[Kip Lange]

Strange days indeed.

[Stew Padasso]

Not a ringing endorsement for conservatism but anything to bash Clinton is appreciated.

[finnman69]

Holy LW Bat-erang Batman!

[meandog]

Meanwhile, veteran Clinton-basher Christopher Hitchens is suggesting that the former President was a CIA informant at Oxford University, where the two were students in the late 1960s

Hey Chris, I generally like your reporting, but...imagining Beelzebubba a CIA informant is like imagining Der Fueher as a member of B'nai B'rith. Beelzebubba was more likely an informant for KGB or GDR!

[syriacus]

"I think he was a double,"

Is "double" a synonym for "counterspy"?

I'd hate to think there's yet another Clinton out there.

[FeliciaCat]

I believe Gere is basically left-wing, but not in a rabid partisan sort of way. He is way into the Tibet/Buddah thing and I have always felt that his public statements on world events (while "out there") were spoken from the heart and his true convictions. Just my two cents.

[tractorman]

Hey! Clinton's done a lot for AIDS. He's done an stupendous job of promoting sexual promiscuity.

[eastsider]

[riri]

but your husband did nothing about AIDS for eight years

Alas he did alot of that but as Ross Perot said "Along comes the luckiest man in the world" referring to inheriting a good economy.

But MUCH MORE IMPORTANTLY let's not forget he did nothing about Iraq for 8 years either. I recently read the official motto of the Clinton state department re: Iraq was "Don't give us sweatly palms" meaning don't give us anything that might cause a crisis.

[txzman]

As a Christian all I can think is that Bush's forthright stance on issues, and his clear dependence on God, is making arguments that many Liberals can no longer deny.

As a previous poster said, Strange Days Indeed.

[chilepepper]

Richard Gere is one of the very few Hollywood liberals (come to think of it, the ONLY Hollywood liberal) I have any respect for. Criticizing Red China over Tibet shows some gumption on his part, that which is sorely lacking amongst the usual Leftist elite hypocrites...

[Alberta's Child]

There's something a little different about Gere when it comes to some of these political positions. I saw an interview with him back when Clinton was visiting China in the late 1990s, and he seemed surprisingly well-informed and very reasonable about his expectations for improvements in China's human rights record.

[Paul Atreides]

I am wondering if the tide is beginning to turn on Bubba. Are the lefties beginning to see him as a drag on the party? I saw an article in which someone in the DNC claimed to have told Hillary to divorce Bubba. It is clear that his endorsement means nothing. More criticism is being voiced as to his post-Presidential attacks on the current president. I would love to see these people turn on him.

[Paul Atreides]

Well, now we know who Sharon Stone WON'T be starring in a movie with.

[lawgirl]

Meanwhile, veteran Clinton-basher Christopher Hitchens is suggesting that the former President was a CIA informant at Oxford University, where the two were students in the late 1960s.

"I think he was a double," the author of "No One Left to Lie To" claims in the latest issue of the conservative quarterly Doublethink. "Somebody was giving information to [the CIA] about the antiwar draft resisters, and I think it was probably him."

PING!!!!! ROFL!!!!!

[putupon]

Expertise on STDs

No way Dubya knows more than Bubba.

[rintense]

Yep, hell must be getting pretty chilly...

The Washington Post endorses the Bush Doctrine...

Gere favors Dubya over Clinton...

And the Lions hire a great coach.

Yep, hell must be around 32 degrees right now.

[TontoKowalski]

Regarding the AIDS program itself (aside from Gere's comments), I'm of two minds on this.

You can't dispute that there's a crying need for help in Africa. But if this $15B is going to be administered through the UN, then I'm against it.

I say this because, immediately after the SOTU, Kofi Annan was in the press just giddy at the prospect of $15B.

The project is noble, but doing it through the UN is throwing money down a rathole. Other than Annan's comments, I don't have any evidence that this will be a UN project, so I guess this is a preemptive rant.

[PISANO]

I have great respect for the POTUS and his wartime leadership and I believe he has one central component that most others in that office never had and that is HONOR.

However, I don't neccessarily think that because Gere praises GW for aids research and Dennis Miller likes his school voucher program, or even that Hitchens DISDAIN of the Clintons means we are winning new conservatives to our side. What it means is that GW is moving LEFT.

[sharktrager]

I disagree withe Gere's poitics, but I must say I admire his honesty and the strength of his beliefs.

His speech at the Concert for New York shows that he is willing to stand up for what he believes, even when he knows that his stance will be very unpopular.