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Possibly because of the Obama/Hollywood fete this week with Obama yukking it up with George Clooney and the Beautiful People, I keep getting this annoying image of Joe Biden in “Apocalypse Now” with Obama as the Brando baldy Col. Kurtz, the god-king gone mad from self-idolatry and ethereal abstraction, and Biden as his coked-up scurrying sidekick (originally played by Dennis Hopper): “He (Obama/Brando/Kurtz) is not like you and I,” says Hopper/Biden, wild-eyed and arms flailing. “He reads poetry. Out loud!” T.S. Eliot, no doubt.

I cannot imagine how Obama, five points behind Mitt Romney in the current Rasmussen poll, thinks this is going to work for him. Does he really want to be president a second term or is president just resume filler and like Kurtz (and Clinton), he has greater plans ahead as a demigod?

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