Comments on: Is Obama Channeling a Cult Movie Hero?

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By: p2

p2 — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:16:26 +0000

cyrus dies,
use stasi instead of marxist. it really gets to them..

By: gang names

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By: Larry Rasczak

Larry Rasczak — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:44:45 +0000

Goodness, what a sad comment on American Education this is!

The Warriors is not just a “cult” flim. It is a very thinly veiled retelling, in a modern setting, of Xenophon’s Anabasis, also known as “The March of the Ten Thousand”. See here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabasis_%28Xenophon%29 and here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophon ) Just as “West Side Story” is “Romeo and Juliet” only set in NYC, “The Warriors” is “The Anabasis” only set in NYC. This is obvious to anyone who is even vaugely aware of the source material.

As such Cyrus (in the movie) is a stand in for the real Cyrus the Younger, (hence the name and the robe as a choice of costume). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_the_Younger

The Cyrus (in the movie) is only there as a plot device in order to explain why “the Warriors” are so deep in enemy territory; and thusly have to make the “march up country”. (Again the gang’s name is “The Warriors” an obvious hat tip to Xenophon and the Ten Thousand… get it?)

Cyrus (in the movie) and his “magic” are only a plot divice. His short monologe was created to help set up the plot; there is no meaning to it. That it mirrors standard leftist themes is not a suprise. What sort of speech would you expect gang members to come out to see? To the best of my knowledge the New York City street gangs don’t all come out for Billy Grahm Crusades or Barbra Streisand concerts; and I don’t see them dropping everything to attend a Bill Bennet talk on the importance of education.

This is a poor choice of analogy, at best, (in that Cyrus dies early in the film), and confession of a rather poor eduction at worst.

I’m with P.ami on this.

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CAN YOU DIG IT? Barack Obama is Cyrus | KyleSmithOnline.com — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:34:53 +0000

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By: Bill Bradley

Bill Bradley — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:05:46 +0000

Incidentally, THIS is totally false.

JFK was a tough liberal. Which is not at all as you suggest.

>John Samford:
Anyone comparing JFK to Ohhhhhh….BAMA is clueless. Remember JFK was the first Neo-Con, a tax cutter of the first order and started wars in Cuba and Vietnam. Tell me a Fable;

By: Bill Bradley

Bill Bradley — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:04:31 +0000

Huh?

Obama as black gang leader?

You think this trope will be taken seriously?

Trust me.

It won’t.

By: regmax

regmax — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:52:34 +0000

Talk about empty suits … G B is as empty as they come. oh yeah he did execute a bunch of cons and bankrupted a baseball team besides a few oil firms . Now thats political experince fer ya
welcome to the future LOSERS .. Mcsame will soon forget why he’s even here or where he’s at until lieberman reminds him . Choice …

By: John Samford

John Samford — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:14:35 +0000

“We will have the White House For 4 years. Maybe the pubbies will grow some spines before the election too.”
A yup, But don’t count your chickens just yet. Of the candidates the dems have put forth there is a half black Marxist, trailer trash, and a tired old war horse. I’ll bet on the war horse.

Can anyone tell me in plain standard English what SeanSarto is talking about? Man, talk about a muddled mind.

Nope, I barely get by in American, much less what ever sort of language he is using. It brought to mind the commercial about minds being a terrible thing to waste where the egg was frying in the pan.