Word: carterisms
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...attempts to dismiss Obama remind me of the Carter-Reagan matchup of 1980, another supposed referendum election. Ronald Reagan was ... a celebrity, a movie star, a right-wing lightweight. It seemed impossible--to most Democrats, at least--that he could win, although he did hold a slight lead going into the conventions. The fall campaign was very close--until, finally, the two candidates debated a week before the election, and the celebrity cleaned the President's clock. "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" Reagan asked in his closing statement. He seemed every bit as substantial...
...Ronald Reagan's negotiations with the enemy as the same people - the anti-engagers - is ludicrous. Everything a President does is opposed by someone for some reason. The larger point is that we must negotiate through strength, a fact Obama seems not to understand. Neither did Jimmy Carter. Obama's willingness to withdraw from Iraq while on the brink of victory and to talk without condition to the perpetrators of much of the violence is foolhardy and dangerous. Mark Shreeve, DANDRIDGE, TENN...
...more than one dead woman and another in jeopardy. A Russian cabal has been kidnapping women and using parts of their bodies to graft onto ailing comrades. (It's great to have the Russkies back as movie villains, since screenwriters were running out of ways to cartoonize the Arabs. Carter often portrayed Russians as cold, tough bad guys, ruthless and soulless.) Turns out the boss of the enterprise had been a child victim of Father Joe's. Did the actions of the predator priest turn this kid into a monster? Do the sins of the Fathers infect future generations...
...Hoping to assure today's moviegoers that they don't need do the homework of consulting the TV show's labyrinthine "mythology" of its many back-stories, Carter has underlined that this is a stand-alone story; indeed, the film feels like a middling two-parter from the old show. But surviving fans will want to know that Mulder and Scully - those platonic pals whose personal and professional relationship was an essay in heroic withholding, up there with the half-century foreplay of Fermina and Florentino in Love in the Time of Cholera - are shown [spoiler alert!] in bed together...
...show that wanted to leave its fans with a chill. In its pensiveness and good manners, its immersion in desolate wastes, its search for eccentricity, even dementia, behind the blandest Anglo face, the show was devoutly Canadian. For the movie, which is set mostly in West Virginia, Carter took the crew back to Vancouver for one of its snowiest episodes ever...