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| Kal Penn (Harold and Kumar) for Obama |
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Filmmakers Eric Byler and Annabel Park of Asian
Pacific Americans for Progress (APAP) and Asian
Americans for Obama catch up with actor Kal Penn
(Harold and Kumar, The Namesake) moments before
the Democratic Candidates Debate on Jan. 15, 2007
in Las Vegas, Nevada. More than 30 Asian Pacific
Americans from Los Angeles, San Francisco,
Washington DC, and New York are coming to Nevada
to volunteer for Sen. Obama's campaign. Stay tune
for videos featuring Kelly Hu, Yul Kwon, and Ken
Leung!!!
Tags : Kal Penn Barack Obama Kelly Hu Democratic Debate Las Vegas Nevada Caucus Eric Byler APAP Asian American Pacific |
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Affichage : 40787
Durée : 123 s |
| Sean Penn Endorses Dennis Kucinich 12-07-07 |
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http://kucinich.us
By Sean Penn
It's been an odd week. For me, a particularly odd
week. But that's another story. So, wait a minute.
Iran DOESN'T have nuclear weapon capability??? So,
who are we gonna bomb? I want to bomb somebody!
Didn't Senator Clinton just vote in essence to
give President Bush the power to bomb Iran? If he
had done it last week, would that have made her
right? I mean, if she knew then what she knows
now? Or am I getting that backward? Golly, I'm
confused. And what about President Bush? This
week, Vladimir Putin, the man Mr. Bush said he
"Looked into the eyes of and found to be very
straightforward and trustworthy." So much so, he
was "able to get a sense of his soul." Well that
soulful fella has just successfully coalesced the
most dangerous power base in Russia since the Cold
War amid rumors that include allegations he
ordered the assassinations of journalists and
imprisonment of noted proponents of freedom
(Oops).
Meanwhile, our President's great enemy in
Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, that "totalitarian,"
"authoritarian," "dictator," that "mad man run
amok," somehow was unsuccessful in his bid for the
constitutional reforms that would have allowed him
to be repeatedly re-elected for life...Hmmm? Odd
week, you know? Really. What happened to Chavez's
"strong-arming?" His "electoral corruption?" His
alleged "gagging of the press?" How in the hell
could he have lost? I'm sorry, did I miss
something? How is it that this "Commie bastard"
with 80% of his citizens having elected him in the
first place was unable to prevail? Could it be
that we've been lied to about him? I mean, Pat
Robertson's not a liar, is he? His god wouldn't
let that happen, would he? And god-forbid, our god
would let the right-wing pundits, left-wing
corporates, or our own administration send us a
bill of goods!? Is it possible, I mean I know it's
silly, but is it just a little bit possible that
President Chavez is in fact a defender of his
people's Constitution? That, that's how his
referendum could fail? And that that's why he
accepted it with such grace? A constitution which
I have read several times. Quite a beautiful
document, not dissimilar to our own. You might
give it a read. Oh, I forgot -- he's a "drug
runner."
Let me share something with you. Late one night in
Caracas, I met with a couple of fellas,
mercenaries I think you call them. Goddamit, I
keep doing that. I mean "contractors." They were
Brits, their specialty: drug interdiction. These
two were no great fans of Chavez. They called him
"radical" and expected him to fall to an
assassin's bullet within the year. Like him or
not, he had the cash to win their acceptance of
his employ. And working alongside the Venezuelan
military, these two, based in Caracas, had played
the mountainous and jungled border between
Columbia and Venezuela. A zone rife with
paramilitaries, FARC guerillas, and mer...scratch
that, contractors. What I was told that evening in
Caracas by these piano wire puppeteers was that
they had never worked for a government whose
investment in drug interdiction was so genuine.
"Yeah," said one of the Brits, "I gotta give the
bastard Chavez that."
But I was talking about the Constitution. Most
importantly, our own. And what an odd week it has
been. Our culture is engrained with a tradition
that blurs the line between what is right, what is
just and what is constitutional, with what is a
scam. That tradition is the cult of personality.
What can TV sell, what kind of crap will we buy.
And at what point are we buying and selling our
rights, our pride, our flag, our children, and
succumbing to meaningless slogans that are
ultimately pure titles for un-Americanism. How do
we know what's American and what is not? Because
John Wayne tells us so? Because Sean Penn tells us
so? Susan Sarandon? Bill O'Reilly? Michael Moore?
Senator Bull? Or Senator Shit? Ann "my bowel
expenditure" Coulter? No. It's our Constitution.
We don't use it just to win. We depend on it
because it's the only "us" worth being. And
because it's our children's inheritance from our
shared forefathers and the traditions that really
do speak best of our country.
Tags : Dennis Elizabeth Kucinich Sean Penn Presidential Candidates Election Candidate Political President |
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Affichage : 21783
Durée : 260 s |
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