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mercredi, septembre 10, 2008

Bidding on the "change" bus too high - Obama '12

Max Bazerman's negotiation class at HBS has an auction where students
bid against each other for a $20 bill. Invariably every year the
bidding goes way over $20. Be it the psychology pitfalls of loss
aversion, commitment, diagnosis bias, insanity, whatever, this
campaign for the US presidency reminds me of that auction.
"McCain-rictus" has rushed in. With a master stroke he has out bid
Obama for this presidency. You want a woman. You got one. You wanna
a tax cut. You got it. You want to end the war. Been there. Done
that. Want to see my scars. My daughter wrote a kids book about 'em.
I am John McCain the agent of "change". Did I mention I am a green
candidate and a feminist too? I'm in charge of the Republican party
diversity project. As expected they are doing anything to win. And
they are just warming up. Obama, God bless his soul, won't do that.
Hillary beat him at it. Even Obama's Biden VP pick for principled and
"personal" reasons? Gees. How naive.

Absent an act of God, he has loser written all over him on this
election. The only solace will be watching John McCain and Sarah
Palin follow through on the legacy of the W empire over America. It
may be the will of higher forces that we experience collapse. Only
when we reach bottom for the McCain side of the country will our
brethren value the hand Obama has. Obama 2012 begins ...

Perry

perry.gregg@post.harvard.edu

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