In a poker game, when you don’t have enough chips to cover the bet you can push all the chips you have into the pot and declare “All In”. If you lose, you are out of the game, if you win you collect the pot and continue.
Yesterday Senator Obama went “All In”.
The good Doctor has forced Senator Obama to decide between his current run for the White House and his Political career. Effectively forcing him to go “All In” or fold and keep his Chicago power base intact. A tough choice to be sure. He decided to go for the brass ring.
If he goes on to win the White House, he will have ample time to win back his power base before 2012. If he loses the race, he will not be able to keep his Senate seat. Illinois is divided into 2 sections for Statewide offices, “Chicago” and “Downstate”. He actually won his seat because of some very strange events and bad Republican choices. The original Republican candidate was forced to drop out because of some embarrassing sexual shenanigans (with Jeri Ryan and his wife, he needed more? jeeeeeze) which put the Republican party in the position of finding a credible candidate at the last minute. They failed in spectacular fashion. Senator Obama just kissed off the majority of the “Chicago” voters and the “Downstate” voters were never in his camp (except when running against the nutjob Keyes).
I personally think he made the wrong decision, given that he will either lose the nomination to the “Superdelegates” or will lose the General because of the “bitterness” of the Hillary voters that the “Superdelegates” spurned. Even if I’m wrong about that, it took balls as big as church bells to go “All In”.
As for helping him in the current race, I don’t see it. Either he is a “typical politician” and was a member of TUCC only for the votes it would get him OR his campaign centerpiece (”Judgment to Lead”) is completely blown out of the water. Either he is a panderer of the most cynical order or he is as disingenuous as the Clintons.
In any case, its not over as a campaign issue. Not by a long shot.
[munches popcorn]
