Cinderella sits in the corner thinking about the 2008 presidential election:
“Hillary Clinton says if she’s elected she will bring the troops home and provide alternative energy and universal health care and universal pre-k and middle-class tax breaks all at the same time. It all seems so impossible! But oh how I wish it were true. I wish Hillary could be president and do all these wonderful things for me without raising my taxes!”
Suddenly, to Cinderella’s great surprise, Hillary magically appears.
(Video length: 2:03)
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Cinderella: Who are you?
Hillary: I’m your Fairy Godmother.
Cinderella: Oh, how beautiful you are.
Hillary: I am made of all your most beautiful dreams and hopes and wishes.
Cinderella: Oh Fairy Godmother. I have only one wish just now.
Hillary: And that’s why you were weeping?
Cinderella: Yes. Because I know it is impossible.
Hillary: Impossible? Bah, what’s a Fairy Godmother for?
Cinderella: To make my wish come true?
Hillary: If you wish it hard enough.
Cinderella: Oh, Fairy Godmother I am wishing it so very, very hard that if all the wishes of all the girls turned into one big wish it would not be any harder than my wish.
Hillary: That’s hard enough. Now …
Cinderella: But is it possible to get those things by wishing for them?
Hillary: Well, the sensible people of the world will say: “Fal-de-rol and fiddle-dee-dee and fiddle-dee-faddle-dee-foddle, all the wishes in the world are poppycock and twaddle!”
Cinderella: Aren’t they?
Hillary: Not always. The sensible people will also say: “Fal-de-rol and fiddle-dee-dee and fiddle-dee-faddle-dee-foodle, all the dreamers in the world are dizzy in the noodle!”
Cinderella: And aren’t they?
Hillary: Not always. Especially if there’s someone who loves you to help you.
Cinderella: Dear, dear Fairy Godmother, is that you?
Hillary: What’s a Fairy Godmother for?
Aagh – How could you take my beautiful, favorite Cinderella video and make it political?? I used to wait for this to come on TV once a year even more than the Wizard of Oz. To my poor husband’s dismay I know every word of every song, and can do most of the dialogue too. On our long 13 hour drive up to Quebec for our honeymoon, I offered to sing the entire movie for him (no tape player in the car/no radio stations in the boonies). He was less than enthusiastic.
On the flip side, I’d be tempted to do a Fairy Godfather version along the lines of $250 million a day to Iraq that our country doesn’t actually have (and has to borrow) combined with tax cuts for the rich as an equally impossible fairy tale but somehow it’s actually happening…
Love your blog, even if we disagree politically!
Bethany – If you can find me a Fairy Godfather clip that looks like George Bush, I will be glad to put it together for you. Actually, this post was not really motivated by politics. It’s just that Hillary looks so much like the Fairy Godmother in this scene that I couldn’t resist. And well, yes, the politics followed.