The Only Card I Need

The Only Card I Need

Iowan turneresq writes at Kos:

In the game of spades, the card players want to have most in their hand is the Ace of Spades. The top card in the game, this "trump" card will give a player one guaranteed win at least and can disrupt the other players strategy.

Translating this to presidental politics, every potential president loves to have this a "trump" card because notwithstanding the other issues in their hand, it gives them something they can rely on.

This gives me an excuse to link to Lemmy and Motörhead:



turneresq continues:

For Obama, his trump card is obviously Iraq. While he was only a state senator in 2002 contemplating a run for the national senate seat, he did give a speech which was flatly opposed to the war.

Obama is not using race as a trump card, which is positive and he and Hillary are clearly competing for the African-American vote that HRC seemed to have taken for granted.

But is Hillary using a queen to try to trump? At MyDD, Taylor Marsh:

Obama is gaining. Edwards holding steady. So now Candidate Inevitable, aka Hillary Clinton, has to explain and rise from a new reality. Vote Hillary: 'We'll never know unless we try.' Playing gender to win. You knew it was coming, right? But is it gender or Hillary that is the problem?

Aside: Watching a VH1 special last night I saw excerpts of a Lemmy interview. His voice was so ravaged and accented that, even though Lemmy's alleged first language is English, they had to show subtitles.