Matt Damon terrified by the possibility of a President Palin Nick Langewis and David Edwards

Published: Wednesday September 10, 2008





Print This Email This Screen star Matt Damon told the Associated Press that he considers the prospect of a President Palin to be a "really terrifying possibility."



"I think there's a really good chance that Sarah Palin could be president," he said, "and I think that's a really scary thing."



Noting Palin's relative youth in the political sphere as mayor of a small town in Alaska and the state's governor for less than two years, "I think the pick was made for political purposes," he added, "but, in terms of governance, it's a disaster."



"You do the actuary tables--there's a one-out-of-three chance, if not more, that McCain doesn't survive his first term, and it will be President Palin."



"It's like a really bad Disney movie," he continued. "'I'm just a hockey mom from Alaska,' and she's the President! And it's like, she's facing down Vladimir Putin using the...folks stuff she learned at the hockey rink. You know, it's absurd."



"The fact that we've gotten this far, and we're that close to this being a reality, is crazy...I need to know if she really thinks dinosaurs were here 4,000 years ago. That's an important--I want to to know that, I really do, because she's going to have the nuclear codes."



The following clip is from the Associated Press, broadcast on September 10, 2008:











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