Posted on 07/11/2008 5:10:32 AM PDT by Zakeet
If Barack Obama doesn't win November's presidential election in the United States, "you can kiss the Democratic Party goodbye", the actor and director Robert Redford told an audience in Dublin last night.
Speaking at a public interview in Trinity College in advance of his conferral with an honorary degree by the university today, Redford said he hoped Obama would win because while John McCain "represents yesterday", the Democrat embodied the sort of change America needed.
Asked by Michael Dwyer, film correspondent of The Irish Times , if he was looking forward to "regime change" in the US, Redford said: "Yes. Where my country is at the moment, I'm not confident of anything. I'm hopeful.
"I think Obama is not tall on experience . . . but I believe he's a really good person. He's smart. And he does represent what the country needs most now, which is change."
"I hope he'll win. I think he will. If he doesn't, you can kiss the Democratic Party goodbye . . . I think we need new voices, new blood. We need to get a whole group out, get a new group in."
The 71-year-old American is best known for his roles in Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid , The Sting and All The President's Men .
He won his first Oscar as a director for the emotional family drama Ordinary People in 1980.
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Wishful thinking.
So John McCain “represents yesterday?”
Hmmm...well, it’s pretty funny to me when a fossil like Redford opens his yap against McCain.
How’s all that plastic surgery workin’ out for ya, eh Redford? How I wish he and his idiot Hollywood friends would just STFU!
Agree — Redford looks a little like Quayle - but on a REALLY bad day!
How many tons of CO2 did the environmentalist Redford put in the air jetting to Dublin to pick up an honorary degree?
Change, change, change. What does that mean????
If Barack Obama doesn't win November's presidential election in the United States, "you can kiss the Democratic Party goodbye", the actor and director Robert Redford told an audience in Dublin last night... "I hope he'll win. I think he will. If he doesn't, you can kiss the Democratic Party goodbye . . . I think we need new voices, new blood. We need to get a whole group out, get a new group in."Is this anything like how Alec Baldwin et al would move out of the US if GWB won in 2000?
I suppose that one can dream,........but seriously folks; other than the fact he's been a leading movie face in the past, what exactly makes him an authority on anything when it comes to how America should work?
Wouldn't it be refreshing to hear some Hollywood or TV actor admit that they're nothing more than a "actor", and their opinion is no better than that of any other working class stiff?
I just wonder how many pathetic people there are out there, waiting to hear what some stupid celebrity thinks on any given subject, so they agree can with it.
“If Barack Obama doesn’t win November’s presidential election in the United States, ‘you can kiss the Democratic Party goodbye’, the actor and director Robert Redford told an audience in Dublin last night.”
Good riddance. How much does he have to lose by for Redford to blow his commie brains out?
Hell, almost anyone would appear “smart” compared to Redford..
When Redford speaks — one hears a Hollywood “brain” fart.
These Hollywood types never seem to adjust to the real world — they exist in a fantasy parallel universe, and are not to be sought out for advice.
Redford is pathetic.
It's funny (and scary) how easily they all conform to that message.
Yeah, I was thinking the other day, how Obama is truly the empty suit. He talks a big game of change, yet never gives real specifics on how that change will be implemented. Par for the course with Dems.
As an aside, I don't usually check for new posts to me since in the past, they weren't always 'new' or recent.
I was very sorry to hear of Tony Snow's passing.
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