Hillary Clinton Does Tracy Flick
On the left, Tracy Flick from 1999’s excellent Election. On the right, Hillary Clinton doing her best Tracy Flick impersonation. Click the arrow to watch life imitate art.
All Hillary aside, I thought Election was a great companion film to 1986’s Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. In Ferris, Mathew Broderick plays the high school wise guy who has all the cookies crumble his way 24/7. In Election, he’s the high school teacher who has all his plans and dreams go horribly wrong in every facet of his life.
I’m not sure, but I think Broderick even played up the juxtaposition of these two rolls. In Ferris, he enthusiastically starts the day in the shower with a shampoo mohawk and a Shower Massage microphone. Then, in Election, he goes through identical soap-my-armpit motions, but this time we see the lack of a spark clearly beginning to drag the boy down.
And so it is with Hillary…going through the motions, but the lack of a spark is really starting to drag her down.
After 8 years, America is realizing the big party is over — not because it ever got started, but because BushCo blew our party funds on a bunch of fireworks that turned out to be duds, and the few that weren’t really pissed off the neighbors.
So, here’s a tip, Hillary: After 8 years of watching Bush screw up and then explain his actions as “hard work” — over and over and over — the last thing we want is another special-interest mouthpiece promising more “hard work.” Screw that.
Over the last year and a half, we’ve seen what happens when you elect leaders who promise to work hard. That’s what the Democratic Congress promised if elected, and they did practically squat, except to wipe Bush’s rear end everytime he messed his pants.
No, after the last few years I don’t believe our politicians will ever be capable of righting the ship with hard work. It’s going to take the rest of America to do that. So, maybe instead of electing one person who promises to work hard, the time may be right to elect someone who can inspire the entire country to change, and to hope, and to convince us that it’s worth our time to care again.
Maybe. Maybe not. But I’m convinced one person’s “hard work” can’t dig us out of the deep hole in which BushCo and the neocons and the corporate money men have buried us.
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What’s going to happen to all this insperation once the slogans, chants and hand clapping stops. On inaguration day, when the clouds don’t part and the milk and honey doesn’t flow after that insperational speech we all know is going to come; are people still going to be inspired.
I don’t even want to think what is going to happen, when all these lofty promises start to fall by the wayside, as we know they will. All those endorsments, come with a price tag; and he is falling deeper and deeper into debt.
I think the old saying ” a bird in the hand , is better then two in a bush” holds true here.
Since we’re probably headed over the cliff anyway, I guess it all boils down to who you’d rather go over the cliff with. If I were headed for a waterfall with Bush at the head of the canoe , I think he’d tell me to paddle faster. If it was McCain, he’d say if we keep paddling through the 300-foot drop, we’ll survive the falls. If it was Hillary, I think as soon as we passed the point of no return, she’d start blaming me for listening to her when she told me to paddle closer to the falls. If Barack was at the head of the boat, I think he’d admit he just got us both killed, but he’d come up with some way to make the trip down fun.
I think you are right about Bush, McCain and Hillary. But as far as Barack, he would tell us that he new better, and would find a way to blame the other three for the predicament we were in.