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...small things in life often matter most, for they lack the frivolous and the superfluous that can obscure the essential. So it is with modern liberalism. To understand its modus operandi, we need to look at nothing so grand as FDR's New Deal or LBJ's Great Society. We need only look at our telephone bills...
...better actor. The cast is stacked (down to Jeff Goldblum and Harry Shearer in small parts), the film is luxuriantly long, and darn it if it don't make you want to finally learn how to fold the flag just right. But after seeing Annie Glenn kick LBJ out of her house, CP can only hope that this time, Bill Clinton knows enough to stay away...
Other epithets, many not so complimentary, play on proper names. To Hoover is to inhale or consume greedily; Ike is an uncouth fellow; LBJ, the military's Long Binh jail in Vietnam; Jerusalem Slim, the radical syndicalists' derisive name for Jesus; Oscar, an unpleasant or foolish man. Joe gets more than three pages of entries, among them Joe Lunchpail, an ordinary working man, and Joe Sad, black English for a friendless or unpopular man. John Wayne wins nine citations. To John-Wayne is to attack with great force; a John Wayne cookie is a military field-ration biscuit...
...made in the summer of 1964 reveal a man who despite his successes, never really felt like he belonged out front. "The South is against me and the North is against me and the Negroes are against me and the press doesn't really have any affection for me," LBJ told associates on the tapes, newly released by Johnson's presidential library in Austin. "I don't think a white Southerner is the man to unite this nation in this hour." When it was pointed out that if he didn't run, Republican Barry Goldwater would get the White House...
...movie twice uses footage of existing Clinton speeches to imply that the President is speaking about a message from the aliens, an extension of a tactic Zemeckis used in "Forrest Gump," where the protagonist was cut into historical footage so that he appeared to be talking to everyone from LBJ to Nixon. Clinton lawyer Charles Ruff says Zemeckis effectively gave the President a role in the film without his authorization, and has sent Warner Brothers a letter charging the film improperly manipulated the President's statements and used his image for commercial purposes. A Warner Brothers spokeswoman says the company...