{"id":780,"date":"2006-10-11T14:50:08","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T19:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=780"},"modified":"2006-12-21T10:21:24","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T15:21:24","slug":"supermen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=780","title":{"rendered":"Supermen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can only think of one time that my Dad was cruel. I was reminded of\u00c2\u00a0this when the new and well reviewed movie &#8220;Hollywoodland&#8221; came out. Its about the suicide of George Reeves who was intensely depressed that his two-year portrayal of Superman on the television series had him so typecast that his career all but came to an end. My Dad who found it very ironic that Superman had committed suicide told me but emphasized the irony (which I took to be humor)\u00c2\u00a0rather than\u00c2\u00a0the pathos of the story.<\/p>\n<p>In a similar way the recent\u00c2\u00a0news that Virginia&#8217;s Republican Senate candidate, George Allen, was insulted when asked if he had Jewish roots reminded me of another old\u00c2\u00a0news item.\u00c2\u00a0In the middle of the Civil Rights years a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/customer-reviews\/156025372X\/ref=cm_cr_dp_pt\/002-3035878-3184034?ie=UTF8&#038;n=283155&#038;s=books\">wizard of the Ku Klux Klan committed suicide<\/a> when the New York Times outed him for being a Jew. Things are not always what they seem.<\/p>\n<p>Like George Allen the rest of the GOP has been exposed repeatedly for not being what its led the public to believe it is.<\/p>\n<p>Its not fiscally conservative. It just expects our children to pay for\u00c2\u00a0its spending.<\/p>\n<p>Its leaders, who\u00c2\u00a0roil up\u00c2\u00a0gay intolerant voters, have no problem employing\u00c2\u00a0competant gays\u00c2\u00a0in their Capital Hill offices. (although they don&#8217;t pay attention to them when they warn of predatory Congressman)<\/p>\n<p>They are the Party of individualism\u00c2\u00a0but they all\u00c2\u00a0act like sheep when their president declares a dubious war and\u00c2\u00a0even when he leaves its\u00c2\u00a0management to ninnies and\u00c2\u00a0allows it to\u00c2\u00a0spin out of control.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry to say it but Superman is dead.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can only think of one time that my Dad was cruel. I was reminded of\u00c2\u00a0this when the new and well reviewed movie &#8220;Hollywoodland&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}