Posted on 01/16/2009 9:18:11 AM PST by LottieDah
Robert Redford is looking forward to U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's imminent inauguration more than most - because he can't wait to see "lame-duck" George W. Bush leave the White House.
The Hollywood legend spoke of his excitement about the controversial president's departure, ahead of Obama being sworn into office on Tuesday.
And the veteran actor took time out of his promotional duties for his Sundance Film Festival on Thursday to tell reporters about his optimism for America's future.
He says, "I'm personally excited just because I'm glad to see the gang that couldn't shoot straight get out of there. I'm glad to see them gone.
"You've got a lame-duck guy going out, but he sure has done a lot of quacking in the last while. So therefore, the sooner they're gone, the better, and therefore, I'm very excited by the change that's coming."
Meanwhile, Redford hopes that a Democratic administration in Washington, D.C. will mean the arts receive more government funding.
He adds, "They (the arts) were fighting the political machine of the extreme right that saw art as some kind of threat.
"So I think that's going to change. What I would like to see is, a country like ours should certainly be subsidising, a little bit more than it is, art in general. Other countries do. They've cut it down to the bone. There's practically nothing left."
Redford has used the Utah-based festival - which he co-founded in 1978 - as a platform to publicly criticise Bush in the past.
Bob Redford never was very bright, he just played a bright guy in movies. As this demonstrates, he’s shallow, vain, and a megalomaniac.
Well, let me be the first on this thread to say “Robert Redford can bite me.”
What? I suppose that's a sentence, but I think he needs an editor.
That’s okay Robert - I’m excited knowing that awhile ago I decided your acting basically sucks and therefore I will never again pay to see another one of your movies.
Redford is a classless wrinkled prune.
I wouldn’t give redford the privilege of biting my dog’s behind.
“I’m personally excited just because I’m glad to see the gang that couldn’t shoot straight get out of there”
Ask Al-Zaquari if W couldn’t shoot straight.
Many a terrorist has assumed room temperature thanks to W.
Well Bobby, one can only hope that you will be in the center of the next terrorist strike against the US.
We'll miss ya.....................
Hey Robert Redford: Here’s what you can do:
Contact a lot of your liberal friends and gather them all
together.
Then, in front of the big crowd, you can kiss my a$$.
Proud to say I haven’t seen a Redford movie in years - in fact I can’t remember the last one...buh bye Bobbie...
Ok; I just thought it was nicer than saying “RR can sh!t in a boot and eat it.”
> What I would like to see is, a country like ours should
> certainly be subsidising, a little bit more than it is,
> art in general.
You mean government-funded “art” like “Annie Sprinkle” and Robert Mapplethorpe?
Hey, rich boy, if you want to fund the “arts”, nobody’s stopping you.
But to extract money from me by threat of force for the propagation of ideas and “values” I abhor, is tyranny.
Go smoke that with your next bowl of crack, pretty boy.
Just ANOTHER Hollywood “gotta-be-a-raving-lefty” loser. He is no different than all the other parasites upon the movie industry that must cater to the secularists that own and control that industry.
I loved the article yesterday about poor people picketing his sundance film festival because “his environmental stuff is racist and hurting poor people!”
Bob, canis filius! Quomodo cogis comas tuas sic videri?
And now Hollyweird is making a “movie” urging all of us to support Obama.
Just like they supported Bush.
I can’t wait to see Robert Redford shut up.
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