Posted on 05/18/2006 12:42:15 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
Actress Susan Sarandon, a longtime liberal political activist and outspoken opponent of the Iraq war, endorsed an anti-war Democrat challenging Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's re-election bid Tuesday.
Sarandon is backing Jonathan Tasini, a labor advocate and former president of the National Writers' Union, who has based his longshot campaign on Clinton's vote in 2002 authorizing military intervention in Iraq.
Clinton, who is widely considered the front-runner for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination if she chooses to run, has sharply criticized the Bush Administration's handling of the war. But she has also refused to call for American troops to be removed from Iraq.
Sarandon has been a harsh critic of Clinton's vote on the war, telling a British television interviewer last month that Clinton had "crumbled under the pressure of the moment." She also told ITV1 that she wasn't enthusiastic about a Clinton presidential candidacy.
Announcing Sarandon's endorsement, Tasini called the 59-year old Academy Award winner a "passionate advocate for human rights, justice and civil liberties" and said he was "honored" to have her support.
"She has never wavered when the call has come for people to stand on the front lines in support of progressive principles that affect the lives of so many people in our country," Tasini said.
Sarandon did not offer a statement of her own but an aide confirmed she was backing Tasini.
Earlier this month, Sarandon joined Clinton at a rally in Washington for the Christopher Reeve Foundation, which promotes research on spinal cord injuries. There, Sarandon offered nothing but praise for Clinton, saying "we are all very lucky to have her here today as a leader in Congress."
In other words, a dyed-in-the-wool Stalinist.
It would have been easier to just say "communist".
Her top roll was as a whore in a baseball movie. What do you expect from this kind of trash.
What a wonderful tactic to boost Hillary's credibility with moderates.
This probably helps Hillary nationally. For every nut wing leftist she loses she picks up at least one from the middle.
Anyone? Anyone? (chirp)
What movie was that?......
Wasn't she in an important film back around 1979 or so?
Sounds like a commie loves commie endorsement.
For a lefty oldster who never smiles, Susie is still pretty hot.
IN other news Mickey Mouse endorses Pluto...
Why on earth would anyone consider it news who Susan Sarandon endorses for anything except maybe pushup bras...
>>Wasn't she in an important film back around 1979 or so?<<
Well, The Rocky Horror Picture Show is by far her best work but she's done other stuff, I think.
Clinton and Sarandon are working together. It's all part of the plan. Sarandon is just playing the role of good solider for the Demonrats.
>>This probably helps Hillary nationally. For every nut wing leftist she loses she picks up at least one from the middle.<<
I respectfully disagree.
She will NEVER get the conservative vote.
I think if she loses the liberal vote, she is toast.There are not enough votes in the MUSHY MIDDLE (IMHO).
I see a movie.
Hillary and Louise.
They both go over the edge.
Her "role" (not roll) was in "Bull Durham", 1988, with Kevin Costner and Tim Robbins. And she wasn't a "whore".
Bull Durham with Costner and her life partner Timmy "I'm better than everyone else so bow to me" Robbins.
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