George Clooney's Sad Ego

Anyone else catch George Clooney compare himself to Hillary Clinton in a day-before-oscars clever quip?  "I'm the Hillary Clinton of the Oscars," he said, later implying that if D.D.-L. (Obama) wasn't in the running it would be a sure-fire Clooney win for best actor.

What a sad, disillusioned man.

Really, George Clooney is correct in comparing the Best Actor field to the Democratic candidate race, however, he compared himself to the wrong person...

George Clooney is the Christopher Dodd of the Oscars.  

Think about it: If anyone is eminently qualified to be the '2nd-place-Hillary to Obama's (DDL's) certain win, it's Viggo Mortensen (copping a perfect Russian accent and fighting in the nude) or Johnny Depp (singing like a pro and radiating gloom).  Hell!... has anyone seen "In The Valley of Elah"?  Probably T.L.J.'s best role since The Fugitive!  

Chris Dodd, like Clooney, is good in most of the stuff that he does, but his work only occasionally rises to the level of brilliance.  Also, one will often see him in the running for an "award" that he probably doesn't even deserve and in a race where he doesn't belong.

George Clooney needs to check his ego and realize that playing a stressed-out fix-it man that has a lot on his plate (and also happens to look and act a lot like the actor George Clooney) isn't as much of a best actor qualifier as it is a vindication that Academy voters looooove George Clooney (insert kissy/smooching noises here).