Barack Obama went to the islands for Easter, heck, he couldn't go to his old church, and he played some hoops while Hillary was trying to avoid non-sniper fire. Maybe rope-a-dope is his new strategy.

The campaign has gone on so long we've cycled through seasons of sports metaphors: the symbology of football Bowls, basketball bracketology, baseball spring training. Why stop before the Summer Olympics? The torch is on the way from Greece to China by way of Mt. Everest, through some got-nothing-to-lose monk riots. Let the games continue!

In a recent poll, and I don't know about you, I can't get enough of those recent polls, 38% of Democrats said that if their candidate isn't the Presidential nominee they are going to vote for McCain. The poll was translated from scratchy Arabic on a cassette tape dropped off at CNN.

Based on that poll, everybody, even Fickle Friends of Hillary [FFOH] are calling for Hillary to get out of the race. I even heard someone invoke Tonya Harding. That is cold. Hey, we've come this far in the presidential marathon, why make Hillary pull a reverse Rosie Ruiz?

Fighters are made better by good sparring partners. Tennis players improve by with hard-hitting practice partners. My niece, who doesn't get a lot of game time, takes her role in practice on her division-leading college lacrosse team very seriously.

If Barack Obama thinks the Clintons are relentless, petty and dirty double-teamers, I'm sure there's a Yogi Berra saying that applies here to indicate that he ain't seen nothing yet.

McCain is a reckless kamikazi for freedom. He has the grudging support of his fellow Republicans and their machine. McCain also has the full-larynxed support of the media boys he's curried for years. They love his ass.

The Loserland television networks are invested in keeping the campaign going, despite their disingenuous goading of Hillary to quit. They say do the delegate math. There's no way. They must have forgotten what Harvard's Larry Summers said about women and math.

Like the print media, the networks are hemorrhaging audience to the Internet. This is their last campaign hurrah. And they desperately want to elect one more president for the Gipper.

So Obama/Michael Douglas quit your whining. Hillary is doing you a favor. Don't be caught flat-footed. Get your cup on. Wear your head and mouth gear.

And watch for her knock out punch.

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