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                Including not only terrorism, but TSA and border security.
How has he handled jobs, the banks, the dollar, the trade deficit, the stimulus plan, and so forth?
A case of Sky Valley mead on 1.75 million square kilometers. Total.
Gentlemen?  Bush, for all his failures, knew one thing: any is better than no press.
When Bush spoke at Ground Zero after the terrorist attacks, or when he landed on the aircraft carrier with the "Mission Accomplished" banner (and the codpiece), or when he said we were going to get bin Laden dead or alive, it attracted media attention. Even though his message was odious, we here on DU talked about it and mocked it, and we remember his words and ideas to this day. When we elected Obama, we voted for the guy who had the inspiring words and the big ideas. "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." "Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential." "I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war." "We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it's easy, but when it is hard." "This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal." "There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and a Latino America and an Asian America - there's the United States of America." "This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation it has shown that it can always be perfected." "America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page of the policies of the past." Obama needs to get back to this. Bush managed to keep himself in the press every day. Every day on DU and on FReepers (among other sites) we saw both sides examining and reacting to what Bush did that day. We saw this kind of ability to entrance the media (and ourselves) when Obama was running, so where did this man we voted for go? Hell, like Bush, even Candidate Obama's gaffes kept him in the press, and kept people interested in him and his candidacy. And if the man we voted for is now sequestered in the White House, what the hell is wrong with his handlers? How the hell is THIS the image that comes up when we look for a picture of Obama's reaction to the oil spill?  Obama needs to get up and start being the man of big ideas again. HE IS HIS OWN BEST REPRESENTATIVE. Yeah, Obama's a busy guy, but FDR managed to give fireside chats in the thick of the Great Depression and World War II. The American people desperately want leadership, and we want to be inspired. In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks, Bush's approval rating was a staggering 92%. This was because Bush got up AND GAVE THE APPEARANCE OF LEADERSHIP. Obama is the man to give us that leadership now. But he's not delivering what the American people need in this time of crisis. How did he DO it?
How did this man have time for the sailing and the parties and the history trips and the drinking and the painting and the sledding and the calls to friends and the letters to supporters and the funerals and the dogs and the trips overseas AND HAVE A REPUTATION FOR BEING THE HARDEST WORKING MAN IN THE SENATE? What was his secret? And how can the rest of us live this kind of life? and DAMN... Tom Felton was so perfect as Draco. In the previous films, he's been a good Draco, but in this one, he's a GREAT Draco. He really captured the mixture of arrogance and despair. Draco is such an awful person, but you can't help feeling bad for him.
Some of the scenes were really well done, such as the orphanage scene, the necklace, Ron's poisoning, and the death of Aragog (they got Odo in!). Even though they changed the budding romance between Ron and Hermione, I thought they made the evolution of events seem right and natural. I also thought that they did a good job of streamlining Draco's task, and the Vanishing Cabinet plotline worked well within the film. Things that I would have tweaked just a little include the Sectumsempra scene, where Snape fails to demand the book (but maybe in the context of the film that would have given too much away). I also thought that the death of Dumbledore and fight between Harry and Snape seemed rushed, and Snape's revelation that he's the Prince seems tacked-on. Additionally, I thought the Unbreakable Vow could have had a little more time. In the book, Snape leisurely explains himself to Narcissa, but maybe given Rickman's performance, it would have been TOO leisurely.  I thought the connections between Harry and Ginny and Harry and Dumbledore could have had a little more emotion. Somehow I just wasn't understanding why Harry and Ginny got together here. And one of the best scenes in the book is when Harry tells Dumbledore "Scrimgeour accused me of "Being Dumbledore's man through and through...' and I told him I was...." Tonks had one scene, and a little tidbit that's in the book that was missed here is that her Patronus had changed, which seems like it would be important for DH. Did Neville have any lines at all? The scene at the Burrow I didn't get at all. Why did they add that? Finally, I thought half of the point of the book was for Harry to see who Voldemort IS, and the two memories we were shown somehow missed part of that. I've read some discussion of which scenes were omitted, and I think the scene with Merope, the scene with Hepzibah, and the scene where Voldemort asks Dumbledore for a job, were the three that stood out. And I'm interested in how they're going to play the fact that there was virtually NO discussion of what items would be Horcruxes. At the end of the book, Harry pretty much knows what he's looking for, but all he knows he needs to find at the end of the film is the locket. In summary, I think knowing how the series ends has heightened my fault-finding with the film. I also wonder if people who have only seen the movies are following what's going on. |
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