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Ken Burns on Obama

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By Karina Longworth posted 1 year ago
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From a McClatchy story from yesterday afternoon, long before Hillary Clinton’s “unexpected” win in the New Hampshire primary:

Ken Burns, the documentary filmmaker, a New Hampshire resident who’s endorsed Obama, said in an interview the day before the primary…that, if elected, Obama had the potential to be a Lincoln or a Franklin D. Roosevelt.

“He is the embodiment of our wish for ourselves, his ability to transcend the same-old same-old,” Burns said. “He’s a wonderful messenger who carries a complicated message to the rest of us of what we want to be . . . of a whole legacy of promise.”

I’m still trying to work out what it actually means for a messenger to carry me a message of who I want to be, but I do know that Burns has a thing about “transcendent presidents”––that’s the phrase used to describe Lincoln in the official synopsis of The Civil War.

Dennis Kucinich & Viggo Mortensen vs. Disney

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By Karina Longworth posted 1 year ago
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“Should Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck be determining the president of the United States? No, because if they do, then your policies are sure to be goofy.”

That’s what passes as homerun humor coming from Dennis Kucinich. In this Debate Porridge clip from New Hampshire, the Democratic presidential candidate accuses ABC and parent company Disney of usurping the function of the election’s first primary by making the decision months in advance to exclude him from last weekend’s debates. He’s joined in the clip by recent Cronenberg muse Viggo Mortensen, who has been tirelessly campaigning for Kucinich in New Hampshire for several days. Whether by coincidence or design, Mortensen has not worked for Disney since 2004’s Hidalgo. After this, will he again? Am I posting this for any substantion reason other than to siphon traffic off Google searches for “New Hampshire”? So many questions…