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"Billy Jack" vs. Bush.
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'Billy Jack' To Run Against Bush
CAMARILLO, Calif. - Tom Laughlin, best known for bringing martial arts into American pop culture with his 1970s "Billy Jack" films, is now throwing his punches in the political arena.
The 72-year-old actor, who lives in Camarillo, is one of 13 candidates running for president against George W. Bush in the Republican primary.
Laughlin, who first ran for president as a Democrat in 1992, said he's campaigning to draw attention to a two-party system he deemed "so corrupt it can't function anymore."
He described himself as a "messenger" candidate and said he wasn't disappointed by the New Hampshire primary, in which he garnered 154 votes to Bush's nearly 34,000.
"I've never run for president with any kind of thought of winning except to make a statement that we need change desperately," Laughlin told The Associated Press on Sunday.
He cited President Bush's claims that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, and Congress' recent approval of a Medicare bill that prohibits the purchase of cheaper health care drugs from Canada, as the issues he's most concerned about.
Laughlin said he hopes to make a docudrama about his campaign, mixing details from his own life with old footage from his cult classic films, including, "Billy Jack Goes to Washington."
"Billy Jack was always about the little guy going against the power brokers who are out to exploit and ruin," Laughlin said. "And that's why I'm running."
CAMARILLO, Calif. - Tom Laughlin, best known for bringing martial arts into American pop culture with his 1970s "Billy Jack" films, is now throwing his punches in the political arena.
The 72-year-old actor, who lives in Camarillo, is one of 13 candidates running for president against George W. Bush in the Republican primary.
Laughlin, who first ran for president as a Democrat in 1992, said he's campaigning to draw attention to a two-party system he deemed "so corrupt it can't function anymore."
He described himself as a "messenger" candidate and said he wasn't disappointed by the New Hampshire primary, in which he garnered 154 votes to Bush's nearly 34,000.
"I've never run for president with any kind of thought of winning except to make a statement that we need change desperately," Laughlin told The Associated Press on Sunday.
He cited President Bush's claims that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, and Congress' recent approval of a Medicare bill that prohibits the purchase of cheaper health care drugs from Canada, as the issues he's most concerned about.
Laughlin said he hopes to make a docudrama about his campaign, mixing details from his own life with old footage from his cult classic films, including, "Billy Jack Goes to Washington."
"Billy Jack was always about the little guy going against the power brokers who are out to exploit and ruin," Laughlin said. "And that's why I'm running."
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... I remember it well because I was in high-school at the time, and I worked at the theater ... it did get old after the first couple weeks [:0]
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Chance favors the prepared mind [8D]
? otherwise, you'll find an excuse.
Like Billy Jack in Born Losers.
Pack slow, fall stable, pull high, hit dead center.
Don't fly the river!
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bitter, cynical, but much wiser than before [:)]
He may be jealous of Kerry.
Pack slow, fall stable, pull high, hit dead center.
Don't fly the river!
It was the first movie to highlight martial arts. Laughlin got a Korean Hapkido expert to do the fighting scenes. Rent the movie and play the fight scenes in slow motion, you will see where they change from big ol barefoot Tom Laughlin to a skinny, grinning Korean doing those high kicks.
That show "Billy Jack goes to Washington" was bizarre. It took years, and millions to make. It was a remake of that Jimmy Stewart movie about the poor boy who becomes Senator.
The movie featured about an hour of Laughlin giving ponderous speeches before the senate committees.
This movie lasted about a week in the theaters before it got the hook. Laughlin went broke on that film, and has made a meager living off residuals ever since.
I think I saw him picking up coke cans, for the deposit, on the shoulder of US 25 the other day.
Laughlin absorbed the Billy Jack character into his own persona. As you can see by his remarks on this thread, he has been living as "Billy Jack Goes to Washington" for 35 years.
For those of you that do not remember; that was a line from one of Billy's movies, just before he opened up a can of woop-butt on a local redneck. "I'm going to put my right foot across the left side of your face, and there isn't anything you can do about it"[8D]
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"Train up a child in the way he should go, even when he is old he will not depart from it."(Proverbs 22:6)
Pack slow, fall stable, pull high, hit dead center.
Don't fly the river!