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AP: Will Hollywood Still Shower the Love on Obama?

AP: Will Hollywood Still Shower the Love on Obama?

Oprah Winfrey introduces then-Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama to the crowd at a rally in Manchester, N.H. in Dec. 2007. (AP File Photo)

NEW YORK (AP) — Hollywood, as everyone knows, loves the Next Big Thing. And four years ago, Barack Obama was certainly that: a political supernova, the equivalent of a breakout movie star.

“He is `The One,’” declared Oprah Winfrey, his biggest and most influential celebrity champion. “The best candidate I’ve ever seen,” pronounced George Clooney. Halle Berry said she’d “collect paper cups off the ground to make his pathway clear.” Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am chimed in with the famous “Yes We Can” video. And so on.

(Related: Spielberg, Clooney, Hanks Give Maximum Contributions to Obama’s Reelection Bid)

But you can’t be the Next Big Thing twice. And so, with the 2012 vote less than a year away, there’s clearly a different mood in heavily Democratic Hollywood: less gushing, not to mention snippets of criticism, most prominently from actor Matt Damon, who campaigned for Obama last time but now makes no secret of his disillusionment.

“I think he misinterpreted his mandate,” Damon said earlier this year, and then recently told Elle magazine the country would have been better off with a one-term president with guts (he used a much saltier word).

(Related: Matt Damon Bashes Obama: ‘A One-Term President With Some Balls’ Would Have Been Better)

But while the adulation of the 2008 election may be significantly muted among Hollywood liberals, as with liberals elsewhere, Obama supporters say that’s only natural, given the circumstances. Fundraisers there say that events have been selling out and there’s plenty of enthusiasm.

Most importantly, they add, the nation’s attention has been on the battling Republicans. Soon, the choice will get starker and the Democratic base will be energized, they argue.

“The moment the Republicans have their nominee is when you’re going to see anyone still on the fence jump in,” says Chad Griffin, a Los Angeles-based communications strategist and Democratic fundraiser. “Once you have a head-to-head matchup, the contrast will be grand.”

Numbers compiled by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics show that while overall political contributions were up in Hollywood for the first three quarters of this year compared with the same period four years ago, contributions to Democrats were slightly down.

According to the group, the movie, television and recording industries – a large chunk of which is Hollywood – gave $17,639,267 in the first three quarters to federal candidates and parties, with 71 percent going to the Democrats and 29 percent to Republicans, as opposed to $15,642,561 four years ago, when 77 percent went to the Democrats and 23 percent to Republicans.

But numbers for the Democrats were down by more than $2.5 million from four years ago – $9,249,303 this year compared with $11,966,077 four years ago.

Obama’s fundraisers note that four years ago, Obama was locked in a tense primary battle with Hillary Rodham Clinton – and primaries drive early fundraising.

“A re-election is always different,” says Andy Spahn, a longtime political adviser to one of the top Democratic fundraisers in the nation, DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg, along with his partners Steven Spielberg and David Geffen.

He calls the current mood among Hollywood Democrats a “matured enthusiasm,” but says support is strong.

Though Damon’s remarks about the president have been the most pointed, other celebrities have expressed disappointment, or at least mild disillusionment.

“I love the president like most of us,“ Sean ”Diddy” Combs told Source magazine this year. “I just want the president to do better.”

And will.i.am, creator of that viral video that ended with the word “HOPE,” told The New York Times earlier this year: “I don’t want to hope anymore.” Asked if he was disappointed in Obama, he said: “I don’t feel disappointed. I feel like, Argggh! Speak louder! I feel like, Do something!”

AP: Will Hollywood Still Shower the Love on Obama?

Obama with actor George Clooney (AP File Photo)

What about core Obama celebrity supporters Clooney and Winfrey? Far from being disillusioned with Obama, Clooney said recently: “I’m disillusioned by the people who are disillusioned by Obama.”

“Democrats eat their own,” the actor said. “I‘m a firm believer in sticking by and sticking up for the people whom you’ve elected.” He went on to list the accomplishments of the Obama administration, wondering why Democrats weren’t selling them better.

And Winfrey, credited with helping Obama win over many women in 2008, told Politico in August: “I’m in his corner for whatever he needs me to do.”

There already have been plenty of celebrities hosting or showing up at Obama fundraising events. Actress Eva Longoria hosted one at the home of Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas. Lady Gaga attended a September fundraiser at the home of Facebook’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg. Alicia Keys performed at a New York fundraiser.

And in the summer, film executive Harvey Weinstein held a Manhattan event sprinkled with celebs including Keys, Jimmy Fallon, and Gwyneth Paltrow and husband Chris Martin. A 50th birthday-themed fundraiser in Chicago featured performances by Jennifer Hudson, Herbie Hancock and the band OK Go.

Of course, celebrity support isn’t always a win-win for a candidate. Just as Obama’s opponents in 2008 tried to use his taste for arugula to paint him as elitist, they tried to use his celebrity connections to imply he was lightweight, all pizazz and no substance – most pointedly in an ad tenuously linking him to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears.

The tactic seemed to scare Obama’s campaign enough to downplay the role of celebrities at the Democratic convention that summer. Will the campaign similarly seek to downplay the celebrity role this time?

“Celebrities are helpful in terms of exciting a base,” says Griffin, the fundraiser. “I don’t think the president will have any shortage of surrogates.”

One thing is clear: They won’t include Damon, and the president wasn‘t shy about making a few jokes at the actor’s expense back in May, at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.

“Matt Damon said he was disappointed in my performance,” the president noted. Then he referred to one of Damon’s recent films. “Well, Matt, I just saw `The Adjustment Bureau,’ so right back atcha, buddy.”

Damon, whose representatives did not respond to a request for comment, has given no sign that he plans to do anything as dramatic as switch sides in November. The real danger, say some Obama supporters, is that comments like his would lead voters – especially key younger ones – to stay home.

That’s a threat the president faces in places well beyond Hollywood.

Ken Sunshine, a prominent public relations consultant who has represented top entertainers and politicians, thinks that ultimately “the activist community in entertainment and everywhere else will come home and support the president’s re-election with the same degree of enthusiasm as before – if for no other reason than … consider the alternative!”

“But once we help him get re-elected,” Sunshine adds, “then we really hold his feet to the fire in the second term.”

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  • OneRepublic4us
    Posted on December 31, 2011 at 9:57am

    This is something you won’t hear anywhere else. I know someone that works in Hollywood and the industry is in sad shape. You won‘t hear it from the msm because they’re all carrying water for Obama and trying to hide the fact that when Hollywood opens their mouths people turn off their TV’s and quit going to movies. Do you think they‘re kissing up to Obama because they’re going to need a bailout if he’s reelected? It’s time to stick a fork in Hollywood, it’s done.

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    • SoCaLCapitalist
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 10:33am

      First unnecessary expense I got rid of was movie tickets. There is no creativity in Hollywood all they do is remakes of movies we’ve already seen.

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    • Ruler4You
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 10:41am

      @SOCALCAPITALIST we are co-simpatico amigo. Add to that hollywood “IS” chock FULL of communists and comsymps and you have aid and comfort to the enemy by patronizing their crap.

      TV is little more than a way to keep people in front of commercials any way. Nothing of value comes out of hollywood and what does come out always has some socialist subliminal context.

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    • ncstatemom3
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 10:51am

      Just the other day I was looking at some pictures of a young Ava Gardner and it made me think of how glamorous Hollywood must have been back in those days. It must have been a really neat and exciting place to be. It definately was nothing like it is today. It has been ruined. As for Oprah, I have to take a little satisfaction every time I hear that her network is not doing good. Ever since the minute she announced she was in the tank for Obama I have not once tuned in to anything associated with her. When will these people understand that they are wrong, wrong, wrong?

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 11:05am

      I canceled my subscription to satellite.. If Obama gets crooked back in…I have heard that Acorn was managing the polls last election.and I believe I read where Soros owned some.. but if this indeed does happen..then all the prophecies I believe are close to being fulfilled..rapture and then tribulation.. we never know what day will be our last upon the earth..so it is important to get our houses in order. Seek and you shall find..knock and the door shall be opened to you.

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    • bhohater
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 11:07am

      Why am I not surprised?

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    • MonkeyBeagle
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 11:12am

      Hollywood will start jumping to Ron Paul, he is the new cool exspecially when Kelly Clarkson just saved her Career just by tweeting Ron Pauls name. Her sales doubled over night. Happy New Year Blazers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BWD9GWHGiI

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    • ConservativeCharlie
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 11:15am

      Since the Bill Clinton now thinks he is worst president in history, http://www.TheObamaPlan.com I would have to say a good part of hollywood will slowly start to turn on him as well.

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    • flfshrmn
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 11:29am

      Remember, the screen actors guild is union. UNION BAILOUTS ANYONE??
      Of course they will kiss his a$$….money talks. Most of those idiot actors are just flavor of the month, they just go with the vogue flow. Obama supporters are like when Cabala was vogue. Madonna started it and then everyone else started doing it. The true defenition of Sheeple.

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    • db321
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 11:32am

      Why wouldn’t they support Obama – everything in Hollywood is fake, fake sets, fake actors, make believe scripts. A fake President is right up there alley.

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    • 000degrees
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 11:33am

      Hollywood who? Who cares what “they” think…

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    • Falsegods
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 11:52am

      Nwo false justification for having no conscience :

      Romans 13

      Submission to Governing Authorities

       1 Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. 2 Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. 3 For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and you will be commended. 4 For the one in authority is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for rulers do not bear the sword for no reason. They are God’s servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. 5 Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also as a matter of conscience.
       6 This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, who give their full time to governing. 7 Give to everyone what you owe them: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.

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    • lukerw
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 1:38pm

      @FALSE…
      If you believe this… you are a Cavalier (a supporter of the King)… at war with the Roundheads (Protestant Christians)… as in the English Civil War; as in the American Revolution; as in the American Civil War!

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    • pavepaws
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 1:39pm

      Hollywood, who cares?

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    • crackerone
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 1:52pm

      Everybody knows B O is a “pillow biter” They think it will deflect attention away from their lives.

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 3:19pm

      These toilet bowl floater’s are Liberals : First, Last and Always.

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    • Lucy Larue
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 5:37pm

      ONEREPUBLIC4US,
      NON! I do not think that it is because Hollywood wants a bailout from President Barry Dunham.
      I think it is because HOLLYWOOD found their “Kindred Spirit” President.
      President Dunham is every bit as narcissistic as Alec Baldwin,Sean Penn, George Clooney, and the rest of their ilk. Our FLOTUS is worse!
      They are ALL common sense challenged and economically illiterate!
      They identify with the loathsome O.W.S. 99% while living the life of the 1%.
      The majority of “STARS” in Hollywood are moral relativists . They are monster Progressives. They are dinosaurs in death throes. They are too imbecilic to even comprehend their demise.

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    • crackerone
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:56pm

      Planet Hollywood meets Planet of the Apes! Misery loves company!

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    • Mimi24
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 9:34pm

      The only movie that I took my grandkids to see was We Bought A Zoo. Matt Damon made a mistake but he is apparently not repeating it. I don’t mind if a few of my dollars go his way. Good movie. As for the rest, I asked for and received older, well made dvd’s for Christmas. Thanks family. Cable can go.

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    • Wolf
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 11:10pm

      LOL- so long as there’s an Oopsrah and Winnie the Pooh, there’s going to be a Hollwierd ranting and raving and sucking after th eTop Coon. Of course they’re going to shower their love- and a few other wet things- on the Turd.

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    • shorething
      Posted on January 1, 2012 at 8:03am

      i go to the movies once or twice a year. went to avatar (IMAX) for the effects even knowing it had a leftist lean. my last trip was to see Secratariat, my next will be War Horse, also saw Atlas Shrugged and the last Pirates of the Caribean (IMAX) will also be taking my brother to the new Underworld (IMAX again) for his birthday, got to go get the first 2 from the library to get up to speed, i’ve never seen either. i’ve ceased watching any news network but Fox (ran out of barf bags). we can choose what we pay to watch, and if we don’t pay to see those whose ideas we oppose that are always on their soapbox spewing support for communist dictators ala sean penn their receipts will go down, and drag their “box office approval” down with it. thus their next deal will be for less, you see where this is going so i’m gonna end this with Happy New Year to all ESPECIALLY 11/6&7 2012 and 1/20/13

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    • hud
      Posted on January 1, 2012 at 5:47pm

      SOCAL….Me too. They eventually show up on cable.

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  • RIGHTHOOK
    Posted on December 31, 2011 at 9:41am

    They are all narcissistic multi-millionaires that operate in a pretend world. And they know how to run a country?? They are authorities because being in the limelight of the liberal media suggests their thoughts and words have validity. They know nothing more than their lines and when to smile for the camera. What a sorry place this USA has evolved into.

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    • Faith1029
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 10:12am

      Very well said!

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    • NHwinter
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 1:19pm

      I agree. They made their enormous fortune off the American people. Their wealth is safe and protected. None of them care about the average American. Obama is a Hollywood star, the sad thing is none of those Hollywood actors have a brain in their head. We have become a country of star struck idiots.

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    • Jwmajic
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 2:46pm

      Will I am’s next Obama song
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08S4poMGvwA

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on December 31, 2011 at 9:34am

    .
    NEWS FLASH!!!!!!….

    CDC releases Information about Gonorrhea Lectim

    The CDC has issued a warning about a new virulent strain of this old disease. The Disease is called Gonorrhea Lectim. It’s pronounced “Gonna re-elect ‘em”, and it is a terrible Obamanation.

    The disease is contracted through high risk behavior involving putting your Head Up your Butt. Many victims contracted it in 2008…but now most people, after having been infected for the last 2 years, are starting to realize how destructive this sickness is.

    It’s sad because Gonorrhea Lectim is easily cured with a new drug just hitting the market called Votemout, pronounced “Vote ‘em Out. You should take your first dose as soon as possible and a second dose right before the 2012 election, this should limit your ability to engage in such behavior again; otherwise, it could become permanent and eventually wipe out all life as we know it.

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 9:58am

      There is a new strain though…even more dealdly…It’s called eyeofnewtsyphilitica. It’s spread by mostly uneducated braindead progressives that think they are conservatives. It closely resembles Gonorrhea Lectim. The only real difference is the color pigmentation of those effected. The stupidity level is the same.

      This is a severe disease that can be wiped out with a good long read of the CONSTITUTION and BILL of RIGHTS.

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    • quicker
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 11:12am

      Or Cranialrectumitis .

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    • Lucy Larue
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 5:54pm

      SPANKDAMONKEY,
      I started taking VOTEMOUT in massive doses while Barry Dunham was CAMMPAIGNING to become President Barry Dunham!
      If I had any power I would MANDATE that EVERY spoiled ,smug,LAZY, American Citizen who voted for “HOPE ansd CHANGE…,and the fundamental transformation of the Uneted States of America” would be force fed VOTEMOUT starting NOW until the election of November 2012!
      Good post.

      Vox Populi Vox Dei! We are awake!

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  • hempstead1944
    Posted on December 31, 2011 at 9:34am

    Hollywood is “all in” for Obama…….they no longer have a choice. Thank God , we-their customers, do and have chosen not to consume the garbage they produce and lable “art”.

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  • EqualJustice
    Posted on December 31, 2011 at 9:28am

    NO ONE can be THAT stupid!!!

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on December 31, 2011 at 9:27am

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    Will Hollywood Still Shower the Love on Obama?…….

    Yes!!! With her hair up in curlers and her pants to her knees, Yes!!!!!………

    I think we all gonna need a body condom………..

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    • Zorba53
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 10:13am

      Hmmm, I didn’t know Iron Ore Betty moved to Hollyweird!

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  • BetterDays
    Posted on December 31, 2011 at 9:26am

    Does anyone believe the LSM will do other than carry his water ?
    I noticed the other day that a woman was found guilty of slander because she blogged without “journalist credentials” and the judge ruled she therefor wasn’t a journalist. Well dear judge, there are a very few journalists in America these days, and you just wrongfully maligned and picked the pocket of one of them. Look all you want to, but you won’t find a journalist worth a leech beds purpose in the Lame stream media, more the shame that.
    If journalists had not gone to the great typewriter in the sky long ago, Obama the tyrant would never had made it out from Chicago politics to become president.
    I see him getting four more illegal years, with LSM water boys spewing rose petals along his pathway as they chant “sing his praise’s!”.

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  • bruce_baker
    Posted on December 31, 2011 at 9:07am

    You bet they will. Any Republican elected would have to have morals, and just might take the media to task for their relentless campaign to lower the moral standards of America by intentionally appealing to the worst elements, emotions and desires of our youth.

    I caught Rick Santorum in a speech where he detailed the reasons for the excessive poverty among our minorities: If you don’t want to be poor, learn to work, graduate from high school and get married before you have children. That’s it. Do those things and you won’t be poor. It’s really that simple.

    If any of the producers and directors in Hollywood had any Christian decency or even American honor, we’d be seeing shows that encourage marriage and the adopting the children of single mothers by their new husbands. Instead, we the people want to be bad, and Hollywood cashes in on the popularity of shows that encourage that. Since the public schools teach that pre-marital sex is ok, can we blame Hollywood for going farther and telling us that unsafe pre-marital sex is ok?

    Things will just keep getting worse in America as long as more people would rather go to the movies than to church.

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  • GulfPeg
    Posted on December 31, 2011 at 9:05am

    Hold his feet to the fire in the 2nd term? They’ve got to be kidding! What, after Obama has already finished ruining the country? We cannot allow Obama to finish destroying this country!

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  • B4REALITY
    Posted on December 31, 2011 at 9:03am

    “Clooney is a fool!” He can afford to stick by Obama. The rest of the people – even democrats, that have lost their job – or even their hold industry due to Obama! Sorry Clooney, you’re ideas of government control turn too many people into the drink – meaning – too many people are being sacrificed to seek your Utopia. Most know that the Global Warming thing was just a control issue – trying to fear Americans into letting you control energy. Most Americans now know that the spending is our children’s money. Did Michelle spend an extra 100K of your money going to Hawaii early – no, that was right out of the taxpayers budget. This country only brings in 2 billion a month – that’s it. Don’t you think they could figure out how to live on that?

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:57am

    Once a commie, socialist, leftist, pig… Always a … Of course they will support him !!!!

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  • carbonyes
    Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:51am

    This Imposter-in-Chief will go down in history as the absolute worst President ever, a lying, deceiving, treasonous, destructive man child with no redeeming values whatsoever. When he gets shipped out after November 2012, the Hollywood freaks that support him should be canned right with him. The movies and DVD’s that this slime produces should be boycotted.
    There needs to be an all out onslaught, covering all the bases to see that this wretch of a human being is exposed for what he is and sent packing. He should then be tried for all the criminal activities in which he has been engaged or in any way been a party. To say that Obama has been an embarrassment is an understatement. He has aided our enemies and dissed our friends and allies. He has turned the Middle East on its’ head, falsely promoting “democracy” in various Arab countries, all the while promoting the Muslim Brotherhood( radical Islam ) takeover of country after country. He has buffaloed many black churches into believing that Obama is a Christian – a deception of the highest degree. he is destroying our economy and the free market system and is also doing his damnedest to undermine and do away with the Constitution, freedom and liberty and property rights. I have a black Bishop friend that places Obama in the category of a false prophet if not the anti-Christ. Obama is at the least a forerunner and an ally of those despicable anti-God characters.
    Hollywood will join him in Hell.

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  • 4xeverything
    Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:48am

    When it’s time to go to the polls, I wouldn’t ask my teenaged neighbor who I should vote for, why would I ask a teenage celebutant or even an adult celeb with the mentality of a teen?

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  • arfarb55
    Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:42am

    WILL HOLLYWOOD STILL SHOWER THE LOVE ON OBAMA? Probably, after all they cannot think for themselves; if it’s not written in a script, it’s NOT REAL in their minds. Most only regurgitate what their told to. What happened to the REAL HEROS of Hollywood? Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne…The actors who actually LOVED their country and served their country in more ways than one.

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:41am

    No, they’re gonna support Gingrich, come on, Joe McCarthey was 100% CORRECT, when he was hunting commies in Hollywood in the 1950s… Leftists,commies will always gravitate to careers in Acting, journalism, academia, Arts , Dance and Govt. Mostly to avoid getting their hands dirty and doing manuel labor…..i must admit that i truly am shocked at the amount of commies in America…..i guess they’re coming out of the woodwork cuz the sense the gravytrain is pullin in to the station , cuz the taxpayer has woken up to their cash flow schemes, mostly hidden behind great soundig causes.. Such as the enviroment, the school children, theminorites, the poor, the elderly….. None of which they actually give a ratsAss about…. Its cash flow, and the tea party threatens their cash flow….

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    • Jenny Lind
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 9:23am

      That’ funny. I was thinking about that when I was reading the story. He didn’t go far enough, he was right on and people were so sick of war they didn’t want to hear. His words have have proven him 100% correct.

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  • momsense
    Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:39am

    Of course they will.Their whole lives are invested in fantasy, not reality and being told what to do to achieve it; and of course there’s the corresponding guilt for their success too

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  • freedomofspeech
    Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:33am

    He is still black, with an attractive black family, with a black hypoallergenic dog, living the American dream. He is still a radical with money, he has a “strong foreign policy against terrorist”, he is still blaming Bush, he still saying “it will take time”, he still saying “head winds” he still encouraging middle east regiem changes, he still giving Billions to other countries, yes I think the msm will continue to manipulate the news for him. Be nice if the msm didn’t character assasinate Herman Cain, I sure liked him. It would be nice to have the “race card” thrown out. I’m sick of it. Herman Cain is the true American dream

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    • momsense
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 11:32am

      Has anyone noticed that the bimbos who accused herman Cain of indisgressions are gone as well–and that includes that media wh ore Gloria Allred? if I had a suspicious bone in my body, IDd be willing to believe that they were the work of Axelcrud and his thugs since a couple of them had ties to the Democratic party or Chigago !

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    • Mimi24
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 9:25pm

      I like Herman Cain very much as well. He could have won. They had to get rid of him and they did. Setup by Chicago’s finest. I’m not much for seeking revenge, but I hope Mr. Cain gets his.

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  • demint.disciple
    Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:32am

    “once we help him get re-elected…then we really hold his feet to the fire in the second term.” Yeah duh, that makes a lot of sense.. What are you going to do, threaten him with not voting for him a third time ? I mean this is the most idiotic statement.. They act like he can run a million times over..

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  • not funny
    Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:32am

    They don’t live in reality. It is Hollywood, for Pete’s sake! Too much money, too little real common sense. Look at his “Rules for Radicals” that he used to teach as a community organizer and then tell me that the American people really want this type of life.

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  • ares338
    Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:27am

    Clooney is a fairly dumb fellow and Damon is just pissed that Obama wasn’t enough of a socialist. Hollyweird types are not very intellectual to say the least.

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    • rambosharley
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 11:00am

      Exactly..Matt Damon is not happy with BHO because he hasn’t completely turned into a communist dictator. He will if he gets re-elected…just wait Matt you DUMBA$$!!!

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  • disenlightened
    Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:22am

    The trash in Hollywood know Obama is a self-serving, in-over-his-head, amateur chump, and a lot of libs are beginning to believe he’s a puppet, but most will still back him. Although some will just keep their mouths shut this time around.

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  • MSBrewer
    Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:13am

    “He went on to list the accomplishments of the Obama administration”

    Come on the list is short enough they could have printed Clooney’s thoughts on this.

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    • MidWestMom
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:27am

      from the ABC news article (Oct. 7, 2011)

      “I’m disillusioned by the people who are disillusioned by Obama, quite honestly, I am,” he said on ABC News Now’s “Popcorn with Peter Travers” before today’s release of “The Ides of March.”Democrats eat their own. Democrats find singular issues and go, ‘Well, I didn’t get everything I wanted.‘ I’m a firm believer in sticking by and sticking up for the people whom you’ve elected.

      “If he was a Republican running, because Republicans are better at this,” Clooney continued, “they’d be selling him as the guy who stopped 400,000 jobs a month from leaving the country. They’d be selling him as the guy who saved the auto-industry. If they had the beliefs, they‘d be selling him as the guy who got rid of ’Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ who got Osama bin Laden. You could be selling this as a very successful three years.”

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    • MSBrewer
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:36am

      Saving jobs, hardly.
      The Auto Industry? Ford seems to be doing fine without the government money. Chevy? Not so much.
      Using our military as a place to push social agenda is a terrible idea. Especially in a time when 6 month turnarounds and shortened training is the norm. This wasn’t important enough to push through and require a day of instruction and annual classes on this issue. Those hours are better used training.

      4.5 Trillion dollar increase in National Debt and a continuing Recession all because of his interfering with free market principals, which have been diminishing for years, but are what we need nonetheless.

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    • MSBrewer
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:37am

      Oh, and thanks for the quote.

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    • MidWestMom
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 9:03am

      You’re welcome.
      The only things Obama has done are: Take vacations, play golf, whine like a baby & screw the country

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    • MidWestMom
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 9:08am

      ‘Well, I didn’t get everything I wanted.‘ ….. sounds like Georgie boy has been hanging out with the Occupy gangs.

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:08am

    Here‘s something I’d like to shower him with ~~~~~ G-O-N-E!

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  • Laus Deo
    Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:08am

    Absolutely mind-boggling to me, the naked stupidity of an obama supporter… “My nose despite my face…”

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  • IMPEACHBHO
    Posted on December 31, 2011 at 7:48am

    “consider the alternative” Yes, the alternative is keeping our country, our freedom. Fools.

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    • Welcome Black Carter
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 2:19pm

      The Hollyweird crowd has no sense of where the average American is at right now. They will be informed election 2012. If obummer gets 45% I will be stunned.

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    • Mimi24
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 9:50pm

      Do you have any friends? You post on this forum calling us fools. If we are such fools then why are you on this forum? Unless you are a fool, or did you get kicked off of the others?

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