Well, while i am a britney fan :)

I'm gonna agree with those on here that think her statement was more along the lines of career preservation that political activisim.

I think after the Dixie Chicks fiasco, most entertainers have realized that making throwaway political statements can have a backlash on their careers. I'm not saying that natalie maines was wrong for her opinion, but she's an idiot if she thinks that she can say something like that and her main audience(read: conservative, country music fans) wouldn't have an opinion.

although, seeing as how most of britney's target audience are the HS kids and college kids that were protesting involvement in Iraq, she might have been better served by saying, i trust the president, but, war in iraq is like, wrong man.

Kitso
KS 361 celebrities should be seen and not heard out of their spheres of entertainment

Did anyone else see this interview? Britney was smacking on her gum the entire time. Does she have any manners? She also spoke like a little girl! She always wants to be treated as a woman. Maybe she should act like one!

Britney usually doesn't bother me but this interview just got to me. Two of the news anchors were making fun of her chomping down on her gum.

TL, completely agreed. If I, for example, had a medical emergency and my doctors walked in wearing something terribly inappropriate, smacking his/her gum, and saying "um, like, ya know" a lot, I would request transfer to another facility. Sure (I believe) Goethe said"Treat a man as he should be and he will", but if one sees no potential, then why bother? All she'll ever be in my eyes is some two-bit half talent with a penchant for showing skin. If someone does like her, then that's great. But I don't!

Yeah? Not even Arnold and Charlton Heston? ;)

Well, if it means i don't have to hear Babs, Rosie O, or Alec Baldwin, i can make that sacrifice.

Kitso
KS 361 times i'd like to drown babs in a vat of 'buttah'

AggieSigmaNu361,

If you added Susan Sarandon and Cybil Shepherd it would be tempting.

OMIGOSH! thank you so much for saying this. I saw that interview and first, what was with the wig? second, what was with the gum smacking on live television. she seemed so young and immature to me. was she high or "nice?"
I could not take her seriously and she was annoying the hell out of me. I am a closet brit fan, but she obviously was not taught how to be interviewed. and i thought her comment on bush was vague and "safe," considering the backlash that the dixie chicks received for giving their honest opinion.

Yeah I think Britney was just fed a line to say - she probably has no idea what is going on in politics....take her little interview at the NFL show. When asked who she was rooting for she said the Jets...but when the crowd started booing her, she changed her answer. I am sure if someone asked her to go into more of an explanation, her little bleached head would explode.

i know. did you notice how the interviewer dumbed down his next question. "um so do you really like pepsi? which kind of pepsi do you like?" i was like "uh, duh. this is making my brain hurt."

Back to the original question.

I trust President Bush...to do what's best for himself and the Republican Party -- not what is necessarily best for me and/or the rest of the country.

By the way, I would say exactly the same thing about Gore.

These guys aren't our friends. They're "born with a silver spoon in their mouth" politicians.

couldn't agree with you more.


Jeb was the one the Bush family was grooming for president anyway.

Momentary hijack.

This isn't worth a thread, but I thought it was pretty clever:

"In late January 2003, an old man approached the White House from Lafayette
Park across Pennsylvania Avenue where he had been sitting on a bench. He
spoke to the U.S. Marine standing guard and said, "I would like to go in and meet
with President Clinton."

The Marine looked at the old fellow and said, "Sir, Mr. Clinton is no
longer president and no longer resides here."

The man replied, "Oh, O.K." and walked away.

The following day, the same man approached the White House and said to the
same Marine guard, "I would like to go in and meet with President Clinton."

The Marine again told the man, "Sir, Mr. Clinton is no longer president
and doesn't live here any more."

The old gentleman thanked the Marine and, again, just walked away.

The third day, the same man approached the White House and addressed the
same Marine, saying, "I would like to go in and speak with President Clinton."

The Marine, understandably a bit irritated at this point, gazed at the man
and said, "Sir, this is the third day in a row that you have been here
asking to speak to Mr. Clinton. I've told you already that Mr. Clinton is no longer
the president and no longer resides here. Don't you understand?"

The old man looked at the Marine and said, "Oh, I understand, son. I just
love hearing it."

The Marine snapped to attention, smiling, saluted and said, "See you
tomorrow, sir."



Actuallly, I thought Clinton did some good and some dumb things during his tenure. That's pretty true of any President, though. Anyway, hope this brought a chuckle.

hehe that was pretty funny :)

I read a letter to the editor not long ago that I thought summed up the Clinton vs. Bush arguement beautifully


"During the Clinton years we had one of the lowest unemployment rates in history, the economy was up, he kept us out of major conflict with the exception of Kosovo, and lied to us just like every other president has done since George Washington. Now in the Bush years, the unemployment rate is at an all time high, the economy sucks (the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer), so far we have fought in Afghanistan, Iraq and are now looking at Syria, Liberia, Saudi Arabia and Iran (when will it end?), and like Clinton, Bush has lied to us. Clinton passed laws for the common well being of America - Bush is passing legislation for the common well being of not only his Republican backing, but his own pocket book.

Clinton doesn't look so bad now does he? "


that was a rough quotation - there was more to it, but I can't remember the whole thing.

They're showing reruns of The West Wing on Bravo (I think) every night. Going into and out of commercials, they've done these little bumpers which are real happenings from the West Wing.

Last night they had one about the practical joke Clinton (or his staff) played on Bush.

When the Bush team took over, they discovered the "W's" had been removed from the computer keyboards.

Pretty darned funny, I think, given the asture setting.