In America, we've been lucky enough to have great novels and
movies which say something about us. What is interesting is they still hold
true in certain situations.
Here's a great Republican slogan from the pen of F Scott
Fitzgerald: "so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back
ceaselessly into the past."
One day, a well-known ex-vice president will pass on. The
line will only have to be changed slightly: "then last week, as it must to
all men, death came to Charles Foster Kane." I wonder if the people
conducting the autopsy will tell us where the 666 is hidden on his body."
We look to the Sun Also
Rises for our response to those who hope the Republican Congress will begin
to work with the presidency: "Isn't it pretty to think so."
And finally we look to one of the greatest Westerns of all
time to hear what Pres. Obama says at three in the morning: "Shane, Shane!"
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