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Obama's budget is the end of an era
NEWS ANALYSIS
The president's ambitious proposal breaks with the conservative principles that have ruled national politics since Reagan.
By Janet Hook
February 27, 2009
Reporting from Washington — Not since Lyndon B. Johnson and Franklin D. Roosevelt has a president moved to expand the role of government so much on so many fronts -- and with such a demanding sense of urgency.
The scope of President Obama's ambition was laid bare in the budget blueprint issued Thursday.
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This is one of those films that is not "based upon" a true story, but is "inspired by" actual characters and events. So although the main character is Mary Meyer, her name in the film is Catherine Caswell. (Get it? MM becomes CC.) Her estranged husband Cord Meyer also appears, except his first name is Graham.
James Angleton is titled Lucian Carver.
They didn't have much of a choice with President Kennedy, so his name is the same.
But the odd thing about the script is that none of these people features as the real main character. The protagonist—Adam Stafford—is a boy in what appears to be about the ninth grade. The film begins with him and it ends with him. The Meyer story is largely told through his eyes. And this is a problem I had with the film. Everything outside the Meyer story, and even a lot within the Meyer/Stafford story, seemed to me to be pretty much banal. It was essentially the teen Coming of Age Tale. And his coming of age is hurried along and impacted by his affection for and experience with the older woman across the way. This concept was not new in the film Summer of '42. And that picture is nearly four decades old now. And like that film, when all is said and done, this picture does not really comment on the time frame it is based in. It more or less exploits it.
LilyPatToo wrote:.....
And a mild possible synchronicity may have struck yesterday evening, when I opened a magazine to a random page and found myself looking at a review of a new novel called American Adulterer by Jed Mercurio.
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Hugh Manatee Wins wrote:No coincidence.
Since the GOP is devastated and needs to be stoked up, this will be done with sex since this culture war wedge issue works so well.
Hugh Manatee Wins wrote:Since the GOP is devastated and needs to be stoked up, this will be done with sex since this culture war wedge issue works so well.
Hugh Manatee Wins wrote:And that's the double meaning.
Was it JFK's elite staff of mil-intel who did him in or a dame? Duh.
As newbies hit the internet, especially youth, they can be misdirected into thinking that the controversial murder is Mary Meyer, not JFK himself.
Misdirection accomplished.
marshwren wrote: does anyone know the relationship (if any) of Mary Pinchot to THE Pinchot family (TR's Sec. of the Interior was Gifford P., who established the national park/reserve system)? Visited the family mansion on the upper Delaware R., decades ago, quite impressive...
whipstitch wrote:All this work to repaint JFK as a sex addict? I don't know a single person who doesn't already accept that as historical fact.
All this work to repaint JFK as a sex addict? I don't know a single person who doesn't already accept that as historical fact.
Dale Myers Gets Perturbed!
By James DiEugenio
A longer response than Dave Von Pein's to part one of my review of Reclaiming History was by, well, what shall we call him? Co-author? Writing assistant? Ghostwriter? Whatever term you prefer, it was, predictably, by Dale Myers.
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So Myers has to alchemize that frame into something it is not. And [Milicent Cranor] shows how: Myers changes Kennedy's facial expression and also alters the position of his hands to transform his demeanor from one of grimacing pain to relative serenity. Therefore preserving the single bullet theory. So we now have a new type of cinematic technique. Let's call it Myers Motion.
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Myers, in his usual puerile, radio commentator way (which he used to be), says that I am jealous of him because he got on national TV and I did not.
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barracuda wrote:whipstitch wrote:All this work to repaint JFK as a sex addict? I don't know a single person who doesn't already accept that as historical fact.
I guess the smear worked it's magic well, then. I for one find it exceedingly difficult to view JFK as a sex addict. He seems like a man with rather average sexual inclinations for one with huge sources of money and power at his disposal.
Banging chicks on acid... will there be a cooler Prez than JFK?
I think not.
The monoculture comment refers to the fact that disinfo spotting/hallucinating is the number one pass-time on this board and I can remember a time when there was a greater diversity of discussion here.
H_C_E wrote:The monoculture comment refers to the fact that disinfo spotting/hallucinating is the number one pass-time on this board and I can remember a time when there was a greater diversity of discussion here.
Amen to all that. Between that and Manatee crapping all over every discussion with his one-trick pony routine I'm putting myself on permanent
suspension. Much to the delight of many here, I'm sure. And unlike EiAE
I won't be back, nor will I check the responses to this last post of mine.
And Jeff, I hope you don't mind watching Manatee slowly destroy your forums here.
So long and thanks for all the fish!
nathan28 wrote:Hugh Manatee Wins wrote:Anything to keep the meme 'Democrat=illicit sex' front and center to stoke the GOP base of repressed neurotic haters.
I think it likely that Chandra Levy was murdered to cast this meme shadow on Gary Condit. Because of another Condit. See 'Jim Condit Jr.' and 'election fraud.'
And the CIA WPost revived this story in a recent 12-part series centered on Chandra's body oddly found in Rock Creek Park (see 'William Colby's body found right where searchers had already looked')...when an indie paper called the Rock Creek Free Press started running dangerous stories about 9/11, CIA media, vaccines, etc.
There's lots of history behind the movie about Mary Pinchot Meyer, a whole new context.
I'm with HMWs here, sadly, though I'll temper it to say that the Meyer angle isn't being used as an one-off scare tactic so much as a chronic inflammation. There's some suggestion that Tim Leary made up his own version of the JFK-Meyer out of whole cloth and passed it off successfully; then there is E. Howard Hunt's deathbed "confession" about Cord Meyer that makes it all a bit suspect. I even think, sort-of, that HMWs is right about the Rock Creek Press getting squeezed. I think the waters here are too polluted to drink, sadly.
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