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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWatched "Lincoln" again over the weekend ...
.... where is our modern day Thaddeus Stevens, callin' the Tea Nutters like he sees'em?
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Watched "Lincoln" again over the weekend ... (Original Post)
Myrina
Nov 2013
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PassingFair
(22,447 posts)1. His name is Alan Grayson

NewJeffCT
(56,848 posts)4. There are a few others as well
but, most of them are ignored by the media
HarveyDarkey
(9,077 posts)6. I never watched it
Did he get the vampires?
Myrina
(12,296 posts)7. Apparently not, there's a bunch of them in DC now
n/t
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)8. I had a really hard time staying awake during that movie.
I could never sit through it twice. LOL
Myrina
(12,296 posts)9. First watch was difficult ...
... but when you start to see how Lincoln is playing 'multi dimensional chess' (Gawd, I can't beleive I'm using that term), it gets more interesting to observe/ponder how he was both active and passive in the whole thing's unfolding. And to add the insanity that must have been his family life ... I guess it paints a picture that 'the grass is NEVER greener' ...