When I want real wisdom about the world, I turn to Hollywood. Actors are renowned their wisdom and political understanding. Take it away, Matt Damon...

"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'll be President Palin..."

Wow! Matt Damon, actuary and statistician -- who knew?

... Damon said during an interview at the Toronto Film Festival....

(That's where all the real foreign policy experts hang out: film festivals.)

"It's like a really bad Disney movie, "The Hockey Mom.' Oh, I'm just a hockey mom from Alaska, and she's the president," the actor said. "She's facing down Vladimir Putin and using the folksy stuff she learned at the hockey rink. It's absurd."

Absurd? I thought "absurd" was responding to the invasion of a free nation by asking the invaders to "show restraint." I thought "absurd" was suggesting that Russia would vote "yes" on a UN resolution to condemn itself. I though Obama's view that Afghanistan is of far more strategic importance than Iraq was absurd. Compared to that, I suspect the woman who checked me out of the supermarket tonight would probably have more sensible responses.

He's floored by her alleged inexperience, yet he doesn't seem to notice he's supporting a candidate for President whose only claim to executive experience before running was...

Community organizer?

(And the same amount of time as a Senator as Palin had as governor.)

You've got to be kidding me. Absurd? That's surreal.

"I don't understand why more people aren't talking about how absurd it is. It's a really terrifying possibility. The fact that we have gotten that close to this being a reality is crazy."

It boggles my mind. Every point he could make about Palin's inexperience -- as VP -- applies (and often moreso) to his own Presidential candidate. I'm amazed he can't see that. It would be nice if someone would confront him with that answer, but living in Hollywood means you never have to answer or think about hard questions.

Damon expressed concern about Mrs Palin's political experience - "mayor of a really small town and governor of Alaska for less than two years", saying he did not understand why she had been chosen.

"I think the pick was made for political purposes. But in terms of governance, it's a disaster."

Memo to Matt Damon: This is a political race, so, yes, everyone will be making political decisions. (Boy, can't put anything past him, can we?)

Yes, McCain's choice was political. So was Obama's pick of Biden. So was Reagan's choice of GHW Bush. So was Mondale's choice of Ferraro. This is what presidential candidates do in races -- they make political choices. But, by all means, please feel free to inform us of any new revelations which pop into your gigantic brain.

(Next thing you know, he'll also allege that she doesn't write all her own speeches! Or has been known to read from a thing called a "teleprompter"!)

He added that he wanted to know more about Mrs Palin's views on evolution versus creationism "because she's going to have the nuclear codes" and whether, according to some reports, "she banned books or tried to ban books. We can't have that."

I see Matt Damon hasn't bothered to do any research into these issues yet. He seems to think he seems to think that if a person shares his views on "creation" or "evolution" that's a sure-fire indicator they'll be a good politician. To the contrary, the secular have, by in large, on the wrong side of almost every major political issue I can think of in my lifetime: abortion, the tremendous evils of Communism, the threat posed by Islam, even the utility of adult stem cells.

By Matt Damon's litmus test, Dukakis would have been a genius at foreign policy, and Ronald Reagan would have been an ignoramus. Of course, that was what Hollywood was saying at the time. Must be nice to live in a world where you never have to learn from the past.