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What Tweety loves is great sweeping symbolism.
He's always rhapsodizing about some Big Theme that he imagines will be some Huge Turning Point in History - and HE WAS THERE!
Not only was he there, but he called it first!
It's usually some theme that fits in with his schoolboy version of Great American Themes, and it's usually a visual.
So all his fidgeting in his seat over supposedly heroic men has, I think, to do with patriotic movies and books from his youth that made icons of heroic men.
He doesn't seem to snap to nuances and fine distinctions, or barely noticeable changes that grow into much larger ones.
Instead, he hews hard to the heroic icons of his youth: Hero aviator landing on aircraft carrier, package a-bulging in case you forgot the Man part, to wild applause.
And there's the bow-legged, big-belt-buckled, fake cowboy, arms at the ready to grab invisible six-shooters. That's an American icon, too.
And so is the young, talented man who overcomes his mixed-race upbringing to excel at Harvard Law, become a young Senator and sweep his way to the Presidency in one uninterrupted roll. That's an American icon, too, the unlikely boy who is smart, works hard, and rises to high office here in the Greatest Nation on Earth, the Land of Opportunity. (See Lincoln, Abe)
The fact that he has overcome the indigenous racism of our country to do it all adds to the story, and is evocative of the Childhood of Famous Americans series, that Tweety probably lapped up in grade school. I know I did, and the stories of the slaves and former slaves who achieved greatness in America gave me tears and chills up my spine in admiration of their Triumph.
Tweety seems like a pretty smart guy whose life is largely unexamined, so he has these outbursts that betray the contradictions in his psyche that he hasn't worked out through thought, friendship or therapy.
He wants to be a small-d democrat, but his Daddy was a died-in-the-wool Republican, so when it comes down to it, Tweety will always be a Republican at heart, but with contradictory outbursts of populist, democratic beliefs because he is smart enough to know that Republican dogma is mostly selfish crap.
I don't have time to list all the ways he betrays the conflicts of his inner self and you probably know them all anyway, so won't go on with examples.
Anyway, I believe that it's not just Tweety "loving" Bush, or McCain, or Obama or whoever the Midway Arcade Shooting Gallery of His Mind, pops up as the next target for his wild-ass aim. Rather it's whoever taps into the archetypes and stereotypes, particularly the Great American Icons, waiting at the ready in his unconscious mind to spring into life to validate that A Great Moment in American History Has Arrived.
And Tweety (in his own mind) was not only Witness to History, but he wants to be the one who described it and who named it.
Well, that's my take, anyway.
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