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To: KonKilo who wrote (61740)	4/25/2008 1:54:50 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 543140

<<<With the many legitimate criticisms that we can point in his direction, I don't think his bowling score is one of them.>>> Bowling is not the issue. The issue is retail politics. Obama does not understand retail politics. He has only been in one election for a statewide office. In that he faced another black man who did not even live in the state that he was running for the Senate. In retail politics, you have to connect with people from all different socio-economic brackets. You have to go the pastry shops, the diners, and the bowling alleys to connect with the people. People who eat chocolates, donuts, drink beer, and bowl can not be looked down on. You have to take what they do serously. You can't make a joke out of what they are doing. Bowling a 37 (if he actually did that for 10 frames) would be a slap in the face to a large segment of the population that bowl. You are not taking them seriously. It's like when you go overseas and have to eat yak meat or smoke a peace pipe, you have to do it with some degree of seriousness. It is retail politics. You have to make an effort to be good at retail politics. That is what is going to take to win the big swing states in Pennsylvania, Ohio, etc.