Rick Santorum Explains Iraq (save the metaphor)
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
(SNN Allentown) In an interview with the Bucks County Courier Times, Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum equated the war with "Lord of the Rings" by J. R. R. Tolkien. Santorum claimed that the battles in Iraq kept the Eye of Mordor from being focused on the United States.
"As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the Eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else," Santorum said. "It's being drawn to Iraq and it's not being drawn to the U.S. You know what? I want to keep it on Iraq. I don't want the Eye to come back here to the United States."
But something about Santorum's analogy does seem to fit how the White House sees their role. The Middle East is Mordor, slowly being united by Osama bin Sauron. George W. Bush is Frodo, who must finish the job of his elder, George H. W. Bilbo Baggins Bush. Donald Rumsfeld is Gandolf, the old wizard who is the only one who sees the wisdom of taking the fight to Mordor. Bill Clinton if Tom Bombadil, lovable but negligent. Dick Cheney is Gollum, driven mad by his own greed. And Santorum himself is Sam Gamgee, utterly devoted to Frodo because he wants to have sex with him.
Hey Kids
That metaphor above sure looks like it's in trouble. Can you help it by leaving a better interpretation of Sen. Santorum's metaphor in the comments section?
Not sure I could save that metaphor. But I do enjoy reading your comments, and this post!
My favorite post was that Microsoft Worm. Still laughing after seeing that thing.
So, there is this place where red herring live and play. You must not go there unless you are under armored and prepared to die or are a really big tree that can bowl a perfect 300. Now, if you don't go there, the red herring will come here and blow the shit out of granny and make us all queer for this guy named Allan but with an "h".
So, to avoid fighting the queer religious folks on our beaches, we must go to their den of evil do doing. Like how Frodo did.
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