moonbat, wasn’t that movie interesting? (I never used to like Daniel Day-Lewis much, but his Lincoln was maybe the best film performance I’ve ever seen.)
Screenwriter Tony Kushner’s plot, if it can be called that, made me realize that something bold but transitory, like the Emancipation Proclamation (which movie-Lincoln points out will have no force once the Civil War is over), can become a historical landmark in the popular imagination, while the real watershed, the 13th Amendment, isn’t much talked about in history class or mentioned as the great accomplishment it is. I think this may have something to do with squeamishness over the making of sausage. (See: the original sleazy lobbyist, Mr. Bilbo, hilariously portrayed by James Spader.)
The Benghazi flap and the hacks behind it are redolent of the same kinds of historical characters and various dust-ups portrayed in the film – the same bombast, bluster, and small-mindedness that had to be overcome to achieve something great.
I suppose it’s a good thing members of Congress no longer carry walking sticks or are prone to “demand satisfaction of yuh, sir,” although I would pay money to see somebody slap Boehner across the pumpkin with a Size L kid glove.
