Life Imitates Art 40 Years Later

I was watching one of my favorite movies I have on DVD the other night "The Warriors" a manicured version of NYC street gangs in the early 70's. It is a good guy gang vs. multiple bad guy gangs as if such a thing exists at all and the director says it is a fantasy. As I was watching it I couldn't help but notice how it mirrors the Obama administration and what is going on today. The story centers around this charismatic gang leader named Cyrus who invites all the gangs in New York to Central Park one night. He tells them how he intends to unite all the gangs together under one leadership and they will control the city. No cops and "nobody busting nobody." Unfortunately one young punk leader of a gang called The Rogues shoots Cyrus and kills him for no reason other than "I just like doing things like that." He immediately blames it on the Warriors and before you know it every gang in the city is out after them. The punk who shot Cyrus finally gets his comeuppance in the end and the Warriors are free again back to Coney Island, their turf. On the subway back home one of the warriors says,"Boy big Cyrus. He was going unite the whole city. What a load of crap that was." I couldn't help but think that's what's going on now. Obama was going to unite everyone and make countries love us again. Instead he's created disaster after disaster and divided the country more than ever putting us through one chaotic scene after another with high taxes, a healthcare debacle that was forced down our throats with bribes and intimidation to get votes for it, high unemployment, high gas prices, a 14 trillion dollar debt where our deficit is seven times higher than our output and countries hating us more than ever. So like the Warriors I say, "Boy!! That Obama. He was going to unite the whole country.What a load of crap that was."