Posted on 06/13/2015 12:28:01 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
ON Saturday mornings, I love to watch reruns of the TV Western “The Rifleman.” Each show is a little moral fable, with Chuck Connors’s widowed rancher and crack shot, Lucas McCain, teaching his son, Mark, about actions and consequences.
If you neglect to do this now, you will pay a penalty later. If a corner is cut here, you will regret it there.
The president might want to catch some shows, as the lame duck’s chickens come home to roost.
At this pivotal moment for his legacy at home and abroad, his future reputation is mortgaged to past neglect.
Like Prufrock, Obama must wonder if the moment of his greatness is flickering.
The president descended from the mountain for half an hour on Thursday evening, materializing at Nationals Park to schmooze with Democrats and Republicans at the annual congressional baseball game.
It was the first time he had deigned to drop by, and the murmur went up, “Jeez. Now? Really?”
Obama has always resented the idea that it mattered for him to charm and knead and whip and hug and horse-trade his way to legislative victories, to lubricate the levers of government with personal loyalty. But, once more, he learned the hard way, it matters.
His last-minute lobbying trips for his trade package to the ballpark — with a cooler of home-brewed beer from the White House — and to Capitol Hill Friday morning to lecture Democrats about values reaped a raspberry from House Democrats.
The Democrats — even most of the Congressional Black Caucus, which Obama courted agressively and which has been protective of him — showed their allegience to themselves, their principles and their labor allies, and not to their aloof president.
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I loved the Rifleman, and thought Chuck Conners was the most manly name you could have.
The Rifleman? Possibly the most hilariously violent tv westerns in the history of tv westerns. What do you expect when Sam Peckinpah directed a few episodes?
I also watch it on Saturday mornings, with a little scratch pad to keep track of how many people Chuck offs during the course of an episode.
Why do I think Dowd is lying through her teeth about watching?
Bwahahaha - must not have the same number of fingers and toes as most do.
Obama: “If I’ve lost Maureen Dowd, I’ve lost the country.”
I watch it fairly often. It has a really good theme song and does teach some good lessons.
Unfortunately, it along with “Daniel Boone” were among the most PC shows back in the day when it wasn’t as common as now. Sometimes it gets pretty bad.
Thanks, interesting
Sam Peckinpah: had to look up: from wiki:
Peckinpah’s films generally deal with the conflict between values and ideals, and the corruption of violence in human society. He was given the nickname “Bloody Sam” owing to the violence in his films. His characters are often loners or losers who desire to be honorable, but are forced to compromise in order to survive in a world of nihilism and brutality.
Maureen Dowd is a liar. Too may Biblical references. They’d make her shrivel up.
Moment of his greatness???!!!
Maureen Dowd must be overdoing the drugs again if she believes that.
It has been 6 years(so far) of trying to destroy the greatest country on earth. It has been a lifetime of lies and deceit.
The only moment of greatness Obama ever had was in his head as he drove around in the choom wagon.
Is there anyone on this terrestrial ball who gives two hoots in Hell what Maureen Dowd has to say about anything?
His great epic is The Wild Bunch. I’m not his biggest fan preferring the John Wayne/James Stewart genre of western but he’s considered one of the greats.
A lame duck sending sitting ducks to lily pads is not a pretty sight.
Thank you
About time.
Why would a ultra liberal kook like a show that teaches morality, ethics, honor, loyalty, and integrity to young people? It is foursquare against very thing they believe.
Can you imagine what would have happened if Lucas with Mark in tow had stumbled upon “Caitlyn” on the Main Street of Northfork?
Ahhhh......
Well, Mark would have hid under the chuck wagon while Lucas brought up his Winchester and blasted away without a by-your-leave. That’s how it usually happens on Main St. How Mark doesn’t end up with the worst case of post-traumatic-stress-disorder is beyond me!
Someone told Dowd about The Rifleman. I watched it as a kid while she was watching Captain Kangeroo and whimpering about it’s lack of diversity.
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