The fundraiser scenes from F 911 disturb me.

[Soup Bean]

You usually don't see those scenes on the TV. The speech he gave calling the "have mores" his "base" made me think of the really bad jokes I've heard at Rotary and Kiwanis.

Those scenes, combined with the Congress Weasels skittering about the Capitol Building, make me realize that all those guys are just glorified County Commissioners. We need minimum qualifications for office. I'm not sure what they should be, but you ought to be able to think and speak in complete sentences at a minimum.

Please tell me that someone smarter and more informed than that is really running the show. I'm sick to my stomach.

* On edit, the amount of money in politics and the influence wielded by the "have mores" is wrong. Real campaign finance reform is desperately needed.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

1. All the conferences

to find out how to make $$$$$ out of the war were disturbing, too.

[scrotim]

2. Most disturbing is the media's refusal to report on such things.

Afraid they won't be invited to the next cocktail soiree at Condi's.

[Lefty48197]

3. I think that scene was from the DC correspondents dinner

The one where the big shots are expected to make fun of themselves. Bush said there were two kinds of people at the dinner, the haves, and the have mores. Then he made the joke about them being his base. For the first time ever, I heard Bush being honest.

[JPJones]

4. Nope, from the Al Smith dinner

It's all about comedy.

http://www.cny.org/archive/ld/ld102600.htm

"The vice president, who spoke first, started right off making fun of his tendency to exaggerate and his boast that he invented the Internet. "The Al Smith Dinner represents a hallowed and important tradition, which I actually did invent," he deadpanned.

Joking about his oft-repeated debate promise to keep Social Security in a "locked box," he said if he's elected he'll put "Medicare in a walk-in closet," NASA funding in a "hermetically sealed Ziploc bag" and will "always keep lettuce in the crisper."

...

"This is an impressive crowd of the haves and have mores," he said. "Some people call you the elite, I call you my base."

He also made light of his reputation as a non-intellectual perennial frat-boy, saying he noticed that fellow Yale man William F. Buckley Jr., the author, was on the dais. "We have a lot in common," he said. "Bill wrote a book at Yale, I read one. He started the Conservative Party, I started a few parties myself."

[TexasSissy]

5. No. I think he's a figurehead for an ideology. The policies were waitin

waiting for the right person to use to push them through. I don't think he makes the actual decisions (but he might THINK he does). Just my opinion. I think that's Michael Moore's, too, in the film.

[gasperc]

6. watch more fake news like the Daily show

most of those clips in F911 have been on the show. Although I thought it kinda weird for Moore to bow his hands and tell Stewart he was the master during Thursday's interview.