Et Tu, James
Taylor tanks for Obama, like Billy and Bruce.
Advice for stars endorsing Obama: Say as little as possible about why your man is The Man. Please:
“And I just feel so good about seeing Obama present himself, and people getting to know who he is, and how he responds, how he works. I have a huge amount of hope.”
Come on. There’s also this gem:
“I am an Obama guy. I’m sure we don’t know the entire John McCain, we don’t know the entire Barack Obama. That’s what the campaign really needs to be about. We need to know who these guys are.”
Two things: 1) It would have been ridiculous, back in the day of “We don’t really know Obama,” to claim the same of McCain, who’s been on the national scene for decades and has run for president already. If you don’t know enough about it him it’s because you aren’t paying attention. 2) That claim is over even about Obama. We know as much as we need to: He favors socialist economic policies, tells generalistic lies about what caused the finance crisis, couldn’t see outside the bubble of his Chicago pals to know that his relationship with Ayers doesn’t play well with the rest of us, and uses race as a disingenuous club while having sat under a man who is certainly, at the very least, the most racist and flat-out craziest preacher I’ve ever seen or heard of, and I’ve seen and heard some fiery Southern Baptists in my time, people. That is “who this guy is,” James. You know I love you, and it’s certainly not going to stop me from singing “Sweet Baby James” to my son at night or keeping “Frozen Man” among my top favorite songs, but good grief. Just come out and say you’re in favor of rich people paying higher taxes and that Obama’s relationship baggage doesn’t bother you. Something wrong with that?
Allah thinks it’s refreshingly honest when they don’t bother to talk about issues, and it may be, but it also makes me think either A) they’re just not too bright or B) they absolutely think we’re not too bright. Probably some truth in both of those, but why embrace them?
H/t: J.
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People are seeing what they want to see. Pravda, of course, makes seeing anything different (such as truth) next to impossible.
All celebrity endorsements do for me is realize how stupid these people are when you look beyond the one thing they are good at. Sing James, don’t talk. I no longer watch movies with actors who have used their celebrity to promote whatever politics are in style.
I’m turning into my father.
Comment by lifepundit — October 27, 2008 @ 9:03 am
Jeez, my music, film and literary collections are thinning faster than my hair. Why can’t all these people just keep their damn mouths shut?!
It took me the better part of 20 years to be able to listen to Cat Stevens, and if the Israel Philharmonic can lift it’s ban on Wagner, I suppose I can still listen to JT. At least he’s not a raving anti-American traitor– yet.
Comment by J.J. Sefton — November 2, 2008 @ 3:59 am