Palin as "regular person president" - compared to 1993 movie "Dave"

[NAO]

Palin's lack of experience, lack of sophistication, and mundane, messy personal life are being used to pump up her charm. She's not "elite" like Obama. And she's not part of the "good ole boys club" of "Washington insiders" like Biden. She's being painted as just a "regular mom" that can relate to all of us, and her lack of experience is supposed to be a "good" thing.

One CNN commentator actually drew extensive parallels to the 1993 movie "Dave":

"In 1993, Kevin Kline starred in a movie called "Dave," playing a look-alike who winds up impersonating the president. In the movie, the real president has a stroke and is kept on life support in a restricted area of the White House by a power-mad chief of staff, played by Frank Langella. Dave fills in.

He brings in his accountant, and over bratwurst, they find $600 million to build homeless shelters for kids. At a Cabinet meeting, he gets the commerce secretary to kill an expensive program to make Americans feel good about the cars they've already bought. He becomes a better, more beloved president than the real one.

Dave's tagline was, "In a country where anybody can become president, anybody just did."

But the message was really that there's nothing magical about leadership, about encouraging men and women with logic and goodwill to be greater than we are.

That's also the message, it seems, of Sarah Palin.

She's every woman. When she takes the kids to practice, it's not to Washington, D.C.'s, exclusive St. Albans or Georgetown Prep or Gonzaga. Not even Fairfax or Montgomery County. She actually knows what our schools are like..."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/04/sanchez.palin/index.html?iref=topnews


I do not think it wise to dismiss her as a moose hunting buffoon. Remember all the people who voted for Dubya because he seemed like a "regular guy" and who were not bothered that he was a blithering idiot? How about all those conversations everyone has had along lines of "if only one of the PTA moms could be running the country, she could run things right."

[killbotfactory]

1. She's abused every bit of power she's had in the government

She's not a regular person, she's a corrupt authoritarian, just like most of the RNC.

[baldguy]

2. Except that Dave was the quintessential Nice Guy.

Sarah isn't.

[terrya]

3. Oh, dear GOD, that's stupid. Did they watch "Dave"?

In the movie, Dave as President, saves a bill to fund homeless centers from the nasty Frank Langella character (who is definitely a right wing Republican). AND Dave, as President, proposes a bill to grant full employment to those who wants jobs.

[YOY]

4. If Dave was a fundie f***wad redneck pandering prop sure!

n/t

[whistler162]

5. But, Dave was one of those evil...

Community Organizers even if it was under the guise of being a temp agency owner!

Ever notice how community and communism have the same first 7 letters!

Coincidence or what?


SNARK SARCASM

[Mme. Defarge]

6. I love that movie --

please don't ruin it for me.