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Nov 11, 2012 Sports
Colin E. H. Croft
“Obama – Barack Hussein Obama II!” To be exact! The one truly unique star in our political firmament!
If you are a 007 cultist, like I am, and have seen all previous Bond movies since 1962’s Dr. No, the first ever, starring the still incomparable Sean Connery, you would know that the first words ever spoken, on screen, by the suave super spy, as he gambled in London, was “Bond – James Bond!”
Barack and Bond have so much in common, they might well be the same person; or maybe twins!
How Barack survived, fully intact, that barrage of outright moneyed propaganda, total sabotage and in-your-face KKK-like racism in last week’s USA Presidential race is quite remarkable!
The Republicans alone spent more than US$3.5 Billion, last six years, coaching Mitt Romney, to lose so badly! They are fully shell-shocked!
Even Ian Fleming must be turning in his grave. This was much more than just real fantasy in a real life!
It was a massive mandate, rout, landslide, even, for the tall black man from Hawaii. Aided and abetted by his own mercurial “M” – Michelle – Barack destroyed a complete conspiracy!
What absolute joy, what magnificent majesty; to see Barack “Bond” Obama, “M”, and their young lovelies, Bond-like, Malia and Sasha, strut over that stage in Chicago early last Wednesday morning, after the overwhelming poll victory. BTW, FYI, they are still counting in Florida, but my vote was not wasted anyway!
Now, look out for that 3rd generation Kenyan export! He will expose all of the claws of his ancestors! Already, he is telling Republicans in Washington that if he does not like anything they suggest, anything at all, he will veto!
As Daniel Craig – present James Bond – said in the new Bond movie, ‘Skyfall’, and probably to be soon used by Obama too; “Men are coming to kill us. We have to kill them first!” Problems solved!
Now that he has full political capital, given such blanket backing by USA’s electorate for his final four years, expect POTUS No. 44 to be as absolutely deadly as the black mamba snake, and as fast, athletic and cunning as that massive black cat, the panther!
Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, in recent memory, in their final four years, were really great too. Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, John Kennedy, Bill Clinton and James Bond! What a team that would be!
Sammy – Darren Julius Garvey Sammy – does not have that same ring as Barack or Bond, but Darren, and West Indies, must come out fighting; warring! Bangladesh must be made to feel like Mitt Romney! This is the perfect time for West Indies to strike home fully, when timing and fortune favor them well!
Showing the class, claws, clout and cleverness which made West Indies ICC T-20 2012 Champions is what Sammy and his men must again do in Bangladesh starting the week. Kill Bangladesh; now! “To those given much….much is expected!” As I always maintain, representing the Caribbean is no joke! Darren Sammy realizes that. Let us hope that his present team does too!
It has been some time since West Indies have travelled anywhere overseas as present world champions.
Yes, it was ‘only” T-20 world championship, but, these days, that is where it starts. It is the first rung on that long, heady climb upwards. As the old Guyanese would say: “Yuh gah foh kraal befoe’ yuh waak!”
Obama has survived, well, and so has Bond. Having already seen the new “Skyfall”, with more technological advances than almost all Bonds put together, a fully “dark” representation by Craig; seventh Bond; one expects that West Indies in Bangladesh would be banging triumphantly too!
Bangladesh knows that they have nothing to lose. West Indies are the stars. They are touring on a high, after winning WT-20 2012. West Indies must now show that they are real champions, not just pretenders. In all three game formats, not just T-20, West Indies must play, and win, like champions!
That is really the real test, in especially Tests, and ODI’s too, for West Indies. This is where cricket really counts; Tests. West Indies, like Barack in 2012 USA general election campaign, must show improvement, maturity, organization, confidence and complete poise, knowing that they are fully ready!
The Banglas would like nothing more than to cut West Indies down a leg or two, or several. That is why West Indies must never allow themselves, like Romney, to have stupid, blinded, false complacency!
Some Bond films were built on revenge. The classic “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”, when Bond’s – George Lazenby; only appearance – wife was killed, he wanted so much revenge, or “Casino Royale”, starring Craig, where he wanted revenge too, for losing the voluptuous Vesper Lynd, were such films!
West Indies must have similar sentiments, still remembering that embarrassment meted out by Bangladesh when they met in a two-Test series, in West Indies 2009; the hosts losing 2-0.
Barack and Bond are certainly irreplaceable champions, so is West Indies, in T-20 only. The tourists must now improve and show upward mobility in ODI’s and Tests, starting with Bangladesh. Enjoy!
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