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Originally Posted by chinthee He has not proven he has the knockout punch yet. |
This is the argument many are using and have been for quite sometime. I don't buy it a valid criticism against Obama for many reasons.
The same thing could be said of Hillary given she didn't deliver a "first round" knockout as predicted given her commanding lead going into the primaries. She not only failed to deliver the expected first round knockout, Obama, beyond all prefight predictions, is ahead on all the scorecards and when the decision goes to judges (super delegates) as seems will be the case he is likely to be declared the winner. Bottom line; Using the boxing analogy, evenly matched opponents rarely result in knock outs.
Equating his inability to deliver the knockout punch against a strong opponent such as Hillary should not be construed he cannot deliver one against McCain. McCain is not near the caliber of opponent Hillary is. There are major differences on the substantiative issues (Iraq), charisma, majority of Dems, and messages of inspiration which will lead to a landslide victory for Obama (or Hillary) against McCain.