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Seems that at least one president of the United States I can think of is going to have an awkward Christmas dinner with his parents. Out on the stump for Hillary, Bill Clinton said yesterday that he and George Bush Sr. will go around the world cleaning up Junior’s mess as soon as Hillary becomes president. Poppa Bush has been silent on the issue, so we have to assume that he said he’d do it. Only the RNC issued a statement saying something along the lines of, “Get serious. There’s going to be a Republican president in 2009 who will continue to fuck up the world.” [CNN] – Greg Wasserstrom

Politico’s gossip grunt Anne Schroeder reports today that Jimmy Carter was in town at the MPAA to catch the preview of Jonathan Demme’s cinematic blow job to him. And, again, as we said before, we’re having a hard time wrapping our heads around the idea of viewing a movie about a book tour (pandemonium ensues when the tip of Jimmy’s Sharpie gets mushy!) without falling asleep. Surely Demme could have spiced things up a bit by revisiting some of his past triumphs.

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Ok, he totally looks drunk. It’s not just us, right? He looks like he’s about to get all Richard Burton on Hillary (”You mentioned the child!”) and then maybe knock everything off that mantel and collapse in a corner, weeping. But let’s see what the artist has to say: MORE »