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Tom Hanks endorses Obama

World May. 06, 2008 - 01:38AM JST ( 11 )

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super delegateMay. 06, 2008 - 12:37PM JST

Oh, come on. Hanks is white, wealthy, and part of the oppressive ruling elite. Hellooooo- Why else would they have given him the part they did in the revisionist Saving Private Ryan?

Only struggling young actors, forced by the uniquely savage inequites of US-style capitalism to wait tables or tend bar or work as male prostitutes serving older Hollywood Democrats - like Alec Baldwin - are gonna vote for Barack.
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Helter_SkelterMay. 06, 2008 - 01:33PM JST

“live up to the great promise once shaped by our founding fathers.”

I could be wrong, but I doubt our founding fathers would be big Obama fans.
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RomeoRamenIIMay. 06, 2008 - 03:45PM JST

helter: Good point.

Tom Hanks is just a guy who dresses up, puts on make up and plays make believe. Just learn your lines, hit your marks and make your millions, Tom. No one is interested in your politics.

RR
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SezWho2May. 06, 2008 - 05:55PM JST

Helter Skelter,

That would be one of Hank's points, wouldn't it? that the men who ballyhooed that all men were created equal argued about whether to count slaves as a person or not, assigned them a value of 3/5 and then were content to deny them the vote? I would say that the fathers fell rather short of their promise on that one.
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super delegateMay. 06, 2008 - 06:05PM JST

" I would say that the fathers fell rather short of their promise on that one."

Of course, the story - the struggle for true equality - didn't exactly end there. But you'd never know it, listening to your average Lefty.
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SezWho2May. 06, 2008 - 06:25PM JST

super delegate,

Of course it didn't end there. And it hasn't ended yet. The gap is still large. I don't think that people with opposing views even bother to listen when the hard data is presented.
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Helter_SkelterMay. 07, 2008 - 02:39AM JST

The gap is still large.

You have a black man on the verge of becoming the president of the United States. How is the gap still large?
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MadvertsMay. 07, 2008 - 02:40AM JST

ramen,

"Tom Hanks is just a guy who dresses up, puts on make up and plays make believe"

If the last few republican scandals are anything to go by, seems like for certain, it 'aint make-believe.
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WhiteHawkMay. 07, 2008 - 02:47AM JST

SezWho2:

That would be one of Hank's points, wouldn't it?

I think you've either missed HS's point, or are misrepresenting it. The way I interpreted it, Helter Skelter was saying that America's founding fathers wouldn't be a big fan of a socialist becoming president. There's more to Obama than his skin color, you know.

Okay, a lot of liberals (including Hanks) don't seem to realize it...

Helter Skelter:

You have a black man on the verge of becoming the president of the United States. How is the gap still large?

His mom was white. ;) (I know, that was low, even for me.)

The thing is, blacks have had high-ranking positions in presidential administrations (especially the current one), supreme court appointments, high ranks in the military and even the GOP, and yet some still think the gap is large. Meanwhile, many blacks are proving that the "gap" is only as large as you let it be.
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SezWho2May. 07, 2008 - 10:58PM JST

HelterSkelter,

The gap is still large in terms of housing, equal employment opportunity, equal education, imprisonment, sentencing standards, family unity and so on. One black man on the verge of becoming president does not change this.
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SezWho2May. 07, 2008 - 11:10PM JST

WhiteHawk,

You would have to do a lot of interpreting to read this:

“live up to the great promise once shaped by our founding fathers.”

I could be wrong, but I doubt our founding fathers would be big Obama fans.

And then "interpret" it to this:

Helter Skelter was saying that America's founding fathers wouldn't be a big fan of a socialist becoming president.

HelterSkelter may think that and he may even have meant to say it, but he surely did not. When I say that Obama is a good candidate, you can interpret that to mean I am a socialist, or an America-hater or whatever you like. But that wouldn't be what I said, would it?