Posted on 01/25/2008 9:26:44 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
Johansson: I'm in love with Obama!
By ERIN CARLSON, The Associated Press Fri Jan 25, 7:29 PM ET
NEW YORK - Scarlett Johansson returned from the Persian Gulf with a whole lot of soldiers' trinkets and a delusion of her own engagement to Barack Obama.
"I am engaged ... to Barack Obama," Johansson joked in an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday. "My heart belongs to Barack, and that is who I am currently, finally, engaged to. Yes."
Johansson, who showed her support for the Democratic presidential candidate at the Iowa caucus earlier this month, was really just deflecting a question about rumors she might be engaged (to actor-beau Ryan Reynolds).
The 23-year-old actress talked about the warm welcome she received while visiting troops stationed in the Persian Gulf last week. Johansson dropped by U.S. bases in Kuwait on Jan. 17 and Jan. 18 as part of a USO tour in which she met about 3,500 men and women in uniform.
"Everybody that I met there was so incredibly friendly and polite and genuine and generous," she said. "They were so, so sweet. I mean, I was just amazed."
Johansson said some people ripped patches off their jackets as gifts and handed her challenge coins from their military units. One Marine offered up his St. Christopher medal. Another starstruck guy gushed: "You made my whole deployment!"
Johansson has a full plate for 2008, with the release of films including "The Other Boleyn Girl" and "He's Just Not That Into You," as well as the arrival of her debut album on May 20.
The disc, called "Anywhere I Lay My Head," features Tom Waits cover songs and one original track. "It was a really, really sort of inspired process to make this CD, and it was something I'd never done before," said Johansson, who said the album has a dreamy, ethereal quality.
On a far more serious note: Johansson was still speechless Thursday over the death of fellow actor Heath Ledger, who was found dead Tuesday in his Manhattan apartment.
"I'm really just so very shocked," she said. "He was an incredibly sweet, kindhearted and enthusiastic person. And, you know, he loved his daughter I mean, that was like the light of his life. It's just a terrible loss."
Well, coming from Hollywood, she had probably been told by "knowledgeable film directors" that all our troops were character-disordered psychopaths. I'm sure she was surprised - and now she'll find herself getting into arguments with Leftist true believers who won't be at all happy with her public description of what she saw.
Something that's quite common among the leftist elite... They're shocked that the people in the military are good, decent people. They've been raised to believe that the only people in the military are either crazed, bloodthirsty murderers, or illiterate losers who simply couldn't find a job anywhere else. They're shocked to learn that the VAST majority of those serving are there because of a choice they made, to protect people like Scarlet.
Frankly, I'm thrilled that some on the left have decided to go on tour for the USO, no matter what their personal reasons. They boost the moral of the troops, and no matter what the personal beliefs of the "stars" happen to be, if they go over and it makes the troops feel better about their sacrifices, then it's a good thing. And we might just be lucky: The "stars" might just change some of their personal beliefs as well.
Mark
I wonder if Scarlett will be as hot in 35+ years as Raquel Welch is today, 35+ years after that photo was taken?
QUICK!!!! Go to yp.yahoo.com, select your zip code, and do a search for "optometrist."
;-)
Mark
Maybe, but I doubt that she's any match for Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics!
Now Britney's REALLY good at physics!
Mark
Wow. She has a body like a normal woman. Don’t see that in Hollywood much these days.
Now Britney’s REALLY good at physics!
Mark”
Thank you Mark for this uplifting information.
This is really encouraging to me to know this.
Sometimes I get kind of negative as I ponder the state of America’s youth over a delicious latte at Starbucks.
When I see your posting, I realize that there are some fine young Americans who have the intellectual rigor to be the next Einstein or Edison. I’m sure that Miss Britney or Miss Scarlett may very well be in that league.
At 45 that will look like rosie.
LLS
Yeah... you read it in the enquirer! Do you have “first hand” info? If not... no dice.
LLS
Real boobies or not... the fact she is a slut is real. I had a friend working back stage and saw first hand the elevator sex thing.
LLS
SORRY FOR BEING SUCH A NAUGHTY BOY!!!!!!!!!!!!
Shocking how someone can go visit the good men and women overseas, and then return to praise the one politician telling us the war is lost and we need to get the troops out.
I am pleasantly surprised she went over there, and she deserves great credit for that action.
I’m changing my name to Obama.
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