The ever astute blogger Oliver Willis wrote a poignant piece over on his blog today addressing Democrats seeming inability to play politics due to an apparent lack of shrewdness.
Oliver offers a great gridiron analogy,
You’re down by four points. You get the ball to the 50-yard line. There’s time for one more play. The way Obama has operated, you just take the knee. The justification is that the odds are against a hail mary pass and they could intercept it and run up the score. Plus, its only one game and not that big of a deal in the standings. He figures, based on the way you’re playing you could go 9-7 and qualify for a wild card spot in the playoffs.
What I and many others are arguing is this: Go for it. Try for the long bomb, try the pass that seems improbable. Sure, you could lose, but you could also win!
And when you go for it, you tell the fans and your team that you don’t quit, that even when you lose — you were trying to win big.
Do yourself a favor and go over and check out his complete post.
