Now, here’s a shocker:
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has praised Sean Penn for his critical stance against the war in Iraq, saying the two chatted by phone and soon plan to meet in person.
Apparently, one of those clever Penn screeds caught the impressionable dictator’s eye:
Chavez read aloud from a recent open letter by Penn to President Bush in which the actor condemned the Iraq war and called for Bush to be impeached, saying the president along with Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice are “villainously and criminally obscene people.”
After their friendly chat, Chavez was looking forward to the meeting with Penn, who he called “well-informed.”
What’s more, Chavez said, “he’s made great films.”
That, of course, is what really matters.
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To borrow from Laura Ingraham……. Sean Penn…… shut up and act
Better watch it, AW. EvilE™ says that Laura is losing it with her unbalanced screeds. He’s never wrong, you know…
#2 Jimb I am amazed at how prescient Mr E. is!! OF course if she were doomed to muck raking stalls at the race track, would she have been visiting with the President yesterday? LOL
I am forming a new election strategy for the next election. Whoever Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, etc. is supporting, I’m voting against.
Sean Penn is a pudd. However, Fast Times at Ridgemont High was a great movie. He played his role VERY well!
ST sounds like a good plan! Sean Penn is a great actor, but he has gotten so mouthy I don’t want to support his work. ( truthfully I rarely go to movies anyway)
#4 ST
Who said he was acting?
May they meet soon IN Venezuela and may Penn renounce his American cirizenship and become a Venezuelan. Sean Penn is a fool
#7 Dov: PFFFFFTTTT! I thought he was part of the “cruise ship” to Canada, if GWB got re-elected. That “Love Boat” never set sail. Why can’t these actors ever keep their word? (?)
nutzy birds of a feather…
Did ANY of those actors every move to Canada?
I’m not sure what I think of his directing or acting abilities, but I mostly agree with his statements.
…and sitting here I think “WGAF?” as take a long draw of cold delicious Mothership Witbier, lift a cheek and float an air biscuit in the general direction of California.
11,
Tell us more . . .
I don’t care that he met with Chavez and all that, but I did read Penn’s letter and he makes a lot of good points. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sean-penn/an-open-letter-to-the-pre_b_44172.html
For starters, I agree that Bush should be impeached. And Cheney and Gonzales.
Yep he makes good liberal points and that makes Mr. Penn a good liberal nothing more.
Now would you or someone please show me CONSTITUTIONAL based reasons why Bush deserves impeachment. Please.
If Bush had commited impeachable offenses the democrats/Harry Reed/Pelosi would have already started the preceedings.
Impeachment is the penalty for treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. And it is a crime to mislead or to defraud Congress, whether or not you do so under oath.
It is illegal to spy in violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The NSA’s broad data-mining and warrantless wire-tapping of U.S. citizens is illegal and unconstitutional, violating the Fourth Amendment.
It is illegal to detain without charge and to torture. Bush Administration’s detainment policies and actions were ruled unconstitutional and illegal - in violation of Amendments V, VI & VII.
It is illegal to take funds from other projects to begin a war before it has been authorized.
It is a fundamental violation of the U.S. Constitution to alter laws with signing statements.
If we do not impeach when the case is as compelling as it is now, we are effectively removing impeachment from the Constitution.
another reason if you need it:
“Were there any remaining lingering doubt otherwise, or any remaining lingering hope, it ended yesterday when Mr. Bush commuted the prison sentence of one of his own staffers.
Did so even before the appeals process was complete. Did so without as much as a courtesy consultation with the Department of Justice. Did so despite what James Madison — at the Constitutional Convention — said about impeaching any president who pardoned or sheltered those who had committed crimes “advised by” that president.
Did so without the slightest concern that even the most detached of citizens must look at the chain of events and wonder: To what degree was Mr. Libby told, “Break the law however you wish — the president will keep you out of prison”? ”
from someone who summed it up quite well:
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/11339.html
This administration doesn’t care about what’s in the Constitution or the American people, or what this country was founded upon. It’s disgusting and ultimately depressing. Mostly of how the administration has caused thousands of needless deaths of our brothers and sister and sons and daughters.
Bush should encourage his daughters to go fight his war. Hrm, I wonder if he’s done that? Bush and Cheney are evil people and if anyone is going to suffer an eternal firey existence in hell, it’s them.