# 26 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Absolutely beautiful!!!! If there wasn't a better movie to display why our Senators and Congressmen need term limits! Young and idealistic versus Washington Politics. The story hasn't changed even 70-something years later! I felt the urge to watch this movie, being that in a few weeks "Mrs. Anderson goes to Washington," (as well as "Mr. Loki goes to Washington") and because I am currently applying for a internship at the Democratic National Committee for while I am home. The story is about the ideals that we learn in the innocence of our childhood. How our age and our own desires corrupt those views. We are taught as children that we should do good things for our fellow man. Be charitable. Share (although views of "sharing" and helping those less fortunate would go against our Capitalist society, and I'm sure the fact that the children in the movie were pooling their money together for their camp would probably be deemed Socialist nowadays, huh?). But we need to stop letting our own wants and needs and greed cloud our mind and simply do what is right and what is best for our fellow man. Amazing movie. I certainly have a new movie to add to my list of favorites. And might I add that Mr. Smith was sitting on the left side (meaning that our hero was a Democrat!).