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    Senior Member DEEDEE's Avatar
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    Trailer is ABC’s ‘V’ about Obama ?

    Is ABC’s ‘V’ remake about Obama?
    Commentators see similarities between lizard-like alien invaders and President Obama in the remake of sci-fi classic 'V'

    ABC has started airing its remake of the 1980s sci-fi classic ‘V’—and Chicago Tribune critic Glenn Garvin thinks the updated miniseries includes a veiled attack on Obamamania that will make it the most controversial show of the season. Garvin says the parellels are obvious: a “charismatic, telegenicâ€
    Thomas Jefferson said: When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty !

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    I loved the original series, and they did not show the aliens' true lizard characteristics until well into the series. When revelation time comes on this re-make wouldn't be a hoot if instead of peeling off the human exterior and revealing a cross between Godzilla and Nancy Pelosi, the human exterior is shed and there stands an Obama clone. Meanwhile John McCain and Lindsey Graham (with GW in the background) are shown reaching, not across the aisle, but across the universe claiming these aliens just want to do work earthlings don't (which is true unless you are a cannibal).
    "We have met the enemy, and they is us." - POGO

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