Posted on 06/04/2012 10:46:58 PM PDT by Steelfish
GOP Attacks Celebrity Support For Obama
By David Nakamura June 4
President Obama dined last month with 150 guests at George Clooney’s California cottage. He exchanged quips in January with Spike Lee in the director’s New York City townhouse.
Last fall, Obama entertained megastar Lady Gaga, who was seated in the front row of a Silicon Valley fundraiser in six-inch heels and a towering blond bouffant.
Obama’s popularity with Hollywood glitterati is again on display as his campaign mobilizes its vast fundraising apparatus to amass cash in a campaign that is shaping up to be the most expensive in U.S. history.
If Obama was the candidate of cool in 2008, when celebrities such as musician Will.I.Am produced viral campaign videos , he has even more aggressively employed star power to open pocketbooks, build buzz and, perhaps most notably, deploy celebrities to target specific constituencies.
Yet Obama’s glamorous elbow-rubbing carries significant risks as he struggles to convince voters that he is focused single-mindedly on their economic concerns. And it is triggering attacks from his Republican rivals, who contend that the president is more interested in hobnobbing with Hollywood to help his campaign than he is in helping ordinary Americans.
On Monday, the Republican National Committee released a Web video called “Meanwhile,” which flashes unemployment numbers for various groups — women, Latinos, African Americans, youth — under clips from an Obama campaign video from last Friday of Vogue Editor Anna Wintour talking about hanging out with “Sex and the City” star Sarah Jessica Parker and first lady Michelle Obama. The bustling sounds of New York City streets give way to crickets chirping at the end of the RNC version, along with the tag line: “Obama’s focused on keeping his job. But what about yours?”
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“All spending is political” - couldn’t agree more! We also vote with our hard-earned dollars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA8-ZOuKetU Just listened to Son House. I knew the name but never listed until now. That’s the real folk-blues!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA8-ZOuKetU Just listened to Son House. I knew the name but never listened until now. That’s the real folk-blues!!
What is more predictable than an uneducated Hollywood actor or singer proclaiming his or her love for Jug Ears. I have no doubt Obama is in the inter-racial sex fantasies of many of the women, Sarah Jessica Parker would be one. Heck, he might be in some of the guys sex fantasies
1) Reagan never played class warfare so the hypocrisy was not on display.
2) Reagan probably new most of his celebs supporters due to his work, since he was gee, an actor.
Remember this when the Hollyweirders “pledge allegiance” to Obama rather than to the nation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVPhFLiDtzk
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