George Clooney Advising Obama on Foreign Policy?
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I guess if you know nothing, then its ok to have someone who also knows nothing giving you advice – from the Daily Mail via Hot Air Blog:
George Clooney once famously declared he could never run for public office because he’d ‘slept with too many women, done too many drugs and been to too many parties’.
But now the Hollywood heart-throb has entered the political arena at the highest level – by becoming an unofficial adviser to US Presidential front-runner Barack Obama.
Oscar-winner Clooney, 47, is said to be helping the Democratic candidate to polish his image at home and abroad.
But he is also sharing with Obama his strong opinions on Iraq and the Middle East.
A self-admitted philanderer and drug user to advise on polishing an image? Only in modern America would a Presidential candidate get within 10 miles of Clooney…
Sources say the actor has tried to hide the pair’s friendship for fear his Left-wing views and playboy image would hurt the Presidential hopeful’s bid for the White House.
But Democratic Party insiders have revealed that Clooney and Obama regularly send texts and emails to each other and speak by phone at least twice a week.
One said last night: ‘They are extremely close. A number of members of the Hollywood community, including Brad Pitt, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, offered to help raise funds for Barack but it was with George that he struck up this amazing affinity.
‘George has been giving him advice on things such as presentation, public speaking and body language and he also emails him constantly about policy, especially the Middle East.
‘George is pushing him to be more “balanced” on issues such as US relations with Israel.
‘George is pro-Palestinian. And he is also urging Barack to withdraw unconditionally from Iraq if he wins.
‘It’s a very risky relationship. His hope of becoming America’s first black President depends heavily on winning over conservative voters and it would be suicidal for him to be perceived as a tool of a Hollywood Leftie, which is how they regard George.
‘But they text and email each other almost every day and speak on the phone at least a couple of times a week, often more.’
Its not so much Clooney’s leftism (after all, it’d be hard to out-lefty Obama, anyways), but the fact that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. He’s yet another of those Hollywood liberals who latch on to fashionable causes and right now the fashion is to be pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel and, of course, opposed to victory in Iraq. Among the many people I would expect a President to get advice from on foreign policy, Clooney never makes that list – in fact, he wouldn’t make the list of people to advise on the color of the drapes in the Oval Office. Somehow, being an actor doesn’t seem to be the best training for figuring out whether Hamas is a partner for peace or a bloodthirsty terrorist organization. Perhaps Clooney has been doing some studying, but if he has he’s yet to register as someone who has offered his own opinion in a forum where criticism of same is possible. What we don’t need is a star-struck President going along with ill-informed advice simply for fear of offending a glittering pal.
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67 Responses to “George Clooney Advising Obama on Foreign Policy?”
Caucus of Corruption
Also more photogenic than Looney. Here W is getting foreign policy advice while improving diplomatic ties with China. But Looney and Obama would make a cute couple.
http://cmnetwork.blogspot.com/2008/08/wildcard-session-george-w-bush-digs-hot.html
I doubt that Obama is taking advise from Clooney seriously.
The Hollywood celebs are ego whores. Like Bubba Clinton, they love the limelight and must have publicity and adoration to survive day to day.
The Dems play Hollywood celebs like fiddles, to get their donations. Massage their big egos by making them think they are important, and their ideas are relevant and bingo…they send $$$$$.
That’s all this is about.
52. Danish Artist | August 13th, 2008 at 6:40 am
So your response is basically ‘Nooooooo, YOU ARE!’. Aside from calling me a drug addict. Yup, I’ve done drugs. Yup, I smoke refer on the weekends. Extacy is a powerful drug but the recovery period shys me away from it. All the same, give me a couple hits of blotter acid and throw on Zeppelin III, it’s like a little slice of heaven. I wouldn’t recommend watching Alice in Wonderland when induced by such drugs however. It’s very easy to get lost in the animation and quite frankly, the rabbit hole scares the $hit out of me.
DA, I feel bad for you. I think everyone should experience a wonderful trip at least once in their lifetime. Dancing pink elephants are most certainly a sight to see. Just remember, stay calm it really is all in your mind.
Phnx, I completely agree with you.
must have publicity and adoration to survive day to day
Funny, I don’t think Clooney would up and die if he spent a weekend fishing by himself. This day to day thing is an outsider’s sour grapes.
Celebrities are by definition “celebrated” for our looks, talent and/or vision. Only those who have no looks, talent or vision while still having a disproportionately overblown ego would slam Clooney on the left or Ted Nugent on the right as nothing but ego whores. Psychologically, that is known as Freudian Projection, in this case as you refuse to accept you DON’T have looks, talent or vision, but are not as wildly successful as Clooney simply because he’s a whore and you’re not.
That’s all this is about.
Freudian projection. Only those who have no looks, talent or vision would slam Clooney. So why does Clooney slam Bush, or Paris Hilton slam McCain? No looks, talent or vision? More crap congressive.
Clooney and Obama are socialists and Clooney is a kook to boot. And Clooney is only a socialist with someone else’s money. Nothing to do with my looks, talent or vision. What a load, again.
congressive says “Celebrities are by definition “celebrated” for our looks, talent and/or vision.”
OUR?
Hah!
My dislike with Clooney Obama has nothing to do with racism or skin color. They are socialists and like I said Clooney is a kook to boot, I like him even less. So much for the race card bro.
Paris doesn’t bother me so much!
Wait…John and Cindy McCain are advising Barack Obama now?
FmrMarine,
Geez, I haven’t heard anyone rail against Affirmative Action so hard in years. What’s the deal, dude? So bitter. Would I be wrong in guessing that you’re having trouble getting a job?
And to claim Obama’s accomplishments are all attributable to Affirmative Action makes me laugh. First, he was Magna Cum Laude at Harvard Law School and President of the Law Review. Second, while you dismiss his professorship, he was a senior lecturer at University of Chicago Law School. If you’re not aware (and judging from you’re postings, that’s a fair assumption), University of Chicago is not a liberal ivory tower. It’s a very conservative institution. And it’s one of the top 10 law schools. So, to use your words, it is “real hard” to be on the faculty there.
Celebrities are by definition “celebrated” for OUR looks, talent and/or vision.” Congressive
BBBwwwwaahahahahahahahahaha!
A Freudian slip if ever I saw one.
SAR:
“So your response is basically ‘Nooooooo, YOU ARE!’. Aside from calling me a drug addict.”
No, my response was not a “no you are” – wait to sober up and read it again.
Calling you a drug addict? No, just repeated what you have admitted to before and again now.
SAR, you are so touchy and drugs are supposed to make you feel better then what is the problem? Doesn’t sound like it’s working.
“DA, I feel bad for you. I think everyone should experience a wonderful trip at least once in their lifetime.”
There are other ways to achieve the “high” or the “trip”, naturally. I’ll leave it to your imagination. Maybe you can hallucinate yourself to an in kind experience.
Meanwhile, continue to mellow out, that is just how the leftists was you and others.
phnx,
What is BBBwwwwaahahahahahahahahaha? I never know what it means but it cracks me up every time. Even when you use it on me.
neocon,
I am not denigrating Bush, he does that well enough himself. What I am saying is that Bush is probably the first president that was entirely created by a marketing mastermind/machine. They took a guy who is probably fun to be around, tells good jokes and made him into a president. What they needed was a pretty face to get the American public to buy what they were selling. And it was no used car, but rather the neocon dream of an Iraq that could be transformed into a capitalist nirvana, a kind of utopian beaker where none of the pesky regulations of the United States would get in the way. But like the used car salesman what we were sold was a bill of goods with very little that was of any use and a huge bill inflated by crooked contractors who double billed, charged for things that were never delivered or never finished what they were contracted to do, that added trillions of dollars of debt and a government that although incompetent, as planned, bigger than ever. So even though Bush ran on typical conservative calls for shrinking of government, like his failures in business, resulted in just the opposite of what he was supposedly hired to do.
When you look at his “accomplishments” you find that much of what he “achieved” was handed to him on a silver platter. You could go to Yale and find any number of children of former graduates, who qualified because of their connections, who come from the upper class and have similar traits as I have described here and put them into the same circumstances and they would arrive at about the same point. If you look at what Bush did, he is not a self made man. Can you name anything he did on his own before he was elected governor of Texas that did not involve someone pulling strings or handing it to him on a silver platter? While he maintains an image of “common man” he is nothing but blue blood or as the right likes to say the elite.
Keep in mind this “businessman” was never an integral part of a successful business. Every business he had any control over where run into the ground shortly after he was put in executive positions with them. One of these business ventures even made him money by way of insider trading that was never prosecuted because he had the protection of Daddy Bush, the president at the time this case came before the SEC. Further, the shadowy “investor” who bailed out 43 never was identified as that would lead to certain embarrassment to find who George was rubbing elbows with. And now he has done the same with our country. Either candidate who becomes president next will have their work cut out for them.
Oh, and by the way, if you want to talk about unhealthy obsessions you should address your conservative brethren who have yet to get over either of the Clintons.
Further, knowing a little about the man behind the curtain is not weird. If I knew as much about you other than what I can glean from your postings here, that would be weird. But Bush is the president of the United States. If you had the same obsession about Bush as you have about Barack Obama, perhaps you could have come to understand what a fraud George W. Bush truly was before you made the mistake of voting for him and we would not be in the quagmire we find ourselves in now.
Never mind, you would still vote for him despite the charlatan that a true examination would have revealed.
Danish Artist,
I agree, this website has come a long way and is quite fair in allowing any left wing kook such as myself to post. I have looked at some of the liberal leaning web sites and have found a dearth of rules that limit posting and give the owners of some of those sites carte blanche when it comes to what is allowed. Even so, I would encourage the purveyors of this site to continue to encourage the free expression of ideas without bridling those that are not like minded. It is much appreciated.
Whoops,
Silly me, dearth should be glut.
The only thing cam got right in #43 is that Texas gleefully executes record numbers. What got into you to record a truthful statement?
Paris Hilton For Prez
Seriously we gotta get this girl on the ticket in close race states. Organize write in campaigns via Youtube etc.
Young, naive disaffected voters who lean away from O the more they know but can’t vote for an old geezer should be encouraged to vote Paris or even Nader. Even a few thousand numbskulls could swing a state.
SEW, Clooney doesn’t slam Bush for being an ego whore. Pay attention, here. Even Paris Hilton doesn’t slam McSame for being an ego whore. McSame does imply that Obama is an ego whore, though. Again, there’s that projection thing.
Nice catch, kahn! In my case, it’s not Freudian, though… :-{)