I decided, just for my own amusement, to look up the definition of a barracuda. The parallels were hilarious, though not in the way the McCain camp thinks. If you read, enjoy, find your own parallels. It is no coincidence. The bolding is mine.
Take one look at a great barracuda's
toothy grin and you'll understand why it has earned the nickname "Tiger of the Sea."
With its sleek, torpedo-like body, dagger-like teeth, and ferocious appetite, the barracuda is built to hunt in the ocean. And that's exactly what it has been doing for the last 50 million years. Any diver who's seen a barracuda attack another fish can tell you that it happens faster than you can say "anchovy." One moment, a barracuda will be drifting lazily among the coral reefs. The next, it's rocketing toward a fish and snapping it up in its jaws. Just like the quick turn of calling Obama unpatriotic and bringing up Wright to that creepy Bill Kristol.
So, is the barracuda a cold-blooded killer? You betcha! Hey, it's Palinese A barracuda is a predator because it needs to eat to survive. And it's cold-blooded because all fish are cold-blooded. They adapt to the temperature of the water surrounding them. Cold blooded and adapt to the temperature of the water around them. That's just like being an ambitious, conniving, cold blooded pol who will stab you in the back to get what she wants, and then will say anything to match what her audience (the temperature around her) needs to hear.
In order to move up and down quickly to track its prey and to move around the coral reefs, the barracuda uses itsswim bladder. A swim bladder is what keeps a fish from sinking to the bottom of the ocean, even though it's heavier than seawater. A barracuda can inflate or deflate this gas-filled chamber to lower its body or to rise. We have seen her deflating her gas-filled chamber every time she speaks
Barracuda are better adapted to hunting in the coral reefs than, say, a tuna because their bodies,
though long, are flexible enough to move through the twists and turns of a reef.
If it's such a great hunter, does this make the barracuda the most successful animal in the ocean? That's hard to measure. It hasn't been around for 50 million years just because it's lucky. But fish in general are an extremely successful class of animals. There are more than 25,000 different species of fish. This makes them, by far, the largest group of vertebrates. And there are millions, if not billions, of them. The oldest kinds of fish swam the seas more than 400 million years before the first dinosaur roamed the earth. So the next time you see a fish, show it a little respect, especially if it's a 'cuda. Last, how can she accept the nickname barracuda since the earth is only 6,000 years old and scientists say the cuda has been here more than 50 million years?