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There’s no doubt that the lefties in Hollywood tried their hardest to pave the way for a woman or minority President. Out of 43, exactly zero have been black or female, but if you were an alien learning what you can about our society from our movies you’d probably think that being black or female was prerequisite for being the President (or, I supposed flying FA-18 Superhornets against invading forces of, well, Aliens).

While I have absolutely no problem with this, it was fun to watch them struggle so hard to lay the groundwork for Her Inevitableness, HRC. Remember, this lady - the one that Democrats tossed down the toilet for the glowing but empty rhetoric of The One - had been campaigning for the Presidency for eight years. She’d been building networks, raising money, fine-tuning her image, carefully balancing her voting record - all to make herself electable. At a time when HRC was the odds-on favorite for President, Hollywood was making crappy shows like Commander in Chief to play off the coat tails of The West Wing (a liberal’s wet Dream Administration) and inoculate the zombie-masses to the inevitability of a woman in the White House.

Sadly, most Hollywood Presidents are too weak for my taste. Especially with the women, I just don’t like how Hollywod portrays fictitious female Presidents as Executive versions of our own Montana embarrassment Janette “I Cannot Vote For War” Rankin: too run by emotion to make tough decisions. I think portraying a female CiC that way dramatically misrepresents the dynamic strength real women show under pressure (think Thatcher), making them instead one-dimensional portrayals of what some Women’s Studies Class at UC Berkeley has identified and the essence of womyn. Blah.

There is, however, one significant exception to this rule. A fictional President with balls. That woman, of course, is Laura Roslin, the “I knew there is evil in the world and I will do whatever it takes to persevere against it” kickass lady President in Battlestar Galactica. Now that’s a lady I could get behind.

Which sort of brings me to the trivial point for which I originally intended to make the subject this post in a light-hearted way before it spun into a diatribe of movie criticdome.

Check.

This.

Out.

My gods!

So isn’t it funny that all of their focus-group driven efforts to get the close-minded factions of America used to an elected woman in the White House (when they thought it was HRC they were laying down the palm branches for) are now actually working in the favor of an evil Republican?

I just love Hollywood Endings!

Great, great post.

hahaha!!! well done.

That’s how it is supposed to play out, Wiley. But it’s not entirely under the Repubbies control - a lot has to do with Palin’s TV persona. Does she come off as shrill, lightweight, youngish and inexperienced? Is she Margaret Thatcher or Betty Crocker? Already Democrats are aping Lloyd Benston’s famout like to Dan Quayle - “I know Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton is a friend of mine. She’s no Hillary Clinton.”

Not being Hillary Clinton is a good thing, in my book, but this is theatre, and this is a huge risk. It almost smacks of desperation. As one pundit noted, Palin Makes McCain look very old, McCain makes Palin looki very young. That’s bad TV.

Cody, I never realized you were such a geek. But good catch nonetheless.

Interesting word desperation, Mark. It seems, based on the left’s reactions, that they’re the desperate ones.

I just realized that Mary McDonnell also played First Lady on Independance Day.

When my wife and I watched BHO’s speech Fri, I muted the sound and remarked, “What does all these screaming sign wavers remind you of?” She looked at me with a blank stare, then I said,”The masses of people who climbed to the rooftops of skyscrapers to welcome the alien invasion”.

Swede - I’m just an observer, like you. I try not to taint my observations with partisan bias. Read my blog sometime. This Palin thing has Harriet Miers written all over it.

Mark, I saw this picture and thought of you. Enjoy.

http://americanprincessblog.com/?p=3291

Try again.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/republican_race/galleries/sarah_palin_family_photos/sarah_palin_family_photos.html

Click on photo no. 8.

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