Posted on 09/30/2004 2:22:37 PM PDT by chicagolady
CHICAGO -- Friday night, Grammy award winner Stevie Wonder and comedian Robin Williams, two outspoken critics of President Bush, will be in Chicago to raise $500 per person for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Barack Obama.
Pop and soul singer Stevie Wonder, who campaigned on behalf of Al Gore in 2000, will be joined by Robin Williams, who has been an outspoken critic of President Bush.
Earlier this year at the Berlin Film Festival before a group of international journalists and film critics, Williams criticized Bush's decision to rid Iraq of Saddam Hussein and questioned the search for WMDs.
"Bush is complaining about a lack of intelligence, which seems sort of redundant," Williams, a native of Chicago, said. "They say they don't know if Iraq had any WMDs - well, all they have to do is ask [Vice President Dick] Cheney for the receipts."
Williams, 53, has criticized Bush for the past four years. In 2000, when Bush was running as a "compassionate conservative," Williams joked that Bush sounds like someone who drives "a Volvo with a gun rack."
In one performance, Williams and good friend comedianne Whoopi Goldberg used unfiltered vulgar language when talking about the President, causing a national uproar.
"We have a president for whom English is a second language," Williams said. "He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself."
Obama has been equally strong in his criticism of the President's decision to enter Iraq in the war on terrorism, but has parted with other Democrats earlier this week when he said he would consider bombing Iran to rid the country of possible nucleur weapons.
The state senator who won in a tough primary and was flung into national ranks at the Democratic National Convention in August has raised almost $13 million dollars for his U.S. Senate campaign as of the last report to the Federal Election Commission. He is leading in statewide polls over his Republican opponent Alan Keyes by a margin as wide as fifty percentage points.
The next campaign finance reports will be submitted on September 30.
Obama has not publicly distanced himself from comments made by Williams concerning the president.
At a concert earlier this year, Williams said, "We're here tonight because of the Shrub, you know who I'm talking about. George W. Bush, Jr.," Williams stated. "The W stands for 'where the Hell is it?' You know, you look at George W. and you realize some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some get it as a graduation gift. So sad. I just want to ask the Secret Service, is it true that his Secret Service code name is Gilligan?"
University of Chicago $109,500,
Northwestern University $53,380
I can see these being that they're private schools, but...
University of Illinois $30,400 ??
Isn't the UofI a public university? Why are they making political donations?
If you think you are going to get near to Obama Good luck. The object of a Freep is to get the attention of the media to show them there are disenters. No need to see or speak to Obama.
You wont even have to call the media out for this one, they will be there!
You hit the nail on the head!
Thats to bad. I AM a bible thunper who likes to tell everyone how to live their lives, STRAIGHT from the Owners manual!! The Bible!
I don't know, but it looks like he didn't see that he misspelled "Osama".
Since when is G.W.B. a "Jr."?
So you're going to vote for a statist, big government, socialist Democrat, instead?
Is morality THAT distasteful to you?
Probably another lib college President - speech codes, anyone?
Anyone have the background on the Univ. President at Illinois?
He's a lifelong university employee:
http://www.uillinois.edu/president/biography/
Robin Williams is lying sack of shit and a leftist punk to boot.
Im in Nebraska, so this election doesnt apply to me, but if i lived there I probably wouldnt vote.
Just a cheap shot, like the shrub comment. He gets his talking points from DU.
Good going!!
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