tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8177150027252604029.post1484693826943802081..comments2024-03-01T02:27:55.114-08:00Comments on Famous Last Words: Frost/NixonStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18017602163133637050noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8177150027252604029.post-15680199335395352912009-01-30T11:34:00.000-08:002009-01-30T11:34:00.000-08:00Deputy Dan for PresidentDeputy Dan for PresidentStevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18017602163133637050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8177150027252604029.post-56465603600983440322009-01-29T19:05:00.000-08:002009-01-29T19:05:00.000-08:00While reading your description of Richard Nixon, I...While reading your description of Richard Nixon, I at first thought you were talking about Deputy Dan. <BR/><BR/>"Parts paranoid, self-loathing, brilliant, maniacal and most of all bent on vengeance and defeating all enemies real or imagined, his enormous shadow still hangs over our politics."<BR/><BR/>Replace 'politics' with 'every waking moment,' and I think we have a match.<BR/><BR/>Totally agree with your assessment of Frost/Nixon, very entertaining picture with great performances. With your comments about the 43rd president of these United States, though, I do take some issue.<BR/><BR/>Bush has a conscience, and I don't think he's completely without some sense of self-reflection. Ultimately, I don't think he's a bad guy, and I earnestly believe he did what he did with the (albeit false) conception that he was acting in the country's best interest.<BR/><BR/>I just think he's been enabled in his mishaps for so long - "born with a silver foot in his mouth," as his gubernatorial predecessor would say - that he doesn't quite know how to process the idea that he's wrong. Oliver Stone's film, while overall fairly mediocre, captured this pretty well - the essence of a man in over his head, whose first real adversity in life came after he'd reached the highest echelons of power.<BR/><BR/>On top of all that, he had Botox zombies like John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid slagging on him all day for like eight years. How would you respond? <BR/><BR/>It'll be interesting to see in his post presidency whether he becomes bitter and defiant or takes a more proactive, positive approach ... that will, retrospectively, be pretty telling.D.A. Kittredgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13321395586569776751noreply@blogger.com