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Obama the last-chance kid for Democrats, says Redford
Irish Times ^ | July 10, 2008 | Ruadhán Mac Cormaic

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at irishtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008election; democrat; hollywood; obama; redford
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If Barry doesn't win ... you can kiss the Democratic Party goodbye

1 posted on 07/11/2008 5:15:03 AM PDT by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

“Redford said he hoped Obama would win because while John McCain “represents yesterday”,

Yea, well so do you Bob.


2 posted on 07/11/2008 5:15:54 AM PDT by Slapshot68
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To: Zakeet

I can only hope it’s true...


3 posted on 07/11/2008 5:16:01 AM PDT by arderkrag (Libertarian Nutcase (Political Compass Coordinates: 9.00, -2.62 - www.politicalcompass.org))
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To: Zakeet

“”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.””

Don’t forget “hope!”


4 posted on 07/11/2008 5:16:46 AM PDT by Slapshot68
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To: Zakeet

Redford is a punk leftists pig. He has made a couple of decent movies and a bunch of clunkers. He has aged worse than Betty Davis did.


5 posted on 07/11/2008 5:18:14 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (Congress in session, the White House occupied - Your freedom, liberty and rights are in jeopardy.)
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To: Zakeet

The Obambi has what, 149 days of experience in federal government and this, this neophyte is the best the Dimocrats can present?


6 posted on 07/11/2008 5:19:26 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: RetiredArmy
He has aged worse than Betty Davis did.

Betty Davis was intelligent and witty, charming and suave. Redford is nowhere near the class of Betty Davis.............

7 posted on 07/11/2008 5:21:25 AM PDT by Red Badger (If we drill deep enough, we can reach the Saudi oil fields from THIS side..........)
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To: Zakeet
while John McCain "represents yesterday", the Democrat embodied the sort of change America needed.

Obama wants to bring back the Progressive ideas of the 1930's.

I'm not a big John McCain fan, but McCain is more of a 21st century politician than Obama is. Appeasement is a 1930's idea. Confronting Islamofascism is a 21st century idea.

8 posted on 07/11/2008 5:23:07 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Et si omnes ego non)
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If Barack Obama doesn't win November's presidential election in the United States, "you can kiss the Democratic Party goodbye"....

Not to worry. The GOP is doing it's best to take up the slack.  (roll eyes)

9 posted on 07/11/2008 5:23:26 AM PDT by JoJo Gunn (The McCainiac's creed: Death to America by a thousand cuts)
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To: Zakeet
Redford said he hoped Obama would win because while John McCain "represents yesterday", the Democrat embodied the sort of change America needed.

This is proof of the crack in the windshield of the Democratic Clown car!

Half of the party wants to "go back" to 9/10/01 mentality, while the other half wants to march,(in formation) into the future with B Hussein......... we're gonna need a bigger bag of popcorn.

10 posted on 07/11/2008 5:24:20 AM PDT by tiredoflaundry (NYT - The Official Razor of "John's Long Mustache".)
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"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."


11 posted on 07/11/2008 5:24:20 AM PDT by Polybius
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To: Zakeet
"I hope he'll win. I think he will. If he doesn't, you can kiss the Democratic Party goodbye . . ."


I think he can ... I hope he can ... I think he can ... I hope he can ...


Sounds like Redford is about to take on the role of "The Little Engine That Could ".

Amazing that these leftists can even tie their shoes.

12 posted on 07/11/2008 5:25:40 AM PDT by G.Mason (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: Zakeet

Dublin...is that in America?


13 posted on 07/11/2008 5:25:58 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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To: ClearCase_guy

Change you can believe in !

14 posted on 07/11/2008 5:26:02 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: Zakeet
I really don't GAS what the midget wrinkled prune has to say.
15 posted on 07/11/2008 5:29:13 AM PDT by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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To: tiredoflaundry

Like I give a crap what this goof ball thinks (Redford)


16 posted on 07/11/2008 5:31:11 AM PDT by DooDahhhh (AMEN)
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To: Slapshot68
My lips are puckered...
...and I am quite hopeful.

17 posted on 07/11/2008 5:32:05 AM PDT by Savage Beast ("Some people are born knowing, and some people will die searching." -Antonio Banderas)
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To: DooDahhhh

Who cares what an old has-been thinks?


18 posted on 07/11/2008 5:33:18 AM PDT by patriot08
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To: RetiredArmy

Did you like the movie: Spy Game?/Just Asking - seoul62......


19 posted on 07/11/2008 5:34:27 AM PDT by seoul62
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To: DooDahhhh

True, but I do find it amusing! ;-)


20 posted on 07/11/2008 5:35:38 AM PDT by tiredoflaundry (NYT - The Official Razor of "John's Long Mustache".)
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