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Poor Alec Baldwin Still Doesn't Get It - By: Roger Gay, 23 Sep 2008
I watched a few excerpts from Alec Baldwin's interview on 20/20in relation to his book, A Promise to Ourselves: A Journey Through Fatherhood & Divorce. Men don't get a fair shakein divorce courts or from society-at-large. According to the promo:

"I have been through some of the worst of contentious divorce litigation," Alec Baldwin declaresin A Promise to Ourselves. Using a very personal approach, he offers practical guidance to help others avoid the anguish he has endured.

I read some of the articles related to the interview & wondered if his personal journey, estimated at around $3 millionin court costs plus jetting around regularly to remainin contact with his daughter, could offer much advice that most men could relate to. I suppose most men will easily avoid a similar experience simply because they can't afford it. In fact, divorce & its aftermath leave many men unable to afford a soft-copy version of such a book - let alone the hard-copy version on sale now.

Baldwin's inability to connect with the common man, or even his own situation for that matter, runs deeper than the amount of green at his disposal. A constant supporter of the Democratic Party, he paints Bill Clinton as a hero, regularly proclaims that Al Gore won the presidency, declared he'd leave the country if George Bush became presidentin 2000 (and then didn't leave), & is currently pushing the idea that Sarah Palin is a George Bush look-a-like; hoping to keepin touch with the extreme anti-Bush contingency.

For those who think Alec Baldwin is a superficial twit, he doesn't disappoint. After eight years of comment on the 2000 presidential election, he still hasn't figured out how the election process works, or doesn't understand the electoral college system, or isn't aware that every recountin Florida showed Bush won, or all of the above. So it doesn't seem out of character to see him continuing to support a political party that has expressed its hatred of men - divorced & never married fathersin particular -in its platform for almost two decades. How will helping this party maintain power "help others avoid the anguish he has endured?"

The answer is that it won't & most likely Alec Baldwin doesn't care that it won't. Face to face with the effects of politically expressed hatred & corruption he continues to embrace his tormentors. Rather than looking the evilin the eye & providing supportin the battle against it, he wrote a book about himself.

Is his self-portrayal even real? Somehow I doubt it. He prayed, he says, that he wouldn't wake upin the morning & considered specific ideas about how to carry out his suicide. When it really comes down to a matter of life or death, people take care of the business that needs to be taken care of. Alec Baldwin is still working his manufactured imagein direct contradiction to the need. He just can't get real.