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...years, you should be a star all around the world." He was absolutely right. I just worked, worked, worked. Today, there are no such animals. I don't know anybody who's putting together a career like that. I made 150 movies of every conceivable kind...
Smith: But that's also a great example of a President in effect not simply exercising crisis management but coming out of that crisis having established a kind of emotional bond with people and banking political credit that he can call upon down the road when things inevitably become more difficult. Maybe think of F.D.R. in March of 1933--I would argue that there really was never a majority of Americans who bought into the right-wing notion of Stalin Delano Roosevelt, because at a critical moment, F.D.R. established a kind of credibility ... God knows he was controversial. God knows...
...first presidential debate--I was coming back from abroad--but I saw a picture of [Obama and McCain] afterward ... I thought, This is an interesting example of a case where you would sort of want to see both of those personalities or temperaments blended together. You've got a kind of a hot and a cold, and maybe this is an example where the framers of the original Constitution had it right and the framers of the 12th Amendment had it wrong. Before we adopted the 12th Amendment, the President was the candidate who got the most votes...
...question that western Pennsylvania is a racist area,” he said. I am afraid that in small towns on the Jersey border, there is no question, either.The racism that defines these swing voters is not necessarily founded upon stereotype or prejudice. It’s not the kind that claims that black kids are good at basketball, brown kids are good at math, and white kids are good at running the country. In this day and age, most of us have declared those statements unacceptable. And, in this case, they are groundless: I won’t list...
Like many, I find so much of that certain kind of folk—songs of unrealized or unrealizable ideas, only appreciated by the sexagenarians who penned them and the sophomore liberal art students longing for their own Old World Underground—so beguilingly and simultaneously naïve, distant, square, and off-putting...