by Mark Silva
Hillary Clinton carried Ohio in March.
Barack Obama hopes to carry it in November. He'll have to, if he is his party's nominee, and hopes to beat John McCain -- unless Obama can turn a few other states his way. So McCain hopes to carry it, too.
But Robbie Knievel owns Ohio at the moment.
"Kaptain" Knievel successfully jumped over 24 delivery trucks Saturday night at the site of one of his father's most famous stunts. Knievel had calculated that he would be traveling at 95 miles per hour during the jump, which he completed to "wild cheers at Kings Island amusement park near Cincinnati,'' the AP tells us.
Evel Knievel jumped 14 buses there in 1975. He died last year after suffering from failing health for many years. He was 69.
John McCain will be 72 at election, if he carries Ohio and a few more.
Evel Knievel: RIP.
Ohio: Bring it on..
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Comments
And you use Knieval to make your point that McCain is older than Evel when he died? What are you, a shill for the Obama campaign? Evel Knieval was lucky to live that long with virtually every bone broken at one time or another, a ruptured spleen and damaged other organs. I haven't seen
McCain doing bus jumps on a motorcycle lately, so the analogy is an unbelievable stretch.
Posted by: Darius | May 25, 2008 10:46 AM
Awesome post, Silva. I saw the jump on Sportscenter and was amazed.
Posted by: Jeff | May 25, 2008 11:57 AM
I still like the post, but how about a swamp post on how representative Laura Washington (D-Long Beach, Calif.) has already lost one house to a foreclosure auction and is well on the way to losing two more. Can you imagine how quickly Frank James would have a post up if this were a republican refusing to pay his/her financial obligations and then going back to the house to vote on housing legislation?
http://www.dailybreeze.com/ci_9366061
Posted by: Jeff | May 25, 2008 5:40 PM