Moore: "Where's Our Arnold?"

[Jack_Dawson]

I may have found him...

[henslee]

1. Does he have the stomach, Jack D? He sure seems like he's having a

lot of fun.

[Jack_Dawson]

3. He's the MAN

Did you see his Esquire interview?

[jean]

10. a link to Clooney's Esquire interview

http://clooneynews.com/esquire05.htm

George talks about being President:

If I were president? Well, I’d do a few things. You realize that in order to be elected, I’d have to run on the “Yep, I did it” ticket. “Is it true that you did drugs?” Yep, I did it. “Did you sleep with …?” Yep, I did it.


And if I was somehow elected after all that, then I’d be shot because the first thing I’d try to do is take oil off the table. But let’s say I tried to do it. Remember when Kennedy got the space program going in 1961, saying in ten years we’d put a guy on the moon? At that point, rockets were falling off launchpads and monkeys were getting killed and there were people who said, This guy is out of his mind. But we did land on the moon in 1969. And new technologies came out of that experience.


So if I’m president, I say, “We’re at war? Really?” Because it doesn’t seem like it. Usually when you’re at war, people sacrifice. Let’s face it, Rosie the Riveter ain’t exactly out there. The only sacrifice I see is coming from the 150,000 kids who enlisted and had the war dropped in their laps. So, okay, this is a war? Let’s take the other side’s weapons away. Their weapon is oil. Ten years from today, we’re not going to have cars that run on internal-combustion engines. At some point we’re going to have to do it anyway, because oil is finite. So why don’t we take the leap right now?

If we take oil off the table now, suddenly all of those little countries that really didn’t come into power until the thirties -- and did so only because there was oil under their sands -- will go back to the sort of power structure that they were originally designed to have. They don’t get to control our economy. The Saudis don’t get to own a billion dollars’ worth of American stock and a billion dollars of our debt. We take away the thing that makes them so powerful, and we create a new technology along the way. It’s a new day.

[K-W]

13. I like that part of his platform an aweful lot.

A non-apocalyptic solution to our problems. How refreshing.

[Downtown Hound]

2. I'd vote for him if he ever ran

[DU9598]

8. Ashton Kutcher

I look for him to return to Iowa to run someday - hopefully for Governor. Ashton gave the best political speech I heard this entire campaign season when he was in Des Moines with Sen. Kerry. I would quit my job to campaign for him. I would also marry him (if that was legal in Iowa), but I digress.

[zbdent]

4. Clooney, right?

Wasn't he on Leno or something saying that the actors should be thankful for the big tax cut they're going to get under *?

I took that as having given up.

[Jack_Dawson]

5. Clooney hates *

n/t

[Ravenseye]

6. Oh Puh-lease!

Clooney?

Clooney?

*sigh*

Didn't anyone watch 'The Facts of Life'?

[Jack_Dawson]

7. You mean Tootie?

Or Blair? Or Jo? Or Natalie?

:wtf:

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

9. his dad, surprisingly, did horriibly in KY

had a 14 point lead in the congressional race in the spring, but ended up losing to a religious extremist by 10 points

[Jack_Dawson]

15. Did Kentucky have BBV?

:shrug:

[tk2kewl]

11. I prefer my ticket: DeNiro-Pacino

these guys will make Ahnold look like the girlie-man
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=2399068&mesg_id=2399068

[wicket]

12. *drool*

Hehehehehe :)

[TyeDye75]

14. Juh wanna fuck wi me Bush..../nt

[Artemis Bunyon]

16. Clooney's not enough of a washed-up self-parody to be an "Arnold."

x

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

17. the media would never give him credibility

remeber when warren beatty considered a run? judy woodruff featued it as "news of the weird" as opposed to her glowing wall-to-wall conferral of legitimacy on ahnold

[K-W]

19. If we cant solve the media problem, it wont matter who we run.

Any speculation on progressive candidates should be predicated on a progressive movement that can battle the power and influence of the right.

[rman]

18. what's an "Arnold"?

To me Swartzenegger stands for all that's wrong the popularity race that elections have become, including media complicity, rigged elections and politicians' pandering to corporations. Didn't Arnold get Enron off the hook wrt the California lawsuit concerning manipulation of the energy market?