Video: In case you were wondering who Tom Hanks is voting for
posted at 1:33 pm on May 4, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Less irritating than you’d expect thanks to his self-deprecation and candor. There’s no nutrootsy pretense here about having closely studied anyone’s platform; he wants a black president and he likes what he’s seen of the guy’s character, case closed. Most people will vote for similar intangibles, or because there’s one issue above all on which they agree with their candidate (e.g., me backing Captain Amnesty for his Iraq policy). Which, incidentally, explains why the Wright and Ayers associations are legitimate issues.
Exit question one: Is it really true that Adams’s succession of Washington was the first peaceful transfer of power to a non-relative in history? The Romans managed that once or twice, I believe. Exit question two: Who cares what Tom Hanks thinks? Answer: Who cares what anyone thinks? Celebrity endorsements are supposed to be inherently ridiculous but do you really hold his opinion in any lower regard than, say, the Times editorial board’s?
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“Truth is their basis for policy”.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
SouthernGent on May 4, 2008 at 1:37 PM
I want a black president too!
In fact, if Professor Walter E. Williams was running, I’d vote for him 100 times!
TexasJew on May 4, 2008 at 1:41 PM
I don’t know who he is supporting for president, but another celebrity who is falsely portrayed as conservative is Kevin Costner. Costner has voted donk since 1992.
Blake on May 4, 2008 at 1:43 PM
I’m sorry that Hooch took a bullet for this guy..
TexasJew on May 4, 2008 at 1:43 PM
Not irritating at all. I really like El Hanko
Baphomet on May 4, 2008 at 1:45 PM
LOL! Sucker!
peacenprosperity on May 4, 2008 at 1:46 PM
Kip votes for Obama: Hildy throws her arms up.
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deesine on May 4, 2008 at 1:46 PM
Michael Steele!
John the Libertarian on May 4, 2008 at 1:48 PM
It would be interesting to see just what Mr. Hanks would pay in taxes when BHO is in office. It would be even more interesting to see what all that jack would be used for.
BHO is not dangerous because of his heritage or skin color. He’s dangerous because of the of the ideas he wants to implement in our country.
john1schn on May 4, 2008 at 1:48 PM
Hey, noone’s perfect. Still like the guy.
mikeyboss on May 4, 2008 at 1:49 PM
Sounds like he wants to make a movie about this little bit of history. Who will play the FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT???
ctmom on May 4, 2008 at 1:51 PM
There is a quote somewhere from Hanks where he makes fun of Paul Newman’s political views. Seems that when they were making a movie together (I believe it was “Road to Perdition”), Hanks said that Newman was always on the set passing around leftwing stories. Hank’s said he would just roll his eyes and laugh at Newman each time.
Might be a modicum of common sense in him.
By Hollywood standards, admittedly, that’s not extending too much credit. In the land of the knucklehead, the smallest knucklehead is king.
SteveMG on May 4, 2008 at 1:53 PM
I think this goes to show that many libs are good-natured and idealistic, though most of us here tend to find them naive on some matters.
mikeyboss on May 4, 2008 at 1:53 PM
Life, in Forrest Gumps world, is like a bowl of liberals.
You always know what yer gonna git.
Kini on May 4, 2008 at 1:54 PM
That would be Morgan Freeman, who already played the part in Deep Impact.
Let’s hope the first real black President doesn’t also include our destruction.
http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/do_we_really_want_another_black
SPCOlympics on May 4, 2008 at 1:56 PM
Loose talk can cost lives.
Shy Guy on May 4, 2008 at 2:00 PM
Seismic shift???? What to direct socialism?
Was this a joke?
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on May 4, 2008 at 2:04 PM
Meh. He’s a likable bloke, surrounded by Barking Moonbats, who still manages to strike a moderate tone, long on idealism and short on pomposity. He’s also a bright fellow, so I’m a little disappointed that he didn’t seem to detect the inherent racism of wanting A Black Man to be president…cos he’s, y’know, black.
Still, Hanks is a consistently serious and talented actor and producer, and is a major advocate for human space exploration (which places him securely in my Cool Book). He would have to work pretty hard to evoke more than a puff of ire from me.
And, yes, as previously mentioned, he struck just the right tone of self-deprecating mockery for the whole notion of the Celebrity Endorsement to disarm me over even such a colossally goofy decision as a vote for the Junior Senator from IL.
Noocyte on May 4, 2008 at 2:04 PM
Perhaps Hanks and many others should view the BAMBOOZLED YouTube of Barack.
SouthernGent on May 4, 2008 at 2:04 PM
Who cares what hanks or any of the peddlers of filth say they want to vote for? Not me!
Bambi on May 4, 2008 at 2:05 PM
YES! I noticed that, too! How’s that for an unacknowledged irony! It oculd only have been improved if there had been an issue of the New York Times lying around in the frame.
Noocyte on May 4, 2008 at 2:06 PM
BIG picks little.
profitsbeard on May 4, 2008 at 2:08 PM
How the Doge of Veince? And Venice was a “great nation” as Hanks specified during much of the Middle Ages. On the other hand, was the United States a “great nation” in 1797? While we may say it was in terms of ideas, it certainly wasn’t powerful.
I found Hanks much less annoying the Times editorial board. While I think his reasoning is shallow, at least it’s honest unlike what the Times will come up with.
thuja on May 4, 2008 at 2:09 PM
He’s a good actor, very entertaining, and he has only a few films that he has starred in that I did not like. One of things I like about Tom Hanks also
iswas that he kept his mouth shut about politics, for the most part, and didn’t try to use his celebrity resulting from his exceptional thespian ability as some sort of holier-than-thou prequalification to tell us all how to live and how to vote.But, Tom, please… just STFU and act. It was one of the endearing things about you.
SilverStar830 on May 4, 2008 at 2:11 PM
MALDEF Opposes Border Enforcement First
Allowing Drugs in While They Fight For Amnesty
Lou Dobbs Tonight — CNN — May 1
Dobbs: All right. Let me ask you this, if, in point of fact, we could secure the borders, would you be willing to secure those borders and ports, and then begin the process of reforming our laws or would you resist that idea absolutely?
Trasvina – MALDEF: The two go hand in hand. Legalization is helping us secure the nation. [...]
Dobbs: We could have had — we would be on the issue right now. We could be undergoing a very vigorous reform of our immigration laws had your organization and others not resisted securing that border.
Trasvina: Absolutely not. You’re just incorrect, Lou. The people who want to debate on the bill want to move forward.
Dobbs: Do you want to legalize marijuana, heroin, cocaine, methamphetamines? Because that’s what — those drugs are killing people in the very ethnic group that you purport to represent.
Trasvina: Look, Lou, you can get on different subjects all you want. On the issue of immigration…
Dobbs: I’m not — it’s all about the border, it’s all about securing this border, it’s all about enforcing our laws.
DfDeportation on May 4, 2008 at 2:11 PM
A black president? Hell yes - THOMAS SOWELL FOR PRESIDENT!
Barack Obama? No f-ing way.
Django on May 4, 2008 at 2:13 PM
Haw!
Haw!
whitetop on May 4, 2008 at 2:16 PM
Hanks repeats the old canard about blacks being valued as 3/5 of a human being. That figure had nothing to do with worth, but apportionment of representatives to Congress. And it was the anti -slavery forces that proposed the fraction, lest slave states be over represented.
alacrityfitzhugh on May 4, 2008 at 2:17 PM
I really like Tom Hanks.
Last week I went to a presentation Hanks gave for the 40th anniversary of 2001:A Space Odyssey. He got to introduce Buzz Aldrich to the audience, and was just so charming about it.
MayBee on May 4, 2008 at 2:22 PM
:-/
Anyhoo…This is still more of the same old “image” thing. “Hope”, “Change”, and “Yes, we can!” are hardly qualifications for POTUS.
JetBoy on May 4, 2008 at 2:23 PM
***Buzz Aldrin****
MayBee on May 4, 2008 at 2:23 PM
Ladies & germs, I give you…William….Jefferson….Clinton. In Ted Danson-style Black Face.
‘Cause he bagged more black women than B. HUSSEIN Obama, natch.
dmh0667 on May 4, 2008 at 2:25 PM
SPQR ftw!
Tacitus on May 4, 2008 at 2:28 PM
I haven’t gone to the movies in at least 25 years. About the only thing I watch on network TV is Jeopardy so I don’t know too much about today’s great thespians. All I know is Hanks was on some moronic TV show wearing a dress.
Jeff on May 4, 2008 at 2:30 PM
AP:
Oooohhh, tough question!
irishspy on May 4, 2008 at 2:35 PM
Yawn. Hollywood actor endorses a liberal. wake me up when there is some NEWS because this does not qualify.
HawaiiLwyr on May 4, 2008 at 2:41 PM
So do I, in the movies that is. But I wouldn’t want to hang with him.
Celebrity endorsements are the equivalent of an infomercial of a product you wouldn’t purchase in the first place.
It slices, it dices, it taxes you to no end. What would you pay for this incredible product?
Kini on May 4, 2008 at 2:41 PM
I will never understand how one can look at Obama and see character and strength. I am not seeing what Tom Hanks et al sees. I don’t care about skin color or gender. We all want a better America, don’t we? Is Barack a qualified leader? The last I saw the polls mistrusted him, yet still would vote for him. I have no idea why this is so and have no idea what Tom Hanks sees when he looks at Obama. It is all very perplexing.
Conservatives R Us on May 4, 2008 at 2:43 PM
How can I listen to some dude who was stuck on some island for 4 years, and developed a close and emotional relationship with a volley ball? The guy is out of touch with reality.
iamse7en on May 4, 2008 at 2:44 PM
Oh, dear God! I am crying tears of genuine joy at this, my first concrete evidence that the dreaded AllahPundit Obama Endorsement will not be forthcoming…
Jaibones on May 4, 2008 at 2:47 PM
Man who had sex with mentally disabled teen gets 1 1/2 years
Associated Press - May 3, 2008 5:05 PM ET
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) - A Sheboygan man who admitted having sex with a mentally disabled teen has been sentenced to 1 1/2 years in prison.
Forty-4-year-old Juan Aguilar pleaded no contest in February to charges of exposing himself to a child and causing a child to view pornography.
The girl is 17, but court records say she has the mental capacity of a third- or fourth-grader.
Defense attorney Thomas Gerleman had asked the judge to sentence Aguilar to probation only. He said Aguilar had no criminal history and worked to send money to his family in Mexico.
Assistant district attorney Jim Haasch recommended two years in prison, saying the offense was too serious for just probation.
Sheboygan County Circuit Judge James Bolgert says he considered both Aguilar’s character and the girl’s condition when he levied the sentence.
The judge noted that Aguilar is an illegal immigrant who’s expected to be deported at the end of his prison sentence.
Information from: The Sheboygan Press, http://www.sheboygan-press.com
And Juan “Z-Visa” McCain calls these people….God’s Children????
DfDeportation on May 4, 2008 at 2:48 PM
I second the motion.
Red Pill on May 4, 2008 at 2:54 PM
Stupid is as stupid does.
Buford Gooch on May 4, 2008 at 2:55 PM
Well, Allah, we use them there celebrities to sell us everything from diapers to calcium replacements, why not POTUS?
Obviously having the celebrity push something has a positive outcome so politians want the “Hanks Fans” and the “Jolie-Pitt” fans to vote for them.
EJDolbow on May 4, 2008 at 2:58 PM
DfDeportation,
Please stay on topic: Hollywood actor endorses presidential candidate.
deesine on May 4, 2008 at 3:00 PM
J.C. Watts in ‘12.
This is the man that can transcend skin color.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on May 4, 2008 at 3:01 PM
The King’s First Minister (of Britain) Sir Robert Walpole resigned in 1742 and was replaced by Spencer Compton, the 1st Earl of Wilmington.
aengus on May 4, 2008 at 3:02 PM
seems like tom’s audience was his fellow thespians and holywood folks.
“hey, look at me, I’m a liberal actor, just like you.
let’s party”.
hohum.
jimmer on May 4, 2008 at 3:04 PM
Many good comments, here. I especially like the one which points out that Hanks (and the other racist leftists who support Obama first and foremost because they think he’s “black”) is endorsing a candidate on the basis of melanin content, but that he probably has never supported a single black candidate for elected office whose policies were to the right of Mao Tse-Tung (pron. - Mousy Dung).
Let’s keep it real, Tom. You’re voting for lefty because he’s a leftist, and the color scheme is a secondary issue which makes you feel all that much better about yourself, despite your lack of historical knowledge and perspective.
GFY, Tom.
Jaibones on May 4, 2008 at 3:05 PM
spmat on May 4, 2008 at 3:07 PM
Is Hanks a scientologist?
surrounded on May 4, 2008 at 3:09 PM
Disagree with him, but he’s always managed to be eminently likeable even when he is so upfront about his politics.
Reaps on May 4, 2008 at 3:10 PM
When was this video endorsement made?
Blake on May 4, 2008 at 3:11 PM
RE: Thomas Sowelll, Walter Williams, Michael Steele
It’s quite en vogue to posit these names as potential presidential candidates to be nominated by the Republican Party for the office of POTUS. Are people really serious about this or are we just lacking a suitable response to the first black president meme?
Is Michael Steele more qualified than John McCain? Shall we drop the bar even lower?
None of these men is qualified for the Presidency. George W. Bush wasn’t qualified. When will we stop nominating puffballs?
Michael Steele is a Rino.
Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell would alternately put the nation to sleep with their speeches. They are engaging to me, but I’m guessing the typical American will find them snoozable.
IMHO, the most qualified African-American candidate will be Harold Ford Jr, after he runs for and wins Governorship of Tennessee. Too bad he’s a Democrat, albeit a moderate one.
It would be great if Republicans nominated the first qualified black presidential candidate. But our current line-up lacks a real clean up power hitter.
Look, we get it. You’re not racist. You would definitely vote for a black American for President. In fact, you’ve already chosen some quasi-esoteric negroes to start your list.
Rush spoofed the ‘magical negro’ concept only to have it embraced by his own party.
I’ll be out back bustin up tha chiffarobe waiting for Bobby
FisherJindal.The Race Card on May 4, 2008 at 3:12 PM
Hollyweird - “…Roosevelt (whose policies liberals now describe as ‘Nazi’), Truman (whose single act of national defense clarity liberals now describe as ‘genocidal’), JFK (whom liberals simultaneously describe as a deity, while denouncing virtually every policy position that ever came out of his mouth)…”
- wait for it -
“…even Reagan!”
Bwaaaaaahhhahahahahaha!
Asked and answered. Too true. The reality is that we don’t give a crap what either have to say, and yet both parties seem to think that we are sitting around waiting for this transcendent knowledge to be passed down to us, the ignorant masses, so that we might know how to live our pathetic lives.
For the record, as AP so tersely points out, Hanks Fisks himself in his expansive discourse on the wonderful character of the Obamessiah. I myself find his associations, judgement, and - yes - intelligence wanting. Oh, plus the minor inconvenience that he is wrong on nearly every single policy on which he has a stated position.
No sale, Tom. Once again: GFY.
Jaibones on May 4, 2008 at 3:16 PM
Do people actually vote based on an endorsement — by anyone? If not, then why do we hear moaning and groaning when some politician, clergyman or celebrity either doesn’t endorse or endorses the “wrong” candidate?
That would be a really interesting exit poll question: “Was your vote influenced by any group or individual’s endorsement?”
Nichevo on May 4, 2008 at 3:21 PM
As so often - priceless.
As much as I like to read Sowell, you wouldn’t sit still for a speech by any economics professor from U of C. Walter Williams is a little clownish for my tastes. Steele is, indeed, no conservative. Agreed on all.
Let’s face it: corporate America’s riches provide far too attractive a lure for a particularly bright young black to ignore in favor of politics. On the other hand, I can’t think of a handful of white candidates that I would support for the Presidency, either.
Maybe we should shelf the racial crap and focus on the complete lack of intelligent and responsible politicians … period.
Jaibones on May 4, 2008 at 3:23 PM
Great movies Hank, but please just STFU already..and all the rest of Hollyweird.
j0 on May 4, 2008 at 3:23 PM
Please stay on topic: Hollywood actor endorses presidential candidate.
deesine on May 4, 2008 at 3:00 PM
You haven’t figured out who’s endorsing whom yet?
DfDeportation on May 4, 2008 at 3:25 PM
HAHAHAHA…ok, well…I also happen to like Harold Ford Jr….he is probably my favorite democrat…i don’t think i’ve even had a favorite democrat since Pat Moynihan.
Bobby Jindal is wonderful, but i do NOT think Michael Steele is a lightweight…those other two guys, they are like newt, too intellectual to connect with too many voters.
surrounded on May 4, 2008 at 3:26 PM
No. Greek Orthodox.
MayBee on May 4, 2008 at 3:27 PM
So Obama’s misrepresentation of McCain’s “100 years remark” was a “gaffe” then, Hanks? OK.
Seixon on May 4, 2008 at 3:28 PM
Thanks, much better.
deesine on May 4, 2008 at 3:31 PM
Funniest. Post. Easily.
Professor Blather on May 4, 2008 at 3:32 PM
I’m waiting to see who Tom Cruise endorsing. Then I’ll decide. I also wait to see which religion celebs follow.
terryannonline on May 4, 2008 at 3:34 PM
That’s pretty cool, does anyone have hanks e-mail address? Or do you think he wouldn’t care because he thinks everyone reads from a script?
peacenprosperity on May 4, 2008 at 3:34 PM
Hey Tom, it’s a free country, we disagree, but whatever. Thanks for not being a jerk about it. Others have and I don’t watch them anymore. Now go make some more good movies and we’ll be alright.
CP on May 4, 2008 at 3:39 PM
Maybe they have and they’re just voting for a fellow actor…
CP on May 4, 2008 at 3:41 PM
Thank you, allah, for giving me material to use on my blog:
http://brettsconstitution.blogspot.com/2008/05/tom-hanks-is-only-three-fifths-correct.html
radjah shelduck on May 4, 2008 at 4:03 PM
Great post, i added your blog to my reading list.
surrounded on May 4, 2008 at 4:16 PM
My first thought was of Dennis Haysbert.
At least we’d be in good hands.
stivv on May 4, 2008 at 4:18 PM
Tom Hanks is supporting Barack Obama to assuage his liberal guilt. He as much came out and said that. OK. Fair enough. I use other calculations. I’m not voting for Obama.
Paul-Cincy on May 4, 2008 at 4:21 PM
I love his antique/vintage typewriter collection.
surrounded on May 4, 2008 at 4:28 PM
Tom Hanks?
Operation Chaos!
uptight on May 4, 2008 at 4:28 PM
Try every year for almost four and a half centuries. Two new consuls were elected every year from the tme of the expulsion of the King in 510 BC until the republic transitioned into the empire. In emergencies, dictators were given temporary powers, and as the republic died the powerful made a mockery of the position, but a yearly changing of the elected heads of state was the norm in the Roman Republic. Athens was also a democracy with sometimes peaceful shifts of power. What does all this mean…
Tom Hanks is not very smart unless someone else is writing lines for him. BarryO is a looser and so are all his supporters.
tommylotto on May 4, 2008 at 4:33 PM
“The America I have been waiting for?”
Uh,, I like the sinking ship pictured in the background. I hope that may be an omen.
JellyToast on May 4, 2008 at 4:40 PM
His message doesn’t mean squat in the greater scheme of things.
I like Tom Hanks. His endorsement rings a bit too much of the ‘hope-change’ BS (which is BS because Obama represents neither) but hey, Hanks rocked in Charlie Wilson’s War so who cares?
What’s more is that Hanks doesn’t seem to take himself anywhere near as seriously as say….Sean Penn…or Streisand. That has to be a good thing.
Ares on May 4, 2008 at 4:42 PM
Interesting comment about Washington - Adams being the first peaceful transfer of power to a non-relative, since George Washington made no secret of the fact that HIS idol in that regard was one “Cincinnatus”!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnatus
Of course, I wouldn’t expect a good Leftist such as Tom Hanks, to let actual FACTS get in the way of a good fable, with them, they never do!
Dale in Atlanta on May 4, 2008 at 4:46 PM
I did like the little self-deprecating joke about how its a celebrity endorsement. Humility from Hollywood feels good compared to the typical smug.
AbaddonsReign on May 4, 2008 at 4:46 PM
Yeah, it’s all relative.
surrounded on May 4, 2008 at 4:48 PM
The pro-slavery South wanted black people to be counted and single individuals. It was the anti-Slavery North that wanted blacks counted as 3/5 of a person. Why? To lessen the numbers of Southern representation in the Congress.
Tom Hanks did not even know that Adams defended the British soldiers after the Boston Massacre until he produced the movie. I am not so impressed with you Mr. Hanks. If you were still making “Bachelor Party” type movies nobody would care who you endorse. You made a few war films and now your the new Jimmy Stewart. Col Stewart by the way.
RobCon on May 4, 2008 at 4:52 PM
All those cuts you saw, that’s where he broke down laughing. There was one right after he talked about Barack’s character.
hepcat on May 4, 2008 at 4:57 PM
Any artist, or businessperson, with clients in multiple parties, who opens his/her mouth in favor of one, is an utter fool.
Entelechy on May 4, 2008 at 4:57 PM
Fair enough, m’dear.
If we must have a black president, how about this guy? (mild language alert)
Definitely not a RINO.
baldilocks on May 4, 2008 at 4:58 PM
The point is that Republicans/conservatives would be happy to vote for a black person who believes in the things that Sowell and Williams do. Don’t know enough about Steele to know if he’s a RINO, but I’ll take your word for it.
What are the qualifications? The dirty little secret is, the only qualification one needs is receiving the most votes.
Watts? The man, not the area of town.
What’s this “we,” Kemo Sabe? Excuse us Republicans and conservatives for harping on the fact that no, in fact, we aren’t racist. I can’t figure out why we might be sensitive about our status in that regard. Could it be that we’re portrayed as obsessed with destroying blacks, while the other side is portrayed as their staunch allies, when those characterizations are not just wrong, but 180 degrees from right? That we’re accused of racism on a
regulardaily basis, often based on patently absurd logic?Disagree. The “magic negro,” I thought, was that light-skinned, soft-spoken negro who was non-threatening and didn’t make whites feel guilty. I don’t feel guilty in any event, and if you say things I agree with, I don’t much care how you say them or what you look like.
It ain’t the color of one’s skin, it’s the content of one’s character.
misterpeasea on May 4, 2008 at 5:02 PM
“Any artist, or businessperson, with clients in multiple parties, who opens his/her mouth in favor of one, is an utter fool.
Entelechy on May 4, 2008 at 4:57 PM”
Hmmmm…
Tom Cruise believes in L. Ron Hubbard’s cultish fantasy about Xenu, lets everyone know it, and still remains an incredibly powerful and wealthy man.
If he is truly a fool then, by extension, you are saying many many other people are.
Ares on May 4, 2008 at 5:06 PM
Besides Hanks’ white guilt, he doesn’t feel the sting of the increased taxes he would have to pay from his multi-million-dollar-a-year income. He doesn’t find Obama’s voting record on such things as not banning partial birth abortion offensive enough to support Hillary. Apparently, Obama’s socialistic/Marxist philosophy doesn’t bother him either. Bottom line: Hank’s is a typical Hollywood liberal and caring about who he votes for is a waste of my time. He does make good movies, however.
kyarnes on May 4, 2008 at 5:07 PM
Hmmm…I wonder what kind of stink this would have caused if Hanks endorsed McShame. At least with Obama the product matches the packaging unlike the “Great Reagan Republican”.
DanKenton on May 4, 2008 at 5:12 PM
Imagine how much more wealthy he’d be if he’d keep his beliefs to himself. Also, see the effect Oprah’s support for Obama had. Reflect on my statement a bit deeper. It wasn’t what you interpreted it to be.
Entelechy on May 4, 2008 at 5:23 PM
Stupid is as stupid does.
At least that’s what my Momma says.
Black Adam on May 4, 2008 at 5:25 PM
Hey Tom Hanks,
(vulgar and anatomically impossible suggestion / request)
Oh, and the donkey you rode in on, too.
Thank you,
Anton on May 4, 2008 at 5:33 PM
And Thomas Sowell for VP!
oldleprechaun on May 4, 2008 at 5:43 PM
Space exploration is a waste of resources. We need to put all that talent and money into getting sh\t right here on Earth first.
Just the resources (millions and millions)wasted on the space stations toilets could have gone a long way to make better energy efficient cars.
What I do like about NASA is it’s advances in weapons delivery etc. That is money well spent and goes a long way to get stuff right.
TheSitRep on May 4, 2008 at 5:44 PM
Run, Obama, Run!!
RobCon on May 4, 2008 at 5:59 PM
dittos
bigbeas on May 4, 2008 at 6:00 PM
Well, maybe we just like to sit in front of our computers, reading comments, and think we are smarter than the average bear……. who knows, kills time inbetween bowl movements if you are alone, drowns out the kids on a Sunday afternoon, or maybe, just maybe we care what Tom Hanks thinks…………. Naaaaaaaaa, it’s the bowl movement thing.
Seven Percent Solution on May 4, 2008 at 6:15 PM
The sadly obligatory Hollywood-lefty America-bashing comments.
The country never said that, Tom. Really. For the purposes of representation in Congress, the country says that non-citizens don’t count at all. Does that mean the country says that non-citizens are not human beings, Tom? Like Obama says, we don’t need this kind of hateful rhetoric Tom, it distracts us from the real issues.
And Tom? I know the America you’ve lived in all your life is wretched and evil, but what, exactly, is your personal beef with America? It throws millions of dollars at you for pretending to be someone you aren’t?
Unfortunate timing on Tom’s part to bring up Bambi’s character and integrity right after his pastor of 20 years has put the lie to Mr. HopeyChange.
misterpeasea on May 4, 2008 at 6:16 PM
Just today I saw a bumper sticker on a libs (judging from the many other stickers)car that read, “It’s never too later to have a happy childhood”. It hit me, this person (they) never grew up.
Also drove by a truck pulling a rather large inboard boat. The name of the boat was “Global Warmer” Ha.
chewydog on May 4, 2008 at 6:25 PM
Shoudents we likes ya know wait if we be wantins ta be really likes so cool until we likes ya know find out whut candundate Geoge Clooney, Leonardo DiGillieo, Brittney and Paris are supotin too befo supotin some candundidate weselves?
MB4 on May 4, 2008 at 6:30 PM
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