President Must Know How to Execute a Strike

Believe it or not, a comparison of two games of bowling might make the decision-making process a bit easier for Americans still trying to decide between Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama and his Republican rival John McCain.

The first game, during which Obama tallied an embarrassingly-low 37 — or a 47 if you accept the explanation given by one liberal blogger — took place March 29 at Pleasant Valley Lanes in Altoona, Pa. Because it involved a front-running presidential candidate, it garnered headlines around the world.

The second game took place April 30. Bowling during league playoff action at Century Lanes in Alta, Iowa, Dale Davis tallied a score of 300 — a perfect game — and garnered a top-story headline in The Storm Lake (Iowa) Times newspaper.

The score of the second game mentioned above wasn’t the only reason why Davis’s name appeared in the local newspaper. The fact that he is a 79-year-old World War II veteran had a little bit to do with it, too.

But that’s still not enough. To convince the average fence-straddling voter, who’s finding it difficult to choose between two candidates when both of them fit the description of a “lesser of two evils” candidate, there has to be more.

Perhaps, this will put that undecided voter — and you, if you’re a fence straddler — over the top: Davis is blind, too.

Therein lies yet another argument for why Obama shouldn’t be president.

Davis had to rely on his wits and exercise a great deal of discipline in order to execute a perfect game. Similarly, McCain had to rely on his wits during the five years he spent in a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp known as the Hanoi Hilton. And he had to exercise a great deal of discipline during his incarceration.

When all the marbles are on the table, I want to be sure that my president knows how to execute a strike against enemies who want to do this nation harm. And I’m not talking about bowling.

-- Bob McCarty Writes