Now that actor Alec Baldwin is 50 years old, he might run for political office. Baldwin talks to 60 Minutes correspondent Morley Safer about that and other aspects of his life, including his very public divorce and custody battle, in a profile to be broadcast this Sunday, May 11, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
A decade ago, Baldwin was interested in politics, but said he was only 39 and all the people who ran the world were in their fifties. Since then, he has publicly dismissed the notion of running for office. A few weeks ago, he changed his mind. "There's other things I want to do [besides acting]. I mean, in a matter of weeks, I'm going to be 50," says Baldwin, who turned 50 on April 3. "There’s no age limit on running for office, to a degree. [It is] something I might do one day," says Baldwin.
Baldwin says he is ready for the public scrutiny and realizes the tact one must use when running for office because he's learned a lesson about what he says and how it can affect others in the nasty divorce-custody battle with his ex-wife, Kim Basinger. The spat resulted in the publication of an embarrassing voicemail to his daughter in which he calls her a "thoughtless little pig."
"If you go through the things I have gone through with the media like this thing with my daughter, there’s only one thing that comes to mind initially: that is how my daughter must have felt to have this played out in public," Baldwin tells Safer. "The second thing I realize is: you can pretty much bet all you own that I would never leave another voicemail message for my daughter that wasn’t just like something out of a Rogers and Hammerstein score."
Does this pompous prick think he'll actually win? Sure, he's got the name, but everyone knows what kind of asshole he really is. Even readers of the article are pointing it out.
This is exactly what is wrong with America. This guy doesn''t necessarily have any great new ideas nor any great insights into the problems that America faces. Instead he is an actor and is famous and therefore qualified to make policy decisions for the rest of us regardless of his knowledge of macroeconomics. If we elect people because they are famous rather than because of what they will do when in office, then we deserve the problems that we have as a country.
Posted by davidlar2 at 05:51 PM : May 08, 2008
Of course, this is also the same guy who threatened to move to Canada if Bush was re-elected in 2004. When it was clear that Bush was going to win, did Alec keep his word? Nope. He backtracks about what he actually said and denies it. Then he admits it, then it goes nowhere. It appears that he likes to bitch about a problem and make idle threats. That's exactly the kind of guy you want running the government right? So what happens when he has to deal with state legislators that won't budget on a particular issue? Is he going to hold his breath like a 4 year old until he gets his way? Notice how he likes to bad mouth people who are smaller then him; his wife, his daughter, etc. I guarantee you he doesn't do that to someone who can defend themselves.
Fucking idiot.
Travis
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