Meet Your Superdelegates: Caesar From “Planet of the Apes”
March 13, 2008 at 3:45 pm
We continue our special in-depth educational series, Meet Your Superdelegates. A rare chance to get to know specific superdelegates who will be deciding the Democratic presidential nominee. We’re focusing on party elders, government officials, senior advisors, and other high profile politicians who feature prominently in television and film. And we boldly speculate who they will back at the Democratic convention. Today’s superdelegate profile comes from the breakthrough fantasy sci-fi movie sensations “Conquest for the Planet of the Apes” and “Battle for the Planet of the Apes.”
In a futuristic society where ape slavery has taken over the world, Caesar, the son of the late simians Cornelius and Zira, surfaces after almost 20 years in hiding out from the authorities, and prepares for a slave revolt against humanity. He leads a revolution that brings down human society and makes the nightmare of the humans who killed his parents come true.
Caesar: “Where there is fire, there is smoke. And in that smoke, from this day forward, my people will crouch and conspire and plot and plan for the inevitable day of Man’s downfall - the day when he finally and self-destructively turns his weapons against his own kind. The day of the writing in the sky, when your cities lie buried under radioactive rubble! When the sea is a dead sea, and the land is a wasteland out of which I will lead my people from their captivity! And we will build our own cities in which there will be no place for humans except to serve our ends! And we shall found our own armies, our own religion, our own dynasty! And that day is upon you NOW!”
It’s this kind of rhetorical and revolutionary zeal that Hillary Clinton will need to beat Barack Obama in the April 22 Pennsylvania primary — and which puts Caesar in Clinton’s camp.
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Steve Nyman said,
March 13, 2008 @ 9:41 pm
I would think Dr. Zaius would make a much better super delegate.
Steve
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