Santo Domingo.– Vin Diesel has stopped chasing bad guys long enough to endorse the president of the Dominican Republic for re-election.
Diesel appears in a Dominican campaign commercial urging a vote for his friend, President Leonel Fernandez. The endorsement first aired Wednesday on local TV stations and is paired with movie clips that show Diesel running, driving and surviving a bomb explosion.
The 40-year-old actor says he visits the Dominican Republic about once a year and owns a home on the country’s eastern coast.
About 5.7 million of the Dominican Republic’s 9 million people are registered to vote in the May 16 general elections. Fernandez is running against construction magnate Miguel Vargas Maldonado.
From: United States Virgin Islands, St Thomas C' Amalie hotel 1829 at the Bar
Josean now you just gotta vote for him
Written by: jeffreyb, 3 May 2008 1:21 PM
From: United States
Vin Diesel....charged with beating up on young women in public places while in the Dominican Republic
Written by: BASTA, 3 May 2008 2:51 PM
From: Dominican Republic, SPM
What a Dork
From: United States
it is nice to see Leonel being endorsed by such a fine example of manhood..a man who, having been rebuffed by a dominican woman in a nightclub, goes to the bouncer to petition for her removal. the Prez chooses to juxtapose himself with someone who shows no respect for dominicans. holy jeezus, what next?
Written by: Belial, 3 May 2008 5:38 PM
From: United States, Texas
Did Diesel beat up a woman or did he try to pick her up and she refused. He asked the bouncer to throw her out of the club?
Was that the Hard Rock Cafe?
At the Tonic Nite Club and a number of other Santo Domingo clubs, the bouncers won't even let US blacks ... like Diesel ... even enter their filthy night clubs to make a pass. [Actually, Diesel sees himself as either black or white or mixed depending on the circumstances. But usually ... or in most circumstances ... he decides to be black. Possibly, he was being white when this incident with the woman happened at the club.]
Diesel's 2000 film, the "Fast and the Furious" about lumpen car racing is Los Angeles, obsenely pulled in $41 million at the boxoffice in its first "weekend," still he was out of place at the club.
After his offer of love was rejected, he should have left the club, got on his jet, flew back to his DR villa on east coast and phoned the then New YorK Attorney General Mark Spitzer for advice.
Written by: Belial, 3 May 2008 6:06 PM
From: United States, Texas
LF, who has already done and redone the merengue thing, has decided additionally to "go Hollywood" via Vin Diesel.
The Vin Diesel endorsement may help with the Dominican yankeephiles, although LF already owns much of the vote influenced by yankeephilia.
In the DR, the Diesel carries some baggage from a past nite club incident involving a Dominican woman who identified herself as a architectural student and who rejected the Diesel as a lover for being a ugly baldheaded thang of ambiguous origin -- African-American and Italian-American, whatever that is.
Since the incident in Santo Domingo, the Diesel has let everybody know that he dates only European woman in Europe. He's in great demand over there.
For LF, this is not really a political endorsement, rather this is a "I-too-belong-to-the-glitterati" endorsement ... "Look at me and the Diesel. What do you think about that?"
From: United States Virgin Islands, St Thomas C' Amalie hotel 1829 at the Bar
you really are a jerk belial you got the big complex also ...why didnt you go light it on fire and watch the people who look down on you dance in flames like you said about the other club that barred embassy employees..every body looks down on you it does not matter what colour they are jerk you could be green and you would still be a jerk
From: United States Virgin Islands, St Thomas C' Amalie hotel 1829 at the Bar
nobody cares you are a jerk
From: United States
Vin for presidente.. what a bunch of idots.. who really cares.. i guess donald trump is next.. by the way.. i will endose lionel for president.. give me a "that a boy".. what a joke
From: United States Virgin Islands, St Thomas C' Amalie hotel 1829 at the Bar
belial like I said before are you the guy who made that video leave brittney alone? you are beginning to sound like him her whatever
From: United States Virgin Islands, St Thomas C' Amalie hotel 1829 at the Bar
belial ....splat ...nobody cares noooobody
From: United States Virgin Islands, St Thomas C' Amalie hotel 1829 at the Bar
I will again ask this difficult question/puzzle....IF you took belial and a full grown sewer rat to the top of the Empire state building and dropped them off at exactly the same time....the question ...which would hit the ground first?....the answer.... WHO CARES.... NOBODY
Written by: Belial, 4 May 2008 10:12 AM
From: United States, Texas
"I will again ask this difficult question/puzzle....IF you took belial and a full grown sewer rat to the top of the Empire state building and dropped them off at exactly the same time....the question ...which would hit the ground first?....the answer.... WHO CARES.... NOBODY," said GC, the rabble-rouser for the bourgeois form of exploitation.
oooo
GC, you slimy, greasy, and lying bag of scum, for once... just for once ... stick to the topic in the article published by DT above, rather than taking cowardly flight into capricious irrelevancy to hide your abysmal ignorance of what's being discussed.
Yes, you filthy coward don't take flight into capricious irrelevancy.
Written by: BASTA, 4 May 2008 10:18 AM
From: Dominican Republic, SPM
Belial
ask your president
Written by: Belial, 4 May 2008 10:50 AM
From: United States, Texas
"Belial"
"ask your president"
0000
I don't have one. I have only a thief in the White House who stole the 2000 election in Florida and the 2004 election in Florida and Ohio.
Only the sleazy, slimy, and greasy US reactionaries, the GOPs, about a third of the US population, recognized this thief, called George W. Bush, as a "president."
Written by: Belial, 4 May 2008 11:11 AM
From: United States, Texas
GC can't stick to the topic ... that DT reports ... because GC is a yankeephile who suffers from an extreme case of yankeephilia.
GC, you slimy, greasy, and lying bag of scum, for once... just for once ... stick to the topic in the article published by DT above, rather than taking flight cowardly into capricious irrelevancy to hide your abysmal ignorance of what's being discussed.
Yes, you filthy coward don't take flight into capricious irrelevancy.
From: United States Virgin Islands, St Thomas C' Amalie hotel 1829 at the Bar
nooooobody ....splat
Written by: Belial, 4 May 2008 11:37 AM
From: United States, Texas
dirty yankeephile
Written by: BASTA, 4 May 2008 1:11 PM
From: Dominican Republic, SPM
Belial
You are correct but you forgot his piss ass father.
Written by: BASTA, 4 May 2008 1:11 PM
From: Dominican Republic, SPM
No, I meant our joto president here.
Written by: BASTA, 4 May 2008 1:13 PM
From: Dominican Republic, SPM
sweethearts those 2??
Written by: Belial, 4 May 2008 2:35 PM
From: United States, Texas
"GC can't stick to the topic ... that DT reports ... because GC is a yankeephile who suffers from an extreme case of yankeephilia," I said earlier.
0000
What I meant was not just a mere "extreme case of yankeephilia," but rather a terminal case of it.
Since GC's case is ... fortunately ... terminal, we have reason to hope for relief from the vexations that his presence provokes.
Written by: Belial, 4 May 2008 3:13 PM
From: United States, Texas
Before the distractions of the yankeephile from the Yukon, we were looking at the motives behind the "go Hollywood" endorsement. Our attention was fixed on LF's motives, but we should also look to see if the Diesel gets anything out of the endorsement.
Some observers expect LF to shine during his apparent third term not only as a Dominican leader, but also as one of the most outstanding Latin American and Caribbean persons of celebrity, prestige, and influence, even bigger than Marc Anthony or Shakira.
If this breakout happens for LF, the Diesel will strut about, put on airs, and talk trash, like "Look, me and Leonel are tight. I helped him in the last election. So, shut up and fix my drink."
From: United States Virgin Islands, St Thomas C' Amalie hotel 1829 at the Bar
splat .....nobody cares
Written by: Belial, 4 May 2008 6:13 PM
From: United States, Texas
"splat .....nobody cares," the contemptible GC says,
0000
Obviously, GC is a liar because nobody has given GC authority to speak on their behalf.
At least, this liar, GC, has progressed to the point where he knows that speaking on his own behalf is worthless because he himself is worthless; so he tries to palm-off himself as a spokesperson for others, that is, for everybody for whom he pretends to speak.
GC, you slimy, greasy, and lying bag of scum, for once... just for once ... stick to the topic in the article published by DT above, rather than taking flight cowardly into capricious irrelevancy to hide your abysmal ignorance of what's being discussed.
Yes, you filthy coward don't take flight into capricious irrelevancy.
From: United States Virgin Islands, St Thomas C' Amalie hotel 1829 at the Bar
belial is a steady stream of verbal diarrhea without end... Mindless chatter of a brain damaged parrot........they once asked me .....Goulet if you were locked in a room with Charley Manson and Adolf Hitler and Belial and you had a gun with only two bullets in it.....What would you do?...................answer,....I would shoot Belial twice...I won the cigar .... then someone suggested they cut the bullets in half and shoot him four times
Written by: NYCDR, 4 May 2008 9:10 PM
From: United States
Do we really give a s#$%^ if van diesel approves of Leonel Fernandez!!!!!!!!!!!
Written by: Poeta25, 5 May 2008 7:50 AM
From: Dominican Republic
LOL.. Is there anybody that Leonel won't buy off?....Vin Diesel, now that's funny.
Written by: zak325, 5 May 2008 2:59 PM
From: United States
Very few people know it, but Vin Diesel is in fact, Dominican. He never talks about his ethnicity, thinking it will bar him from playing certain roles. My girfriend who is Dominican, has been in the acting buisness for a while in the NYC area, and has met him at least once.
Written by: Belial, 5 May 2008 3:16 PM
From: United States, Texas
"Very few people know it, but Vin Diesel is in fact, Dominican. He never talks about his ethnicity, thinking it will bar him from playing certain roles. My girfriend who is Dominican, has been in the acting buisness for a while in the NYC area, and has met him at least once."
oooo
Well, in his work, he is, at various times or situations, either white or black or mixed.
I don't believe that either the whites or blacks or mixes welcome him without qualification.
When you say or as you say, his ethnicity is Dominican, I supposed that means that he is mixed.
Well, the DR is a good place to be mix.
When LF ran against the black mayor, Leonel went around saying "I'm mixed."
The news has it that Vin and Shakira have homes in the DR that are pretty close to each other. The news has it he and she see each other at hers and at his place when they in. They don't call it dating.
The news doesn't say whether this is white or black or mix.
I wish I knew what it is.
From: United States
"Very few people know it, but Vin Diesel is in fact, Dominican." THE GUY IS HALF WHITE, HALF BLACK PERIOD.
There we go again, Dominicans always quick to claim someone with money their own. When will the sucking up and ass kissing of anyone who is rich, fair skinned, caucasian or Europeans stop? If one is is rich and light skin all of a sudden they are Latino, but when one is dark skin and poor they are not Latino.
Please, give it a break! Dominicans have got to stop sucking up to White Touristas and stop still trying to keep Trujillo's dream alive. That is the part I hate about being part Dominican. The sucking up to white people and rich Europeans never ends.
Domincians have always longed to want to be White and deny being part African as though they are accepting what Mormons believe that the Black race is a plague.
Written by: Belial, 5 May 2008 4:14 PM
From: United States, Texas
Once again "For LF, this is not really a political endorsement, rather this is a "I-too-belong-to-the-glitterati" endorsement ... 'Look at me and the Diesel. What do you think about that?' Leonel asks. "
0000
What is stunning about Diesel's "non-political" endorsement is the amount of publicity it got over the weekend in the capitalist media of North America, Europe, and Latin America.
It was astounding.
The political Center and the Right in Latin America and Caribbean lack a presence or a personality that embodies and symbolizes them, Leonel, after the virtual disappearance of Oscar Arias, Vicente Fox, José María Aznar and other useless nobodies, seems to be the only viable candidate for a continental role.
Diesel, whether he's mix or white or black, ain't gonna do it.
LF needs somebody a lot bigger than Diesel, somebody like Jack Nicholson or Shakira.
Yes, somebody big, not just somebody, like Diesel, who is only highly successful.
From: United States Virgin Islands, St Thomas C' Amalie hotel 1829 at the Bar
belial.....two shots rang out bang bang
From: United States
Leonel needs to get prominent endorsements of legit Dominicans in DR and I am sure there are plenty. By keep allowing foreign stars or international figures endorsing him that is telling you that they have a say so in the Politics of DR and the possibility of Government puppeteering is present. Endorsing someone does not simply stop at just picture ops and words of saying i support this person. It also means that this individual endorsing you is giving money to your campaign and by taking their money the will try to influence you to do their will and deeds for them. It is call Lobbying for personal interest. Maybe Vin Diesel has the ambition of opening a resort in DR trying to do like Donald Trump who have purchased a little coastal piece of land In DR for a Golf, casino and Hotel Resort. Vin Diesel is a women beater. You see, in DR Dominicans are telling you that as long as you have money you can come in and F4ck our women, beat them and enslave them and it is alright.
From: United States
Maybe Americans will now vote for PLD on May 16th...YES !!!
From: United States
touche, Saturn!!
Was that the Hard Rock Cafe?
At the Tonic Nite Club and a number of other Santo Domingo clubs, the bouncers won't even let US blacks ... like Diesel ... even enter their filthy night clubs to make a pass. [Actually, Diesel sees himself as either black or white or mixed depending on the circumstances. But usually ... or in most circumstances ... he decides to be black. Possibly, he was being white when this incident with the woman happened at the club.]
Diesel's 2000 film, the "Fast and the Furious" about lumpen car racing is Los Angeles, obsenely pulled in $41 million at the boxoffice in its first "weekend," still he was out of place at the club.
After his offer of love was rejected, he should have left the club, got on his jet, flew back to his DR villa on east coast and phoned the then New YorK Attorney General Mark Spitzer for advice.
The Vin Diesel endorsement may help with the Dominican yankeephiles, although LF already owns much of the vote influenced by yankeephilia.
In the DR, the Diesel carries some baggage from a past nite club incident involving a Dominican woman who identified herself as a architectural student and who rejected the Diesel as a lover for being a ugly baldheaded thang of ambiguous origin -- African-American and Italian-American, whatever that is.
Since the incident in Santo Domingo, the Diesel has let everybody know that he dates only European woman in Europe. He's in great demand over there.
For LF, this is not really a political endorsement, rather this is a "I-too-belong-to-the-glitterati" endorsement ... "Look at me and the Diesel. What do you think about that?"
oooo
GC, you slimy, greasy, and lying bag of scum, for once... just for once ... stick to the topic in the article published by DT above, rather than taking cowardly flight into capricious irrelevancy to hide your abysmal ignorance of what's being discussed.
Yes, you filthy coward don't take flight into capricious irrelevancy.
ask your president
"ask your president"
0000
I don't have one. I have only a thief in the White House who stole the 2000 election in Florida and the 2004 election in Florida and Ohio.
Only the sleazy, slimy, and greasy US reactionaries, the GOPs, about a third of the US population, recognized this thief, called George W. Bush, as a "president."
GC, you slimy, greasy, and lying bag of scum, for once... just for once ... stick to the topic in the article published by DT above, rather than taking flight cowardly into capricious irrelevancy to hide your abysmal ignorance of what's being discussed.
Yes, you filthy coward don't take flight into capricious irrelevancy.
You are correct but you forgot his piss ass father.
0000
What I meant was not just a mere "extreme case of yankeephilia," but rather a terminal case of it.
Since GC's case is ... fortunately ... terminal, we have reason to hope for relief from the vexations that his presence provokes.
Some observers expect LF to shine during his apparent third term not only as a Dominican leader, but also as one of the most outstanding Latin American and Caribbean persons of celebrity, prestige, and influence, even bigger than Marc Anthony or Shakira.
If this breakout happens for LF, the Diesel will strut about, put on airs, and talk trash, like "Look, me and Leonel are tight. I helped him in the last election. So, shut up and fix my drink."
0000
Obviously, GC is a liar because nobody has given GC authority to speak on their behalf.
At least, this liar, GC, has progressed to the point where he knows that speaking on his own behalf is worthless because he himself is worthless; so he tries to palm-off himself as a spokesperson for others, that is, for everybody for whom he pretends to speak.
GC, you slimy, greasy, and lying bag of scum, for once... just for once ... stick to the topic in the article published by DT above, rather than taking flight cowardly into capricious irrelevancy to hide your abysmal ignorance of what's being discussed.
Yes, you filthy coward don't take flight into capricious irrelevancy.
oooo
Well, in his work, he is, at various times or situations, either white or black or mixed.
I don't believe that either the whites or blacks or mixes welcome him without qualification.
When you say or as you say, his ethnicity is Dominican, I supposed that means that he is mixed.
Well, the DR is a good place to be mix.
When LF ran against the black mayor, Leonel went around saying "I'm mixed."
The news has it that Vin and Shakira have homes in the DR that are pretty close to each other. The news has it he and she see each other at hers and at his place when they in. They don't call it dating.
The news doesn't say whether this is white or black or mix.
I wish I knew what it is.
"Very few people know it, but Vin Diesel is in fact, Dominican." THE GUY IS HALF WHITE, HALF BLACK PERIOD.
There we go again, Dominicans always quick to claim someone with money their own. When will the sucking up and ass kissing of anyone who is rich, fair skinned, caucasian or Europeans stop? If one is is rich and light skin all of a sudden they are Latino, but when one is dark skin and poor they are not Latino.
Please, give it a break! Dominicans have got to stop sucking up to White Touristas and stop still trying to keep Trujillo's dream alive. That is the part I hate about being part Dominican. The sucking up to white people and rich Europeans never ends.
Domincians have always longed to want to be White and deny being part African as though they are accepting what Mormons believe that the Black race is a plague.
0000
What is stunning about Diesel's "non-political" endorsement is the amount of publicity it got over the weekend in the capitalist media of North America, Europe, and Latin America.
It was astounding.
The political Center and the Right in Latin America and Caribbean lack a presence or a personality that embodies and symbolizes them, Leonel, after the virtual disappearance of Oscar Arias, Vicente Fox, José María Aznar and other useless nobodies, seems to be the only viable candidate for a continental role.
Diesel, whether he's mix or white or black, ain't gonna do it.
LF needs somebody a lot bigger than Diesel, somebody like Jack Nicholson or Shakira.
Yes, somebody big, not just somebody, like Diesel, who is only highly successful.
Leonel needs to get prominent endorsements of legit Dominicans in DR and I am sure there are plenty. By keep allowing foreign stars or international figures endorsing him that is telling you that they have a say so in the Politics of DR and the possibility of Government puppeteering is present. Endorsing someone does not simply stop at just picture ops and words of saying i support this person. It also means that this individual endorsing you is giving money to your campaign and by taking their money the will try to influence you to do their will and deeds for them. It is call Lobbying for personal interest. Maybe Vin Diesel has the ambition of opening a resort in DR trying to do like Donald Trump who have purchased a little coastal piece of land In DR for a Golf, casino and Hotel Resort. Vin Diesel is a women beater. You see, in DR Dominicans are telling you that as long as you have money you can come in and F4ck our women, beat them and enslave them and it is alright.