09-11-2010, 01:56 AM
ham Wrote:Also...ever heard of a wonderful all-American hollywood movie in 1943 called MISSION TO MOSCOW?
Similar theme on the other side of the world, Blood On The Sun (1945) with Jimmy Cagney. Written by not yet blacklisted Lester Cole (one of the “Hollywood Ten,” he later did 10 months in the slammer for contempt of Congress). Dramatically explains how, at the time, the Chicoms were our “friends” but the Japanese were our “enemies.” (Spoiler: The Japanese had an evil secret plan to take over the world!)
Highlight is the diminutive Cagney (said to be a real life judo black belt) tossing a much taller “Japanese” henchman around like a rag doll. From back in the days when Caucasian actors played Asian characters, to unintentionally hilarious effect. You would appreciate Jewish actress Sylvia Sydney’s “Chinese” character explaining to Cagney how she is really of mixed race, to which Cagney replies, “Me too, half-Irish and half-Norwegian.” Supposedly Cagney was fluent in Yiddish (grew up in a Jewish neighborhood) and had off-camera conversations in Yiddish with Sydney. Ain’t that America?
Reading between the lines then, the point of your post seems to be that today’s ally often is tomorrow’s opponent, and vice versa. The difference in this case is that, as they say, if you don’t stand for something you’ll fall for anything.
Collett has made it clear that she stands for limited government. As a former small business owner she no doubt knows first-hand how government chokes the life out of free enterprise. McCollum, on the other hand, appears to stand for whatever big-government regulation or redistribution scheme she thinks is selling at the moment, like most statist dweebs. A literal nanny-state socialist who got into politics because her own negligent parenting allowed her stupid kid to fall off the government play equipment in the government park.
Collett claims to have religion and takes a stand in support of it. McCollum claims to have religion but denigrates its principles at every opportunity (e.g., pro abortion, pro-pervert marriage).
Collett believes, as our founding fathers did, that we are one nation under God. McCollum can’t even bring herself to utter the words. One is a leader, the other a dedicated follower of fashion (to borrow from Ray Davies). Oh yes she is.
So perhaps as soon as Collett gets a taste of whatever it is in DC that makes people go nuts, all bets may be off. But right now I’m not seeing anything to suggest she is other than what she seems. I don’t think you’ll be seeing any grinning photos of Dear Leader with his arm around her. And you won’t see her signing on to any of Gollum’s “Sometimes, Danger Lurks In My Pants” fables either.