Subject: Fw: Celebs & US Leadership

 > The Hollywood group is at it again. Holding anti-war rallies, screaming
> about the Bush Administration, running ads in major newspapers, defaming
> the President and his Cabinet every chance they get, to anyone and
everyone
> who will listen. They publicly defile them and call them names like
> "stupid," "morons," and "idiots."
>
> Jessica Lange went so far as to tell a crowd in Spain that she hates
> President Bush and is embarrassed to be an American. So, just how ignorant
> are these people who are running the country?
>
> Let's look at the biographies of these "stupid," "ignorant," "moronic"
> leaders, and then at the celebrities who are castigating them:
>
> President George W. Bush: ...received a Bachelors Degree from Yale
> University and an MBA from Harvard Business School...served as an F-102
> pilot for the Texas Air National Guard...began his career in the oil and
> gas business in Midland in 1975 and worked in the energy industry until
> 1986....elected Governor of Texas on November 8, 1994, with 53.5 percent
of
> the vote....in a historic re-election victory, he became the first Texas
> Governor to be elected to consecutive four-year terms on November 3, 1998
> winning 68.6 percent of the vote....in 1998 Governor Bush won 49 percent
of
> the Hispanic vote, 27 percent of the African-American vote, 27 percent of
> Democrats and 65 percent of women...he won more Texas counties, 240 of
254,
> than any modern Republican other than Richard Nixon in 1972 and is the
> first Republican gubernatorial candidate to win the heavily Hispanic and
> Democratic border counties of El Paso, Cameron and Hidalgo. (Someone began
> circulating a false story about his I.Q. being lower than any other
> President. If you believed it, you might want to go to URBANLEGENDS.COM
and
> see the truth.)
>
> Vice President Dick Cheney earned a B.A. in 1965 and a M.A. in 1966, both
> in political science...two years later, he won an American Political
> Science Association congressional fellowship...he served as Secretary of
> Defense under George Bush....one of his primary duties is to share with
> individuals,
> members of Congress and foreign leaders, President Bush's vision to
> strengthen our economy, secure our homeland and win the War on Terrorism.
> In his official role as President of the Senate, Vice President Cheney
> regularly goes to Capitol Hill to meet with Senators and members of the
> House of Representatives to work on the Administration's legislativegoals.
> In his travels as Vice President, he has seen first hand the great demands
> the war on terrorism is placing on the men and women of our military, and
> he is proud of the tremendous job they are doing for the United States of
> America.
>
> Secretary of State Colin Powell was educated in the New York City public
> schools, graduating from the City College of New York (CCNY), where he
> earned a Bachelor's Degree in geology...he participated in ROTC at CCNYand
> received a commission as an Army second lieutenant upon graduation in June
> 1958...his further academic achievements include a Master of Business
> Administration Degree from George Washington University...Secretary Powell
> is the recipient of numerous U.S. and foreign military awards and
> decorations...Secretary Powell's civilian awards include two Presidential
> Medals of Freedom, the President's Citizens Medal, the Congressional Gold
> Medal, the Secretary of State Distinguished Service Medal, and the
> Secretary of Energy Distinguished Service Medal...several schools and
other
> nstitutions have been named in his honor and he holds honorary degrees
from
> universities and colleges across the country.
>
> Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld: attended Princeton University on
> Scholarship (AB, 1954) and served in the U.S. Navy (1954-57) as a Naval
> aviator; Congressional Assistant to Rep. Robert Griffin (R-MI), 1957-59;
> U.S. Representative, Illinois, 1962-69; Assistant to the President,
> Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, Director of the Cost of
> Living Council, 1969-74; U.S. Ambassador to NATO, 1973-74; head of
> Presidential Transition Team, 1974; Assistant to the President, Director
of
> White House
> Office of Operations, White House Chief of Staff, 1974-77; Secretary of
> Defense, 1975-77.
>
> Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge was raised in a working class
> family in veterans' public housing in Erie...he earned a scholarship to
> Harvard, graduating with honors in 1967...after his first year at The
> Dickinson School of Law, he was drafted into the U.S. Army, where he
served
> as an infantry staff sergeant in Vietnam, earning the Bronze Star for
> Valor...after returning to Pennsylvania, he earned his Law Degree and was
> in private practice before becoming Assistant District Attorney in Erie
> County...he was elected to Congress in 1982...he was the first enlisted
> Vietnam combat veteran elected to the U.S. House, and was overwhelmingly
> re-elected six times.
>
> National Security Advisor Dr. Condoleezza Rice earned her Bachelor's
Degree
> in Political Science, Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of
> Denver in 1974; her Master's from the University of Notre Dame in 1975;
and
> her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies at the
> University of Denver in 1981. (Note: Rice enrolled at the University of
> Denver at the age of 15, graduating at 19 with a Bachelor's Degree in
> Political Science (Cum Laude)....she earned a Master's Degree at the
> University of Notre Dame and a Doctorate from the University of Denver's
> Graduate School of International Studies ...both of her advanced degrees
> are also in Political Science.....she is a Fellow of the American Academy
> of Arts and Sciences and has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from
> Morehouse College in 1991, the University of Alabama in 1994, and the
> University of Notre Dame in 1995....at Stanford, she has been a member of
> the Center for International Security and Arms Control, a Senior Fellow of
> the Institute for
> International Studies, and a Fellow (by courtesy) of the Hoover
> Institution...her books include Germany Unified and Europe Transformed
> (1995) with Philip Zelikow, The Gorbachev Era (1986) with Alexander
> Dallin, and Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak
> Army (1984)...she also has written numerous articles on Soviet and East
> European foreign and defense policy, and has addressed audiences in
> settings ranging from the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in Moscow to the
> Commonwealth Club to the 1992 and 2000 Republican National
> Conventions....from 1989 through March 1991, the period of German
> reunification and the final days of the Soviet Union, she served in the
> Bush Administration as Director, and then Senior Director, of Soviet and
> East European Affairs in the National Security Council, and a Special
> Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. In 1986, while
an
> international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, she
> served as Special Assistant to the Director of the
> Joint Chiefs of Staff...in 1997, she served on the Federal Advisory
> Committee on Gender -- Integrated Training in the Military. She was a
> member of the boards of directors for the Chevron Corporation, the Charles
> Schwab Corporation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the
> University of Notre Dame, the International Advisory Council of J.P.
Morgan
> and the San Francisco Symphony Board of Governors. She was a Founding
Board
> member of the Center for a New Generation, an educational support fund for
> schools in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park, California and was Vice
> President of the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula. In addition, her
> past board service has encompassed such organizations as Transamerica
> Corporation, Hewlett Packard, the Carnegie Corporation, Carnegie Endowment
> for International Peace, The Rand Corporation, the National Council for
> Soviet and East European Studies, the Mid-Peninsula Urban Coalition and
> KQED, public broadcasting for San Francisco.  Born November 14, 1954 in
> Birmingham, Alabama, she now resides in Washington, D.C.
>
> So how about the celebrities? The ones who lecture and berate our public
> servants?
>
> Barbara Streisand : Completed high school Career:  Singing and acting
>
> Cher: Dropped out of school in 9th grade. Career:  Singing and acting
>
> Martin Sheen Flunked exam to enter University of Dayton. Career:  Acting
>
> Jessica Lange Dropped out college mid-freshman year. Career:  Acting
>
> Alec Baldwin Dropped out of George Washington U. after scandal Career:
> Acting
>
> Julia Roberts Completed high school Career:  Acting
>
> Sean Penn Completed High school Career:  Acting
>
> Susan Sarandon Degree in Drama from Catholic University of America in
> Washington, D.C. Career: Acting
>
> Ed Asner Completed High school Career:  Acting
>
> George Clooney Dropped out of University of Kentucky Career:  Acting
>
> Michael Moore Dropped out first year University of Michigan. Career:
Movie
> Director
>
> Sarah Jessica Parker: Completed High School Career:  Acting
>
> Jennifer Anniston: Completed High School Career:  Acting
>
> Mike Farrell Completed High school Career:  Acting
>
> Janeane Garofelo Dropped out of College. Career:  Stand up comedienne
>
> Larry Hagman Attended Bard College for one year.  Career:  Acting
>
> While comparing the education and experience of these two groups, we
should
> also remember that President Bush and his cabinet are briefed daily, even
> hourly, on the War on Terror and threats to our security.
>
> They are privy to information gathered around the world concerning the
> Middle East, the threats to America, the intentions of terrorists and
> terrorist-supporting governments.
>
> They are in constant communication with the CIA, the FBI, Interpol, NATO,
> the United Nations, our own military, and that of our allies around the
> world.
>
> We cannot simply believe that we have full knowledge of the threats
because
> we watch CNN!!  We cannot believe that we are in any way as informed as
our
> leaders.
>
> These celebrities have no intelligence-gathering agents, no fact- finding
> groups, no insight into the minds of those who would destroy our country.
> They only have a deep seated hatred for all things Republican. By nature,
> and no one knows quite why, the Hollywood elitists detest Conservative
> views and anything supported by Conservative views.
>
> The silence was deafening from the Left when Bill Clinton bombed a
> pharmaceutical factory outside of Khartoum, or when he attacked the
Bosnian
> Serbs in 1995 and 1999. He bombed Serbia itself to get Slobodan Milosevic
> out of Kosovo, and not a single peace rally was held. When our Rangers
were
> ambushed in Somalia and 18 young American lives were lost, not a peep was
> heard from Hollywood.
>
> Yet now, after our nation has been attacked on its own soil, after 3,000
> Americans were killed by freedom-hating terrorists while going about their
> routine lives, they want to hold rallies against the war.
>
> Why the change? Because an honest, God- fearing Republican sits in the
> White House.
>
> The ultimate irony is that many of these celebrities have made a shambles
> of their own lives, with drug abuse, alcoholism, numerous marriages and
> divorces, scrapes with the law, publicized temper tantrums, etc. How dare
> they pretend to know what is best for an entire nation! What is even more
> bizarre is how many people in this country will listen and accept their
> views, simply because they liked them in a certain movie, or have fond
> memories of an old television sitcom!
>
> It is time for us, as citizens of the United States, to educate ourselves
> about the world around us.  And the greatest lesson of the 20th Century
is:
> PEACE through STRENGTH.