Posted on 08/21/2009 1:56:58 PM PDT by khnyny
As I listened to Obama's speech today my mind drifted back to a 1979 movie that I must have seen a half dozen times. I could see in front of me Chauncey Gardener - the main character in the movie "Being There." It wasn't so much what Obama was saying, it was the humor I found in the lack of substance in what he was and has been saying and the media's role in perpetuating a myth. The only difference between Chauncey Gardener and Barack Obama is that Chauncey was a man of simplistic innocence, a passive and simple-minded gardener with no pretensions, and Barack is a manipulative, opportunistic, politician. Some readers might recall Being There," starring Peter Sellers. It is a rather skillful dissection of politics and power where the audience is "in" on the joke from the beginning, quite unlike Obama's followers and the Obamaphylic media.
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I did a google for "Barack Obama Chauncey Gardiner" and this is what I came up with. I knew that somewhere out there others have seen the same hilarious similarities.
[TV] I like to watch.
“President “Bobby”: Mr. Gardner, do you agree with Ben, or do you think that we can stimulate growth through temporary incentives?
[Long pause]
Chance the Gardener: As long as the roots are not severed, all is well. And all will be well in the garden.”
Sound vaguely familiar?
I hope this new meme of Obama as Chauncey Gardiner becomes deeply embedded in the popular consciousness!
Barack Obama is no Chancey Gardiner. Barack Obama is a deliberate, committed Marxist. A revolutionary. He has made clear his goals for America. Moreover, the majority of those that “believe” in him understand that. To see him as any less is to miscalculate in the extreme, IMHO.
Other than that, the book was far better than the movie.
It’s all green shoots and wee-weed up!
Now days Obama probably hears the orgasmic screams of Shirley's brother.
Off the subject of Chauncey Gardner, but another political movie, Dave. You’ll see where Obama got his slogan of “Time for a Change.” I was flipping through channels last weekend and watched a few minutes of Dave, and the similarities in Dave’s campaign and Obama’s are frightening.
I hope everyone starts calling Obama Chauncy. Obama the narcissist hates to be made fun of - no sense of humour about himself, IMHO. LOL.
I compared Obama to Chauncey several times.....a long time ago.
Hello to you too, kindred spirit! :)
Exactly. Zero doesn’t have the innocence, but the media mistaking him as a brilliant pol is dead on. Much of his aura is just tone. Limbaugh blew up some of that just by speeding up his tracks for a few weeks.
BUMP!
BOOKMARK
Go!!! Go!!! Go!!!
interesting
Some would say that the best art imitates real life.
I think most of Obama’s staffers (campaign architects) are of the “tweet” generation. No original ideas, miniscule attention span, sitting around stoned watching Jon Stewart and channel surfing - iow, mini-Chaunceys.
They are not mutually exclusive. Even a Marxist like Obama can be an empty vessel.
Obama is what he is - a rather glib but extremely ignorant man. That is not a surprise. What is a surprise is that so many "educated" people - liberal intelligentia, MSM anchors and pundits, Republican leaders - actually believe Obama is "brilliant" and a "formidable leader". They are no different than those moronic movers and shakers in the movie "Being There" walking around contemplating a nation led by Chauncey Gardiner.
Chauncy may have had simplistic innocense, the Obamaloon is merely simple.
Let’s wee-wee on that for a while.
What a clown!
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