Lynn Espinoza is a broadcast news veteran with more than a decade of media, presentation and executive coaching experience. She has developed personal coaching sessions for Fortune 100 C-level executives, corporate communicators of all kinds, doctors, lawyers and leaders in non-profit.
Lessons from a Cougar
Posted on April 22, 2008. Filed under: Latest News
I’m a Washington State Cougar, so I’m accustomed to losing. Like all good Cougars, I wish only the worst on the many teams that beat us. And Cougars can stay mad for a long time. We don’t heal until 1) we win, or 2) the winning team has a season as rotten as ours. So with this frame, I am perplexed at how the Democrats will heal from their bitter fight.
The Clinton/Obama fight has become at least as brutal as any November match-up between WSU and the University of Washington (or any great state rivalry). Acrimonious. Vicious. Filled with cheap-shots designed to promote fear, uncertainty and doubt. But soon the Democrat’s political rivalry game will be over - whether tomorrow, in June or (please, no) in August. What then?
In college football, neither team has to take back all the nasty things they say about eachother. Fanning the flames only makes the next matchup more fun. But how will either Team Obama or Team Clinton retract all the nasty? Afterall, this is just an inter-squad game. How will either one of them take the field in full strength for the real rivalry game against John McCain.
Or do you think both candidates will be too wounded to win?
One Response to “Lessons from a Cougar”
Leave a Reply
You’ve touched upon my favorite topic of the year– so far. I’d like to preface my comment by saying I don’t have a dog in the hunt, right now. I’m not pulling for anyone at this point and won’t discuss that publicly once I make a choice.
That said. It doesn’t make a hill of beans difference what happens in Pennsylvania or coming weeks for that matter. Neither Clinton nor Obama will have the magic number. Neither will give up. The “scrap” will continue until it looks akin to this week’s mock wrestling match on WWE.
Blood on the floor. Not until then. It’s all about the magic number. What that means for the Dems? For McCain? Nothing. It’s a whole new ballgame after Labor Day. It always is.