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Great Interview: James Cromwell - Viva La Revolution!


There's a great interview at SuicideGirls.com in which he strongly criticizes the Republican party, the Bush administration, and our degenerate democracy in general. Here's an excerpt:

Question: Does the presumptive Obama victory in a few weeks give you any hope?

James Cromwell: I have hope. The conditions are so bad from this administration that, much like the country that Roosevelt inherited, I hope that Obama is a big enough man to respond to the needs of ordinary American people, and that ordinary Americans learn that it is not our leaders who lead us. All substantive change in this country has come from the people, not the leaders. The leaders don't lead -- they follow.

Now, the question is will we abdicate the way we've abdicated for the last eight years and probably the last forty years? Will we abdicate to the money forces, the Wall Street forces, the multinationals and the military-industrial complex? Or will we finally say, "This is it!? This is our country. We are taking it back. We believe in habeas corpus. We hold these truths to be self-evident. That all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights. Among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to maintain these rights, governments are instituted among men, who derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. That when these powers threaten these rights it is the duty and it is the obligation of the people to throw off this government."

I believe that. That's what this country is founded on and that is what we have to rediscover. Barack Obama? As the Black Panthers used to say, you're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem. He has the choice. If he wants to be part of the solution, he has to listen to more rational voices. He has to listen to more progressive voices. He has to listen to his heart. He has to listen to his wife. He has to listen to his children and all of our children and do the right thing. That's the key, he has to do the right thing.

For full interview go to: http://suicidegirls.com/interviews/W%3A+James+Cromwell+vs.+George+Bush +Snr.+/

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He's a good actor it is just too bad he is a tree-hugging, PETA,Anti-American Freak!

"I have a bad feeling about this"

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This interview just makes me admire him even more.

It also doesn't surprise me. I can see now that uncanny insight and powers of observation, a mixture of cognitive and emotional intelligence, and a liberal P.O.V. -- all these qualities gave his portrayals of Poppy Bush and Prince Philip a darkly sublime and comic edge that few actors on the planet can equal.

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i sw that show, too and it surprised me as much as it did you. i don't have a problem with it. just surprise.
vince

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I wonder how this old Communist goat feels about the hopey-changy stuff now? I bet he still swoons at the thought of Obama, the Chicago street thug, as President.

Billy the Kid

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