Obama channels his inner-LBJ

Anyone who knows me IRL (in real life) knows I’ve cultivated a little man-crush on LBJ this last year or so. LBJ was the real cowboy President played by Bush the younger and the Sainted Ronald Reagan . The man had no problems playing the dirtiest of politics , was certainly one of the more interesting of White House occupants, and probably the second-most successful President with regards to domestic policy , Vietnam aside). I definitely think that the Obama may have been inspired by LBJ as well, particularly in terms of his accumulation and implementation of power and influence . See this in the WaPo via Hullabaloo : Obama’s poker buddies encouraged him to stand up to Hendon and Trotter [more senior members of the black caucus who didn’t think Obama was black enough and too ’different’], but he refused. Not his style, he said. And why sink to their level? When Hendon ridiculed Obama, his standard comeback was a dismissive ...