Comments on: Eight Belles is Dead: a Bad Sign for Hillary Clinton?

By: Jo Sullivan

Jo Sullivan — Mon, 12 May 2008 02:57:32 +0000

As Pastor Trav can tell you, no one loves horses more than I do, I hate that Eight Belles was destroyed. She was a champion of the order of Ruffian. HOWEVER, without mentioning names… someone who has posted here needs to get a life! Rest in peace Eight Belles, she is in horsey heaven… Hillary doesn’t have the heart that Eight Belles has, she doesn’t have the dignity. She needs to be put out to pasture. harumph! harumph!

By: Bill Finch

Bill Finch — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:15:38 +0000

This one is almost as fun as the one about finding Alex a wife.

By: Chris Elrod

Chris Elrod — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:24:48 +0000

Trav - Of all the crap we have said on our blogs…and it is cracks about a horse race that gains the most hate mail. I have been deleting comments all day long concerning my post about Eight Belles…you’ve been editing them on your’s. I think it is hilarious…it’s great to be friends with you!!!

By: Gene

Gene — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:05:06 +0000

PROPHECY!!!

By: travis johnson

travis johnson — Tue, 06 May 2008 11:24:17 +0000

Patrick,

I think his horse wasn’t in this race. He was in the stands watching, betting on The Big Brown.

By: Patrick Gillen

Patrick Gillen — Tue, 06 May 2008 05:03:08 +0000

Did anyone else look to see who finished 3rd to see how we could make a McCain crack?

By: OhHillary

OhHillary — Mon, 05 May 2008 18:54:42 +0000

Can’t we admit the obvious IRONY and the parallels between Obama (Big Brown) and Hillary (Eight Belles)?

The term “Eight bells” can also be a way of saying that a sailor’s watch is over, for instance, in his or her obituary. It’s a nautical euphemism for “finished”.

1) Hillary will stop at NOTHING to get the nomination, even if it hurts herself and her party….

(A fine filly like Eight Belles will stop at nothing even if she breaks her own legs and dies.)

2) Hillary is madly trying to run with the BOYS in a race she will do ANYTHING it takes to win — for the power and the glory and to prove she can do it no matter what the injury to herself or others.

(Eight Belles — fighting an artificial turf and a herd of massive males, tried to win over the huge and powerful Big Brown)

3) Hillary wanted everyone to bet for Eight Belles to win (not to place) and everyone who trusted her lost.

4) The filly was fatally crippled, so they euthanized her. Will this happen to Hillary’s campaign or her potential presidency? She has the will, but does Hillary have the strength to avoid going down at the finish line as well?

I personally put my money on Big Brown and guess what… I won.

I’m betting on Obama. I don’t trust Hillary or her judgment.

(All respect to women running for office — Feinstein, Thatcher, etc…. this is not about women… it’s about Hillary’s bedlamite character and lack of strength needed to finish the race and run the free world.)

Quoting Brian, a blogger on ABC:

“The parallels are a little weird and I hate even bringing them up. Big Brown had only had only run three races and people were questioning his experience. Eight Belles was the only filly in the race and comes in second.”

By: Jonathan Stone

Jonathan Stone — Mon, 05 May 2008 12:02:36 +0000

I love the ‘Springer’ atmosphere on this thread!

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By: Phoenix Woman

Phoenix Woman — Mon, 05 May 2008 01:06:57 +0000

Eight Belles may have passed away, but both she and Big Brown did better than the Current Occupant, aka Snort the Line (out of Battleaxe by Woeful Wimp).

Seriously, the fact that both she and Barbaro have had their ankles literally disntegrate on the race track is, as an expert said on the news tonight, a sign that race horses are being overbred and overraced.