Less scary than Cheney.
August 12, 2005 7:35 PM Subscribe
Less scary than Cheney. Christopher Walken for President 2008.
(Walken Friday flash... or just do a little dance!)
(Walken Friday flash... or just do a little dance!)
I'd vote for him...couldn't be worse or more of a joke.
Oprah and Warren Beatty as opponents?
posted by schyler523 at 7:47 PM on August 12, 2005
Oprah and Warren Beatty as opponents?
posted by schyler523 at 7:47 PM on August 12, 2005
Oh shut the fuck up. We're gaining jobs. Life expectancy is rising. And, we have more money.
What is it with liberals? Oh yeah, I forgot.. it's that skill deficit thing.
posted by paleocon at 7:52 PM on August 12, 2005
What is it with liberals? Oh yeah, I forgot.. it's that skill deficit thing.
posted by paleocon at 7:52 PM on August 12, 2005
That campaign needs more cowbell.
posted by clevershark at 7:54 PM on August 12, 2005
posted by clevershark at 7:54 PM on August 12, 2005
I wanted to apologize for Paleocon's outburst. It's the first day of her period, and she's been cramping something fierce, and had an accident at work today.
Those winged pantyliners just don't work like they say they do.
posted by insomnia_lj at 8:00 PM on August 12, 2005
Those winged pantyliners just don't work like they say they do.
posted by insomnia_lj at 8:00 PM on August 12, 2005
Paleocon, don't you think your overreacting to a joke post? Or do you not have a sense of humor? Or do you just want attention? I'm guessing attention.
Anyway, are all those quotes real?
posted by cyphill at 8:01 PM on August 12, 2005
Anyway, are all those quotes real?
posted by cyphill at 8:01 PM on August 12, 2005
Yep. Gaining low-paying jobs. What a delightful uptick. And I suspect the life-expectancy of American Marines has surged downward.
Walken's got my vote. He's a certified massage therapist! Or, at least, the Continental was.
posted by maxsparber at 8:01 PM on August 12, 2005
Walken's got my vote. He's a certified massage therapist! Or, at least, the Continental was.
posted by maxsparber at 8:01 PM on August 12, 2005
Can't be worse than a President Glenallen Walken.
(clevershark beat me to the "A" joke, I am resorting to the "B"... which is at best a C-.)
posted by sdrawkcab at 8:02 PM on August 12, 2005
(clevershark beat me to the "A" joke, I am resorting to the "B"... which is at best a C-.)
posted by sdrawkcab at 8:02 PM on August 12, 2005
Er... I wanted to apologize to my wife. While multitasking at the computer, I accidentally confused her with Paleocon.
Obviously, she's not happy about it. Sorry about any confusion that it may have inadvertently caused.
Time to fetch tea!
posted by insomnia_lj at 8:02 PM on August 12, 2005
Obviously, she's not happy about it. Sorry about any confusion that it may have inadvertently caused.
Time to fetch tea!
posted by insomnia_lj at 8:02 PM on August 12, 2005
You'd think a handle like "paleocon" would be insurance against being taken seriously around here.
Or at least that's the usual conservative whine...
posted by clevershark at 8:03 PM on August 12, 2005
Or at least that's the usual conservative whine...
posted by clevershark at 8:03 PM on August 12, 2005
I'm sure at least half the electorate would enjoy Colonel Angus for the next four years!
posted by clevershark at 8:04 PM on August 12, 2005
posted by clevershark at 8:04 PM on August 12, 2005
Less scary than Cheney?
"Can I confess something? I tell you this as an artist, I think you'll understand. Sometimes when I'm driving... on the road at night... I see two headlights coming toward me. Fast. I have this sudden impulse to turn the wheel quickly, head-on into the oncoming car. I can anticipate the explosion. The sound of shattering glass. The... flames rising out of the flowing gasoline."
posted by Rothko at 8:10 PM on August 12, 2005
"Can I confess something? I tell you this as an artist, I think you'll understand. Sometimes when I'm driving... on the road at night... I see two headlights coming toward me. Fast. I have this sudden impulse to turn the wheel quickly, head-on into the oncoming car. I can anticipate the explosion. The sound of shattering glass. The... flames rising out of the flowing gasoline."
posted by Rothko at 8:10 PM on August 12, 2005
Rothko: sure, but this dog accidentally had a look at Cheney's soul, and look what happened to him!
posted by clevershark at 8:12 PM on August 12, 2005
posted by clevershark at 8:12 PM on August 12, 2005
Life expectancy is rising.
And were supposed to thank the current administration for this??
posted by Dr_Johnson at 8:34 PM on August 12, 2005
And were supposed to thank the current administration for this??
posted by Dr_Johnson at 8:34 PM on August 12, 2005
To clarify something, every month, the U.S. working-age population—those aged 16 and older—increases by more than 220,000 individuals. These new people need jobs, just to keep the economy healthy.
The Bush administration has consistantly underperformed as far as providing enough jobs even to keep up with population growth. This month is the first one yet that has even started to close the gap on this problem, as we have millions of unemployed youth, forced to compete against older people for marginal, poverty-level retail jobs that they used to be able to rely upon. Better paying manufacturing jobs actually went down again last month.
The unemployment levels themselves are badly misreported due to the economy, with millions of people dropped from the stats because they've exhausted their unemployment.
During the previous four recoveries that lasted 44 months or longer, job growth averaged 11 percent by this point. With today's workforce, that job growth rate would have meant an average of 285,000 jobs a month.
But even if you go on the basis of this one month, which is unusually higher in comparison to other recent months, we only gained 66,000 jobs this month, and the recovery has only been at a fifth of the rate of all other major economic downturns.
Given rising oil prices, only one month of acceptable figures, and the continued hemmoraging of good jobs in this country, it's perhaps a bit early to start celebrating yet. All of the Bush administration's prior predictions regarding job growth have been fraudulent, and we still have fewer jobs than in early 2001, when the Bush administration passed their tax cut for the rich. Confidence in our economy hasn't been the same since.
posted by insomnia_lj at 8:35 PM on August 12, 2005
The Bush administration has consistantly underperformed as far as providing enough jobs even to keep up with population growth. This month is the first one yet that has even started to close the gap on this problem, as we have millions of unemployed youth, forced to compete against older people for marginal, poverty-level retail jobs that they used to be able to rely upon. Better paying manufacturing jobs actually went down again last month.
The unemployment levels themselves are badly misreported due to the economy, with millions of people dropped from the stats because they've exhausted their unemployment.
During the previous four recoveries that lasted 44 months or longer, job growth averaged 11 percent by this point. With today's workforce, that job growth rate would have meant an average of 285,000 jobs a month.
But even if you go on the basis of this one month, which is unusually higher in comparison to other recent months, we only gained 66,000 jobs this month, and the recovery has only been at a fifth of the rate of all other major economic downturns.
Given rising oil prices, only one month of acceptable figures, and the continued hemmoraging of good jobs in this country, it's perhaps a bit early to start celebrating yet. All of the Bush administration's prior predictions regarding job growth have been fraudulent, and we still have fewer jobs than in early 2001, when the Bush administration passed their tax cut for the rich. Confidence in our economy hasn't been the same since.
posted by insomnia_lj at 8:35 PM on August 12, 2005
The Bush economy sucks monkey-nuts and we've been gaining low-wage service industry jobs since Reagan. Like we need more of that crap.
I'm a hetero male, but I llove with Chris Walken. Have been ever since The Dear Hunter. He rules and he's too crazy to be stupid.
posted by snsranch at 8:43 PM on August 12, 2005
I'm a hetero male, but I llove with Chris Walken. Have been ever since The Dear Hunter. He rules and he's too crazy to be stupid.
posted by snsranch at 8:43 PM on August 12, 2005
Walken is a far better actor than Reagan, and somehow that guy not only got elected President, he got raised to sainthood by Republicans. And he's an actor in a different league entirely than Ventura and Schwarzenegger, and they can be governors.
So I say: let's let Walken do it! He couldn't possibly fuck things up worse than Bush. (In that respect, almost anybody is bound to be better than Bush. Except Cheney, which is just more Bush).
And I want a President that did a music video.
posted by teece at 8:52 PM on August 12, 2005
So I say: let's let Walken do it! He couldn't possibly fuck things up worse than Bush. (In that respect, almost anybody is bound to be better than Bush. Except Cheney, which is just more Bush).
And I want a President that did a music video.
posted by teece at 8:52 PM on August 12, 2005
The website looks quite serious. All we have to do now is get Walken to sign on, and well, we've got our next president!
posted by fungible at 8:53 PM on August 12, 2005
posted by fungible at 8:53 PM on August 12, 2005
We need to parachute Walken into Baghdad. Osama Bin Laden wouldn't last ten seconds in a staring contest with Ol' Dead Eyes.
posted by Rothko at 8:54 PM on August 12, 2005
posted by Rothko at 8:54 PM on August 12, 2005
Kevin Spacey
posted by angry modem at 9:16 PM on August 12, 2005
posted by angry modem at 9:16 PM on August 12, 2005
Robert De Niro, circa Taxi Driver. In case of a terrorist attack and something happening to Walken, we need to ensure proper succession within the Scary Party.
posted by Rothko at 9:19 PM on August 12, 2005
posted by Rothko at 9:19 PM on August 12, 2005
Jay Mohr turns 35 this year, so he can be the VP. The Walken impression is the best thing he has going for himself, anyway.
posted by Gary at 9:28 PM on August 12, 2005
posted by Gary at 9:28 PM on August 12, 2005
Clevershark: that's no dog, that's an orc!
So we elect Walken, and then we discover he hasn't been method acting, but simply type cast all these years.
posted by Goofyy at 9:34 PM on August 12, 2005
So we elect Walken, and then we discover he hasn't been method acting, but simply type cast all these years.
posted by Goofyy at 9:34 PM on August 12, 2005
Jay Mohr's an insolent hack. No, for VP it would have to be somebody batshit crazy like Gary Busey. Because literally no one would mess with him.
Walken and Busey. I'm scared already.
posted by fenriq at 10:08 PM on August 12, 2005
Walken and Busey. I'm scared already.
posted by fenriq at 10:08 PM on August 12, 2005
And Jesus and Slasher could have cabinet positions.
posted by homunculus at 10:27 PM on August 12, 2005
posted by homunculus at 10:27 PM on August 12, 2005
As long as he gets it on the first shot. Two is pussy.
posted by sellout at 1:09 AM on August 13, 2005
posted by sellout at 1:09 AM on August 13, 2005
Walken's just like us. He gets up every morning and puts on his pants one leg at a time, just like us. The only difference is that then he goes out and runs for President.
posted by Vidiot at 7:07 AM on August 13, 2005
posted by Vidiot at 7:07 AM on August 13, 2005
The Bush administration has consistantly underperformed as far as providing enough jobs even to keep up with population growth.
There's a name for the system where the government is supposed to provide jobs. It's called communism.
I'm not redbaiting or trolling-- I'm making a simple point. If you want to say that it's government's job to provide a climate in which employers are encouraged to expand the labor force, that's good and well, I suppose (but tough to do without corporate welfare). In this country, however, providing jobs is not the government's responsibility.
And your grasp of economics (or at least your ability to present a balanced position), insomnia_lj, is wanting.
posted by Kwantsar at 7:56 AM on August 13, 2005
There's a name for the system where the government is supposed to provide jobs. It's called communism.
I'm not redbaiting or trolling-- I'm making a simple point. If you want to say that it's government's job to provide a climate in which employers are encouraged to expand the labor force, that's good and well, I suppose (but tough to do without corporate welfare). In this country, however, providing jobs is not the government's responsibility.
And your grasp of economics (or at least your ability to present a balanced position), insomnia_lj, is wanting.
posted by Kwantsar at 7:56 AM on August 13, 2005
We need to parachute Walken into Baghdad. Osama Bin Laden wouldn't last ten seconds in a staring contest with Ol' Dead Eyes.
You don't mean Baghdad.
sorry, got a bee in my bonnet about this shit after seeing that picture of the soldiers in Iraq doing their 911 "we will never forget" thing. Anyhoo - Walken For America!
posted by CunningLinguist at 8:23 AM on August 13, 2005
You don't mean Baghdad.
sorry, got a bee in my bonnet about this shit after seeing that picture of the soldiers in Iraq doing their 911 "we will never forget" thing. Anyhoo - Walken For America!
posted by CunningLinguist at 8:23 AM on August 13, 2005
I'd love to do a character with a wife, a nice little house, a couple of kids, a dog, maybe a bit of singing, and no guns and no killing, but nobody offers me those kind of parts.
~Christopher Walken
posted by bwg at 9:51 AM on August 13, 2005
~Christopher Walken
posted by bwg at 9:51 AM on August 13, 2005
"John Malkovich for VP."
Naah. John Malkovich, though interesting, would make the campaign look like a bunch of Yankee intellectuals, thereby losing the Southern vote. You might as well recommend Tim Robbins.
Billy Bob Thornton for VP.
posted by insomnia_lj at 10:04 AM on August 13, 2005
Naah. John Malkovich, though interesting, would make the campaign look like a bunch of Yankee intellectuals, thereby losing the Southern vote. You might as well recommend Tim Robbins.
Billy Bob Thornton for VP.
posted by insomnia_lj at 10:04 AM on August 13, 2005
Charlie don't surf... but Christopher does.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again - dear god, let this be true. If he is in fact running, and his platform is in fact that of regaining dignity for America, then I'm in.
posted by davelog at 10:09 AM on August 13, 2005
I've said it before, and I'll say it again - dear god, let this be true. If he is in fact running, and his platform is in fact that of regaining dignity for America, then I'm in.
posted by davelog at 10:09 AM on August 13, 2005
Tim Robbins might not play well in Dixie, but pickin' and singin' Bob Roberts definitely would.
posted by psmealey at 10:18 AM on August 13, 2005
posted by psmealey at 10:18 AM on August 13, 2005
I don't care WHAT his platform is. Republican, Democrat, "I'll kill everyone last one of you bitches that opposes me, and rape your corpse, maybe even those of you that agree with me," I'd still vote for him. Christopher fucking Walken. The world needs a little more surreality.
posted by [insert clever name here] at 10:26 AM on August 13, 2005
posted by [insert clever name here] at 10:26 AM on August 13, 2005
There's a name for the system where the government is supposed to provide jobs. It's called communism.
You'd have to bebatshit crazy a Libertarian Party candidate to argue the gov't should play no role in job creation or economic growth.
Now there's a legitimate argument that the gov't actually has very limited power over either of those things in a capitalist system, but you can't make that argument when job growth sucks and then ignore it completely to argue for a tax cut.
/That being said, "providing jobs" is a fairly loaded term.
posted by iron chef morimoto at 10:27 AM on August 13, 2005
You'd have to be
Now there's a legitimate argument that the gov't actually has very limited power over either of those things in a capitalist system, but you can't make that argument when job growth sucks and then ignore it completely to argue for a tax cut.
/That being said, "providing jobs" is a fairly loaded term.
posted by iron chef morimoto at 10:27 AM on August 13, 2005
Isn't it convenient that Communism was around to provide a sharp reprimand to any suggestion that government should have a role in improving the lives of its citizens?
posted by maxsparber at 11:11 AM on August 13, 2005
posted by maxsparber at 11:11 AM on August 13, 2005
I would so vote for him. Hell, I'll work for his campaign staff. More cowbell! Fuck Yeah!
posted by Space Kitty at 1:53 PM on August 13, 2005
posted by Space Kitty at 1:53 PM on August 13, 2005
"Christopher Walken has realized that the state of his country is in dismay . . . he sees that all walks of life are becoming disgruntled and apathetic . . . and feels a duty, as a child of the American public . . ."
Someone get the Candidate a good copywriter!
posted by Uccellina at 2:03 PM on August 13, 2005
Someone get the Candidate a good copywriter!
posted by Uccellina at 2:03 PM on August 13, 2005
I'm on his campaign for sure if he truly runs.
On the other hand, maybe this is the secret Republican tactic. Get the really annoyed people to root for Walken.
posted by blacklite at 3:47 AM on August 14, 2005
On the other hand, maybe this is the secret Republican tactic. Get the really annoyed people to root for Walken.
posted by blacklite at 3:47 AM on August 14, 2005
And your grasp of economics (or at least your ability to present a balanced position), insomnia_lj, is wanting.
Wow, you must not know many actual economists then. Solow? Amartya Sen? Stiglitz? Akerlof? Arrow? Tobin? Hell, ever heard of Keynes?
posted by Thoth at 5:07 AM on August 14, 2005
Wow, you must not know many actual economists then. Solow? Amartya Sen? Stiglitz? Akerlof? Arrow? Tobin? Hell, ever heard of Keynes?
posted by Thoth at 5:07 AM on August 14, 2005
He looks creepy.
He dances beautifully.
That's all I ask for in a major political figure.
posted by MikeP at 10:54 PM on August 14, 2005
He dances beautifully.
That's all I ask for in a major political figure.
posted by MikeP at 10:54 PM on August 14, 2005
We need to parachute Walken into Baghdad. Osama Bin Laden wouldn't last ten seconds in a staring contest with Ol' Dead Eyes. posted by Rothko at 10:54 PM CST on August 12
Especially if he wore those teeth that he sported as the Headless Horseman in the movie "Sleepy Hollow."
posted by cass at 11:49 AM on August 16, 2005
Especially if he wore those teeth that he sported as the Headless Horseman in the movie "Sleepy Hollow."
posted by cass at 11:49 AM on August 16, 2005
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