Posted on 05/21/2002 8:43:46 AM PDT by KMC1
Ok I admit it, I looked forward to the release of the movie. I watched the previews on line ahead of time. And yes this weekend - I went to see it twice. As someone who was but a mere kid when the original Star Wars film came out in the seventies, this is a storyline that has me captivated. Even though the Phantom Menace lagged considerably behind the others, the newest Star Wars film has definitely re-energized the entire LucasFilms Franchise.
One of the things I have loved about each of the movies is the way they articulate right and wrong. Morality is a hard thing to ever communicate in the public forum, but the great PC'ers of our time have not been able to touch the Spidermans or Jedi Knights of this world yet!
Too bad Washington DC couldn't come away with a little inspiration from this summer's big blockbuster hits.
Last week when the ignorant Tom Daschle and Richard Gephardt trotted out their press conferences, they fully believed that had the knock out punch for the Bush administration.
"What did he know, and when did he know it?"
It seemed a resoundingly familiar phrase. One that even the Senator from New York couldn't restrain herself from uttering.
It's utterly laughable that these three could feign such ignorance on the issue of a threat of a possible, yet vague, no information specific, but maybe, possibly, someday in the future, a plane might be hijacked kind of warning. It is laughable because in the case of Senator Daschle (no relation to Amidala) and Representative Gephardt (who does resemble Representative Binks a bit) is that they KNOW exactly what the President knew.
Carl Cameron on Fox News was the first to report it. Within eight small hours of going on international news stations and banging the drum on why they were left out on the information about the warning. It turns out, despite all of their melodramatic (gosh don't I look presidential) dronings, they DID know! Had they only taken the time to call up their own party's representatives on the intelligence committee in each of their respected bodies, they would have discovered that Congress had been given the same information!
Getting their soundbites out there of course was a part of the whole imperial plan that they had in place, and on that level, their secret plans were a success. (plus the fact they felt it necessary to hide them away in a droid)
However, when the light-saber rattling came to a halt, the force was with the republic. How can you tell? Well CNN for example...24 hours after the droners (who may indeed be from a planet that has been erased from the universal archives), CNN (Darth Sidious' network) released the results of their polling data that said in nearly 80 percent numbers that the American people saw what Senator Daschle (not Amidala) and Representative Gephardt (cousin of Jar Jar) as nothing more than a ploy to grant the Democrats sole chancellery powers into our intelligence investigations.
Master Jedi's Bush and Cheney, not to be fooled by this tom-foolery, are gladly cooperating with any inquiry of legitimacy.
Now what about Jabba the Hut, standing there on the Senate floor rambling about security issues in the White House today? Hmmm, I know that Jabba's language was always subtitled in the films - so maybe I'm missing some of it. But maybe she should look into the reports that made our intelligence and security information so readily available, like when her husband decided to declassify everything and then sell it?
No the battle that lay ahead of us is a harsh one. The Vice-President reminding all of us of the fact that evil people do exist and wish to harm Americans.
Unfortunately simple minded people exist and are wishing to harm Americans too, and quite tragically many of them are occupying way too many offices of Congress.
Where is that Master Yoda when you need him?
Don't give me any of that intelligent life cr@p, Find me something to blow up!
Ut oh, looks like all three of us that saw it(and will admit it) are FReepers. That figures.
It's now available on DVD.
I watched it way back in the late 80's, early 90's and I still can't get that Benson, Arizona tune out of my head.
The Poles used to elect their king. Then they wised up and were strongly encouraged to embrace socialism. Wacky world, ain't it?
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