Courier-Journal: Rolling The Dice.
Rolling the dice
Earlier in the year, a Time magazine article compared the gaming preferences of John McCain and Barack Obama and ventured what the games said about each.
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McCain likes to play craps in casinos, a game, Time wrote, given "to a thrill seeker who wants not just to win but to win with a crowd." McCain's friends said he likes to take risks, and play against the odds.
Obama's game, Time wrote, is backroom poker, a game for "the quiet and self-absorbed" in which "a good bluff trumps blind faith, and the studied observer beats the showman." Obama's friends said he closely studies the cards and "odds were religion to him. Only rarely did he bluff."
The gamesmen who also are the candidates have been on display in all three presidential debates, but never more so than in the final meeting on Wednesday night.
McCain: Dramatic facial expressions (good thing he likes craps, because he does not have a poker face), playing to the crowd with numerous mentions of Joe the Plumber, going for broke with the William Ayers business. Although it was McCain's strongest debate yet, it had a desperate feel to it, as if he knows the odds are stacked against him.
Obama: Observant, circumspect, measured, holding his cards close. He revealed what he needed to, and acted like someone who knows he has a winning hand if he just plays it right.
Obama has played it right so far. And if he continues to do that, he will be the next president of the United States, if -- and this is a big if -- we voters play it right, too.
In a few short weeks, we will decide who will be our leader in a time of great danger, great unrest and great uncertainty.
We've learned a lot about both candidates throughout the campaign, especially in the debates.
The good news is, even at a time of the highest of stakes, we don't have to gamble on our future.
There was only one president on the stage Wednesday night, and it wasn't the thrill-seeking, eye-bulging, craps shooter.
Rather, it was the quiet younger man, serious beyond his years, who bided his time and his temper, keeping careful watch of his rival, and bested him again.
If "that one" wins, we win, too.
Earlier in the year, a Time magazine article compared the gaming preferences of John McCain and Barack Obama and ventured what the games said about each.
Advertisement
McCain likes to play craps in casinos, a game, Time wrote, given "to a thrill seeker who wants not just to win but to win with a crowd." McCain's friends said he likes to take risks, and play against the odds.
Obama's game, Time wrote, is backroom poker, a game for "the quiet and self-absorbed" in which "a good bluff trumps blind faith, and the studied observer beats the showman." Obama's friends said he closely studies the cards and "odds were religion to him. Only rarely did he bluff."
The gamesmen who also are the candidates have been on display in all three presidential debates, but never more so than in the final meeting on Wednesday night.
McCain: Dramatic facial expressions (good thing he likes craps, because he does not have a poker face), playing to the crowd with numerous mentions of Joe the Plumber, going for broke with the William Ayers business. Although it was McCain's strongest debate yet, it had a desperate feel to it, as if he knows the odds are stacked against him.
Obama: Observant, circumspect, measured, holding his cards close. He revealed what he needed to, and acted like someone who knows he has a winning hand if he just plays it right.
Obama has played it right so far. And if he continues to do that, he will be the next president of the United States, if -- and this is a big if -- we voters play it right, too.
In a few short weeks, we will decide who will be our leader in a time of great danger, great unrest and great uncertainty.
We've learned a lot about both candidates throughout the campaign, especially in the debates.
The good news is, even at a time of the highest of stakes, we don't have to gamble on our future.
There was only one president on the stage Wednesday night, and it wasn't the thrill-seeking, eye-bulging, craps shooter.
Rather, it was the quiet younger man, serious beyond his years, who bided his time and his temper, keeping careful watch of his rival, and bested him again.
If "that one" wins, we win, too.
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