Dear Mr. President,
I turned on the TV when I got home from work yesterday afternoon and saw you were holding a press conference. At first I thought it was weird you were wearing the flight suit, but I got over it when I realized the how powerful your words were.
He sounds strong, I thought,
almost presidential. But when you actually got into the jet, I realized I was on the wrong channel and had been watching
Independence Day. So here's my question: Whatever happened to Jeff Goldblum? I always liked that guy. You've got almost no pull in the Pacific time zone, but maybe you know someone who knows someone who could get Goldblum back on the big screen. Thanks, man.
Sincerely,
Daniel Carlson
P.S. Even if you help me out with the Jeff Goldblum thing, I'll still think you're a douche. Sorry. That's the way it goes.
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I, too think Jeff Goldblum is underused.
Bill Puhlman for President.
...Special
ps Bush rocks
i used to have a mad crush on jeff goldblum. i was like 12. don't question it.
bush... sigh. I don't even know what else to say anymore.
Do you listen to Democracy Now? Amy Goodman interviewed Nawal El Saadawi, the author/doctor running for President in Egypt, and she commented that if Bush continues to claim Egypt's steps towards democracy as the US' acheivements, he runs the risk of undermining said acheivements. It was a really interesting point about the importance of people having the ability to claim their revolutionary movements as their own. The alternative meant that the democratization of whatever entity is in question (Egypt in this case) is no longer "by the people," and is thus negated.
umm... but yeah, now that i've gone entirely off topic... jeff goldblum is cool.
Dan, did you do something to your blog cite that would make it less difficult to load. I can't remember if I'd mentioned this, but whenever I came to your blog cite it took like, two minutes to load up. Now it doesn't. Hmm?
I am torn here becuase I was thinking it was uncool to call the president "a douche." Even if you don't like him I figure there should be some respect for his office.
But then I got to thinking about Clinton and his outright lying about sex and didn't his vice president claim to have started the internet? I don't know if I have ever called them things like that, but I don't get a warm fuzzy when I think about them.
So I guess I don't know what I think about that. Feel free to continue insulting him until I figure out what I think about it. How do you feel about people not respecting the office of the president of the United States?
I have plenty of respect for the office, often more respect than I feel is being given by the man holding the position. I'm not saying it's a worthless position or that I do not value our government; it's not, and I do. But I was calling Dubya himself a douche. It's like when you get in trouble when you're a little kid and your parents tell you that what you've done is stupid. They're not calling you stupid, only your acts. I'm using a similar type of distinction when I call Bush a moron; it's not the office of the president itself I have a problem with, merely the s***kicker they've got running it.
Al Gore never said he invented the internet. He initiated a bill that helped finance the creation of the internet, and so when he said that he helped create he internet he was in fact telling the truth. Republican political campaigns took this seemingly outrageous claim and distorted it.
Clinton: Great president. Lady's man. Crappy husband.
Word.
Kyle, I think we all know that Al Gore never initiated anything in his life except that horribly awkward kiss between him and Tipper.
So when he said he helped create the internet, he was lying. He helped facilitate the growth of the internet, maybe. But the internet was created long before any of us were born.
Either way, lying of that caliber is silly compared with lying to a grand jury like William. Good president? Argueable. Least moral man in the office since Nixon? Easy.
Dan, I hate to contradict you, but I think that this president shows more respect to his office than anyone in your state. Certainly more than anyone in the office this decade.
Also, your previous analogy is flawed. If you said that some of W's actions were bad, it would be like telling your child their action is wrong. What you did was say that the writer of this blog wouldn't listen to reason from the right if his life depended on it, but Dan is a cool and funny guy.
Right now W and the president are fairly hard to separate. So you can say that he does things poorly, and I notice that you do so (and usually laugh), but I have a hard time seeing someone be respectful and insulting at the same time.
That's why I said the comparison between acts/person were similar, not exact. Also, W is the only person to hold the office this decade, so by your reasoning he's also shown it less respect than anyone in this decade. As long as we're making poorly formulated and sweeping generalizations about entire regions of the country, no one in your state has the balls to question the choices that Fearless Leader seems to be making.
I would love to hear reason from the right, just as I would love to hear reason from the left. Helping to polarize us won't help anything. And can you blame me for being scared of the right after Bill Frist and Justice Sunday?
Tucker,
1. Why do you hate to contradict Dan, and not me? Is it because you know Dan? I'm a cool and funny guy, too. At least my mom and wife tell me so.
2. There is more to do with morality than making mistakes and repenting of them. I believe Bill did both of these. I believe it shows great deal of character when someone can say, "I made a big, freakin' mistake. I'm sorry." Now, you can debate his sincerety, but he admitted his mistake. When asked if he'd made any mistakes in his first term Dub said he couldn't think of any. Not even telling us we were going to war for WMDs and then changing it to liberation half way through when there weren't any WMDs. (Not saying that this was entirely his fault, but I think he could have said, "Yo, my bad. But let's get Saddam anyway, what d'ya say?" I could have respected that a little.
3. What I meant when I said that Gore helped finance the creation of the internet, I was specifically referring to the internet as we know it today, not the underdeveloped net of government maintained info-graveyards, or whatever obscure thing it was used for. So I think the fact that Gore "helped facilitate the growth of the internet" (your words) is something to his credit and not something to be taken out of context and beaten him over the head with.
4. Why should we respect the office of the president when it is held by someone we disrespect? Why do we have to respect the office, period. Most of the time I struggle with respecting ANY politician until they've retired and they tell us what they really think. (admittedly Dems are worse about this because they are a bunch of putangs. Something that angers me to no end. It does seem to be getting a little better[?])
And to Dan. I am assuming Tucker is in Texas (although maybe still in Germany?). There are many people standing against Bush here. The Texas Democrats who fought the highly unethical redistricting a few years ago are some of my heros. Unfortunately, the majority of Texans see that a president wears a cowboy hat and drawls his vowels and suddenly Texas pride kicks in. Don't get me wrong, I love Texas, but sometimes the stubborness is unbecoming. See Jim Hightower.
Kyle, I hate to contradict you too, since you also hate politicians.
I think Bush should have said that he made some mistakes. None of us are perfect. But if Damer (sp?) said he was sorry, I wouldn't think him more moral than someone who believes they do things correctly.
Oh, and the redistricting thing was pretty crappy. I can't believe they changed the distracts back to what they were (at least closer) before Democrats (run back to Oklahoma) changed them 30 years ago.
Dan, by decade I meant ten years. I think there have been two presidents in the past ten years.
Also, Kyle is in my state, and questions W (along with everyone in Austin).
I knew what you probably meant by "decade," but I always feel like keeping the English majors in check by making them use precise language. Since a phrase like "in this decade" is often used to mean "in the '00s" or "in the '90s," I thought it could use a little clearing up. Maybe next time say "in the past 10 years." No confusion.
Sorry to be a d*** about it, but, well, I am.
I Get Paid To Do This,
Daniel
Either way, you still rock my world Dan. Keep up the good work.
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