, it's McCain. Obama is irrelevant to the process. McCain is the center of attention.
Stand up! Hats off! Three cheers for the Ol' Guy! Here we have a master of politics at work! Obama is merely a cub -- imagine if he had to deal with the Iranians. |
