McCain and Team Have Many Ties to Gambling Industry

NY TImes ^ | 9/27/08 | Jo Becker

[inkfarmer]

Roll with it. They are running out of things to write about.

[vetvetdoug]

It sometimes takes a gambler to get things done. Didn't a Democrat gamble with nuclear annihilation with the Russians to get the missiles out of Cuba? With a gambler one cannot discern if its a bluff or the real thing, it keeps the other side off guard. The NYT is like 99% of the MSM, in Obama’s pocket. If McCain were a tube sucking Democrat, the NYT would call the instincts of a gambler an asset.

[7thOF7th]

The glaring point from this should be that McCain gambles with his own money and the Democrats gambled and lost with ours!

[Darren McCarty]

I’ll place $100 that Pinch’s circulation drops again.

[editor-surveyor]

Bluffing is a minor component of poker. The most important component of poker is awareness of the changes in the odds, card by card.

Non poker players that see it in movies or on TV get the impression that bluffing is far more important than it is, because that is the only element of the game that can be made dramatic, and thus is the only one that is seen.

Obama is not a poker player; he is what is commonly known as a ‘fish.’

[CT-Freeper]

I like Foxwoods - it's my second-favorite casino in Connecticut, after Mohegan Sun.