For those with short memories, check out the first 20 seconds or so:
http://www.funnyordie.com/...
Of all the metaphors that spring to mind regarding last night's debate (a friend described McCain as "a stewed onion"), the image of the young, gifted athlete delicately applying ju-jitsu to the bulbous head of the furious, onrushing geezer struck me and stuck with me.
Obama was neither overbearing nor underassertive, and though I personally would have loved to see him crush McCain's misogynistic onion-head to smithereens, he handled it as gently and firmly and with as much dispatch as Pedro handled the steaming Zimmer. For Pedro and the Red Sox in 2004, the result was a long-awaited victory over their historic rivals and the World Championship. Let's hope the same happy fate awaits our current hero, the Democrats, and the American people.