Brian Popkin of Denville, NJ wrote a letter to the Daily Record editor that I found interesting. Here it is.
President Bush is our Batman - August 16, 2008
While I appreciate the public for making the great "Dark Knight" movie so successful, I feel many are missing the movie's point.
Batman's campaign had made the streets of Gotham safer at the night. This environment allowed for an aggressive district attorney like Harvey Dent to rise to power. Because of Batman, ordinary people like Dent were taking on dangerous crooks. He was a handsome, ambitious, young reformer. He was aided by a friendly press focused on his good side. They were not looking at skeletons in his closet. Dent reminds me of John Edwards and even Barack Obama.
People wanted to replace Batman with Dent. Batman's methods, which were allowed for years, were now considered beyond the pale. They wanted Batman locked up and prosecuted. The more the Joker's crime spree escalated, the more they wanted to acquiesce to him. The irony was that Batman was the only one who could stop the Joker.
This reminds me of our current situation. The whole world wants Obama for president. He will reverse Bush's "failed policies." These are the same policies that have created the success following the surge by U.S. troops in Iraq. These policies have foiled every terrorist attack on our soil since Sept. 11. The thinking is, now that the troop surge has made Iraq safer, we can leave. Now that people are concerned about Bennigan's [a local bankrupt restaurant] closing more than foreign policy, we can afford a president with no foreign policy experience. We can stop fighting terrorism and stop listening to terrorist phone calls. We can close Guantánamo and free the prisoners. Lock up the Batman.
The only problem is once you get rid of Batman; all you can do is hope the Joker doesn't return.
BRIAN POPKIN
Denville
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Wait, Bennigan's is closing? I didn't hear about that...
The problem with Bush is that he just isn't a very good politician. I think he's a good man, and some of his core ideas make a lot of sense to me, but he doesn't explain them very well. (I'm not talking about him stumbling to find the right word. I don't care about that.)
A good politician explains what needs to be done, but places it into a context that the audience can understand and accept.
(Bill Clinton was a master at this. Except for the part about "that woman"...)
With regard to Iraq, I think there was a case to be made for the invasion, but Bush didn't make it -- or at least, he didn't make it stick.
It's the job of a politician to make a convincing argument.
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