MEL GIBSON: 'HAVING DOUBTS' ABOUT BUSH

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[sonsofliberty2000]

In a wide-ranging hour-long interview with FOXNEWSABCRADIO's Sean Hannity, PASSION OF THE CHRIST director Mel Gibson says he now has 'doubts' about President Bush and re-election... MORE... In the interview, set to air on Tuesday , Gibson says of Bush: 'I am having doubts, of late. It mainly has to do with the weapons [of mass destruction] claims'... MORE...

[rintense]

Mel should have replied like Brad Pitt when asked what he thought of President Bush:

'Who cares what I think? I'm an actor!'

[Shermy]

Is Mel no longer the little darling of FR?

St. Mel ex cathedra!

Anyway, Mel's comments are probably timed with the European releases, a way to sell more European tickets. They eat this stuff up. And Mel's quite a salesman.

[Rocko]

Mel's comments are sure to confuse the New York Times. ;')

[jwalsh07]

Is Mel no longer the little darling of FR?

Dunno, I only speak for myself. I am a fan of Mel's but if he is concerned about WMD, I think I can convince him rather easily that his concerns are misplaced.

By the way, how did you find time to break free from the homosexual marriage threads? Nobody buying what you're selling?

[SB00]

Gibson's entitled to his opinion, I'm sure we won't be hearing the same kind of rhetoric from him as we hear from the Hollyweirdo left.

[mystery-ak]

Hannity did say that we will like this interview....maybe Mel was hannity-sized!

[Veracious Poet]

"In that Constitutional Republic, Presidents are not Kings and do not get to repeal laws passed by a legislature elected by the people of the United States."

Actually, I mistakenly called "Emergency War Powers" an Act...it was no such thing.

It actually was an unconstitutional act of FDR, using Lincoln's precedent.

Read this website (from the congressional record) and get a bit of education...

http://www.rallye-pointe.com/em_powers.htm

"EMERGENCY POWERS STATUTES:"

"PROVISIONS OF FEDERAL LAW NOW IN EFFECT DELEGATING TO THE EXECUTIVE EXTRAORDINARY AUTHORITY IN TIME OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY REPORT OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON THE TERMINATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY UNITED STATES SENATE NOVEMBER 19, 1973"

"Since March 9, 1933, the United States has been in a state of declared national emergency. In fact, there are now in effect four presidentially-proclaimed states of national emergency: In addition to the national emergency declared by President Roosevelt in 1933, there are also the national emergency proclaimed by President Truman on December 16, 1950, during the Korean conflict, and the states of national emergency declared by President Nixon on March 23, 1970, and August 15, 1971."

It takes a President to rescind these "dictatorial" powers, and JFK was the only President that talked about doing it.

Check my homepage to get even more of an education...

[Austin Willard Wright]

Actually, I have heard many rumors long before this that Mel was anti-war. Your "Mel as opportunist" theory doesn't work. Mel took great risks in making the Passion. Freepers are just peeved because he doesn't follow their party line.

[MacArthur]

Good point.Regards,

[jwalsh07]

Interesting point. I wonder if the pro-war boycott types will put the Passion on their "Hollyweird" hit list now.

LOL, nobody's buying what you're selling either.

Departing from Gibson on Iraq while embracing his movie the "Passion of the Christ" are not mutually exclusive events.

Sorry, try again.

[Austin Willard Wright]

Intersting theory. You need to upbraid all the freepers who cared deeply what Mel "thought" just a few days ago.

[floriduh voter]

"Liberty if not defended can be lost." President George W. Bush, November 6, 2003

Mel Gibson as William Wallace said "FREEDOM" in Braveheart.

[paul51]

MEL GIBSON: 'HAVING DOUBTS' ABOUT BUSH

So did the dixie chicks. Who cares? Tell me what you think about something you know about, like pretending you're someone else for example.

[Shermy]

Huh? Most neo-cons, an American tradition which began with Woodrow Wilson, are not Jewish.

Well, you're working with a definition I'm unfamiliar with - interventionist? I was trying to make a joke about a common, cryptic meaning of the term, so it didn't jibe with your comment. My apologies.

[jpsb]

I will, first let's wait to hear what the man really had to say? Mel is a hero to many of us and that is the LEAST we can do. Second, I'm having problem with Bush too, and yall bushbots better STOP attacking everyone that uses their God given brain to think issues thru.

[Paleo Conservative]

He was born here and raised in Australia

His father moved to Australia in the 1960s so his sons wouldn't have to serve in Vietnam.

[billbears]

Well that does it......we have to start the boycott of the Passion....

Well of course. Now if the article read Gibson having doubts about Christ it would be a whole different story... That apparently would be more acceptable to some than to doubt Bush

[Atlas Sneezed]

Mel, when in doubt have faith.

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I think he has a form of faith that is different from having "faith" in a politician.