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He may have said that once he&#8217;s climbing that mountain that is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarantino.info\/wiki\/index.php\/Inglorious_Bastards\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Inglorious Bastards<\/strong><\/a>, nothing else mattered, including the election, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.showbizspy.com\/news\/07202008\/obamas-democratic-convention-a-celebrity-hot-spot\" target=\"_blank\">according to ShowbizSpy<\/a> he has booked a seat at this august&#8217;s <strong>Democratic National Convention<\/strong> in Denver, Colorado. Quentin for president, anyone? Maybe he should be Obama&#8217;s secretary of state. Imagine him talking to the Japanese prime minister: &#8220;I&#8217;ll send the man from Okinawa if this deal doesn&#8217;t get through!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who said Quentin Tarantino is not interested in politics? He may have said that once he&#8217;s climbing that mountain that is Inglorious Bastards, nothing else mattered, including the election, but according to ShowbizSpy he has booked&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3,92],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tarantino and politics - The Quentin Tarantino Archives<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tarantino.info\/2008\/07\/tarantino-and-politics\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tarantino and politics - The Quentin Tarantino Archives\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Who said Quentin Tarantino is not interested in politics? 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