Nothing wrong with referencing the great character studies in the great movies. Duh –tautology –that’s why they’re great movies –but ‘Lebowski’ is as good a film ref to the current topic as can be. The old rich Lebowski, fraud & stranger to himself, and all his family, in all their frivolous moneyed fraudulence, are the Chicago Way, the people who would front an Obama, and the Dude as the American, unornamented and plain, a 90s Los Angeles Palin –fallen on hard times, but a Palin. A “man of his time” as the voice-over said. Every one of the film’s characters stands in for an element in this political drama. I won’t bore with more drift –but thanks for the mental tickle, in mentioning that film.