To get back on the tangent, I organized the old posts on movies and was wondering if you still looked us up. Last movie I saw in the theater was Grindhouse and surprisingly liked the Rodriguez part of the film. I get your overall point regarding the economy. I’d have a hard time watching a presidential debate right now, especially the democrats. An interesting exercise might be to write up a set of relevant questions for candidates of either party. Bet any one of us could do a better job than Matthews or the politico.

I, like you, just completely missed it, but in retrospect should have covered it. From what I’ve heard, it was pretty heavy on Bush-bashing and pretty light on anything else, but that’s just what I heard. Did anyone else catch it?

the two clownish characters in “Hidden Fortress” were inspiration for R2D2 and C3PO in “Star Wars.”

Broussard: indeed, 11:40am Logipundit time means 8:48am L.A. time… Although evolution, prayer in school, abortion, etc. are fun to talk about, they have zero impact on the economy of this country. Hence my emphasis on what (I believe) is relevant to the job of the president and what is more important to discuss when considering candidates. And, incidentally, the war in Iraq is a pretty substantial financial burden on this country. Hopefully people here are considering not only how many lives are being lost every day over there but how long we’re going to be paying back the money we’re spending on this thing…. Anything Kurosawa is great. Let me suggest you watch “Kagemusha” (1980), my favorite. By the way, the two clownish characters in “High & Low” were inspiration for R2D2 and C3PO in “Star Wars.” Also watch “Straw Dogs” and then “Ikuru,” preferrably back to back.

Just realized you are probably posting from Hollywood…getting up at the crack of “nine” doesn’t have the same ring as the crack of “noon”

Getting up at the crack of noon? I don’t know that these men are bozos, but Chris Matthews tried hard (so I hear) to make it look that way. I don’t mind so much the liberal slant of Matthews as the fact that he draws so much attention to himself, and how much he wants to expose the weakness of a candidate (Rudy on abortion). I much prefer some NPR correspondent than this man who obviously loves to hear himself talk.

I will provide evidence in contrary to your statement about wallets…the American economy by most indicators is as good or better as it was under Clinton in the boom years. If elections were based solely on economic issues then Republicans would be cruising right now.

BTW, YJ and I saw Hidden Fortress last weekend. Loved it!

Some great points…”turning a profit and not going bankrupt” is an interesting take on the Presidential role. I do, however, believe that there is a role to play as Head of State and that operating in a dignified and moral manner in the White House is important, regardless of religious affiliation, which is way less important.

There was some talk of global warming and the environment and Duncan Hunter and Gov. Huckabee made the best comments about our responsibility to utilize technology and be good stewards of our natural resources, etc.

I’ve updated the list accordingly.