Word: smarts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...pundits and newscasters were practically slobbering over Clinton's projected defeat and could barely wait to crown Obama the winner long before the polls closed. Obama is smart, attractive, likable and a fabulous orator, but we need much more than beautiful speeches. Bambi Lin Litchman, Tacoma, Washington...
...doesn't mean he didn't find something to say. Like Procol Harum, Stallone is not afraid of metaphor, of being opaque, of answering some questions with questions and other questions with a hail of bullets. What he wanted to say in the new Rambo came down to one smart speech: "Old men start wars. Young men fight them. And everyone in the middle gets killed. War is natural. Peace is an accident. We're animals." Stallone eventually cut all that dialogue out because Rambo is a silent man, and blurting out your thesis is for college papers, not movies...
Unlike the rest of Hollywood, Stallone was smart enough to make an antiwar movie that's not about the Middle East. And he wasn't about to make a pro-Iraq-war film; 2004 was the first year he didn't vote for a Republican presidential candidate, even though the man was born on the same day as he was and has pecs almost as big. Stallone's particularly galled by Bush's tough talk. "You see Bush, and you see the obstinacy and the arrogance. Go out there and ride in a humvee 10 times, and then...
...pundits and newscasters were practically slobbering over Clinton's projected defeat and could barely wait to crown Obama the winner long before the polls closed. Obama is smart, attractive, likable and a fabulous orator, but we need much more than beautiful speeches. Clinton's credentials are excellent. By happenstance, she would be the first woman President of the most powerful nation on earth. Talk about change. Bambi Lin Litchman TACOMA, WASH...
...confronted with the doubters. People who tells us what we can't do. You're not ready. You're not good enough. You're not smart enough. You're too tall," she said as the audience chuckled (Michelle is 5'11"), mindful of the increasingly heated rhetoric flying between the Clinton and Obama campaigns. Growing serious, she continued: "Each and every one of you here has heard and felt those ceilings, somebody pushing you down, defining your limitations, who are you? You know damn well what you are capable of doing... This election is just as much about that...