HBO replace director Sydney Pollack with Jay Roach in their controveral movie about the 2000 Florida Recount. The film intended to come out right before the 2008 election is already getting critics now that one liberal director has been replaced by an even more liberal director. I believe that having this come out in the weeks before a Presidential Election does a disservice to the American People. If you want to make a film like this it should of course be looked at objectivly and it should not be released right before an election. All this amounts to is electionering. Many people who dont know any better will get all worked up becuse of the biased look that this movie will have and they will be worked up right before the election. The sad thing is this was 8 years ago and should not be an important factor in 2008 since neither cantidate is a cantidate in 2008.
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Ohh yes we must remember that those that voted for Bush, were not all present for the elections... Yes that had to be it, right?
Hopefully some one some day will look at these con-films like this and say "How stupid did they actually think the people were to believe such garbage". But they will likely look and say, "Damn how were the People then so stupid to be duped so easily and believe the insain stuff said because one group lost an election and was not mature enough to live with it."
Once again the coterie that loves secrecy and manipulation is afraid of what might be revealed.
The imposter called Publius believes that Republicans are not the chief exhibitors of "hate and vengence (sic)"?
His political pontificating is as exalted as his spelling.
For the sake of having fair representation it should remain as it is. If we ever went by popular vote alone, then this country would be ruled by the interests of New York, California and other highly populated states. States with low populations would pretty much be ignored.
John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States would likely have pretty strong feelings (negative) about what they court has become now that it is stacked in favor of one political minority and demonstrably behaving in a partisan and un-Constitutional way, especially in the Bush V. Gore case. Elections are state matters, the SC had no jurisdiction to even accept that case. As well, what business does the SC have to decide a case in a partisan way, and write in that case that this decision cannot be used as precedent. Publius, if you were worthy of even saying that name you would understand what that means.
James Madison was the "Father Of the Constitution" from which our inalienable right to free speech derives, but perhaps the Modern Day Publius would be happy if the SC could abridge the right of Democrats to make a movie.
In terms of influencing elections, probably the largest and most recent event I can remember was called Iran-Contra under Ronald Reagan, and buried by President George Herbert Walker Bush, by his blanket pardon of those involved in selling arms for hostages, with the provison that the American hostages in Iran, not be freed so that Reagan could pummel Carter over and over with the disgrace. Bush was the first to MISUSE Excecutive pardon power to actually pardon criminal wrongdoers under his direct command, a power his son has taken up by commuting the sentence of Lewis Liddy. Next to making deals with Iranian terrorists, one of whom was the current president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a movie about a corrupt election hardly registers.
To make an issue of a movie is such a small and petty thing.
The pivotal facts of the 2000 election were that Bush and the Republicans, led by James Baker III physically, as in broke into the precints and forced a stop of the presidential election count with violence, and the Supreme Court took the State's power to run an election away from Florida and decided on a victor.
Another important thing to realize is that officers of the judicial branch are supposed to recuse themselves on issues where they have a personal take. 2 Justices on the Supreme Court had close relatives whose careers hinged on a Bush Administration.
This is a story that can and should be told at any time, in any place that Americans should all know about.
If you don't think your vote counts then stay home next time ;)
Hmmmm.... it was a close election for sure. About half of us liked the way it turned out though.
If you don't think your vote counts then stay home next time ;)"
Nice twist of my words, Don. I didn't say my vote was irrelevant. I said that since power to make policy really rests with the folks with the capital, whether we have an electoral college or not is irrelevant.
And I don't need to stay home...all I need to do is register as a Democrat and the RNC will do a good job of disenfranchising me anyway. ;-)
Too bad the "liberal media" won't show it.
HBO doesn't reach everyone in America.
"Many people who don't know any better will get all worked up because of the biased look that this movie will have and they will be worked up right before the election."
Same way you republiCONS bought that thing called Iraq , right????
In the meantime I offer a review of the film Recount