GAH! What the hell?!?

When I read the post by "George Clooney" on Monday, I did a little dance. Sure, I was at work and people looked at me funny, but I danced anyway. Why? Because someone said it. Someone said all the things I have been muttering under my breath for roughly 6 years now: Democrats have become synonymous with backpeddling. We have become the party of the wishy washy, of the middle ground, of fighting like a sugared up retarded kid when it isn't important and caving like, well, a democrat when things get tough.

He said it! He said those things, with a public voice in a respected forum, he said it. And then he took it back.

Oh the irony! He waffled on an article about the evils of waffling! He caved under the public relations pressure of writing an article on the terrible results of caving under public relations pressure. Well color me shocked.

I am not a celebrity worship person. I couldn't give two shits about what who is wearing or who they are sleeping with. But I envy them their voice. They have an opportunity to say the things that they, as voters, as constituents, believe. Right or wrong, they can walk outside of their tricked out houses and there are fifteen reporters just waiting to record whatever it is they have to say. I though that George Clooney had actually done that.

But he took it back. He denied it, vilified the woman who interviewed him, and called himself abused. So he can make Syriana, and Good Night and Good Luck, call himself an edgy political filmmaker, and not be worried with the fact that he backed away from being both edgy and political.

Huffington Post took the article down, by the way. Try and google it. The only stories you will find are the ones about his vehement denials.