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In reply to the discussion: "Matt Damon Whines About Getting Brad Pitt’s Rejected Roles" [View all]freshwest
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Go for instant gratification much, Matt? On his being 'disappointed' so early on:
In short, if youre still disappointed in Barack Obama, its only because you never understood whose job it was to produce change in the first place.
And I'm even wondering if the willful ignorance has another portion to it. Except he says he is for public schools and for unions. *cheers*
But he's not working to be elected to a school board or even state wide office, instead he thinks media air time changes things, like magic. Just like other 1% gadflies. Is he in this for another reason, I'd like to know:
But dont take out your own failings in this regard on the rest of us, by giving ideological cover and assorted journalistic love taps to a guy who believes the poor should rely on the charitable impulses of doctors to provide for their medical needs, including, one presumes, chemotherapy; or that America was meant to be a robustly Christian nation, but is being currently undermined by secularists; or who puts the term gay rights in quotation marks when he writes it, and believes states should be free to criminalize homosexual intercourse, and who is such a homophobe that he wont even use the bathroom in a gay mans house; or who has all but said that he would like to take America back to the early 1800s, in terms of the scope of government: a truly glorious time to be sure, if you were white, male and owned property.
Of which I am sure Matt is none of those. Well, some of those, let's cut him some slack. But what I don't care for is what you're telling me, that this is a thoughtless, long-term pattern of trashing the president.
Only one group benefits from that strategy. There is being clueless or ignorant and then there is the petty and willful ignorance of asking 'why, why, why' and proclaiming outrage, when anyone with half a brain knows why things are like they are. And it ain't Obama.
So when it's all said and done, only one party benefits from this and these media folks are not our friends here:
Ya know, like some of the liberal thinkers who have, as of late, decided to praise Ron Paul.
http://www.timwise.org/2012/01/of-broken-clocks-presidential-candidates-and-the-confusion-of-certain-white-liberals/
Ron = Rand. SSDD. Same philosophy that does not support public schools, which gained liberal fans for Matt in some brief interviews, like me, which I had hoped weren't phony. Nope, they want them all gone and if he is serious, he can help .
If not, the continued whining is for something else. He isn't working on solutions, but dissolution. Get to work Matt, or we'll think you were conning us. FDR had a Democratic dominated house and senate in his corner. We don't. Try working for this to make it better:

The country needs all the help we can possibly get to to accomplish what you said you're unhappy about. You know how to do publicity.