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When Did Penn Get Elected?

by Big Dog on Dec 19, 2006 at 19:59 Political

Sean Penn is not content sticking to his chosen profession. He has decided that he needs to get involved in politics. He went to the Middle East and “reported” from there in an effort to show how terrible the US is, especially under the leadership of George Bush. Pen was in New Orleans and tried to be a real hero by getting in a boat to rescue people. Unfortunately, he was more like Gilligan than any hero and got into a boat with a hole in it and promptly sunk.

Penn was in New York Monday to receive the Christopher Reeve First Amendment Award from The Creative Coalition. Penn took that opportunity to again blast the President and to call for his impeachment. Penn compared the decision of the Democrats not to seek impeachment to the judicial system not seeking charges against someone who broke the law:

Turning to his views of President Bush, Penn said, “Now, there’s been a lot of talk lately on Capitol Hill about how impeachment should be ‘off the table.’ We’re told that it’s time to look ahead – not back…

“Can you imagine how far that argument would go for the defense at an arraignment on charges of grand larceny, or large-scale distribution of methamphetamines? How about the arranging of a contract killing on a pregnant mother? ‘Indictment should be off the table.’ Or ‘Let’s look forward, not backward.’ Or ‘We can’t afford another failed defendant.’

“Our country has a legal system, not of men and women, but of laws. Why then are we so willing to put inconvenient provisions of the U.S. constitution and federal law ‘off the table?’”

I would imagine that Penn is under the impression that the President broke some law. You see, the examples he cites involve individuals who broke the law. The President used available information to take a decision. Whether or not the decision was correct is open to interpretation but the fact is, Bush did not manufacture evidence to go to war. He used the same intelligence that the Democrats (and everyone else in government) used to come to a conclusion. Just because Democrats are running from their decision to authorize the use of force does not mean they were not well informed. They can claim they were lied to but then they have to explain the intelligence they viewed. Perhaps this is why they have decided that not to pursue impeachment. They know that if there is testimony it will be shown that they used the same information. In addition, all the war talk they did and all the statements they made about Hussein and WMD during the Clinton reign will be used to show that their acts are politically motivated.

Penn said that people need to obey the law. In that light, how did it work out for him in Canada. As I recall, he broke the law there by smoking in public. I have not heard if he was required to pay the fine. If he was not then he should go back and pay it as a matter of principle. Penn also seems to think that entry into this country by ILLEGALS is OK. Sean, we have laws and they need to be followed.

Penn is really a pathetic little man. In a letter he wrote in October of this year he called people who believed we should stay in Iraq cowards. Many of our military believe we should stay in Iraq and NONE of them are cowards. Sean Penn is not fit to shine their boots and the smallest woman in the military could probably smack the hell out of him. Penn should stick to acting though if I were an actor and was as pathetic at it as he is I would consider a career change as well. Shoot, all actors have to do is recite the lines someone else wrote for them.

I pray that we are never attacked again. I pray every day that we end this war on terror with the complete destruction of the terrorists. But, if we are ever attacked again I hope that Penn is affected by it in some tragic way. Maybe then he will wise up and stop playing games. The only thing that Penn knows about being president is that he could never do the job.

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