July 02, 2008
Babs doesn't endorse Hillary
Likening Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama to a political “trailblazer,” singer Barbra Streisand has become the latest Hollywood celebrity to join the Obama campaign bandwagon, switching from her past support of Sen. Hillary Clinton.“Barack has awakened in many of us the notion that we can again be hopeful, enabling us to believe that we are capable of lifting our brothers and sisters out of poverty, of providing quality education for all our children, of ending this unjust war in Iraq and bringing our troops home streisand.jpgsafely,” Streisand wrote on Tuesday in a posting on her Web site, http://www.barbrastreisand.com/.
“He’s reminded us ‘yes we can’…we can make the transition from fossil fuels to green energy; we can take care of our elderly and make sure that good healthcare is not just a perk for a few, but a right for every man, woman and child,” she said. ”We are experiencing not just a presidential campaign, but a movement; a movement of inspired young people who have been cynical about politics for too long.”hillary.jpg
Since narrowly defeating Clinton at the end of the U.S. primary elections in June, Obama, a Democrat from Illinois, has picked up numerous endorsements. Clinton, a U.S. Senator from New York, has appeared with him in a show of Democratic party unity. Last week, Obama held a fundraiser in Los Angeles that raised some $4 million to $5 million, and several Hollywood stars such as Dennis Quaid and Samuel L. Jackson were there.
Streisand, of course, is a major Hollywood celebrity and fundraiser for Democrats. Yet, celebrity endorsements have a mixed track record in helping candidates, the experts say. Republican candidate Sen. John McCain also has celebrity endorsements including from actors Sylvester Stallone and Robert Duvall.
And now, To the melody of "People", let's sing:
Liberals,
Liberals who need Liberals
Are the looniest people in the world
We’re children needing hope and change
And yet letting our grown-up pride
Hide all the hate inside
Acting more like moonbats than loonbags
Liberals
Are very loony people
They’re the looniest people in the world
With one person,
One very special person
A feeling deep in your soul
He’ll bring you change to make you whole
No more hunger and thirst
But first be a liberal who needs a messiah
Liberals, liberals who need a messiah
Are the looniest people in the world.
With one lefty
One very special lefty
A feeling deep in your soul
Says you are half now you’re whole
No more Bush or Halliburton
But first be a liberal who needs saving
Liberals, liberals who need saving
Are the luckiest leftys in the world.
Posted by George Moneo at July 2, 2008 01:26 PM
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Its a Barack Movement. A BM.
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at July 2, 2008 02:11 PM
I had a bird that could sing. It wasn't any smarter for it.
Posted by: PTG at July 2, 2008 02:45 PM
If Obama wins the presidency, it will be an "Obama-nation".
Posted by: Jeff Baker at July 2, 2008 03:07 PM
George, I think you missed your calling.
Posted by: Claudia4Libertad at July 2, 2008 04:57 PM
The saddest part of all this huffing and puffing and carrying on by celebrities whose political views don't mean SHIT is that they truly believe (or want to) that anybody with half a brain gives a damn who or what they endorse. Really, they'd be better off trolling through some third world country to pick up yet another pet, I mean baby, to, uh, "adopt." Ugh.
Posted by: asombra at July 3, 2008 09:38 AM
Asombra:
I'm confused by your third-world "trolling" for a "pet" comment. As an adoptive mother of a child from a third-world country, I have spent a great deal of time defending international adoption and my choice to go to Latin America to add a child to my family. Comments phrased as yours is can undermine the efforts that adoptive parents make to get people to understand and accept international adoption. Granted, if you are referring to Angelina and Madonna, it sure does look like self-promotion from where we sit, as we are bombarded with images of them and their expedited adoptions that normal people don't get, but I don't purport to judge their reasons for wanting to adopt a child, any child, from anywhere.
I am not trying to be confrontational, I am just hoping you are not saying that international adoptions are bad- of course there are some unsavory facts of it, like anything, but most are on the up and up.
Posted by: Claudia4Libertad at July 3, 2008 03:25 PM
Claudia, I was definitely not referring to people like you or casting aspersions on international adoptions per se. I was referring to the ongoing spectacle of celebrities whose suitability to raise children seems questionable at best being able to adopt kids at will, as many as they want, exactly as if they were pets or fashion accessories.
The whole business makes me sick, precisely because I know that regular people who'd make far better parents, people like you, would never be able to get even one kid anywhere near that easily, if at all. If I myself wanted to adopt, I'd be even more outraged.
Posted by: asombra at July 3, 2008 04:22 PM
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