F'in-A Right It's Time for a Blog About Rocky

So the HRC Experience has resorted to Rocky analogies.

Even those she can't get right.

She talked about how Rocky wouldn't have given up halfway up his run on the Philadelphia Museum of Art steps.

Has she ever seen the movie, or did one of her aides outline the plot for her? Do they not know that indifference to Rocky plotpoints could severely cut into the male vote?

As a survivor of those steps, I can say running them left me winded but hardly as beaten as the pictures of that day indicate.

Couldn't her Pennsylvania buddy, Gov. Ed Rendell and former mayor of Philly, explain that they aren't too difficult. Why else would so many tourists have to run them?

Spoiler alert, Clinton campaign - Rocky went the distance with Apollo. And he still lost. Running the steps was a moral achievement, because he couldn't do it the first time he tried after a long run. In the end, it had little to do with the actual fight.


He only won in the inferior sequels (Rocky III was an exception, as Mr. T pummeled him, then lost the rematch), which might bode well for Clinton if McCain wins in the fall. Then again, it might go down like that scene in Rocky IV when Rocky lands in Bosnia and has to run through sniper fire to find cover ... see, you repeat an imagined scene from a movie enough times, and it feels real.

In other Balboa-related news:

As the half-marathon spreads like a shadow over everything I do, I needed some uplifting training music, and could only go with two choices for the iPod - "Gonna Fly Now," the good old Rocky theme, and "Eye of the Tiger." There are few bads as bad as Survivor, but the song seemed appropriate.

Besides, I already chose a worse one. For some reason I picked "Shipping Up to Boston" from The Dropkick Murphys.

Even if Woody Guthrie wrote the lyric, shown me the half-marathoner who wants to hear the line "I lost my leg" screamed repeatedly. That's unhealthy at any mile marker.