Even in self-imposed seclusion, Sarah Palin has achieved celebrity status among McCain supporters. Other people and even other celebrities want to more about Candidate Palin. We’ve got a host of questions for her when she finally emerges and is ready for interviews.
“I want to know if she really thinks dinosaurs were here 4,000 years ago. I really want to know that. I really do. Because she’s going to have the nuclear codes.” ~ Matt Damon on VP Candidate Palin
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I wonder if he thinks the Palin pick was absurd. 😉
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“Like A Really Bad Disney Movie”
Obama believes that an invisible man in the sky sent a ghost down to Earth to impregnate a human woman who then gave birth to the Savior of the world. That story sounds as crazy as the dinosaur one. Does that worry you Matt? I don’t agree with Palin’s politics either, but don’t equivocate religious beliefs with being “bomb crazy” – it’s childish and irrelevant.
Oh no Matt Damon does not like Sarah Palin, I can not vote McCain/Palin.
That is what I would say if I gave a darn what those Hollywood liberals thought. Thank goodness I do not care what they think.
Actors need to shut up and act
Danielle –
‘Actors need to shut up and act‘
But if he was coming out for Palin, you’d love him to pieces, wouldn’t you?
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No I do not care what actors think.
I am not someone that votes for a candidate because someone in Hollywood likes them.
Yes I get they have a right to their opinions just like everyone else. I just do not think they should use their celebrity to push it on it people.
I would think the same thing if it was an actor for McCain/Palin.
I have always liked most of Matt Damons work, this will not make me stop watching his movies. I still think he should shut up though.
Who gives a sh*t what a freakin’ idiot like Matt Damon thinks?
When conservative celebrities support candidates they do just that – they support the candidate. They do not denigrate and insult the opposition candidate.
That is the difference between conservative celebs and idiots like Matt Damon.
“Palin, Oct. 2006: I don’t think there should be a prohibition against debate if it comes up in class. It doesn’t have to be part of the curriculum.”
“After her election, Palin let the matter drop. The Associated Press reported Sept 3: “Palin’s children attend public schools and Palin has made no push to have creationism taught in them. … It reflects a hands-off attitude toward mixing government and religion by most Alaskans.”
When Angelina Jolie decides who she is backing that when I’ll decide who I’m voting for hehe;)
hunter:
It seems Mr. Damon’s words hit home.
Looks as if you are a Creationist as well.
How about teaching the beliefs of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (http://www.venganza.org/).
As a Pastafarian, I demand that if Creationism is taught in school, kids also need to be taught about the FSM.
In case you haven’t got it, the FSM is about as ridiculous as Creationism, or “Intelligent Design”, as the Creationists are now calling it.
Anybody even suggesting discussing Creationism in earnest instead of putting it on the trash heap where it belongs doesn’t belong in public office, much less in the position of Vice President.
joe – actually, I do not believe that the Bible need be translated literally. I also believe that God created the universe and our beautiful world through evolution over billions of years – probably with a little ID throw in the mix. Good enough for you?
Anyone visit the Creation Museum? http://www.creationmuseum.org/about
It’s the place where dinosaurs are only 4k years old and the humans frolicked along side them.
Science be damned! YOU MUST BELIEVE!
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Red Vixen –
That is pretty funny. But science is damned when you believe virgins give birth, people are raised from the dead, and water is turned to wine. Any Christian candidate, by definition, believes this. Why is that acceptable? You can’t have it both ways. If absolute belief in science is a prerequisite, only atheists should get Matt Damon’s (and your) votes.
While I dont care who says it, it needs to be said that McCain has a one in three chance of dying within four years. Thats not based on McCain’s multiple brushes with cancer or the fact that POTUS is arguably the most stressful job in the world (if you do it right).
Damon also voices my thought that the Palin pick was brilliantly, cynicaly right out of a Hollywood Movie “Soccer Mom goes to Washington” that couldn’t get made because no one would find it believable. So the benefit of this campaign is that the bar will once again be lowered as the gullibility (or cynicism) of the American people sinks to a new low and more unbelievable script ideas will be elligibe for movie making.
c2:
“Any Christian candidate, by definition, believes this.”
No, why? A person can be a Christian without believing these so-called miracles.
These things were written up long after they happened, and if you know that eyewitness accounts are notoriously unreliable, and here you have things being told and modified over several generations before they were written down, it is very clear that what was written down has not much to do with what really happened.
The Christian bible, as well as texts from other religions, are reflections of things people couldn’t explain at that time. But there are always rational, scientific explanations behind the things that really happened.
Religious Logic vs. Conventional Logic:
http://juanfont.eu/logica.jpg
Joe-
So you’re saying that you can be a Christian without believing the story of Christ as being born to a virgin, dying on the cross and resurrecting? If you don’t believe that, then you aren’t a Christian, you’re just someone who likes to read good stories.