Posted on 07/24/2010 8:39:11 AM PDT by moneyrunner
Chauncey was a very kind person.
Chauncey Gardiner and Obama couldn’t possibly be more dissimilar.
Correct, Chance was a kind person, not in search of power. Much more to the point Obama is Paul from Six Degrees of Separation. A con man intent of wealth and power who uses his charms on his victims, and of whom we learn nothing, except for his gift of false empathy and his need to take the wealth of others.
Both are dim-witted (Obama is completely dim-witted in terms of economics and national security) and both are blank slates onto which people project the characteristics they would like to see in a person.
Original F.Gump !!!
"I vacation at Martha's Vineyard".
Obama’s “green shoots” always reminded my of Chance’s “Yes! There will be growth in the spring!”
Now that you mention it....that’s true. My initial thought surrounded their personalities.
I actually like Chauncey! And I can't stand Barky (literally makes me nauseous).
No. Everything worked for Chauncey. Nothing works for Obama.
Being There is, by far, my favorite movie. I don't know why it strikes me as so funny, probably that it is so dry, and the elites in it come off as naive, not wise.
Sellers' deadpanned lines including "honky," and the faces of the doctors, is too much. That, and using the teevee remote to "click off" the muggers.
Obama is no Chauncey Gardiner. Chauncey had humility and presumed his abilities were quite limited.
He hypnotized the people by using neurolinguistic programming
“Good God! Barack Obama is Chauncey Gardiner!”
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boym did you get a wrong #!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
...and in the end of the movie, Chauncey walked off across the water.
One of my favorite older movies. Everyone thought every simple statement made by Chauncey was deeply, intuitively brilliant and about their issues.
Oh yes. There are definitely dissimilarities. But the point I tried to make is that Obama, like Chauncey, was a reflection of people's conceptions ... of what they thought he was, not who he actually was.
There's one other similarity. Note that Chauncey was considered much wiser, smarter than he was. People are still calling Obama smart even after he demonstrates that he's not. Like the Emperor's New Clothes, a large group of people are afraid to tell the truth in fear of being called dumb .... or racist.
See my reply below.
My email to Kathleen:
Your brilliant reference to “Being There” is an extraordinary literary device for understanding the vacuity of the American electorate vis a vis their election of an absolute nobody to the Presidency. Thank you for this remarkable insight.
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