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Earlier the new President said something like "I wasn't an insider...I wasn't Gore...I wasn't Cheney." So they found it OK to mention Cheney but not OK to put Laura Bush's name in the script. Very odd...perhaps Laura makes Hillary look so bad in comparison that they refuse to mention Laura...lol.
That's two nights in a row you've posted this. Are you fixated on Condi now?
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Right on Mia!
Does anyone else think Geena Davis isn't nearly as hot as she used to be?
Must happen with age.
With Geena, and with (I hate to say it) the "new" Christie Brinkley comeback to CoverGirl, these women just don't look hot like they once did. Christie and Geena both look just a little fuzzy, and out of focus, and hard to really look at good. Or is it just me?
I'm not sure this theory is accurate, interesting though it is. I watched my taped version just tonight, and I was surprised at the snide little digs it took at Hillary. The First-Lady Handler (or whatever her title was) kept saying things like, "Mrs. Clinton always did so and so ... and it didn't go over very well."
I did find it interesting that they didn't say anything about Mrs. Bush. Too early to tell what that means.
I still maintain that the whole premise of her being asked to step down simply because she is a woman is silly. No politician in his right mind would ask someone to be his running mate if he didn't think he/she was up to the task (in addition, of course, to pulling some key constituency). OTOH, maybe that aneurism was pressing on his brain even then ....
I'll give it another week to see if it gets any better. The show *did* have a loud and clear liberal message when Geena Davis said she wasn't going to condemn the Nigerian woman to death just for having sex. Well, that's fine, but that's not really the best way she could have said it. Most of those Muslim women who have been in similar situations were actually raped, but because of the stringent requirements to prove rape in that culture, it was officially adultery. She could easily have said instead that she wouldn't condemn the young woman to death for being raped. Little different message there.
Great post once again, Mia.
I can't understand why this show was #1 in ratings.
BTW , as if I had to add, Slickette ain't no Dr. Rice.
Knowing how you feel about Hillary, I get the impression you don't believe that no series heroine could be based on her. I think what you mean, deep down, is that the qualities in the character that longtime pro-abortion Democratic Party donor Geena Davis plays in Commander are those that you recognize in Secretary Rice, and find lacking in Senator Clinton.
Series co-creator Rod Lurie has already gone on record as saying that the character's inspiration was not Hillary, but a female executive at ABC he previously worked with. That doesn't pass the smell test, even before you know that he was also the writer and director of the 2000 movie The Contender, in which Joan Allen plays a Democratic politician selected to replace the Vice President and must face revelations about her sexual history from bloodthirsty Republicans. Respected British actor Gary Oldman, a co-star of Contender and a political conservative, complained that the final cut of Lurie's movie made his character and Republicans seem worse than he had been led to believe would be the case.
It seems to me that ABC is trying to do what NBC did with The West Wing; enlist a screenwriter to create a TV series about the President with themes similar to that of motion picture they wrote. The Contender's Rod Lurie is ABC's version of The American President's Aaron Sorkin...minus the crack addiction, we presume.
I just picture you sitting in your basement twisting the heads off of Victorian dolls and practicing voodoo in front of a continually looping tape of the Ken Starr testimonies, with the sound cranked to "eleven".
(shudder)
You're getting really creepy, IMO.
Outstanding presentation! And I couldn't agree more. Head-to-head, Condi would landslide Hillary just as Reagan landslided Carter. Condi is really an experienced and intellectual woman. Hillary just seems out of place as a politician and ,yes, lacks charisma. Opposites attract and we don't need Bill "Slick Willy" Clinton back in the oval office in any manner where he can prey on young interns.
No, I'm not related to Geena Davis (lol).
~Scott~
The hard core left votes for anyone named Hillary.
The right will never vote for Hillary.
The center won't vote for the true Hillary, so we make up an image here (or help her foster the one she has been creating).
It's that simple.
"What is that Mia T saying about me today? When I'm President, this hate speech will stop!"
We'll know for sure when the first "Arkancide" happens. Until then, I'm watching something else.
Geena Davis' character may be modeled after Condi, but the intent is to remodel the Hildabeast to resemble a recognizeable, respectable, and electable CINC.