“Primary Colors II”

In the climactic scene of the movie from the (Anonymous) Joe Klein novel, John Travolta-Jack Stanton-Bill Clinton importunes a young, idealistic African-American young man, “We can do incredible things. We can change this country. I’m gonna win this thing. Look me in the eye, Henry, and tell me that you don’t want to be a part of it.”

In the sequel, Henry has morphed into Barack Obama, and he is still in it, this time not as part of the steamroller but as its target.

In an early scene of the original, a politician talking to the candidate asks the aspiring First Lady, “You don’t mind us talking business, do you?” and she answers wryly, “No, no. How else could I learn?”

Cross-posted from my blog. More here