Posted on 12/08/2007 10:27:23 PM PST by SmithL
Actor-director Sean Penn issued a nonendorsement endorsement of Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich on Friday in a speech to nearly 400 San Francisco State University students, urging his audience not to fall into the trap of voting for someone only because they could win.
"We've got Iowa coming up; New Hampshire on its ass," said Penn. "Do we sell out for electability?"
Penn, who spoke from a low wooden stage in the Creative Arts Building in front of a "Kucinich for President" banner, made it clear from the start that he was not issuing a traditional endorsement, a political tradition he said he abhorred as much as voting for someone based on their electability.
Kucinich, a congressman for Ohio who has run for president before, is fighting to stay out of last place in the polls. Most polls put his support in the low single digits, far behind front-runners Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
That shouldn't matter, Penn told students.
"I'm not going to tell you who to vote for," he said. "I'm going to talk about this guy. But my interest, and I hope yours, is in the Constitution of the United States."
Penn's speech wandered from topic to topic. It included his thoughts about President Bush's apparent disagreement with his own administration's assessment of Iran's nuclear weapons capabilities, the mortgage crisis, and the electorate's tendency to pick candidates based on "the cult of personality."
But the Oscar winner, who lives in Marin County, seemed reluctant to use his own popularity to promote Kucinich.
Even as he urged students to "educate themselves on the Kucinich platform" and praised the congressman as the only candidate who displayed integrity at the recent Las Vegas debates, Penn seemed eager to distance himself from what's become a political cliche: celebrity politicalendorsements.
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Jeff Spiccoli saw the shark in his rear view mirror at least five years ago.
I like the fact that he stands by his principles.
I stand by mine too. I boycott lib actors. Especially people like Penn.
Penn is the perfect example of the mental disorder of extreme liberalism. Its probably from all the drugs.
“Do we sell out for electability?” I guess he is saying Kucinich is not electable. What a ringing endorsement!
Follow your heart, move to Venezuela... Please...
In his case, it’s genetic. His dad, Leo Penn, was a Stalinist.
"He was a strong political supporter of Joseph Stalin and advocated U.S. neutrality in the war in Europe during the period of time where the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact created an Non-aggression pact between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. The moment Hitler violated that pact Penn urged that America enter the war."
Unlike so many Hollyweird lefties, who are primarily hinterland elitists rebelling against their families' country-club lifestyle, Sean is a dyed in the wool red-diaper baby.
He may be a total dick, but you’ll pry my copy of “Fast Times At Ridgemont High” from my cold, dead Conservative hands. (Besides, I only watch it for Phoebe) ;-D
Beat ya by 58 seconds. ;-)
The relevancy stoned?
Dude, you showed your cards, now I call: we want to see all the Phoebe pics you’ve been hoarding...Dude
That being said, when I saw Kevin Kline last year in a performance of King Lear, his lovely wife was in the audience.
I’d post my favorite one from Judge Reinhold’s fantasy, but that’d get me suspended from FR. ;-)
She still wearing her hair short ? Why, oh, why did she have to cut those beautiful flowing raven-haired locks ? Filipinas (or half-Filipinas) with pixie cuts is just...so...wrong.
***Judge Reinhold’s fantasy, but that’d get me suspended from FR. ;-)***
You mean where she is climbing out of the swimming pool! And then.....
Kevin be luckey, they have been together for a number of years and I hope their marriage lasts. That said she was the prettiest brunette from those years and remains.
All that spraying water would short out the server.
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