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On the night of the debate, I had a hard time falling asleep. As I lay in bed, the word "Hitler' kept crossing my mind when I thought of Palin's performance. I only watched the cartoon once, but Betty morphs into this sinister character a couple of times, mirroring what my unconscious was telling me the other night---that Palin is not who she appears to be.
Do you mean FDR?
The first time she morhped, it was Herbert Hoover, the Republican incumbent that engineered the Great Depression and the second time it was FDR was the saviour of America that delivered us from corporate fascism. Those two were running for President that year.
This year it's no different, we have Bush-McCain promising to continue the exact same practices that created the New Depression America has just started, and we have the moderate Republican Obama who promises to not change anything too much, lest the GOP complain too loudly.
I'll have to write in a real Democrat this election, Cynthia McKinney.
Mooselini's troubled star reminded me of NASA video of the Jules Verne spacecraft disintegrating over the South Pacific Ocean last week:
http://www.esa.int/esaMI/ATV/SEM6TI6EJLF_0.html
Nice! Really effing nice!
It should be titled...California Charade
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/181628/...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/181628/...
The passage I'm writing about is this:
"She was lovely, intelligent and charming, 17 years my junior but poised and confident. I monopolized her attention the entire time, taking care to prevent anyone else from intruding on our conversation. When it came time to leave the party, I persuaded her to join me for drinks at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. By the evening's end, I was in love."
As the child of divorced parents, I can imagine what my dad thought of the woman he cheated with when he was married to my mother, but thank God he didn't write about it and sell it in a book! DISGUSTING.
The first time she rearranged her face, she looked vaguely Hooverish, so I figured she was doing another politician the second time--it certainly wasn't FDR, tho.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:AlSmithWaves...
He was the '28 candidate and apparently gave FDR a run for his money in the 32 primaries. If this came out in early '32, the writers could have easily assumed Al Smith was going to be the nominee again.
If Smith the candidate faced difficult odds, Smith the man faced impossible ones. To begin with, at the dawn of the media age, he looked more like a silent film comedian than a president with an oversize W.C. Fields nose and ever-present cigar and always wearing a derby like Oliver Hardy. He spoke with a pronounced New York accent that over the radio baffled and amused those in other parts of the country.
http://thestrangedeathofliberalamerica.com/al-s...
The two candidates were Hoover, the Republican and FDR the Democrat.
So the second face was supposed to be FDR.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=...
There is a great deal of research on this found on the web.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14302...
Note the cigarette holder. A literal "trademark" of FDR was his cigarette holder.
That second character is Al Smith. The cigar was essentially his "trademark". Oh, and do not read anything anti-Semitic into the cartoon. Al was Roman Catholic, and that's a only slightly exaggerated NewYawk City accent. Youse gotta problem wit dat.
And the idea that the Fleischer Brothers would be anti-Semitic is laughable. They were Jewish, as were most of the artists and writers at the Fleischer Brothers Studios.
And as for the very nelly queen near the end. Yep. It's offensive, OK. Of course, SEVENTY FREAKING YEARS AGO society wasn't QUITE as enlightened as it is today. Don't let the "U.M. & M TV Corporation" logo fool you. This cartoon is as old as John McCain.
Really, people. Don't read anything into a 70+ year old cartoon that really isn't there.