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George Clooney hearts Hillary ... Not!

Posted by Lakshmi Chaudhry at 6:13 PM on December 15, 2005.


Being dissed by a Hollywood hottie is just no fun.

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Being dissed by a Hollywood hottie is just no fun:

The "Syriana" star says he is "frustrated and disappointed" that Clinton and many other Democrats were "scared" to oppose the war on Iraq, and "now they are paying the price."

"I hate it when smart men and women are saying, 'Well, if I knew then what I know now,'" Clooney told the Sunday Times of London. "The fact is: I knew it then and I don’t have national security clearance. . . . Basically, the Democrat leadership was scared [of criticizing Bush] and it’s too bad, because it’s come back to haunt them."

Clooney’s choice for president: Barak Obama. "Of course he doesn’t want to right now; he just wants to be senator for Illinois," Clooney told the paper. "But he could attract the two groups who rarely show up to vote -- young people and blacks. He’s the guy to get behind."

Well, at least he called her "smart."

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Lakshmi Chaudhry is a senior editor at In These Times, and the former senior editor of AlterNet. You can write to her at lakshmi@alternet.org.


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darby19366
Posted by: darby1936 on Dec 16, 2005 9:35 AM   
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It was easy to tell this was a war of choice and not necessity. Bush didn't even want to go to the U. N. and Blair convinced him to at least get that cover. He should have been able to tell that we will have a problem with Turkey, Kurd question sooner or later. Much less Sunni, Shiite, Kurd civil war. I am amazed that billions are spent on the State Department and the Intelligence Department and they didn't warn Bush of the ramifications of his idiotic experiment. Oh wait a minute, they did.

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Can't stand Hillary
Posted by: lamar on Dec 16, 2005 10:06 AM   
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Right wing wackos have always hated Hillary. Not just disliked her, but full on hated her. I think the left is just as disgusted with her shameless pandering. The sight of her face makes me sick.

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Clooney should stay with the organ grinder and out of politics
Posted by: thedude on Dec 16, 2005 10:42 AM   
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Actors, actresses, singers, models, etc. are NOT political experts! Most are high school dropouts who learn their "information" from Variety magazine and not a variety of credible sources. They are nothing more than big overpaid dancing little monkeys who like to flick their excrement opinions at those they don't like. They inundate themselves with propaganda like "Fahrenheit 9/11" and democraticunderground.com and then try to portray themselves as "openminded" while judging others and trying to oppress anyone who disagrees with them.
Clooney, for example was recently noted in People magazine for being "chivalrous" by standing up for a woman who another man was speaking ill of. Clooney stated that we live in an age where people shouldn't speak ill of each other.
And then he turns around and does this! Starts talking smack and being judgmental of Hillary Clinton. But what else would we expect from the same man who ridiculed Charlton Heston's Alzheimer's and then later stated that Mr. Heston deserved such treatment. I wonder how Mr. Clooney would feel if someone did the same thing to his aunt Rosemary?
The Hollywood lefties are a bunch of whiny, spoiled hypocritical brats and nobody with at least a high school education should ever take them seriously!

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In Defense of George Clooney...
Posted by: woodford54 on Jan 11, 2006 9:20 AM   
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The invasion of Iraq was a mistake that ANYONE could see from the very beginning. The fact that those democrats in positions of power chose NOT to speak up, shows that they were pandering to GWB. They just aren't that stupid. They all knew that the precedent of the US invading an "innocent" country was a HUGE mistake. Still they kept quiet.
And, secondly, I also think that Barack Obama would be GREAT!
So, I think Clooney knows a lot more than those who would speak against his ideas.

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jnc
Posted by: jnc306 on Jan 26, 2006 3:08 AM   
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I respect anyone who has the guts to stand up to these maniacs in power. But George, Barak Obama is too nice. He may be elected, but he won't be able to fight them. They are evil, dirty fighters. First we need the house back. Then we need to hold lots of hearings. After lots of them are in jail, we need to run someone who will clean their clocks. Not once, not twice, but like the movie, Groundhog Day, over and over and over again. Also progressives need their own network, maybe financed by George Soros, like the Fox network. Maybe the Democrats or another independent party can run someone like John Galloway from England. He's got more guts than most of the Democrats. If the Democrats had more of him, I guarantee, these brave repubics would not be as nasty as they are. Does anyone know of such a person? We can help finance him or her. He can start running now. Also lets have our own people out their spinning, people like John Galloway. Lets talk about what we want to talk about, not what they want to talk about. Lets get people that can teach us how to counter their tricks. Their marketing. Lets get our own pychological warfare people. They wave the flag, they help braindead people, but don't help the ones that are alive. They are against abortion, but when the babies born, they could care less. They are hypocrites. Also we need a more informed populace. The average American shot themeselves in the foot electing these people, and don't even know it. And you know what? They will do it again!

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What Morons
Posted by: Downinnc on Jan 26, 2006 2:33 PM   
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Democrats no longer hold the house or the senate because they have lost their monopoly on the media. Further, never represented the common person. No longer can they lie and get away with it. With no more Dan Rather, attempting to influence election out comes by declaring winners when they were not. If the liberals speak for the common person then tell me why they have to resort to attacks on the very issues they supported in the pasted. If Democrats are so sure that they speak for the public at large then why are they paying hundred or thousands to such organization as the Pew Charitable Trusts to push for censorship on the internet, and want to re-establish the fairness in broadcasting rules? Funny the Liberals and the democrats were the very ones pushing to get the fairness in broadcasting rules abolished. While liberals speak of, warm fuzzy fairness, and equality for all. They berate, insult, threaten, lie, and refuse to accept responsibility for their actions. Anyone who challenges are accused of bigotry, hatred, or worse. If truth is offered, it is ignored. As far as the comment about the “Progressives” and their own network, Guess what you have it and it is rapidly dieing. It is called CBS, NBC, and NPR just for starters. These Media outlets loose ground everyday. Liberal based production are and have been broadcasted, they fail miserably. Why you ask? It is not reality. It is not entertaining; it is the same old propaganda, not to mention embarrassing. People want the truth. What is missed is the average American, contrary to the Hollywood limousine liberals, Kennedy, Boxer, and the rest liberal elite are not dumb. The truth is filtering through. The middle class is waking up. They are sick of working so hard and forced to support a corrupt government. They are sick of giving up their rights because liberals do not like them, and feel they know best. The people do not want what the liberals are selling. We want our constitutional rights, we want our freedom. In addition, Lovers of liberty should expose calls to restore the Fairness Doctrine for the fraudulent power-grab that they plainly are. And the right, in particular, needs to understand how much it has benefited from a deregulated media universe. It should be confident that it has the right ideas, and that when it gets the chance to present them directly to the American people--as the new media have allowed it to do--it will win the debate. This though scares the hell out of the left.

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