Sen Clinton;
While your critical exegesis of movie-magic has been put forward with great aplomb, I feel your lesson to the political community of this nation was – perhaps – not quite nuanced enough. Though, naturally, I am thoroughly impressed with your acute cultural perspicacity, I am just a thoroughly anxious with respect to your comprehension of your campaign. Indeed, though you have mandated many things over the course of your political career – not always with superlative results – it appears now that you have concluded everything may justifiably fall under your mandate.
For instance, by introducing the jejune cinematic formula of champion reborn, you implicitly assert that the present political narrative is singular: there is one ending appropriate to this campaign (or any election, I would assume), and it is your ending. In full context, your cinematic heuristic proceeds as follows:
Sen. Obama says he's getting tired of the campaign. His supporters say they want it to end.Neglecting in my response – for the moment – any conversation with your rather ludicrous assertion that Sen Obama has cried fatigue at your expense, I will instead simply present you with an exercise in metaphoric correlation that is – perhaps – slightly more subtle than your own:
Could you imagine if Rocky Balboa had gotten halfway up those art museum stairs and said, 'Well, I guess that's about far enough'? That's not the way it works.
Let me tell you something. When it comes to finishing the fight, Rocky and I have a lot in common. I never quit.
Which presents the question: what of the epilogue?
Best.
Jonathan Sphere: Related Content
