Bill Kristol: Vote For McCain Because He Has More Interesting Taste in Movies

In the recent issue of The Weekly Standard, New York Times columnist and de facto McCain spokesperson Bill Kristol quotes from interviews where Katie Couric asks Obama and McCain to name their favorite movie.

Obama gave an utterly conventional answer: "Oh, I think it would have to be The Godfather. One and two. Three not so much. Umm. So-so, but, but that--that saga--I love that movie.

...I mean there's this combination of old world gentility and, you know, ritual with this savagery underneath. It's all about family. So it's a great movie. Lawrence of Arabia. Great film. One of my favorites--and then Casablanca. Who doesn't like Casablanca?"

That's Obama. He's glib, conventional, won't make a real choice, shows nothing about himself, and says nothing offputting and says nothing impressive.

McCain's answer was in no way conventional:

Viva Zapata! It's a movie made by Elia Kazan. It was one of the trilogy of A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront and Viva Zapata! Marlon Brando stars in it. He plays Zapata. It's a heroic tale of a person who sacrificed everything for what he believed in, and there's some of the most moving scenes in that movie that I've ever seen...

Which one of these two men do you want to be president in a time of crisis and difficulty? Viva McCain!

Why on earth is Bill Kristol given space at the Times? Why? Why? Why?