“People of the World?” Obama or Klaatu?
One of my favorite old SciFi movies is “The Day the Earth Stood Still” with Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, and Sam Jaffe. And Billy Gray (from Father Knows Best). Klaatu (Rennie) comes to earth with Gort, his robot friend, to warn the people of the world that they must live in peace or face obliteration (I was never sure why, if the aliens were against war, why they would destroy people). Anyway, it seems Barak Obama has picked up Klaatu’s refrain.
During his recent speech in Berlin, he referred to his audience several times as “People …read more