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A Movie Quote From 1964 That Rings True Today
Seven Days in May via IMDB ^ | September 3, 2009 | buccaneer81

Posted on 09/03/2009 12:56:20 PM PDT by buccaneer81

"Your course of action this past year has bordered on criminal negligence. You're a weak sister, Mr. President."

"And if you want to talk about your oath of office, I'm here to tell you face to face, President Lyman, that you violated that oath when you stripped this country of its muscles - when you deliberately played upon the fear and fatigue of the people and told them they could remove that fear by the stroke of a pen. And then when this nation rejected you, lost faith in you, and began militantly to oppose you, you violated that oath by not resigning from office and turning the country over to someone who could represent the people of the United States.


TOPICS: Government; Military/Veterans; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: obama; traitor; weaksister
Let's hope we get a better ending than the movie gave us.
1 posted on 09/03/2009 12:56:21 PM PDT by buccaneer81
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To: buccaneer81

This is one of those cases where the movie was better than the book. Of course, the threat just HAD to be from a right winger. Lyman Jordan was a mere softie, Barack Obama is an outright saboteur.


2 posted on 09/03/2009 12:59:16 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Dr. Sivana
Lyman Jordan was a mere softie, Barack Obama is an outright saboteur.

Quite true.

3 posted on 09/03/2009 1:00:11 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century. I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
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To: buccaneer81

One can download it on a torrent.


4 posted on 09/03/2009 1:00:31 PM PDT by tired1 (When the Devil eats you there's only one way out.)
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To: Dr. Sivana
"This is one of those cases where the movie was better than the book."

The novel was written by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II.

The screenplay was written by Rod Serling.

5 posted on 09/03/2009 1:01:29 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: buccaneer81

A little off the subject but the other day I was watching this old movie, and thought this scene was pretty classic when it comes to taxes and it was made in 1936 (You Can’t Take it with You...IRS scene)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2PNsiI5eGk&feature=related


6 posted on 09/03/2009 1:02:31 PM PDT by dawn53
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To: buccaneer81
A classic example of the leftwing paranoia in Hollyweird.
7 posted on 09/03/2009 1:02:46 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: Dr. Sivana

Really? I’ve read the book but never watched the movie.


8 posted on 09/03/2009 1:11:04 PM PDT by The Unknown Republican
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To: All

bump


9 posted on 09/03/2009 1:20:28 PM PDT by Maverick68 (w)
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To: The Unknown Republican

It’s on Turner Classic Movies several times a year.


10 posted on 09/03/2009 1:20:33 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: buccaneer81

Who wants in on my Preakness Pool?


11 posted on 09/03/2009 1:39:20 PM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: massgopguy
Who wants in on my Preakness Pool?

"I only bet on sure things."


12 posted on 09/03/2009 1:50:02 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: tired1
what is a torrent?
13 posted on 09/03/2009 2:05:52 PM PDT by starlifter (Sapor Amo Pullus)
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To: buccaneer81

bump for later reference


14 posted on 09/03/2009 2:08:06 PM PDT by Huck ("He that lives on hope will die fasting"- Ben Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac)
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To: Dr. Sivana; buccaneer81

>>>This is one of those cases where the movie was better than the book

I’ll agree with that on the basis of the power of the performances by Lancaster, Douglas, O’Brien, Balsam, March, et al. Even John Houseman as the treacherous Admiral. The director got some of their best work on film.

But the book still has some interesting points. Such as the General Scott’s background, winning the Medal of Honor as a WW2 P 38 pilot shooting down 7 German planes in a couple minutes by way of maturely sticking to his mission and conserving fuel unlike his comrades who goofed around requiring them to turn home, leaving the bombers unprotected (or so the Germans thought). And marine Kirk Douglas and and soldier Andrew Duggan as friends originally from sharing a foxhole from the war in Iraq or Iran, prophetic maybe.


15 posted on 09/04/2009 1:43:24 AM PDT by tlb
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