“You think I'm licked,” Senator Smith tells them. “You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked! And I'm going to stay right here and fight for this lost cause. Even if the room gets filled with lies like these, and the Taylors and all their armies come marching into this place. Somebody’ll listen to me…”*
For now, the Clinton team’s lies have temporarily slowed Senator Obama’s advance toward the nomination. Our modern-day “Senator Smith” has a tough fight ahead of him. But it is no “lost cause.”
America, are you listening?
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Dialogue above is from, “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”. Screenplay by Sidney Buchman, story by Lewis R. Foster. Directed by Frank Capra.
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