CELEBRITIES Answer Question: "If You Had 5 Minutes With Bush"

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"I would say, 'Why is Viagra covered by health insurance, but birth control is not?' The average woman in her lifetime without birth control will have 12 to 15 pregnancies, and we have a regime - not an administration - that suppresses medically accurate sex education, access to birth control and information about family planning. The only thing I can figure is that they do want us all barefoot and pregnant... and I would love to say that to the president."

- Ashley Judd, Actress

"I'd tell him, 'Look inside your heart and do what you think is right for the U.S.'"

- Danny Musico, "CSI: New York"

"I'd ask him if he wants to try yoga. It seems like he's aged a lot from the stress that he's been through, but if you can quiet your mind and focus more on the inside to find inner peace and balance, you can achieve your best when you're in a conscious mode."

- Miss USA 2004 Shandi Finnessey

"I'd say, 'You should watch more news programs.'"

-Graham Norton, "The Graham Norton Effect" TV SHOW

"When I walked into the Oval Office, I would covertly cause some minor mishap - spill my coffee, step on the president's toe - and immediately, sincerely, profusely apologize. Once my apology was accepted in the spirit in which it was offered, and the president and I had a mutual understanding regarding the inevitability of human error and the importance of owning up to one's misdeeds for the purposes of overall harmony in matters of etiquette even during time of political disagreement, I would say to him, 'You see how easy it is, and so profoundly necessary, to apologize when one has wronged?'"

- Daniel Handler, author, "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events"

"Resign."

- Michael Imperioli, "The Sopranos"

"I'd pick his brain about gay marriage. I know he has gay friends and plenty of gay people around him, so I'd be interested in finding out, all politics aside, just how he rationalizes a constitutional amendment banning it when his vice president has a daughter who's a lesbian."

- Kyan Douglas, "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy"

http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/news/ny-etlede3872265jun30,0,6640001.story

[Racenut20]

1. I would probably just say "Go Cheney Yourself!!"

[skypilot]

2. It breaks my heart...

...to read that Danny Aiello is a Bush fan. Truly breaks my heart.

[theHandpuppet]

10. What a moron...

This level of ignorance and bigotry is more than disappointing:

"I'd say, 'Please keep New York safe, Mr. President.' I love President Bush. I would just hope he makes us as safe as is humanly possible, so we don't have to worry about someone walking into the middle of town with a vial of sarin gas. Sometimes, the only way you can keep us safe is by fighting in someone else's backyard - especially if the people in that backyard are asking for it to happen."

- Danny Aiello, actor and jazz singer

[Misunderestimator]

3. Yeah, I really want to hear from Miss USA...

nice flaky quote there.

LOL on some of the others... Judd's and Handler's especially

[THUNDER HANDS]

4. I love Michael Imperioli

One of the best actors around. :thumbsup:

[demnan]

5. Michael from the Sopranos had the best one.

n/t

[fudge stripe cookays]

6. I absolutely love Ashley Judd.

How she ended up in that family is a mystery to me.

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. Oh, Ashley, how could you say that?

average woman will have 12-15 pregnancies? Maybe in the 1800s. Not today. Not even in the third world. Still, her sentiment about birth control not being covered, but viagra is, and her comments on the lack of real sex education, etc. - well said, Ashley! In fact, Ashley, I'd suggest that you and I get together and we'll together a sex ed cirriculum on health, biology, AND technique, and go on tour with it...

Daniel Handler's comment is BRILLIANT!

[CBHagman]

8. She specified "without birth control"

I agree that 15 pregnancies is no longer the norm, but she was saying that someone without birth control would have that string of pregnancies. Given that I've heard of women without birth control going through 20 or more pregnancies, it doesn't sound so far-fetched.

Besides, this is the administration that doesn't want contraceptive information discussed in sex ed class, EXCEPT to refer to failure rates. Shocking and sick (and stupid, given that high school is the last chance for a captive audience and many people are ignorant about their own bodies), but still administration policy.

[eyesroll]

9. I love Lemony Snicket!

Little Sunny, the baby in his books, once called an evil man who cares nothing about others "busheney." I'm sure I'm not the only one who noticed that.

[Rhiannon12866]

11. Ron Reagan Jr. plugged this book

on "Larry King Live" just last week. Thanks for the preview.:-)

[underpants]

12. WHERE THE HELL ARE THE FLYING CARS?

That would be mine, thanks I have been wanting to post that all morning.