One-eyed jacks

Marlon Brando was in this movie called "One-Eyed Jacks" with co-star Karl Malden. When the story starts, Brando and Malden are partners in crime in a typical Old West way. They rob a bank or something, and Brando gets shot up, and Karl Malden leaves him bleeding and all, says he'll go get a doctor. What Malden really does is make off with their stash and leave Brando alone to die.

So Brando recovers somehow and decides to try to find Karl Malden. Brando tracks Malden to a dusty Mexican -- or maybe on the border -- town, where Karl Malden now has a nice wife and family and serves as the local sheriff. Brando hasn't forgiven him, so you can imagine the tension as the conflict ratchets up. Malden shows Brando his wonderful, upright, decent, God-fearing life and all, and can't imagine that Brando -- who's still pretty much an embittered saddle-tramp -- would destroy such a wonderful life.

I suggest you rent the movie or watch for it on cable to see what happens.

The one thing I want to mention about it is that at one point, Brando says to Malden, "People around these parts think you're a one-eyed jack, but I seen the other side of your face."

It's all about hypocrisy, you know. Mainly about the lies people tell themselves. Like, from another western -- and one of my favorite movies, "Unforgiven," we have the character of "Little Bill." Little Bill is a former gunslinger, now sheriff of this micro-town on the frontier. As sheriff, Little Bill is remarkably cruel and even sadistic, but he's building a house. That's his badge of respectability somehow. His passport to middle class status. I was so happy when Clint Eastwood shot him anyway.

At any rate, so we have this spectacle on tonight -- and I didn't see the whole thing. But we have this person occupying the highest office in the United States, and for the last three or even four years, if you include his very lengthy presidential campaign -- he's done nothing but demean and insult every segment of the US population, except for Ivy League professors, welfare cases, and the SEIU. He despises Wall Street, doesn't acknowledge the existence of Repulicans, doesn't mind corrupting the legislative process in order to destroy the capitalist system and "tramsform" us all into good little suck-up marxists.

Tonight he goes on TV and talks about "speech that heals," and things like that. All of a sudden, after three or four years of working his fingers to the bone to cripple his opposition, humiliate the USA to the rest of the world, kiss the asses of our sworn enemies, and work his Saul Alinsky sleight-of-hand, stirring up conflicts where none exist, fan hatred and envy, and sneer at traditional American values and the people who live by them.

But now he's Mr.Peacemaker.

No, I think now he's still the Comrade, but it's finally dawned on him that he's lost the support of the House of Representatives and all the voters who caused that shift to happen.

So now he's all, "Aw, gee, can't we all just along?"

You know, I've said it before. Talk is cheap. You have to judge people by what they do. You think this one-eyed jack is going to sign the bill that will repeal socialized medicine? Is he going to keep the ruthless terrorists down in Guantanamo, where they will remain neutralized, and where their cohorts won't attack? Is he going to promote the use of our domestic resources? Cut back all the silly and burdensome regulations he's using to hamstring business and industry?

I mean, do you really think the Comrade is going to do any of this? Or is he just trying to convince everyone that he's not quite the vicious asshole we've all seen for the last two years. No, instead we should vote for him again in 2012. He's betrayed his base of lunatic fringe liberals, so now he needs the independents and moderates to support him. Besides, he must be aware that he ain't gettin' nothing' through this congress. No more socialism, Comrade.

Let's see what Comrade One-Eyed Jack actually does instead of just listening to him blow a lot of hot air. We all know he's good at that. But let's see what he actually does -- and un-does. .

After the all the lies, posturing, game-playing, bluster, outrage and insult that's come out of the White House so far in the Comrade's term, I just don't believe a damn thing he says. My first response is: What the hell does he want now?

Don't trust until you verify.

Save the Republic.