"Rudy" Drops the H-Bomb

[MadBadger]

No not that Rudy, I'm referring to Samwise Gangee, or Clinton supporter Sean Astin at the 43rd District in Seattle for step 2 of the Washington Caucus.

When Clinton’s surrogate finally showed up he was… Sean Astin??? Yes, the man who played Samwise Gangee in Lord of the Rings had flown up to rally the Hillary Clinton troops. Which made very little sense, given that the type of people who show up for legislative district caucuses on a Saturday don’t really need a celebrity (or semi-celebrity) to motivate them to take political action.

Astin’s speech was most memorable for this line: “Should Obama get the nomination I will become a massive Barack Hussein Obama supporter.”

Hussein? Eyebrows shot up. Brows furrowed. Heads turned. A friend in the audience texted me: “Hussein!?” I’m not sure what Astin was up to with that line, but someone probably should have told him that Seattle’s 43rd District is the last place in the U.S. where subliminal messaging around Obama’s middle name is likely to move Democrats toward Clinton.

http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/oh_those_43rd_district_democrats

[GarbagemanLB]

1. but...but..but...that's his name!!!!

What a dipshit that guy is. :rofl:

[Auntie Bush]

18. When clinton was impeached...He was referred to a William Jefferson Clinton!

Why can't people use the "H" word? Is he ashamed of his name?

When my mother was mad at me she used my full name...maybe someone was mad at him.

[GarbagemanLB]

21. The problem is people (including some Hillary supporters here) try and use it as an attack.

[anonymous171]

2. Should've stayed in the Shire.

[GarbagemanLB]

3. lol

[Zhade]

4. I was disappointed in him when I discovered he was on a b*s* committee.

Loved Samwise, but fuck his idiot politics!

[Coexist]

5. what do Democrats not get about other Democrats thinking that is crap?

I have to shake my head sometimes.

[Swamp Rat]

6. 'Hobbit?'

[Blue_In_AK]

7. That is so cute, SwampRat...

Two adorable little cavemen. Awwww......

[Swamp Rat]

16. And an evil little green alien called the Great Gazoo, AKA Karl Rove

:D

[dchill]

20. I'm sorry, but I've forgotten...

Is there a ring around Uranus?
:shrug:

[madmom]

8. I honestly think Obama should jump on this keep it out there and

don't act like he's ashamed of his name. If he does people will IMO get over it quicker, and he always use the "we don't pick our own name" line. Really I think that would keep them from using it so much if he started using it all the time, make it unimportant, or bring up other GOOD people with the same name.

[movonne]

12. I never thought he was ashamed of his name...it is the way these

assholes use it...and very racist...

[madmom]

15. I'm not saying he is ashamed of his name, but the way they use it makes it seem that way,

I think he should keep it out there so it shows it doesn't matter one way or the other.I guess it's kinda like if you throw their words back at them they'll stop using them., if Obama keeps using his full name they will see that it isn't useful to them any more and stop. Beat them at their own game.

[AZBlue]

9. "I’m not sure what Astin was up to with that line" Oh, I do!

At least Rumsfeld was booed when he tried that bullshit. Astin should be ashamed of himself.

[MadBadger]

10. In due fairness to Donny...Ashcroft I believe.

[JackORoses]

11. Sean ASStin, oh how the Goonies have fallen!

[madrchsod]

13. well at least he did`t call him "barry"

[Bonobo]

14. It's ironic.

I have always thought, that when Hillary wears her brown pantsuit, she looks like Bilbo Baggins.

[malik flavors]

17. I saw this guy Larry King once. He was so passionately for Hillary he almost lost his mind.

I found it a bit strange.

[MadBadger]

I saw him too, and he was passionate but just not that informed.

[MadBadger]

23. I saw him too, and he was passionate but just not that informed.

[crankychatter]

19. Howard Stern asked Phil Donahue in reference to Rush Limbaugh

"You've seen him in person, Phil. Is his head really that BIG? Because it looks like a damned PUMPKIN!!!"

OMG, did you see him in PERSON?

Samwise... where did your misty, homo-erotic pathos go?

I'm tearing up my scrapbook and crying myself to sleep.

[Cha]

22. That's too bad ..the dude is a

freakin' tool..and not too terribly bright. That's all he's got?

That's a whole lot better than voting for hilary LIAR clinton.