Is John McCain a two-fisted man of action like the legendary Duke?
McCain, Hunter also says, would be the only president in recent times who has actually killed someone, a point not often mentioned when his biography is detailed. The question, Hunter writes, is whether McCain, like John Wayne, always considers settling a matter with violence first. (Perhaps McCain should put “The Quiet Man” at the top of his Netflix queue.) Meanwhile, Obama, Hunter writes, echoes the cinema revolution of the 1970s, in which the standard-issue leading men like Wayne and Mitchum were replaced by a new generation of actors who weren’t letter-perfect, who didn’t always have all the answers, who reveled in their tics, their ethnicity. Think Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman and Robert DeNiro. He also compares Obama to Will Smith, a silky-smooth charmer whose impatience with his older compatriots in movies such as “Men in Black,” made him a star to a younger generation. Is Obama a multicultural smoothie for a new generation like Will Smith? Writes Hunter: [T]he template that the Ob
