Antique Cookie Jars

The scene is from The Simpsons Movie.   Russ Cargill, the movie’s villain, stands before President Schwarzenegger with five plain brown file folders each containing government solutions to the pollution in Springfield.  Cargill proclaims, “Well, I’ve narrowed your choices down to five unthinkable options. Each will cause untold misery …”  Humorously the President, as I think so many presidents have done throughout history, calls out, “I pick number three!”  Cargill, perhaps stunned, but perhaps not, asks, “You don’t wanna read them first?”  To which President Schwarzenegger scoffs, “I was elected to leeead, not to reeead. Number three!”

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