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Re: The Perils of Endorsement

StockBoySF — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:51:55 -0000

"When they endorse candidates or make controversial remarks they put at least a portion of their potential income on the line."

I don't think that Jolie would be making controversial remarks. If her goal is human rights and aid to children around the world I think she would choose a candidate to highlight these worthy goals. Now some people (public figures and the average Joe) say they're going to vote for someone to be controversial and like the attention they receive by endorsing a candidate and making controversial remarks. But I think Jolie has a better and more sensible head on her shoulders.

Re: The Perils of Endorsement

DLS — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:19:28 -0000

I don't see race as having anything to do with Jolie's "choice"; Hollywood loves Obama and I figure someone like Jolie is suitable for the Dem convention in any year, but definitely in Obama's case, and she can just announce her "choice" in a prime-time speech at that convention. [grin]

Where is Sheryl Crow or some other pop stars to provide the music? A lively Dem convention is a bigger circus than any Super Bowl.

Re: The Perils of Endorsement

Jazz — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:38:20 -0000

I will hereby declare war on T-Steel and his greenies on behalf of the Libertarians!

Why do readers always assume that every author here is either a Republican or a Democrat? Did you look at the blog title?

Re: The Perils of Endorsement

T-Steel — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:27:01 -0000

Thank you Jazz. Sheesh Sil. You sure know how to make a mountain out of a molehill! And to answer your question "Please tell me that a democrat making it to the Oval Office is more important than a skin color making it there?", my answer is: I'm still a member of the Green Party (Love Clemente, Hate McKinney). Democrat... Republican... eh... Same thing. Now us Greens, we crazy cool!

Re: The Perils of Endorsement

Jazz — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:50:23 -0000

This was an article on how fast people will turn on you for taking sides or making comments deemed "controversial" to your side. T-Steel was obviously only commenting on how some of the Hot Air readers *included* brain bending racial comments into the process of throwing Condi under the bus as soon as she said anything not "pure enough" to the GOP cause.

Sil, we all try to be tolerant of your single issue agenda here and let you have your say, but could you please not denigrate everyone else with your Obama hatred? Or if you must, could you please at least do it on the same topic the rest of us are discussing? This was a post about Angelina Jolie and how public figures can pay a price for involving themselves in the political wars.

Re: The Perils of Endorsement

Silhouette — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:15:54 -0000

It's not that you "got something planned". It's that Obama doesn't. That's the problem.

Once again we have yet another example of an Obamabot pulling up race and using it to belittle people into voting for Obama, in spite of what's behind the skin color.

Frankly, this reverse racism is getting a little old. Our country is in dire straights and the GOP is hoping we dems will get caught in the race-card whirlpool so that we won't notice them starting to drop cliffhangers about sex scandals and the like.

You have done ALL your homework on Obama, right T_Steel? Tell me your homework didn't consist of putting a brown paint color key up to your TV screen to see if his skin was dark enough to win your endorsement? Reassure me. Tell me you looked into his political career and track record in Chicago, with respect to your fellow minorities trying to run against him? http://www.chicagotribune.c...

Tell me you've done all the homework on Sinclair, not only on if YOU think the story is true, but if you think vast throngs of TV-viewers (the ones the dems need to win) will think it's true when the story is painted out this way by the GOP http://www.theconservativev...

Please tell me that a democrat making it to the Oval Office is more important than a skin color making it there?

Re: The Perils of Endorsement

T-Steel — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:59:20 -0000

You know, in a country where black people (myself included) have voted for white politicians since we could vote, and have always voted in presidential elections, it find it highly amusing when people make comments like that (from Hot Air). Condi Rice says "Oh, the United States will be fine" (a testament to how great this country is and our system of checks and balances) and it's twisted into a "black thang".

Y'all better watch out whitey! WE GOT SOMETHING PLANNED! *cue menacing music*

Yeah right...