George Clooney Explains the Shutdown

[Cha]

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"It's basically: 30 people in one half of one branch of the three branches of government are shutting down the government. Okay, that's how they want to play? Okay. That's fine if everybody comes to their senses before we actually destroy the economy and lose credit, full faith and credit, as they like to say. That's a big deal."

"So my sense is, cooler heads will prevail in the debt-ceiling crisis. I don't think too much will happen."

"Look, sequestration is a big deal. People like to brush it off and say nothing happened, but an awful lot of kids aren't being fed, and a lot of stuff happens that just gets swept under the rug."

"Shutting down the government is not how you make government work. And anybody who thinks we don't need it is an idiot."

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/10/george-clooney-shutdown-boehner-cruz-green-eggs.html?mid=twitter_nymag

http://theobamadiary.com/2013/10/05/rise-and-shine-631/

[font color=blue]BOG[/font]

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. He is too damn good looking for his own good.

Very interesting guy, as well as purty to look at.

[silverweb]

2. You got that right!

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]The guy's got it all -- including brains and a heart.

[Cha]

5. Hey silverweb!

Nice to see you and on a George Clooney thread..

[silverweb]

6. Hey, Cha!

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Good to see you, too.
And how could I possibly resist a George Clooney thread?

[Cha]

7. I was hoping to see some peeps from

California!

[silverweb]

14. Oh, we're here!

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Sending aloha back to you, kama'aina!

[Cha]

17. Check you out.. with your Obama Shaka sign..

not in the dead of winter!



[font color=blue]Sending Aloha and plenty Mahalos to you, silverweb![/font]

[panader0]

46. When I went to high school in Hawaii (same school as PBO, years earlier)

that meant "Cool head main t'ing brudda."

[Cha]

52. And, it still does,

panader0! Or sistah, or brah..

[yuiyoshida]

15. hello from the great state of

[Cha]

18. Hey Cool, yuiyoshida! I saw the other day you were from

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the Bay Area, no?

Love the California Flag.. Mahalo!

[yuiyoshida]

36. Yes! I am in the bay area..

Yoroshiku onegaishimasu!!!

[Cha]

37. Nice to meetcha!

[yuiyoshida]

38. Same!!

Hajimemashite! Dozo Yoroshiku! Aloha!

[awoke_in_2003]

25. I agree, and I am a straight guy. nt

[Pretzel_Warrior]

30. Same here. Total man crush.

[awoke_in_2003]

32. After I posted my response...

a Robert Downey line from Tropic Thunder went through my head- "Man, everyone's gay once in a while"

[Pretzel_Warrior]

33. That is a hilarious movie. Please don't hide my thread..

But when Robert Downey's character is talking to Ben Stiller saying, "you never go full retard". And Stiller killing the panda, Tom Cruise's Les Grossman character? Awesome.

[awoke_in_2003]

35. I actually liked Cruise in that....

I generally cannot stand him.

[maddiemom]

26. Damn right! George Clooney's very existence is unfair to most other men in the world.

That said, it's great that he's on the right side!

[SummerSnow]

28. He is very handsome.

[mrsadm]

3. SWOOoooooooon!

[Cha]

4. Yes, a heart with kindness and compassion for

humanity, and intelligence to go with it..

Plus!



Well, need I say more?

[Iliyah]

8. K & R

He's fine as wine in the summertime. He's got looks, brains and love for nature as well as for mankind.

[Cha]

11. Yeah, I like that he loves

Nature so much.

And, me being such a movie buff.. I like that aspect of him too.

thanks Illyah~

[Cass]

9. I love this guy. Great commentary from him on this!

George Clooney is awesome. We need a swooning smiley.

[Cha]

12. It is great commentary from Clooney, Cass..

I like that about him!

[CTyankee]

43. I'm leaving soon to go see his new movie, "Gravity."

I swear I'd go see him read the phone book...

[Cass]

45. Oooh, I want to see that movie, it looks great!

I would watch him read the phonebook, too. I can't get enough of him.

Enjoy the show!

[CTyankee]

51. Hi, just got back from seeing "Gravity."

It's really quite good, altho if it weren't for Clooney I wouldn't bother, because space stuff just doesn't interest me that much. Also, Sandra Bullock is not my favorite actress.

Clooney is terrific, as usual, but he only has one scene where he isn't wearing a space helmet. But it doesn't matter because he is just so damn charming and fun in it and his voice carries a lot of his charm. I won't give away any details of the story in case you'll be seeing it.

The movie I really want to see later this year is "Monuments Men," which he directed and stars in. It's a true story of the art scholars, curators, museum directors who were inducted into the army during WW2 and planned the saving of Europe's art from both the Germans and from the war's destruction. I've read several books that chronicle this story and it's just wonderful. So you get great art and George Clooney (Matt Damon, too, who I adore) and a helluva story. It'll be in theaters in December and I can't wait!

[janlyn]

10. Brains and good looks!!

LOVE smart men!!! As my Mum would have said " He can eat crackers in my bed anytime"

[Cha]

13. Yes, janlyn.. Intelligence has a certain

appeal!

[sheshe2]

16. Oh My~

George sure looks fine~

Thanks for the thread, Cha. He's a good man.

[Cha]

19. LOL.. "Oh My"..

Indeed, she!

He makes perfect sense, too!

[TNNurse]

20. Can you name anymore??

George Clooney, Paul Newman, Robert Redford....


Great looks, intelligence, knowledge, sense of decency and work to make the world better for those they do not even know.

oh, yeah...Barack Obama.....silly me...

[frazzled]

48. He's most often been compared to Cary Grant

Especially in the early days, before he was a movie star, when he was on ER. It was the looks but also the charming self-effacing mannerisms. I knew he was gonna be a big star when I first watched him on that TV show.

[FailureToCommunicate]

21. He looks so much younger without the beard!

[Cha]

23. And, he was so much younger

then! Good movie.. thanks FailureToCommicate!

[Pretzel_Warrior]

31. O Brother Where Art Thou--in my top 10 favorite movies I've seen

Along with the likes of Amelie, Shawshank Redemption, Life is Beautiful...

[Cha]

34. Yeah, I went out and got the soundtrack..

Love it! Ralph Stanley, T-Bone Burnett!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Brother,_Where_Art_Thou%3F_(soundtrack)

And, I was a George Clooney fan long before he became buddies with Senator Barack Obama.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/110217720#post29

[Liberalynn]

22. Love you George!

Sure glad you are on our side.

[Cha]

24. Yeah, Clooney is bright shining example of what

it's like to have such compassion for humanity, Liberalynn!

[treestar]

27. Good looking and smart

and who knew, unlike Matt Damon and others, has a bit of sense. Actors are likely emotional types, but I guess this one can think in terms of reality also!

[Cha]

29. George Clooney is my kind of Actor/Activist.. he doesn't

go Ignorantly whining about what he knows nothing about.

Obama on Clooney.. From August 19, 2012

In an interview with Entertainment Tonight that will air Monday, President Obama discussed his friendship with George Clooney, calling the actor a "wonderful guy."

"The truth is we got to know each other because of a substantive issue," Obama said. "He is a terrific advocate on behalf of the people of Darfur, and to the people of Sudan who've been brutalized for a long time. And so when I was a senator -- this was well before I was president -- that was an issue that I was working together on a bipartisan basis, and George, who had traveled there, done documentaries there, and was very well-informed, came to testify in Congress. And so we got to know each other, and he is a good man, and a good friend."

While the president praised the actor's humanitarian efforts, he also noted the effect Clooney's star power has on members of his White House staff.

"I will say that the couple of times he's come to the White House, I notice that the staff suddenly is circling around my office," he said. "They've got memos they need to make sure I see right away."

Michelle Obama also weighed in on her husband's celebrity pal, joking that she thinks it's a "conspiracy" that she's never around when Clooney comes to town.

MORE...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/19/obama-george-clooney_n_1807841.html

Mahalo treestar~

[freshwest]

41. Love it! All of that.

[Cha]

42. ...

know what you mean..

[freshwest]

39. 70th Rec for Sanity...

[Cha]

40. Mahalo Fresh.. It's a compelling statement from Clooney

in its truthful simplicity.

[ffr]

44. Rolls reversed, that's how they'd be saying it.

And it's true!

[oxymoron]

47. K&R

[A Simple Game]

49. People need to stop saying it is the tea party that shut down the government.

It was not the tea party, it was the Republican party. If it was the tea party, Boehner could call for a vote tomorrow, he doesn't call for a vote so it is the Republicans that shut the government down. Majority rules even within a political party, it wasn't 30 people that shut down the government, it was the entire Republican party.

Don't give the Republicans an out, they want to be able to say "it wasn't me, it was them", we can't let them do that.

The tea party was created to move the Republican agenda faster and it is working.

[hopemountain]

50. good reminder, a simple game! nt

[Cha]

53. New Clooney Graphic reiterating his point.. Elections have Consequences!