Obama's would-be National Security Adviser has cited Winnie the Pooh as a foreign policy influence. I like thinking outside the box, but this won't help Obama's naive image. Comments like this inevitably will surface:
Winnie the Pooh is not the character to emulate if you want a foreign policy that’s more stable than a stuffed bear tied to a helium balloon.But Danzig's comments about fundamentalists lending themselves to extremism through the very, very low opportunity cost in their lives (read: no education, no job, no skills, no hope) makes sense. George Schultz (infamous neo-con, hisssss) made the same point at a speech I heard in Tokyo a few years ago. Most Americans just don't realize how cheap life is in much of the world.
Even relatively well-off Brits stewing in pubs get this feeling, and they're Brits (...stewing in pubs):
I'm gonna get me a motor carPoor Winnie.
Maybe a Jaguar
Maybe a plane or a day of fame
I'm gonna be a millionaire
So can you take me there?
Wanna be wild 'cos my life's so tame
Here am I, going nowhere on a train
Here am I, growing older in the rain
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Amongst all the characters in "Winnie the Pooh", my favourite one is Tigger, even though I have no idea anything about it.
Is Danzig on the board of Disney?
oh good grief, just followed your link to read the article.
"...in that enchanted place on
the top of the Forest a little boy and his Bear will always be
playing."
I'm trying to imagine Obama, skipping. I can't readily see that, but I CAN see him with his hand in the honey jar.
I don't know if Danzig is on the Disney board; if he is, he will probably be leaving soon... Maybe McCain should tap Tigger as his mascot so people have a true choice.
Obama's hand in the honey jar... That is an easy and resonant image (as it is for many of them, alas).
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