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From Yahoo News, http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080225/ap_on_el_pr/mccain
"The lead Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, McCain has consistently backed the war although he’s long criticized the way it was waged after the Saddam Hussein’s fall. He was an original proponent of President Bush’s troop-increase strategy, having called for more forces on the ground for several years. Last spring, McCain went all in on the war by embracing it as Bush took heat for boosting troop levels to quell violence."
McCain went all in? Is he bluffing? Does he have pocket aces? He is an angry old man; maybe he’s on tilt? He went all in ON the war? As in, he bet all his chips behind the strength of the war? Or he’s staring the war down and came over the top of it on the turn?
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4:31 pm
February 25, 2008
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DonkStar
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He is past the commitment point, as has to call off the rest of his chips. The president actually has overplayed the conservative hand pre-flop, and if McCain wants to have the backing of the industrial machine, the conservative right, and Republican party in general, he has to back the war at this point, whether he agrees with how its been waged or not. He is calling off his chips, the turn and the river come in November.
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Bush: "I have to go do something. Johnny! Come play my hand. You have to pay me back if you lose, tho."
McCain: "Fuck."
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10:06 pm
February 25, 2008
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Natcheztoo
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A friend of mine who used to be a house player in Los Angeles told me one time that a poker buddy was fretting over a lost hand. He asked about it. The guy said he went all-in, and my friend told him, "So, you lose and go on." The guy said, "You don’t understand. I was all-in, all-in." Confused, my buddy asked what that meant. He explained, "When you go all-in with everything you have left in the world you are all-in, all-in."
Natchez Too
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10:19 am
March 3, 2008
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threads13
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I’d say that McCain is unhappily committed. He doesn’t expect to be called by many worse hands, but he expects that he is good often enough to make to put his stack in.
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