It"s that time again! We"re just forty eight hours away from a couple of campaign speeches on what happened in Indiana. Oh yes, and what happened in North Carolina. Hillary is promise a "game-changer". If you"re an Obama supporter, you might interpret that as the "end game" for Hillary; however, I am sure she"s talking about winning both primaries and leading her to the finsh line- unlike what happened at the Kentucky Derby.
I think it interesting how life speaks to us in such different ways. Let"s take the Kentucky Derby as an example.
Showing a sisterhood with the female horse, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., during a trip to Louisville this week had said she was going to bet on Eight Belles to win, place, and show. A lone Philly against the world of males!
ABC News" Karen Travers reports that Clinton told supporters in Jeffersonville, Ind., earlier this week, "I hope that everybody will go to the derby on Saturday and place just a little money on the filly for me. I won"t be able to be there this year -- my daughter is going to be there and so she has strict instructions to bet on Eight Belles." Well, as fate would have it, Eight Belles came in second!
It"s not what Hillary wanted to hear! Hillary came in second in the Guam caucus Saturday as well.
But, as it turns out that was the best news. Eight Belles hung with the boys. All that heart and her gallant fight, however, ended in the worst of all possible ways: a breakdown, an ambulance on the track. And, with no other choice, she was euthanized by injection. Right after crossing the finish line in second place, Eight Belles suffered two broken front ankles.
The magnitude of what happened was slow to reach the fans at Churchill Downs. Not only was a horse down, but it was the filly. And horse racing - with the memory of Barbaro still fresh and a severe injury to a horse coming only a day earlier on Kentucky Oaks Day - had to confront grief one more time. And it did.
But, back to the final story line, as it relates to the political (horese) race, the horse Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., picked to show -- Big Brown -- won the Derby.
So much for the unusual pictures and comparisons of life.