Hour Of Bauer
November 29, 2007 at 9:48 am
We recently wrote in Politico about the Jack Bauer moment — how nearly every debate includes some cameo mention of the “24″ action hero character.
Last night’s CNN/YouTube debate did not disappoint.
Here’s John McCain admonishing Mitt Romney over waterboarding:
Well, then you would have to advocate that we withdraw from the Geneva Conventions, which were for the treatment of people who were held prisoners, whether they be illegal combatants or regular prisoners of war. Because it’s clear the definition of torture. It’s in violation of laws we have passed.
And again, I would hope that we would understand, my friends, that life is not “24″ and Jack Bauer.
Life may not be Jack Bauer. But debates certainly are.
And a postscript — we’ll believe this is the first time an Axis leader has made a debate appereance — John McCain admonishing Ron Paul over Iraq:
We allowed Hitler to come to power with that kind of attitude of isolationism and appeasement.
Jack Bauer would never have let that happen.
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Rue Paul said,
November 29, 2007 @ 12:43 pm
Rue Paul, Rue Paul, Rue Paul, Rue Paul: you’re gonna rue the day you mentioned Ron Paul!
Speaking of Paul, it rhymes with which:
http://blog.cleveland.com/openers/2007/11/paul_calls_kucinich_veep_specu.html
“After last night’s GOP presidential debate, a Dennis Kucinich fan named Davis Fleetwood queried Texas Rep. Ron Paul about Kucinich’s recent suggestion in New Hampshire that they run as a joint ticket. Paul called such talk “premature” and added “We’re just getting going.”
They would run on the Alien Party ticket!
richarda said,
November 30, 2007 @ 3:59 pm
Um, “We let Hitler come to power . . . .” ??
He was appointed Chancellor in 1933 as the indirect result of one of those democratic elections people talk so much about. President Hindenberg, on the advice of a bunch of the usual German political hacks, appointed him (w/Franz von Papen, a ‘reliable’ hack, as Vice-Chancellor) to give HIM a chance to fail, too, like all the rest - and then it would be back to Weimar politics as usual.
The POTUS at the time was FDR - NOT an isolationist.
What should we have done, invade?