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WahooRQ

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Anyone else checked out "All the Way" (HBO's movie about LBJ)?


Just checked it out last night. Bryan Cranston is, as always, amazing. Thought the film did a good job at showing how compromise, horse-trading, political maneuvering, and long play are essential parts of enacting reform too. Nice contrast between the wide-eyed liberals who wanted to snap their fingers and make everything right and LBJ who knew how to get things done.

Also couldn't help but notice the striking similarities between the horrible reactionary senators and congressmen then (who were Deomcrats) and their contemporary counterparts (who are Republicans largely because of what LBJ had the balls to do). Basically the same rhetoric in a different package.

Posted: 05/22/2016 at 1:04PM



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  It's drama, not necessarily history. -- DanTheFan 05/22/2016 3:46PM
  Somewhere in between -- DanTheFan 05/22/2016 4:34PM
  Interesting post. Always been an LBJ fan. ** -- Northbomb 05/22/2016 3:20PM
  Some things never change, eh? -- PalmyraHoo 05/22/2016 1:33PM
  A different GOP then. -- DanTheFan 05/22/2016 8:07PM
  Interested to hear your thoughts on Goldwater. -- WahooRQ 05/22/2016 8:52PM
  Do you mean indoctrination? ** -- Tuckahokie 05/23/2016 07:29AM
  No I did not. ** -- 111Balz 05/23/2016 10:32AM
  Thanks for the reminder ** -- wahoo138 05/22/2016 1:19PM

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