Posted on 07/02/2008 9:02:53 AM PDT by frankiep
RENO, Nev. --Dennis Haysbert likes to believe his portrayal as the first African-American U.S. president on Fox's "24" may have helped pave the way for Barack Obama.
"If anything, my portrayal of David Palmer, I think, may have helped open the eyes of the American people," said the actor, who has contributed $2,300 to the Illinois Democrat's presidential campaign.
"And I mean the American people from across the board - from the poorest to the richest, every color and creed, every religious base - to prove the possibility there could be an African-American president, a female president, any type of president that puts the people first," he said Tuesday.
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The arrogance and outright disdain for other Americans displayed by this man, and just about every other supporter of His Holy Name, is beyond sickening. This campaign isn't even about Obama anymore. The DNC and media are turning this campaign into people who are "enlightened" enough to vote for a black man against ignorant, racist hicks who are afraid of all non-whites. Honestly, according to them, the actual candidates do not even matter.
Well, duh! Of course it did. They have an agenda.
Obama is nothing like the Palmer charactor except for the color of there skin.
I wish it was Dennis whatshisname instead of this guy whose dad flew in a a magic carpet long enough to make a anchor kid and then off he went. This so goofy.
What a complete f***ing moron!!! This is like Christopher Reeve saying his portrayal of Superman helped people to believe they could fly.
I guess that’s the reason I’m not an Obama supporter—I’ve never seen an episode of 24. No 24—no epiphany.
Haysbert is black.
Multiracial Osamambama is not
Haysbert started playing the Presdient in 2002-2003 before Obama was on the national stage.
Second rate actor is a little full of himself.
That’s Allstate’s position...
ROFL!!!
IMHO, he was in the works.
Tell that to Al Gore.
Maybe BHO can pimp for Allstate too when his 15 minutes are up.
A black man who for 20 years attended a racist black nationalist church & counts domestic & international America-hating terrorists among his supporters.
It transcends irony.
Sorry pal. Never heard of you and never heard of Osama until Oprah started mentioning his name.
Yep there are agendas out there.
In the movie “Deep Impact”, Morgan Freeman was the president. In “Air Force One”, Glenn Close was the vice-president. And that great show “Commander in Chief”, had Geena Davis pretending to be Hillary Clinton as a woman president. And there are probably others too, where a woman or minority was shown in a high position, and they did that to make their political statement.
I wonder if Haysbert would be spouting this nonsense if it was a black REPUBLICAN running for President?
You can find anything you want, if you look hard enough.
BTW, I've got my "Jack Bauer '08" T-Shirt. He's more qualified than either one of the current yahoos.
Whatever happened to President Palmer?
” any type of president that puts the BLACK people first,”
There, fixed it for ya.
Actors are just so intelligent and well informed aren’t they!
I know I like to get all my political, social and constitutional law advice from actors. I mean they know EVERYTHING.
yeah I gotta say +1 to that. seems a little too convenient right here to have a guy with his internationalist “credentials” get pushed to the front the way he was. that would be the glass half full view. It’s pretty obvious our world is changing when you see the CNN website give prominence to and offer an Arabic version.
The half empty uneasy feeling comes when you think about the kind of cash and organization the ME and other oil producing nations can put on the table. They can buy us, sad to say.
No question about it.
As I watched the empty suit known as Obama climb out of the politically corrupt sewer called “Chicago” to become the candidate, the impact of “24” was one of the first thoughts to cross my alleged.
To bad about Haysbert. He USED to be one of my favorite actors and really enjoyed his character in the David Mamet produced and written “The Unit” trash the UN and the Euroweenies.
Looks like I’ll have to keep searching for a black actor with a functioning brain.
I suppose he's in the special "counting room" in his "super-air conditioned" mansion...."counting" every golden coin.....again...and again...and again!!
It's soooo Gore...
Never watched “24” so I’m not propagandized or obamaesqued.
Did you see “Deep Impact?” Morgan Freeman was the president, so you might have had an epiphany and forgot about it.
This is all too silly. The GOP was ready to get behind the very viable Colin Powell for president in 1996, but he didn’t want to run.
But that role went a long way to SET THE STAGE for the empty suit known as Obama.
“People get the government they deserve.” Joseph deMaistre.
And when people become THIS freaking STUPID and inattentive to their freedoms, THIS is the candidate they deserve.
1 minute satirical Obama video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR6b-kWncI4
Hurry before some diversity loving (RIGHT!) Obamaniac at YouTube pulls it.
He was off'd in his brother (and future president) Wayne Palmer's apartment in Los Angeles, first 10 minutes of Day 5. Charles Logan was complicit in the killing.
Aw damn it all! Why can’t these people just enjoy the millions they make and keep their mouths shut about politics? Haysbert is one of my favorites too, he’s the 2nd coming of Denzel Washington.
Sounds like a joke, but think about it.... miscegenation laws in the old U.S. were based on the idea that if you had a drop of "colored" blood, that made you colored (or at least tainted, in more "liberal" jurisdictions). Aren't people who call Obama black/colored/African-American acting racist, by automatically labelling him as such, just because he has some "black blood" in him?
Nope, no Deep Impact either. 24 and Deep Impact should be required viewing for every American citizen so we can all see the light.
I wonder how much Michelle Obama is like Sherry Palmer.....
More Obama style arrogance.
Yeah he seems likeable enough. How did he get taken off 24 anyway? I forget. /sarc
In a way it’s odd he should be mentioning that role and plotline as a precursor for Obama.
Yeah he seems likeable enough. How did he get taken off 24 anyway? I forget. /sarc
In a way it’s odd he should be mentioning that role and plotline as a precursor for Obama.
Assassinated during retirement, Season 6(?).
Too bad Obama doesn't put the American people first.
I actually liked Haysbert in ‘24’ and it’s too bad he couldn’t just keep his mouth shut.
Has Morgan Freeman come out for Obama?
LOL!!! Good point.
And, following Mr. Haysbert’s claim, does that mean that Obama will have a “take-no-prisoners, kick-butt-and-kill-all-enemies-of-America” white guy in the Counter Terrorist Unit who actually saves America from terrorist threats?
It’s all part of the Superman legend, now isn’t it. Raised on a Kansas farm by his kindly aged adopted parents. discovered one day by accident he could outdebate the scarecrow in a single reply. and the rest is history.
I never thought I would be rooting for General Zod to make his appearance but here we are.
You telling me Jesus Christ couldn’t hit a curveball?
There was a movie with a woman president in the 1960s. It’s a dramatic novelty.
Sherry Palmer was vicious and evil, but she wasn't an affirmative action race-baiter. Fiction isn't capable of dreaming up Michelle Obama.
That’s right!!!!
He was Pedro Cerrano. Jobu needs a refill!
And here I thought that he was now playing the role of Carlos Delgado. I completely didn’t even realize that this is the same guy.
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