Cut me, Mick.

As I’ve said before, I’m not a very politically-minded person. As such, it excites me most when politicians make poorly conceived movie references in their speeches. In case you haven’t heard, though I’m not sure how that’s possible, Hillary Clinton recently spent some time in Philadelphia drawing parallels between herself and the city’s number one son, Rocky Balboa.

So what exactly is Hillary trying to say? As most people have pointed out, though he fights valiantly and goes the distance against a much more skilled opponent, Rocky loses his bout against Apollo Creed (pictured left) in the 1976 classic. If Hillary is Rocky, then Barack Obama is obviously supposed to be Apollo Creed. That makes sense, considering he’s a much more skilled orator. Or maybe she’s talking about Rocky III, in which case Barack Obama would be Clubber Lang (pictured right).

Or maybe she’s saying that she’ll never give up against the Republicans, in which case John McCain would be Clubber Lang. Then I’m sure we’d see this from Obama and Clinton when they inevitably team up to defeat evil. The point is that her reference was just plain silly. Are the people of Philadelphia really going to be wooed by a movie reference? Then again, they do have a statue of Rocky in the city. And he’s not even a real person.