Favorites of the film and music industries alike as early as last August stated intentions to leave the country were George W. Bush to be elected President. Since Bush's inauguration, only Pierre Salinger, Press Secretary to John F. Kennedy and former ABC News correspondent, has made good on his promise to jump ship.

"Blah blah blah blah, blibitty-blah," Kim Basinger paraphrased the intentions her husband, Alec Baldwin, to desert in an interview with the German magazine Focus, reprinted in the New York Daily News. The Daily News also ran a retraction by Baldwin last September 19 in which he stated, "My wife never heard of Focus magazine and never talked to them." A retraction of the retraction was printed by the Daily News the following day. "Kim did speak to a Focus magazine, but my wife and I never said unequivocally that we would leave the country if Bush won. Never," Baldwin said of his wife's blah-blah-ing. The two have since filed for divorce.

Director/producer Robert Altman also told reporters last September that if Bush was elected he was moving to France. "Here's what I really said. I said blahblah blah blah blah, blah. blah blahblah." Altman's spokesblah recently told reporters questions about his residency were silly.

Respected rock-god Eddie Vedder also expressed misgivings about the prospect of another Bush administration. "I'm frightened to think of a Republican in office, espcially one raised by a father who was in the CIA," Vedder told USA Today last August. "I'm moving to a different country if little Damien II gets elected."

Cher, who recently went platinum blonde, also told the Daily News, "He's stupid. (Bush) comes from that school of old white men. You just can't trust those people."

Though actress Julia Roberts, who last night won an Academy Award for her portrayal of a strong-willed single mother, never promised to leave the country, she did call Bush an embarrassment, according to the Drudge Report. "He's not my president. He never will be my president," said the actress and master of independence.

So far, only Salinger has gone so far as to leave the country.

"I'm going to come back to Washington in January to dispose of my apartment in Georgetown, but otherwise I'll come back here to live for the rest of my life," Salinger told the Washington Post from his new home, Le Thor, France, at the end of January.

Even America's youth has shown distaste for the President in their own awkward but poignant way. The Washington Post's Gene Weingarten visited a Britney Spears chat room to see what the future had to say. The interview, as printed in the premier issue of mary-kateandashley magazine follows:

Weinpost: Anyone think Geo W. Bush is a hottie?

Crazy10Guy: I'm from Hawaii

Weinpost: Anyone here have any feelings about the new presidential administration of Geo W. Bush?

Angerrelated: WASSSSUUUUP

Jmaster96: I like feet.