Who Is ZELIG?!? (Starring Hillary Clinton)

[Leopolds Ghost]

"She's a girl from Illinois who likes to throw 'em down with the rest of us."
Terry McAuliffe is on a roll today, telling MSNBC:

"She loves to sit, throw 'em back. So to me this is nothin' new. We all hear about the story that she and John McCain actually had a shot contest, I think in the Ukraine or somewhere around the world. And she actually beat John McCain in a shot contest. She's a girl from Illinois who likes to throw 'em down with the rest of us."



http://www.uwm.edu/~wash/zelig.html

This early-1980s Woody Allen film illustrates classical notions of sociality with precision and humor. Filmed in black-and-white newsreel format, it presents the strange case of Leonard Zelig the chameleon-man who surfaced in the 1930s with the very unusual trait of turning into whomever he talked to. If Zelig talked to fat people, he grew fat. If he talked to tall people, he became tall. If Indian, Jewish, Hindu, then he became Indian, Jewish and Hindu. In himself, however, he was nothing at all. Leonard Zelig was without personal substance. Enter his psychiatrist, played by Mia Farrow, whose job it was to reveal to Leonard his own unique personality. Ultimately her therapy was so successful that Leonard became a person who not only ceased resembling the people he talked to, but had so little in common with them, that he could even tolerate their presence. From a man who was devoid of individuality, Zelig became a man who was nothing but individuality. In the end, it is clear that humans are neither self-grounded individuals, nor instantiation of a larger community. What they are remains a puzzle.

[ShortnFiery]

1. I don't get why The Clintons let Terry McAuliffe out of his cage. The guy is super-creepy!

:scared:

[Leopolds Ghost]

2. Link to Original Thread ("What State is Hillary Clinton From?")

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5841949

I think this is a real-life observation we are witnessing here...

A real-life ZELIG.

[Leopolds Ghost]

3. Clinton as Zelig

[TexasObserver]

4. scary, and true