“It’s Game 5 as the Phoenix Suns fight for survival in this win-or-go-home situation. The Lakers won four straight and are undoubtedly resting in Los Angeles watching and praying this series with the San Antonio Spurs goes all the way to a Game 7.”

Although, the above isn't a direct quote, basketball fans are familiar with the scenario. Today, it’s important because it seems Ol’ Hen Hill takes her cues right out of the NBA playbook. You don’t see it? That’s why you read me. You know I’ll clue you in.

I already mentioned this weekend’s NYT Op-Ed piece “The Audacity of Hopelessness,” about Hen Hill’s imploded cluster*uck of a campaign drawing parallels to the equally botched Iraq War. Aside from her mess of a campaign rife with its own brand of insurgency and cluster bombs, Egg John McCain and the GOP machine are chilling in the cut aligning their darts readying for their inevitable onslaught on Egg Obama.

At this point, everybody knows Obama is the Dem Nominee. I know it, you know it and the look on Hen Hill's face along with her latest smear campaign against Obama proves, even she knows it.


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One more loss and Hen Hill doubles Guiliani’s number of primary losses. Even the devil pulled the plug on that at six. So, why she’s still in? Now enter in that playbook. Like the Suns, Hen Hill knows she’s toast but she’s got to keep on keeping on because of the money she accepted. In lieu of a championship, the Suns get bonuses for longer series; Hen Hill gets donations.

Hen Hill wears Obama down for the Championship Series with McCain by forcing him to spend more on ads, diluting the strength of his message in yet another debate—this time in all-important Cleveland—when she knows it’s over. Obama should be sharpening his strategy against McCain, not giving the GOP machine ammunition for potshots at him while singing to his own Democratic choir after 10 straight wins. It’s an exercise in futility as he will simply beat his opponent who will never win a ‘Ship a la Suns.

"Baaaah!You lost 10 straight! You're never gonna win."

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What heats me up about this whole thing is the referee sits on the sidelines gleefully watching this lop-sided match. Where the hell is the Democratic National Committee Chairman Gov. Howard Dean? Why isn’t he picking up the phone calling for Hen Hill to pull out? One person told me it’s because she’s a Clinton. Perhaps, but it’s my guess Hill's Billy Egg wishes she'd resign simply to disconnect his moniker from such a debacle. If this were the other way around, Dean would be YEE-HAHing into the phone telling Obama to move out of the way, the same if it were Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson.

I’m not suggesting it’s based in racism but like TV it is good ratings. Everyone expects the Suns to fall to the Spurs. It’s only a matter of when. In the meanwhile, everyone watches the series, at bars or at home with friends surrounded by stacks of delivered pizza and wings. This match between the first white woman and black man to seek the Dem nod captured the attention of the politically interested in the same way. Everyone is engaged. Everyone’s talking about the Democratic Party's Primary saga. It’s free advertising and who better to appreciate anything free than the DNC, organizers of the upcoming Democratic National Convention.

How should we, the Dem Party voters, deal with this political dead weight? Same as the basketball fans. When they tire of watching the Suns struggle barely making a Game 6, they skip Game 6 altogether and watch Game 7. Some wait longer watching the Spurs wipe the floor with the Lakers while others only tune back in for the rock-em, sock-em action when the Spurs finally meet the defending champions, the Detroit Pistons.

Just like the 2005 Spurs, when Obama finally meets his match, he’ll dethrone the GOP but he won’t need a Game 7 to do it.


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