Is Obama Gary Cooper and Gregory Peck?
I've been watching the slime thrown by Palin and yesterday by Cindy McCain and have come to a conclusion ................ John McCain is a coward hiding behind the skirts of women. I watched the Obama interview with Charlie Gibson of ABC and it sounds to me like Barack just called ol McCain out. He said he wondered why McCain could not say these things to his face and perhaps he would in the next debate. (or words to that effect).........
All thru the past few months, especially when McCain was hitting Obama with those ads and Obama was slipping in the polls, the bloviators on TV kept yelling that Obama looked like a wimp for not responding forcefully.
They claimed you can't win if you let this stuff slide.
Keep in mind I am an old woman of almost 72 years, but it reminds me a bit of the old movies: Gary Cooper in High Noon and Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird. The laconic better educated quiet man always overcomes the bully..........
McCain has a long history of bullying others who disagree with him. I think he's met his match in the cereberal lawyer. :) The quiet man who wins by his brains and talent.
Whatever admiration I once had for John McCain is now totally gone. He's shown he learned only one thing from his defeat in 2000. And that is: in order to try to win you sometimes have to destroy yourself.
John McCain is no "maverick" He's just a sour defeated, grumpy, un-principled, sad shell of a man.
I am encouraged by the recent polls but stil lfearful some unknown thing could happen and the polls could turn quickly in the other direction, but I continue to have faith in the wisdom of the voters that they will continue to reject the sleaze of McCain and his handlers.
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I hope you're right.
I appreciate the comparisons.
October 9, 2008 7:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
You're right (and being not far from your age, I remember those "quiet men" well. What is encouraging for our country is that this isn't an act on Obama's part. That's who he is. If you haven't read his books, give yourself a treat and do so. After 2004, it would be hard for me to echo your statement " I continue to have faith in the wisdom of the voters that they will continue to reject the sleaze of McCain and his handlers." ---- But I will say that I have HOPE that the voters will be wise. Recc'd
October 9, 2008 9:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think I can make you feel better about your loss of respect for McCain by telling you that there was never a reason to admire him. The biggest part of his personal history that everyone "knows" is that he was a heroic POW who was tortured, broke and gave misleading information to his captors in order to survive. And who among us could judge him as we shrink away from what we would be willing to do in order to survive.
It would certainly change your opinion of him if you knew that as soon as he was captured he let his captors know that he was an admiral's son and that he would be willing to exchange targeting information for medical treatment. If you don't believe what I'm saying, go over to YouTube and watch the black and white video of McCain lying in a clean hospital bed, bandaged up and smoking a cigarette and ask yourself why his captors would have treated him so well if their intent was to take him back and torture him. The reason none of this is well known is because McCain by assisting in the normalization of relations with Vietnam bargained for and received the sealing of all records, which helped to conceal his duplicity, but also closed the door on the families of POWs and MIAs who were still searching for their loved ones. Visit YouTube and watch McCain savage Delores Alfond for daring to plead that the Senate Select Committee not shut down their efforts and ask yourself why a former POW would be so hateful to this woman?
And on a personal level when he returned home after his release and found that his wife had been in a horrendous accident which resulted in over 20 surgeries and she had lost four inches in height, plus put on a few pounds, he immediately began running around and eventually found a woman 17 years his junior who was a beer heiress. He couldn't kick his first wife and family to the curb quickly enough to secure the prize.
McCain's reputation falls apart pretty quickly when you start doing the research.
October 9, 2008 9:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
To me, the more apt comparison is with Jimmy Stewart in 'It's a Wonderful Life'.
Gary Cooper in High Noon was an old Sherif married to the young Quaker who abhorred violence--with Bad men coming to get him, and townspeople too cowardly to lend a hand.
There are some good comparisons with Atticus Finch's calm demeanor--but Atticus's test was the moment when the mob showed up at the Jailhouse, and Atticus was prepared to go toe to toe with them. The classic masculine confrontatioin was at the tipping point--when out of the mouths of babes--Scout recognizes a couple of the men in the mob and inquires about their family--and the men are no longer an angry mob, but tired and frustrated husbands and fathers, farmers and businessmen. It's one of the most poignant moments in American Cinematic history--but I don't see Obama in that scene--I am struggling to think of equivalent cinematic metaphors--the only one that really resonates with me is the Organizer in Matewan played by Chris Cooper, Joe Kennehan--whow was trying to save all the minors from the corrupt mine owners who who do anything to keep them down--by organizing them, and raising their consciousness. That is such a great film.
October 9, 2008 9:39 AM | Reply | Permalink