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Who's Smarter? by Cindy Osborne



The Hollywood group is at it again. Holding anti-war rallies, screaming
about the Bush Administration, running ads in major newspapers,
defaming the President and his Cabinet every chance they get, to anyone
and everyone who will listen. They publicly defile them and call them
names like "stupid" , "morons", and "idiots". Jessica Lange went so far
as to tell a crowd in Spain that she hates President Bush and is
embarrassed to be an American.



So, just how ignorant are these people who are running the country?
Let's look at the biographies of these "stupid", "ignorant", "moronic"
leaders, and then at the celebrities who are castigating them:



President George W. Bush: Received a Bachelors Degree from Yale
University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He served as an
F-102 pilot for the Texas Air National Guard. He began his career in
the oil and gas business in Midland in 1975 and worked in the energy
industry until 1986. He was elected Governor on November 8, 1994, with
53.5 percent of the vote. In a historic re-election victory, he became
the first Texas Governor to be elected to consecutive four-year terms
on November 3, 1998 winning 68.6 percent of the vote. In 1998 Governor
Bush won 49 percent of the Hispanic vote, 27 percent of the
African-American vote, 27 percent of Democrats and 65 percent of women.
He won more Texas counties, 240 of 254, than any modern Republican
other than Richard Nixon in 1972 and is the first Republican
gubernatorial candidate to win the heavily Hispanic and Democratic
border counties of El Paso, Cameron and Hidalgo. (Someone began
circulating a false story about his I.Q. being lower than any other
President. If you believed it, you might want to go to URBANLEGENDS.COM
and see the truth.



Vice President Dick Cheney: Earned a B.A. in 1965 and a M.A. in 1966,
both in political science. Two years later, he won an American
Political Science Association congressional fellowship. One of Vice
President Cheney's primary duties is to share with individuals, members
of Congress and foreign leaders, President Bush's vision to strengthen
our economy, secure our homeland and win the War on Terrorism. In his
official role as President of the Senate, Vice President Cheney
regularly goes to Capital Hill to meet with Senators and members of the
House of Representatives to work on the Administration's legislative
goals. In his travels as Vice President, he has seen first hand the
great demands the war on terrorism is placing on the men and women of
our military, and he is proud of the tremendous job they are doing for
the United States of America.



Secretary of State Colin Powell: Educated in the New York City public
schools, graduating from the City College of New York (CCNY), where he
earned a Bachelor's Degree in geology. He also participated in ROTC at
CCNY and received a commission as an Army second lieutenant upon
graduation in June 1958. His further academic achievements include a
Master of Business Administration Degree from George Washington
University. Secretary Powell is the recipient of numerous U.S. and
foreign military awards and decorations. Secretary Powell's civilian
awards include two Presidential Medals of Freedom, the President's
Citizens Medal, the Congressional Gold Medal, the Secretary of State
Distinguished Service Medal, and the Secretary of Energy Distinguished
Service Medal. Several schools and other institutions have been named
in his honor and he holds honorary degrees from universities and
colleges across the country. (Note: He retired as Four Star General in
the United States Army)



Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld: Attended Princeton University on
Scholarship (AB, 1954) and served in the U.S. Navy (1954-57) as a Naval
aviator; Congressional Assistant to Rep. Robert Griffin (R-MI),
1957-59; U.S. Representative, Illinois, 1962-69; Assistant to the
President, Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, Director of
the Cost of Living Council, 1969-74; U.S. Ambassador to NATO, 1973-74;
head of Presidential Transition Team, 1974; Assistant to the President,
Director of White House Office of Operations, White House Chief of
Staff, 1974-77; Secretary of Defense, 1975-77.



Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge: Raised in a working class
family in veterans' public housing in Erie. He earned a scholarship to
Harvard, graduating with honors in 1967. After his first year at The
Dickinson School of Law, he was drafted into the U.S. Army, where he
served as an infantry staff sergeant in Vietnam, earning the Bronze
Star for Valor. After returning to Pennsylvania, he earned his Law
Degree and was in private practice before becoming Assistant District
Attorney in Erie County. He was elected to Congress in 1982. He was the
first enlisted Vietnam combat veteran elected to the U.S. House, and
was overwhelmingly re-elected six times.



National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice: Earned her Bachelor's
Degree in Political Science, Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the
University of Denver in 1974; her Master's from the University of Notre
Dame in 1975; and her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International
Studies at the University of Denver in 1981. (Note: Rice enrolled at
the University of Denver at the age of 15, graduating at 19 with a
Bachelor's Degree in Political Science (Cum Laude). She earned a
Master's Degree at the University of Notre Dame and a Doctorate from
the University of Denver's Graduate School of International Studies.
Both of her advanced degrees are also in Political Science.) She is a
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been
awarded Honorary Doctorates from Morehouse College in 1991, the
University of Alabama in 1994, and the University of Notre Dame in
1995. At Stanford, she has been a member of the Center for
International Security and Arms Control, a Senior Fellow of the
Institute for International Studies, and a Fellow (by courtesy) of the
Hoover Institution. Her books include Germany Unified and Europe
Transformed (1995) with Philip Zelikow, The Gorbachev Era (1986) with
Alexander Dallin, and Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the
Czechoslovak Army (1984). She also has written numerous articles on
Soviet and East European foreign and defense policy, and has addressed
audiences in settings ranging from the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in
Moscow to the Commonwealth Club to the 1992 and 2000 Republican
National Conventions. From 1989 through March 1991, the period of
German reunification and the final days of the Soviet Union, she served
in the Bush Administration as Director, and then Senior Director, of
Soviet and East European Affairs in the National Security Council, and
a Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. In
1986, while an international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign
Relations, she served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff. In 1997, she served on the Federal Advisory Committee
on Gender -- Integrated Training in the Military. She was a member of
the boards of directors for the Chevron Corporation, the Charles Schwab
Corporation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the University
of Notre Dame, the International Advisory Council of J.P. Morgan and
the San Francisco Symphony Board of Governors. She was a Founding Board
member of the Center for a New Generation, an educational support fund
for schools in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park, California and was
Vice President of the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula. In
addition, her past board service has encompassed such organizations as
Transamerica Corporation, Hewlett Packard, the Carnegie Corporation,
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Rand Corporation, the
National Council for Soviet and East European Studies, the
Mid-Peninsula Urban Coalition and KQED, public broadcasting for San
Francisco. Born November 14, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama, she resides
in Washington, D.C.



So who are these celebrities? What is their education? What is their
experience in affairs of State or in National Security? While I will
defend to the death their right to express their opinions, I think that
if they are going to call into question the intelligence of our
leaders, we should also have all the facts on their educations and
background:



Barbara Streisand : Completed high school Career: Singing and acting



Cher: Dropped out of school in 9th grade. Career: Singing and acting



Martin Sheen: Flunked exam to enter University of Dayton. Career: Acting



Jessica Lange: Dropped out college mid-freshman year. Career: Acting



Alec Baldwin: Dropped out of George Washington U. after scandal.
Career: Acting



Julia Roberts: Completed high school. Career: Acting



Sean Penn: Completed High school. Career: Acting



Susan Sarandon: Degree in Drama from Catholic University of America in
Washington, D.C. Career: Acting



Ed Asner; Completed High school. Career: Acting



George Clooney: Dropped out of University of Kentucky. Career: Acting



Michael Moore: Dropped out first year University of Michigan. Career:
Movie Director



Sarah Jessica Parker: Completed High School. Career: Acting



Jennifer Anniston: Completed High School. Career: Acting



Mike Farrell: Completed High school. Career: Acting



Janeane Garofelo: Dropped out of College. Career: Stand up comedienne.



Larry Hagman: Attended Bard College for one year. Career: Acting

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While comparing the education and experience of these two groups, we
should also remember that President Bush and his cabinet are briefed
daily, even hourly, on the War on Terror and threats to our security.



They are privy to information gathered around the world concerning the
Middle East, the threats to America, the intentions of terrorists and
terrorist-supporting governments. They are in constant communication
with the CIA, the FBI, Interpol, NATO, The United Nations, our own
military, and that of our allies around the world. We cannot simply
believe that we have full knowledge of the threats because we watch
CNN!! We cannot believe that we are in any way as informed as our
leaders.



These celebrities have no intelligence-gathering agents, no
fact-finding groups, no insight into the minds of those who would
destroy our country.



They only have a deepseated hatred for all things Republican. By
nature, and no one knows quite why, the Hollywood elitists detest
Conservative views and anything that supports or uplifts the United
States of America. The silence was deafening from the Left when Bill
Clinton bombed a pharmaceutical factory outside of Khartoum, or when he
attacked the Bosnian Serbs in 1995 and 1999. He bombed Serbia itself to
get Slobodan Milosevic out of Kosovo, and not a single peace rally was
held. When our Rangers were ambushed in Somalia and 18 young American
lives were lost, not a peep was heard from Hollywood. Yet now, after
our nation has been attacked on its own soil, after 3,000 Americans
were killed, by freedom-hating terrorists, while going about their
routine lives, they want to hold rallies against the war. Why the
change? Because a Republican sits in the White House.



Another irony is that in 1987, when Ronald Reagan was in office, the
Hollywood group aligned themselves with disarmament groups like SANE,
FREEZE and PEACE ACTION, urging our own government to disarm and freeze
the manufacturing of any further nuclear weapons, in order to promote
world peace. It is curious that now, even after we have heard all the
evidence that Saddam Hussein has chemical, biological and is very close
to obtaining nuclear weapons, their is no cry from this group for HIM
to disarm. They believe we should leave him alone in his quest for
these weapons of mass destruction, even though it is certain that these
deadly weapons will eventually be used against us in our own cities.



So why the hype out of Hollywood? Could these celebrities believe that
since they draw such astronomical salaries, they are entitled to also
determine the course of our Nation? That they can make viable decisions
concerning war and peace? Did Michael Moore have the backing of the
Nation when he recently thanked France, on our behalf, for being a
"good enough friend to tell us we were wrong"? I know for certain he
was not speaking for me. Does Sean Penn fancy himself a Diplomat, in
going to Iraq when we are just weeks away from war? Does he believe
that his High School Diploma gives him the knowledge (and the right) to
go to a country that is controlled by a maniacal dictator, and speak on
behalf of the American people? Or is it the fact that he pulls in more
money per year than the average American worker will see in a lifetime?
Does his bank account give him clout?



The ultimate irony is that many of these celebrities have made a
shambles of their own lives, with drug abuse, alcoholism, numerous
marriages and divorces, scrapes with the law, publicized temper
tantrums, etc. How dare they pretend to know what is best for an entire
nation! What is even more bizarre is how many people in this country
will listen and accept their views, simply because they liked them in a
certain movie, or have fond memories of an old television sitcom!



It is time for us, as citizens of the United States, to educate
ourselves about the world around us. If future generations are going to
enjoy the freedoms that our forefathers bequeathed us, if they are ever
to know peace in their own country and their world, to live without
fear of terrorism striking in their own cities, we must assure that
this nation remains strong. We must make certain that those who would
destroy us are made aware of the severe consequences that will befall
them.



Yes, it is a wonderful dream to sit down with dictators and terrorists
and join hands, singing Cumbaya and talking of world peace. But it is
not real. We did not stop Adolf Hitler from taking over the entire
continent of Europe by simply talking to him. We sent our best and
brightest, with the strength and determination that this Country is
known for, and defeated the Nazi regime. President John F. Kennedy did
not stop the Soviet ships from unloading their nuclear missiles in Cuba
in 1962 with mere words. He stopped them with action, and threat of
immediate war if the ships did not turn around. We did not end the Cold
War with conferences. It ended with the strong belief of President
Ronald Reagan... PEACE through STRENGTH.





Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

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Turboface

Do you expect me to read all that?

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haha fuck that. digest anyone?

galleryseek

yep, these antiwar hollywood assholes are morons.

tony286

Keep defending the guys that want to wipe your industry off the face of the earth. lol

J-Reel

Not my intention to defend the republicans. But better to have them in charge right now then the Janeane Garofelo's of the world. lol

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hershie

i read all that and i tend to have a lot of sympathy with that view of things.

BTW , it should read "peace through superior fire power"