Berlin: Young talks Bush
Neil Young speaks to the press about his doc "CSNY Deja Vu," screening in the Panorama section.When asked what is wrong about President Bush, a main target of the film, he replied, "I don't want to answer that question. It would take too long. Let's talk about what is right about Bush. That's a much shorter conversation."
A long pause as he thought about it...
"Well, he's a good physical specimen."
The anxious press waited for more, but that's all he had.
Check out John Anderson's review here.
Michael Jones is the film festival editor at Variety.com. 
Of course if a citizen doesn't vote, it does not preclude the right to express opinions. Not constitutionally, nor logically. Even famed labor activist Mary Jones who in 1903 organized children working in mills and mines on a march from Pennsylvania to the home of President Theodore Roosevelt in NY demanding an end to child labor. (Banners read "We want time to play!" and "We want to go to school!") saw no need to vote (she was against women's suffrage at the time). Her argument was that the lower class men in society had had the right to vote for 100 years but it had done nothing to alleviate the misery of their position. The insistence that voting rights are the key difference between the US and authoritarian rule is simply mistaken.
BTW, is it true that Rene Zellweger is rumored to have talked with David Lynch about the prospect of making the a film based on Mother Jones's Children's Crusade (Cold Mountain meets The Straight Story)?
Posted by: Zinnaphile | 2/10/2008 6:50:16 AM
of course he doesn't vote.. he's Canadian ...
He still can express his opinion .. when you sell millions of records and the press is asking your opinion ... can have your say, as well.
Posted by: flossiemae | 2/9/2008 9:23:09 PM
DO YOU VOTE? IF YOU DONT VOTE,YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO VOICE YOU OPPION ABOUT GEORGE W BUSH,A FINE CHRISTIAN AND BORN LEADER.
Posted by: jane Morrison | 2/9/2008 8:44:50 PM