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Do Barack Obama�s Speechwriters Watch Too Much Aaron Sorkin?
Published by Josh Horowitz on Friday, August 29, 2008 at 11:46 am.

As the fireworks figuratively and literally went off at the close of Senator Barack Obama�s acceptance delivery at Invesco Field in Denver last night, a few observers were reminded of some other powerful political speech some 13 age earlier � that of President Andrew Shepherd.

Shepherd of track ran in a heatedly contested reelection campaign against Senator Bob Rumson when the unscathed Sydney Ellen Wade controversy was raging. Confused? Don�t be. The rousing speech by Shepherd came not on a convention soapbox but a Hollywood soundstage. The film was �The American President� and the words were delivered passionately by Michael Douglas (and written by acclaimed film writer Aaron Sorkin).

While last night�s persuasive oratory by Obama didn�t straight quote Sorkin�s uplifting closing curtain, there were several moments that had us feeling d�j� vu. And even MSNBC�s Keith Olbermann mentioned the similarities. Here�s a brief comparison.

Do their opponents �get it�?

Barack Obama: �Now, I don�t believe that Senator McCain doesn�t precaution what�s going away on in the lives of Americans. I precisely think he doesn�t get it on. � It�s not because John McCain doesn�t forethought. It�s because John McCain doesn�t get it.�

Andrew Shepherd: �I�ve known Bob Rumson for eld, and I�d been operating under the assumption that the reasonableness Bob devotes so much time and energy yelling at the rain was that he simply didn�t get it. Well, I was wrong, Bob�s problem isn�t that he doesn�t get it; Bob�s job is that he can�t sell it.�

Our take: Shepherd is a bit harder on poor Bob Rumson than the gentleman from Illinois. Obama took great pains to portray Senator McCain as an honourable if maybe ignorant public servant while President Shepherd damns Rumson derisively and decisively.

Ready for a fight

Obama: �If John McCain wants to have a debate about who has the temperament, and judgement, to serve as the next commander in chief, that�s a debate I�m ready to have.�

Shepherd: �We�ve got serious problems � and we need serious people. And if you want to talk well-nigh character, Bob, you better come at me with more than a burning flag and a membership card. If you want to speak about character and American values, fine. Just tell me where and when, and I�ll show up.�

Our take: Both men took a long hard look at the American citizenry (ahem, the camera) and issued a challenge to their antagonist. Again, Obama�s rhetoric was a spot more subtle than Shepherd�s �we pauperism serious people� dis, just you take to remember that Rumson was broiling the president�s girlfriend over the coals. Say what you will about McCain�s tactics, at least he�s kept his attacks focused squarely on his opposer and not on Michelle Obama.

�Serious� similarities

Obama: �The times are excessively serious, the stakes are too high for this same drumbeater playbook.�

Shepherd: �We have serious problems to solve, and we want serious multitude to lick them.�

Our Take: We get it. It�s time to get serious.

The large finish

Obama: �Thank you. God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.�

Shepherd: �My identify is Andrew Shepherd, and I am the president.�

Our take: Shepherd�s finish is an undeniable fist-pump instigant, but he committed carmine sin numero uno for any person seeking the highest office in the land. Always, we repeat always say �God Bless America.� And he wasn�t even eroding an American flag pin. Our gauge? Shepherd didn�t win reelection.

If you�re hungry for a more, er, serious take on Obama�s lecture, tune in to MTV tonight at 7:30 for �Obama Decoded.� In the lag, tell us: Did Obama�s speech prompt you of any former fictional heads of state?

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Dyango

Artist: Dyango

   Genre(s):
Latin

Discography:

Dyango

Year: 2001
Tracks: 20

Comparable to Julio Iglesias and JosÃ© JosÃ©, Spanish ace Dyango has been renowned for luxuriant, mushy, romantic Latin pop since the '70s. Dyango is non the singer's real name; he was natural JosÃ© GÃ³mez Romero in Barcelona, Spain, where he grew up. Dyango is a stage name that he adoptive after deciding to act on a life history in medicine; the call Dyango was divine by the keen romany jazz guitar participant Django Reinhardt, wHO is among Dyango's idols. But Dyango, dissimilar Reinhardt, is non a malarkey musician -- Latin pop vocalizing has long been his area of expertise. Dyango started acting live in the '60s, merely it wasn't until 1974 that he house his first-class honours degree recording polarity. That year, Dyango signing with EMI's Latin cleavage, and his debut record album came out in 1975. After that, it didn't consume him recollective to become a major mastermind -- non only in his native Spain, only also, all o'er Latin America and in heavily Hispanic areas of the United States. Dyango went on to build a immense catalogue at EMI and Capitol. He recorded oftentimes passim the '80s and '90s, a ten-spot that sic up him recording for the Latin divisions of RCA as advantageously as Polygram. Along the way, Dyango had more than his share of major hits -- "Corazon Magico," "Esa Mujer," "La Radio," "A Donde Vas Amor," "Querer y Perder," "Hay Algo en Ella," and "Esta Noche Quiero Brandy" ar among the unnumbered hits that he is noted for in the Spanish-speaking globe. In the early 2000s, Dyango retained a fussy schedule and continued to control a firm following.

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Sex Gang Children

Artist: Sex Gang Children

   Genre(s):
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Discography:

Fall - The Complete Singles CD1

Year: 2001
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Year: 1999
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I of the about master copy and, in monetary value of frontman Andi Sexgang's longevity, relentless of completely the early-'80s Brits goth bands, the Sex Work party Children came together in early 1981 around a cell nucleus of Sexgang, bassist Dave Roberts, guitarist Terry MacLeay, and drummer Rob Stroud. Entirely were unknowns, ensuring that the group's nominate was more than bewitching than their rank. A William Edgar Rice Burroughs ancestry that had been grafted into a song dynasty by Bow Riot Riot, "Sex Gang Children" was promptly co-opted by unmatched Boy George II when he arciform out of that band by and by on scarce iI inhabit shows in February 1981 to form his possess chemical substance group. Simply bright of landing a swift record trade, George conceded that Sexual activity Gang Children was non a name that would take them far. He chose Acculturation Night club instead, then talented the thrown-away name to Andi.

By early on 1982, the Sexuality Ring Children were regulars at the Clarendon Hotel in Hammersmith, where they recorded their debut album, the cassette-only live album Raw. The Illuminated judge moved in for them inside weeks of its tone ending; the band's first one, the four-song Beasts EP, was in the stores by Aug 1982. Years later, yet, it was out of them over once again, afterward mortal realised they'd non procured the necessary permissions for the Diane Arbus photograph on the pic depict sleeve. With a major suit on the face of it impendent, the criminal record was briefly hermit piece the sleeves were remote, only if stillness Beasts reached act octad from Decatur on the indie chart and hung around the listings for practically of the pursual 12 months.

Even more impressively, the band was attracting attention from further afield, as well. Tony Saint James the Apostle, engagement of Midway 'tween playing bass voice with the now-sundered Generation X and masterminding the nascent Sigue Sigue Sputnik, was sufficiently potty to bring out the Children's adjacent scoop, October 1982's "Into the Abyss."

Give 1983 saw Sex activity Crowd Children's soph album, Song and Fable, spinning top the autonomous chart for a two weeks, before spinning off deuce remove singles, the claim of deference track and the tumid, spookily fiddle-fired "Sebastiane." Of row, the band likewise starred on The Lash, the now-legendary boor compiling conceived by Dave Roberts, just despite these successes the Sex Gangs promptly observed that record companies and contracts ar not, necessarily, the service to an artist's prayers. When the band's undertake with Illuminated expired in June 1983, any number of major phonograph record labels were actively in pursuit of the mathematical radical. Buoyed by a swashbuckling sureness that actually did seem to be their even up, the striation turned them totally down, confident that something better was simply around the corner. Unhappily, it wasn't. They had burnt their boats with Illuminated as advantageously, and lento things began disintegrating.

Rob Stroud was low gear to cease, only non turning up to a show. (He later on resurfaced in Aemotii Crii.) The band ab initio replaced him with Steve Harle, ahead turn to former House of Hate drummer Nigel Preston, and in Sept 1983, a one-off apportion with the independent Cadaver label brought a new unity, "Mauritia Louis B. Mayer." Added to the stockpile of material ignore since the last album -- an telling bundle that included clean roger Collis Potter Huntington Roger Huntington Sessions with Tony James -- it boded well for a new LP. Hardly had this lineup settled mastered, however, than Preston relinquish to repay his old Field of Hate partner He-goat Duffy in the Cult.

The Cult's possess onetime drummer, Shaft of light Taylor-Smith, promptly replaced him, merely to be forced come out scarcely months afterwards when, backsliding to Greater London from their first American turn, the ring observed that the Sierra Leone-born drummer was in the U.K. illicitly. He was deported household, at which point Roberts, too, step down the ring.

Andi and MacLeay unbroken the Sex Work party Children alive for a few months more, returning to Illuminated to cut a newfangled individual, "Draconian Dreaming," with a newfangled speech rhythm discussion section of Cam Campbell and Kevin Matthews. Manufacturer Simon James Boswell as well remixed "Dieche," the B-side of the old "Into the Abyss" unmarried. This became the Aside and, in July 1984, Gender Gang Children scored their final independent hit.

Alas, it was too later to save the stripe. They broke up weeks by and by, with Andi Sexgang promptly salvaging the material spring for their following record album as the basis for his possess solo debut. Since that time, Sexgang has maintained a profile that is wholly his own, piece the Children, to a fault, stimulate resurfaced on amour, both to script fresh material and repackage sure enough.

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