Barack Obama gets one nutter endorsement and one anti-endorsement (Update: Make it two nuts)
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Jane Fonda, affectionately known among history buffs as Hanoi Jane for her happy involvement in North Vietnamese propaganda efforts during the Vietnam war, has endorsed Barack Obama. Even the TMZ poll doesn’t think it’s good for Obama, currently 61% think it’ll hurt “the B-man”.
(via Patterico) More at the L.A Times’ Top of the Ticket:
Jane Fonda, the actress and ardent anti-Vietnam War advocate who visited North Vietnam during those hostilities, has endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president.
Actress and anti-war advocate Jane Fonda at a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft battery in June 1972 singing an anti-war song with soldiers during her visit to North Vietnam in the Vietnam war has just endorsed Democrat Barack Obama of Illinois for president
There were no formal ceremonies for the endorsement. In fact, the Obama campaign may just be learning about the actress’s approval now as word spreads like lit gunpowder via the Internet. [...]
Less examined is whether some celebrity endorsements may actually cost a candidate votes. This could be one of those less desirable votes for part of the country, especially if Obama was hoping to attract some crossover Republicans if he’s the Democratic candidate come fall.
Obama, who was recently named the most liberal member of the Senate by the nonpartisan National Journal, has sought to portray himself as the earliest anti-Iraq war opponent and tagged his sole remaining opponent, Sen. Hillary Clinton, with voting to authorize the use of force in Iraq.
The problem for those of a certain generation that endured the Vietnam War and the sometimes violent domestic conflict that accompanied it at home is that during Fonda’s controversial wartime visit to North Vietnam, she was photographed at a Communist anti-aircraft gun battery.
Well, the problem is she’s also a loon, but we’ve covered that before. I guess she couldn’t let ex-husband Ted Turner get away with being the only irrelevant person to say foolish things this week.
More at: Redstate | FullosseousFlap | QandO |
Not to feel left out, Michelle Obama got her own endorsement of sorts. She revealed that she’s very close to ex-going to be First Lady Teresa Heinz Kerry.
“Michelle and I have become good friends mostly through the Blackberries,” Heinz Kerry — introduced only as “Teresa Heinz” — said at a gym at Carnegie Mellon University, where she serves as a trustee and her late ex-husband, Pennsylvania Senator John Heinz, taught before seeking public office. “Because she’s not busy and neither am I.”
After the way she conducts herself, is anyone surprised at either her affection for the pompous Ms. Heinz Kerry or that Michelle Obama isn’t quite as busy on the campaign trail as of late?
Over at Sister Toldjah, there’s a fresh example of why Obama’s ‘frank discussion’ about race is a farce, and it deals with Michelle. His own wife believes it is a subject that is impossible to get past. (Just for the record, she’s wrong, by the way, but after listening to Wright for 20 years what did you expect?)
Now for some election endorsement news from someone who is relevant to the process, at least according to Democrats like Barack Obama who believe we should have stronger international ties and consultations over our affairs. The President of Colombia has blasted Barack Obama. I’m going to call it an anti-endorsement.
President Uribe Refers to Statements by Democratic Candidate Barak Obama on the Colombian Free Trade Agreement
Florencia, Caqueta, April 02 (SP). In an interview on Wednesday at American newspaper Wall Street Journal, President Alvaro Uribe referred to the recent statements by Democratic candidate for the presidency of the USA Barak Obama, Barak Obama, on the FTA between Colombia and the United States, who is in the United States Congress. These were his words:
“I regret that Senator Obama (Barak), aspiring to be President of the United States, ignore the efforts of Colombia. I think that his political calculation, he is making a statement that does not correspond to the reality of Colombia.
I would ask, on behalf of all Colombians, who are aware of the efforts being made in Colombia, the progress that Colombia has made, in spite of everything that is needed; who becomes aware properly before making these pronouncements that do harm.”
Isn’t it a bit ironic that the candidate of ‘new politics’ and CHANGE is getting called out by world leaders for playing the same old political games?
Update: Hot Air has Jimmy Carter’s quasi-endorsement for Obama. When it rains, it pours.
We are very interested in the primaries. Don’t forget that Obama won in my state of Georgia. My town which is home to 625 people is for Obama, my children and their spouses are pro-Obama. My grandchildren are also pro-Obama. As a Super Delegate, I would not disclose who I am rooting for but I leave you to make that guess.
I think he’ll vote for peanuts. Carter always had an unhealthy relationship with that particular legume.
