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| Ken Blackwell |
From Townhall.com - Fans of Hollywood’s imaginative take on American politics may remember the movie, Guarding Tess. That 1994 comic hit featured Shirley MacLaine as a former First Lady who was being guarded by a Secret Service detachment headed by Nicolas Cage. Tess was something of a composite figure, part feisty Bess Truman, part liberal activist Eleanor Roosevelt, and part small town belle Rosalynn Carter. Of course, Hollywood being Hollywood, no part of Tess could be mistaken for a Barbara Bush or a Nancy Reagan. Even the fictional former First Ladies have got to be on the side of the Hollywood donor angels.
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| Jimmy Carter |
The movie reminds us that when we elect a President, we get him and his missus for life. We provide Secret Service protection for the President, of course, but for the ex-Presidents, too. Ever since communist guerillas kidnapped and murdered ex-Premier of Italy, Aldo Moro, Americans have recognized that our former Commanders-in-Chief could require guarding. Read full column here:
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Carter is a classless ideologue who has never gotten over the profound dismal failure of his presidency. His antics and frantic behavior reminds me of the film "Trading Places" when Mortimer Duke, played by actor Don Ameche, at the top of his lungs was screaming at commodity exchange officials, "...turn those machines back on!!" as paramedics were carrying his brother Randolph Duke (who was having a cardiac arrest) off the trading floor immediately following their failed effort to corner the concentrated frozen orange juice market. Carter's incompetence and ideologically flawed leadership, like the Duke brothers, resulted in the self-destruction of his own presidential legacy. In lieu of his current and past disgraceful behavior, his political failures couldn't have happened to a more deserving person. History can be so unforgiving. Huh, Jimmy?
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