"Upsets!"

Last week-end we saw the New York Jets beat the San Diego Chargers in the NFL play-offs. To most of us who follow football would consider this an upset victory. At the beginning of the season the Chargers were one of the teams favored to be in the Super Bowl. In last years season the Jets failed to advance even with the acquisition of Bret Favre at quarterback, so little respect was given to the upstarts from New York. Mike Tyson, one of the most feared heavy-weight champions of all time was knocked out by Buster Douglas, in perhaps the greatest boxing upset in the history of the sport. Harry S. Truman defeated Thomas E. Dewey for president in what many believed would be the most sweeping victory in political history for the Republican Party. In 1984 the heavily favored Chicago Cubs, after two victory's, was swept away by the San Diego Padres in the NLCS, and were once again denied a chance at the World Series. If we learn anything from these events and events like them is that there are no "sure things", any team can be beaten, any politician can be defeated, any champion can be knocked out. When Cassius Clay fought Sonny Liston no one gave Clay a chance to win from a champion who destroyed Floyd Patterson like he was beating up a school girl, yet at the end we all remember the stunned outcome and the storied career of Muhammad Ali. All of the names I have mentioned thus far were people who were not supposed to win, yet they did. Determination and dedication are the keys to victory, perseverance through adversity is what makes champions. Today in Massachusetts there will be an election to fill the seat made vacant by the death of Ted Kennedy, not the seat belonging to Ted Kennedy, the seat belonging to the voters of Massachusetts. Scott Brown is the Republican candidate for senator, and to the great surprise of an extremely powerful Democratic machine in Massachusetts Mr. Brown is ahead in the polls. An amazing message is in the making for the Obama administration, the people are flexing their muscles at the polls. One year ago the democrats looked unbeatable, like Goliath, and the republicans looked small and weak, like David. David pulled off the upset of the Bible, he slew the giant. Now the giant stands before the people of Massachusetts, the tribal chief himself has come out to cheer on his giant toward victory; yet here stands "David" and the enemy shakes. America the wind is taking a great shift, the people are fed up with a one sided take it and like it government. A victory in the most liberal state of the union will be a shock to Washington, and could mean the demise of Obama-care. As we have seen upsets happen, victory is never guaranteed. Today history could be made in Massachusetts, and we could begin to take back America!