Clooney In Love: “Obama Takes My Breath Away!”
VENICE, Italy - Barack Obama has the aura of a rock star, says George Clooney, who also had some kind words for other Democratic presidential candidates.
“You’ve been in a room once in a while with a rock star. He walks into the world, and he takes your breath away. I’d love him to be president, quite honestly,” the actor told reporters Friday at the Venice Film Festival, where his legal thriller “Michael Clayton” was premiering.
Clooney, who banked a check for Obama at a private $1.3 million fundraiser in Beverly Hills last February, praised the U.S. senator for speaking out early against the Iraq war.
But with more than a year until the election, Clooney also said he liked Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and former Sen. John Edwards—and pondered whether former Vice President Al Gore might vie for the presidency again.
“It could be interesting,” he said.
The politics of war was in the air at Venice, with two U.S. films competing for the Golden Lion dealing with the impact of the Iraq conflict.
Clooney—who said he made “Syriana” and “Good Night, and Good Luck,” out of anger that he was labeled a traitor for questioning the decision to go to war—told reporters he thinks change is coming.
He said he believes Americans are now in the process of fixing the mistakes of the last few years.
Fixing things, “that’s what Americans have been really good at,” he said.
(AP)
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I knew Clowney was a pole smoker.
September 1st, 2007 at 9:13 amSounds like he’s queer for Obama!
September 1st, 2007 at 9:45 amDarfur! Darfur! Darfur! That’s what America Needs!!!! YES Clowney!! If we only go to Darfur all the world will love us again! I remember one of Mr. Dollard’s past postings.
Clooney is a whussy.
BTW, Obama was addressing Iowa farmers and said to the effect, “Golly, the cost of produce has gone up. I mean, I went to World Market and ‘ have you seen the price of arugala?’”(sp)
Chortle/chortle
September 1st, 2007 at 10:02 amIowa farmer: “WTF is arugula?”(sp)
Somebody warn Obama that if he’s ever in a men’s room stall beside Clooney NOT to tap his foot or reach under the wall …
September 1st, 2007 at 10:06 amPiss off Clooney! You and F.A.G. buddies can eat shit and leave the United States of America!
September 1st, 2007 at 10:19 amAnother dipshit still so dumbfounded that he CAN talk that he thinks he SHOULD talk and that it MATTERS.
September 1st, 2007 at 10:32 amWhat he fails to ‘get’ is that he and the rest of the ‘global elite’ is the real target of Islamic fundamentalism. It ain’t me… to them I am convertable or taxable. Clooney and his clones would be the first to ACTUALLY have their ‘breath taken away’ with a dull blade….
You know, this does say something. Clooney plays the tough guy, but imagine some tough guy walking into a bar or barracks and saying “He takes your breath away”about any other guy. And Matt Damon was calling James Bond a “misogynist” the other day. These Hollywood “men” are disconnected from their own masculinity, and therefor are disconected from the rest of America - we live in the real world.
September 1st, 2007 at 10:35 am“WTF is arugala?”
September 1st, 2007 at 10:35 amLMFAO!!!
JERRY
Elaine, he’s a.. he’s a male bimbo, he’s a mimbo
JERRY
you know, I think George has a non sexual crush on him
ELAINE
I think he does too
September 1st, 2007 at 10:36 amA traitor is a traitor, labeled or not.
September 1st, 2007 at 10:40 amI think it’s very sweet that he’s in touch with his feminine side. Even if that means it’s his backside.
September 1st, 2007 at 10:42 amIt sounds like change is coming alright. A change of pants.
September 1st, 2007 at 10:47 amIt always cracks me up when actors open their mouths and start talking about anything other than their carefully crafted scripts(that someone else wrote for them). In ancient Greece actors where on the social strata as prostitutes. They both pretend for a living.
Clooney is the poster child for Hollywood, spoiled and stupid. What a bad combo.
He is right about one thing though, Obama is very similar to a typical rock star, ignorrant, arrogant and dumb as a bag of hammers.
September 1st, 2007 at 11:19 amLook at the reporters hanging on every word of a MOVIE ACTOR! So not impressed here. Go back to banging and boozing, George; the grownups will make it all right for you to continue your self serving life.
September 1st, 2007 at 11:40 amFucking fag…
September 1st, 2007 at 11:46 amSo Clooney’s a dinge queen.
September 1st, 2007 at 12:16 pmI always knew that George Clooney was a loon. And now he’s gay-bait too? What a fucking piece of work he is?
September 1st, 2007 at 4:24 pmReally, who says “He takes your breath away” about another man? That is some gay-ass shit.
September 1st, 2007 at 5:13 pm