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Ending The Sopranos with the family in an ice cream parlor as their life goes on is a fine choice. Too bad David Chase couldn't commit to that choice. Instead, he spent the last minutes of his majestic creation manipulating the audience with cinema techniques of foreboding. So overdone it screamed gimmick, gimmick.
I think Chase trivialized what he'd accomplished as an artist by ending his show with a rather banal comment about the audience's expectations, rather than risk making a clear artistic choice.
If the ending to The Sopranos was - Meadow gets a parking ticket, it would have been more satisfying and more emotional.
The person who had the power to get every Hillary supporter's vote for Obama was -- Obama. No angst, no question, no endless discussion -- just do the right thing, put Hillary on the ticket. She earned it. Since Obama didn't do the work of uniting the party, Hillary has stood up graciously and done it for him.
The two of them together would have been an unbeatable ticket. What was more important than that, Obama?
I will absolutely vote for Obama. But, I have less respect for him than I had before he chose his VP.
