Has McCain Set the Biggest Bear Trap of All Time?
By Dan Calabrese Twenty-one baseball seasons ago, the Detroit Tigers looked finished after losing the first three games of a four-game series in Toronto during the season´s penultimate weekend. The Blue Jays led the Tigers by three-and-a-half games with seven to go. The Tigers were showing little life. When a Detroit sportswriter suggested that it might be all over for the Tigers, tenacious outfielder Kirk Gibson acknowledged it might very well be, then added a caveat: “Or maybe we´ve just set the biggest bear trap of all time.” The Blue Jays did not win another game that year, and Detroit took the division title on the season´s final day. Has the McCain campaign just set the biggest bear trap of all time on the issue of experience? If they play it right, maybe they have. When Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was announced as John McCain´s running mate, my first reaction was the same as a lot of other people: How can McCain hammer Barack Obama on his lack of experience when his own running mate
