'The American President' is on

[Oeditpus Rex]

Man, if only. If only. :(

[lildreamer316]

1. Ain't that the truth.

I really am hoping Aaron Sorkin hasn't given up on political writing for tv/movies. I absolutely love his style and feel. I also loved Studio 60.
I swear I wish he would write for a candidate for real...maybe Gore (I know!) or maybe one of the others.

[Suich]

2. I watched "Dave" earlier tonight.

(((sigh)))

[lizziegrace]

3. Dave

wonderful movie. Everything that can be good about government.

"Everyone works on Monday!"

[meegbear]

4. * has been on something for years ...

what he's on these days, I don't know.

[NewJeffCT]

5. I loved Douglas' response on the ACLU

when the RW opponent accused him of being a card-carrying member of the ACLU. I wished our candidates could be that passionate:

"...For the record: yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU. But the more important question is why aren't you, Bob? Now, this is an organization whose sole purpose is to defend the Bill of Rights, so it naturally begs the question: Why would a senator, his party's most powerful spokesman and a candidate for President, choose to reject upholding the Constitution? If you can answer that question, folks, then you're smarter than I am, because I didn't understand it until a few hours ago. America isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You gotta want it bad, 'cause it's gonna put up a fight. It's gonna say "You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. You want to claim this land as the land of the free? Then the symbol of your country can't just be a flag; the symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then, you can stand up and sing about the "land of the free". I've known Bob Rumson for years, and I've been operating under the assumption that the reason Bob devotes so much time and energy to shouting at the rain was that he simply didn't get it. Well, I was wrong. Bob's problem isn't that he doesn't get it. Bob's problem is that he can't sell it! We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious people to solve them. And whatever your particular problem is, I promise you, Bob Rumson is not the least bit interested in solving it. He is interested in two things and two things only: making you afraid of it and telling you who's to blame for it... "

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112346/quotes