Word: batmans
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With this in mind, I would like to be the first to publicly endorse the candidate who will surely lead our country in 2008: Batman...
...Batman is an everyday man, just like you and me. He has no special powers—he is a self-made man, the American dream. He may have been born into privilege, but the early death of his parents was a trial that truly tested his fortitude. Some individuals with less personal strength would have been shattered by the blow. But rather than crumble under the misery, he pulled himself up by his bootstraps and made something constructive out of his despair. Now, that’s what I call rugged individualism...
Even better, Batman understands both the strife of the white-collar elite and the pressures of the blue-collar man. By day, he is the CEO and president of Wayne Enterprises, one of the most efficiently run multi-billion dollar corporations in the world. By night, he deals head-on with the types of criminal activity that plague so many lower-class communities. He understands you, whoever you are and whatever part of our glorious nation you come from...
...sounds, he wasn't at all annoying. Yes, he's a little too happy, but he seems very comfortable and mellow and unguarded and unpretentious. Joel Schumacher, the director of The Number 23, who has known Carrey for more than 20 years and worked with him on Batman Forever, says the actor didn't annoy anyone on the set with his inner being. "I'd rather hear someone spout to me about their spiritual journey than someone complaining that the studio didn't give them a trailer that's big enough," he says...
...hero was another strong man with a secret identity: in this case, Denny Colt, a detective who was believed killed and resurrected himself as the do-gooder Spirit. With Superman and Batman and their caped cronies running altruistically amok through urban mean streets, Eisner was encouraged to make his protagonist a bit more like them; only reluctantly did he slap a mask on the Spirit to establish his kinship to the superheroes. New York (Metropolis, Gotham) was here called Central City, though later the Spirit traveled abroad. Sometimes he nearly disappeared from his own strip, making only a perfunctory appearance...