“You Can Kiss The Democratic Party Goodbye”
Let’s hope he’s right. And he probably is. About that at least. The rest…more of the same tragic idiocy.
IF BARACK Obama doesn’t win November’s presidential election in the United States, “you can kiss the Democratic Party goodbye”, the actor and director Robert Redford told an audience in Dublin last night.
Speaking at a public interview in Trinity College in advance of his conferral with an honorary degree by the university today, Redford said he hoped Obama would win because while John McCain “represents yesterday”, the Democrat embodied the sort of change America needed.
Asked by Michael Dwyer, film correspondent of The Irish Times , if he was looking forward to “regime change” in the US, Redford said: “Yes. Where my country is at the moment, I’m not confident of anything. I’m hopeful.
“I think Obama is not tall on experience . . . but I believe he’s a really good person. He’s smart. And he does represent what the country needs most now, which is change.
“I hope he’ll win. I think he will. If he doesn’t, you can kiss the Democratic Party goodbye. I think we need new voices, new blood. We need to get a whole group out, get a new group in.”
The 71-year-old Redford is best known for his roles in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , The Sting and All the President’s Men . He won his first Oscar as a director for the emotional family drama Ordinary People in 1980.
After receiving a standing ovation from a crammed auditorium when he arrived just before 6.30pm, Redford spoke of his close relationship with the late Sydney Pollack, and of the protracted process of bringing to screen Jeremiah Johnson - an innovatively-made film that still brings him pride but was initially unloved by the distributor - culminating in its proper release four years after it was shot.
Redford told Dwyer he rarely watched his own films. “I’m not comfortable with it,” he said, adding that the first time he watched his own performance in The Sting was when he sat down to show it to his grandson.
“When he told me he hadn’t seen The Sting , I said: what’s wrong with your mother? And then it came out that I hadn’t seen it either. So we watched it. I thought it was great.”
Since the 1970s Redford has campaigned on green issues and has been a critic of the environmental policies of US president George Bush in recent years. He recalled laconically how, when he spoke out against energy companies’ interests in the 1970s, their representatives would deride him as “only an actor”.
“That had a lot of weight . . . until Reagan was elected. Now things have changed so much. You’re not alone out there.”
Asked what he would say to the G8 leaders if he was at their summit in Hokkaido this week, Redford said he would challenge the argument that drilling in places such as Alaska was more essential than ever now that oil prices were so high.
“I would make a great case for why that’s absurd and why there’s a better picture to be drawn from new technologies. I would hit that point very hard.”
And does he harbour political ambitions of his own? “No. Never did, never would. That would be a great mistake.”
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What a douche, even more so that he berates Americans in front of a foreign audience.
I’d really like to see a rout of the Democrats this election. We simply cannot risk the damage Obama and Pelosi could do to this great nation.
Any conservatives still believing the GOP hasn’t learned their lesson, well all I can say is I hope you’ll enjoy paying higher taxes. That and more tyrannical environmentalist policies, as well as a movement to silence the free speech of the right.
July 13th, 2008 at 11:29 pmTrinity College must love the loons - it was the site of a debate involving Anjem Choudary and Abu Izzadeen last year:
http://jihadwatch.org/archives/014886.php
You would think that the people of Britain might have had enough of this bunch already …
July 13th, 2008 at 11:48 pm“You Can Kiss The Democratic Party Goodbye”
May “Buttfuck Hussein Osama” do the world a favor and help them kiss the Jack Ass party goodbye forever!
What I wouldn’t give to hear John Wayne, Ronald Reagan or Audie Murphy kick Redford’s ass for his ignorant statement!
“I believe he’s a really good person. He’s smart. And he does represent what the country needs most now, which is change.”… O.K. Bob, I think Mr. Rogers “is a really good person”, but he ain’t no fucking President… Fuck dude! When was the last War in MR Trolley town? When did MR Postman ever go Postal? When did the Poor in Chicago ever get jobs and quite killing each other?
FUCK THAT!
KISS THOSE BITCHES GOODBYE ALREADY! Let’s get back to the “Old West” where things were relatively peaceful in our streets and carried us into to the 50’s… Shit was going uphill until the 60’s when we saw Redford films like “Easy Riders”!
July 14th, 2008 at 12:29 amFor a Party wanting to have a greater stake in the future of the USA, many of its party members and elite followers are desperately trying to woo Europe/Europeans.
Are they so daft to realize that European nationals cannot vote in US elections?? Most European countries are shifting center-right electing conservative parties, sick of PC nonsense, sick of being overly taxed, tired of their contributions being distributed to un-assimilated selfish, lazy immigrants, and tired of treating their own heritage, cultures and laws with contempt in order to accommodate Islam and other undesirables.
I’d like to know how many entertainers who promised four years ago to move abroad if Bush was reinstated had kept their promise? None I suspect.
The only thing Obama is tall on are lies, he’s a conniving charlatan as opposed to smart, an imbecile on foreign policy and defense and his experience at an executive level is ABSOLUTE Z-E-R-O.
Vote Obama and we can all kiss America goodbye.
Here’s hoping that the party of victims, dimwitted elite socialists and traitors suffers indefinitely in Nov.
July 14th, 2008 at 3:59 amBob cracks open that pie hole and reveals what an idiot he really is, and he thinks Obama the Poser is smart!?!?!
I think it was John Wayne that said “life’s tough enough without being stupid” you might want to consider that Bob.
July 14th, 2008 at 4:08 amEven if Obama loses the election 99% to 1%, the Dhimmicratic party will never go away, they hold about half the power in the U.S.
Robert Redford is just using scare tactics. Remember in 2004, if Kerry lost the Dhim’s were gonna be destroyed? You simply can’t just ‘destroy’ evil like that.
July 14th, 2008 at 5:07 amI love the question of is Bob looking forward to “regime change” in the US come November.
Typical Leftist garbage America is the problem.
July 14th, 2008 at 6:21 amMore ‘I’ve got mine. You proles split the rest amongst yourselves.’ bullshit from the elitist branch of the ‘left’; NONE of whom actually live the lives they want to foist on the rest of the country.
July 14th, 2008 at 6:22 amThink he flew commercial?
Asshole.
STFU
Queue the Rush Limbaugh Obama parody ad.
July 14th, 2008 at 6:34 amI have change. It’s in my pocket and that’s about the worth of the democratic party. And it’s getting worth less as I type.
July 14th, 2008 at 6:44 amGood riddance D’rats!
July 14th, 2008 at 7:16 amI don’t care what Redford saysabout watching his own movies, I bet he has “The Horse Whisperer” on continuous loop in his house.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:29 am“I think Obama is not tall on experience . . . but I believe he’s a really good person. He’s smart. And he does represent what the country needs most now, which is change.
Leave it to a copperheaded, hasbeen shill like Redford to point out how smart Bambi Osama is…the same candidate who didn’t even know which states adjoined Illinois? What was Redford’s last hit? The Sting?
July 14th, 2008 at 8:31 amOK, first of all: I fell asleep during “The Sting.” Second, I’m glad he’s taking credit since the 70’s for being an environmental extremist: he can take credit for our energy woes today. Third, Butch Cassidy is probably my favorite movie, but despite him.
July 14th, 2008 at 9:51 am