Hanks For The Memories
May 4, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Tom Hanks’ endorsement of Barack Obama is fairly conventional stuff, typical Hollywood celebrity me-too gruel. We’ll probably soon forget it ever happened.
But one thing does stand out: An odd but reassuring embrace of … Ronald Reagan?
Yup. Ronald Reagan merits mention in Hanks’ message, and believe it or not, it’s not hateful, derogatory, or sneering.
Here’s what Hanks says about Obama:
He has the integrity and the inspiration to unify us, as did FDR and Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy and even Ronald Reagan when they ran for the job.
Not bad company for the Gipper. Brings back happy memories the early ’80s … and “Bosom Buddies.”
richarda said,
May 5, 2008 @ 9:07 am
Truman won by a couple percentage points, and JFK edged past a popular vote tie via massive vote fraud in Chicago (for which several people went to prison, afterwards).
Hardly “unity”.