Posted on 08/18/2014 9:04:15 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Elia Kazan’s classic A Face in the Crowd is a good primer on Barack Obama’s rise and fall. Lonesome Rhodes arises out of nowhere in the 1957 film, romancing the nation as a phony populist who serially spins yarns in the most folksy ways — confident that he should never be held to account. Kazan’s point (in the film Rhodes is a patsy for conservative business interests) is that the “folks” are fickle and prefer to be charmed rather than informed and told the truth. Rhodes’s new first name, Lonesome, resonates in the film in a way that Barack does now. Finally, an open mic captures Rhodes’s true disdain for the people he champions, and his career crashes.
So what is collapsing the presidency of the once mellifluous Obama? It is not the IRS, AP, VA, or NSA scandals. Nor did the nation especially fault him for Benghazi or the complete collapse of U.S. foreign policy, from failed reset to a Middle East afire. In each case, he either blamed Bush or denied there was a smidgeon of wrongdoing on his part.
Certainly, the stampede at the border, as disastrous as it was, did not ipso facto sink Obama’s ratings. Ditto the embarrassing Bergdahl deal, in which we traded a likely deserter for five Islamist kingpins. Was it the ISIS ascendance that is leading to genocide and a nascent caliphate? Not in and of itself.
We could go on, but you get the picture that it was all of the above that finally became too much, as Americans turned Obama off because they were all lied out.
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Ping.
Victor has more faith in the people than I do.
please see above...for name correction
“Folks prefer to be charmed rather than informed.”
The Democrats COUNT on it! Otherwise how could empty suits like obamateur and Slick get elected? It sure as heck wasn’t on the strength of their resumes.
LOL...that’s great!
I don’t care what a candidate looks like or sounds like... as long as he/she thinks straight and talks straight!
It must be embarrassing for Obama's enablers to watch their legend become a joke.
I always thought that Clinton was a perfect manifestation of the main character in A Face in the Crowd. He was Lonesome Rhodes to a T. Obama strikes me as more of a Manchurian Candidate.
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