I watched "Dave" last night and nearly cried...

[CanuckAmok]

Can you imagine what it would be like to have a compassionate, sensible, intelligent man of the people in the White House instead of an inbred, coke-addled, lying, elitist military deserter who perpetuated the oligarchy and coasts through life from one embarrasing misdemeanor to the next with an army of spinmasters covering his idiocy?

[nuxvomica]

1. Yes, I can

:-)

[saltpoint]

2. CauckAmok --

-- hey -- don't sugar-coat it for us. We can take it.

(Excellent summary of a certain president.)

[terrya]

3. Can you imagine the current occupant in the White House.....

Pushing legislation that would guarantee a job to any person who wanted one?? Like Dave did in the movie?

The lying real life scumbag in the White House doesn't give a flying fuck as to whether Americans have jobs or not. If you don't make $500,000 or more, you don't matter to this President.

"Dave" made me want to cry just imagining the comparisons to the honorable man in the movie and the amoral sack of shit we're currently saddled with in real life.

[opihimoimoi]

4. The movie plot was a message before its time.

It was shown to VOTING FOR PRESIDENTS 101:: How to tell the difference between a fraud and the good guy.

Alas, only a few thousand students got to see the movie and learned from it. Released as is, it is looked upon as Entertainment only.

Sad and pathetic.

Come, we go wishing well.

[Columbia]

9. Don't remember the movie...

But how would you legislate a guaranteed job for everybody?

[Lisa]

5. I donated a DVD of this to the local library ...

I've been bolstering their collection of liberal/humanist titles. I also gave them "The Contender", "Bowling for Columbine", and Martin Sheen's anti-war movie "The War at Home".

Did you get the impression that they based President Mitchell on Poppy Bush (right down to the "Yale" sweatshirt and the hand-motions)?

Imagine what we could do if we put someone like Tim Robbins or Johnny Depp through this prosthetic makeup procedure and substituted him for *?
http://www.premiereproductsinc.com/ppi_players/kevin_haney2.htm

The actor who usually wears the disguise on Leno's show, unfortunately, is a right-wing fundamentalist Bush-supporter, so he might not be much of an improvement. Timothy Bottoms, who played Bush a couple of times, appears to be fairly liberal (at least according to my friends in Santa Barbara, who say his family is involved with the local Dems ) -- he would be better.

[Zuni]

6. That is a great movie

I really like that movie. It just shows how much good a decent man can do in that office.
The bad guy, Alexander, reminds me of how I picture Dick Cheney, a real SOB pushing all kinds of scams behind the scenes.
Someone else said that 'real' president seems to be a bit of a caricature of George Bush I---I concur. Robotic, gesturing, lying.

[Jack_Dawson]

7. We can have a "Dave" President...

just depends on who you vote for...

[Ilsa]

8. Everyone works on Tuesday!

I love "Dave".

I also enjoy watching "The American President" with Annette Benning and M.Douglas.

Hoping for a "Dave" in Clark.