[PW] Movie with Hackneyed political expression: "Time for a Change"

Bill Davis wmadavis at gmail.com
Thu Jan 3 14:41:20 PST 2008


I almost couldn't believe it when Rudy Giuliani reviveed a hackneyed old 
phrase, saying of Hillary Clinton, that she "never met a payroll."    I 
remembered an old movie where Henry Fonda used that  expression, 
sarcastically -- I'm pretty sure it was THE BEST MAN.     The big buzzword 
in reference to Barack Obama is "change," and I can't recall the name of an 
even older movie that has a politico bemoaning how campaigns are run 'these 
days,' with empty slogans like "Time for a Change."  It might have been a 
Preston Sturges movie, but I'm not sure.   Does anyone recognize this?

Bill Davis






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