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Penn: No Interest in Running for Office
AP ^ | 9/18/6 | DAVID GERMAIN

Posted on 09/18/2006 1:00:06 PM PDT by SmithL

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To: Borges
Well said. It was interesting: there's that one scene where the two hyperleftist stars of the film, Robbins and Penn have a conversation on the back deck.

It was starkly revealed there what a good actor Robbins can be and how awful Penn can be.

Penn's absolute worst may be "She Loves Me" and his best is either with pacino in "Carlito's Way" or "Sweet And Lowdown."

41 posted on 09/18/2006 1:33:17 PM PDT by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: SmithL
Everybody has freedom of speech, even if you are a dumbass. We have a press with such weinees as Matt Laurar Barbara WaWa etc. who give these dummies a pulpit to speak from. Ronald Regan was an actor but he ran for something and got elected. Arnold did as well. If Sean Penn, George Clooney, Michael J Fox, Babara Streisand, the Meathead Reiner, the Dixie Chicks had to get elected to anything, it would be a laughable result, yet our press gives them equivalence with people who run and win elections. It's too bad.
42 posted on 09/18/2006 1:33:37 PM PDT by jackieaxe (Unsourced reporting is not reporting but a lie or a manipulation)
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To: SmithL

Penn is a world class bozo but he is a great actor with a wide range.


43 posted on 09/18/2006 1:35:27 PM PDT by wtc911 (You can't get there from here)
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To: wideawake
He should have won for 'Dead Man Walking' but lost to Nicholas Cage's own mannered fakery in 'Leaving Las Vegas'. Try convincing people to watch a film witten and directed by Tim Robbins and starring Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon but apart from the Christ symbolism at the end it was quite even handed and mature. John Simon of National Review liked it and he didn't like anything.
44 posted on 09/18/2006 1:35:56 PM PDT by Borges
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To: jackieaxe
Everybody has freedom of speech, even if you are a dumbass.

And the dumbasses believe they have a right to be taken seriously.

45 posted on 09/18/2006 1:36:05 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SmithL

Not that anyone asked...


46 posted on 09/18/2006 1:39:59 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: SmithL

He wouldn't be able to beat up photographers anymore.


47 posted on 09/18/2006 1:42:53 PM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: Right Wing Assault

LOL! For starters, a thinking person would asume that he's too stupid to even fill out the paperwork to get his name on the ballot.


48 posted on 09/18/2006 1:43:25 PM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (Islam is the Death Cult of Perpetual Outrage!)
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To: dfwgator

LOL!


49 posted on 09/18/2006 1:43:48 PM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (Islam is the Death Cult of Perpetual Outrage!)
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To: SmithL
"(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ..."

Might be from the ASSociated press, but I was actually commenting on who was promoting it. And the education level of the new "politician". *shudder*

50 posted on 09/18/2006 2:37:10 PM PDT by Hi Heels (Don't you wish there were a knob on the computer to turn up the intelligence?)
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To: RexBeach

He has to at least give the voters the impression that he may have a brain.


51 posted on 09/18/2006 3:16:14 PM PDT by chiefqc
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To: SmithL

Sean Penn seems to be obsessed with movies about political assassinations lately. If I were the Secret Service, I would be paying close attention.


52 posted on 09/18/2006 3:18:16 PM PDT by Tall_Texan (I wish a political party would come along that thinks like I do.)
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To: SmithL

Sean Penn?

Didn't he play the flying saucer in "Plan 9 from Outer Space?"

I'd like to see him in a role as the first squish in "Godzilla Does Hollywood."


53 posted on 09/18/2006 4:00:15 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Consider that nearly half the people you pass on the street meet Lenin's definition of useful idiot)
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To: everyone

Real Americans: No interest in Sean Penn.


54 posted on 09/18/2006 4:01:52 PM PDT by California Patriot ("That's not Charlie the Tuna out there. It's Jaws." -- Richard Nixon)
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To: kittymyrib
Sorry, I had to correct your headline --

America: No Interest in Penn

:-)

55 posted on 09/18/2006 4:12:31 PM PDT by New Girl
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To: SmithL

Too bad. This would have been a great opportunity for comedy.


56 posted on 09/18/2006 4:16:07 PM PDT by Rockitz (This isn't rocket science- Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: SmithL
"You know what the honest truth is? I don't want to," Penn said. "It's hard enough to go out there and party at a film festival and shake so many hands and smile, you know? I mean, forget it."

Yeah, it's a hard-knock life, all right.

57 posted on 09/18/2006 5:15:10 PM PDT by RansomOttawa (tm)
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To: SmithL
...redistributing to the poor...

Wonder whether Penn gives to the poor. Sure would like to see one of his income tax returns.

58 posted on 09/18/2006 5:56:27 PM PDT by OldPossum
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To: SmithL

Terrific! Can we somehow get him to talk to all the other brain-dead 'Leftist Celebs' and possibly start a much-needed trend? ;)


59 posted on 09/18/2006 6:00:25 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: SmithL

He's a lightweight who would be brutalized in any debate. He made the mistake of posing for a tank/bunny suit photo when he was bailing water out of his rescue boat in New Orleans. Spiccoli should order out for pizza and have done with politics.


60 posted on 09/18/2006 6:02:15 PM PDT by jimfree (Freep and ye shall find.)
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