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Katrina vanden Heuvel: What Does Obama Really Think?

If the president "went Bulworth," he could pull lyrics straight from Warren Beatty's 1998 film.

Press Room

May 29, 2013

What if President Obama, who has fantasized about “going Bulworth”—or busting out with what he really thinks—went Bulworth? As Nation editor-in-chief Katrina vanden Heuvel says on The Young Turks, Obama could riff right off the fictional Bulworth, a senator from California depicted in Warren Beatty’s 1998 film of the same name:

We got babies in South Central Dying as young as they do in Peru We got public schools that are nightmares got a Congress that ain’t got a clue.

Or:

You are too big to jail And too big to fail And we’ll keep paying you that tribute So long as you continue to contribute.

James Cersonsky

What if all pundits went Blitzer? Check out Tom Tomorrow’s toon.

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