| 2.12 THE DROP-IN |
| POTUS: Y’know what you are? You’re the Charlie Brown of missile defense, the Pentagon is Lucy. LEO: I’m not familiar with the reference, sir. POTUS: Peanuts. Charlie Brown. LEO: I’ve heard of ‘em, I’m just not conversant in them. POTUS: Why’s that? LEO: I never read the comics. POTUS: Leo, were you born at the age of 55? LEO: I know that there’s a dog. POTUS Charlie Brown wanted to kick a football and Lucy would hold it for him, only she’d pull the ball away at the last minute and Charlie Brown would fall on his butt. LEO: And that’s funny? POTUS: No, but each time Lucy would find a way to convince Charlie Brown that this time she wouldn’t pull the ball away, but she would, and once again, Charlie Brown would fall on his butt. LEO: And that’s funny? POTUS: It’s satirical. LEO: What’s it satirizing? POTUS: The DOD bringing you to the Situation Room each time they run a new missile test so that you can tell me how great it works and that I should put money into the NMD system. LEO: You should put money into the NMD system. POTUS: Doesn’t work. LEO: It will work. One day. Soon. There’re a couple of three-star generals in there. Call ‘em Lucy and you’re on your own. LEO: How much. GUY: Leo- LEO: By how much did it miss the target? GUY: Colonel? COLONEL: 1-3-7. LEO: We missed it by 137 feet. COLONEL: Miles. LEO: We missed it by 137 MILES?! POTUS: When you consider the size of space, Leo, that’s not so bad- LEO: Sir- POTUS: By the way. The words you’re looking for are: “Oh, Good Grief.” CJ: Plus my love for Lord John Marbury isn’t just a school girl crush. He calls me “Principesa”. JOSH: Does he? CJ: Yes. JOSH: ‘Cause he calls Leo “Gerald” POTUS: Sweden has a 100% literacy rate. 100%! How do they do that? LEO: Maybe they don’t and they also can’t count. SAM: The difference between a good speech and a great speech is the energy with which the audience comes to their feet at the end. Is it polite, is it mature, are they standing up because their boss has stood up? No. We want it to come from their socks. DONNA: Ambasador Marbury was just telling me about how royal men are schooled in the ways of courtship. King George the Third, for example, sailed his bride up the River Thames to music that was specially composed. LEO: Yeah. That was just a few years before we opened up a big can of whup-ass on ‘em at Yorktown. POTUS: The number of different words they had for “manipulative” – Leo, there’s no way they didn’t have a thesaurus open in front of them. JOSH: Can I just say this? Why don’t we just give the sixty billion dollars to Korea in exchange for them not bombing us? POTUS: It’s almost hard to believe you’re not on the National Security Counsel. JOSH: I know. I think they’re missing an important voice. |