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Actor pins hopes on victory for Obama (Robert Redford)
Irish Times ^ | 7/12/08 | RuadhÁn Mac Cormaic

Posted on 07/12/2008 1:20:48 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

IF BARACK Obama doesn't win November's presidential election in the United States, "you can kiss the Democratic Party goodbye", the actor and director Robert Redford told an audience in Dublin last night.

Speaking at a public interview in Trinity College in advance of his conferral with an honorary degree by the university today, Redford said he hoped Obama would win because while John McCain "represents yesterday", the Democrat embodied the sort of change America needed.

Asked by Michael Dwyer, film correspondent of The Irish Times , if he was looking forward to "regime change" in the US, Redford said: "Yes. Where my country is at the moment, I'm not confident of anything. I'm hopeful.

"I think Obama is not tall on experience . . . but I believe he's a really good person. He's smart. And he does represent what the country needs most now, which is change.

"I hope he'll win. I think he will. If he doesn't, you can kiss the Democratic Party goodbye. I think we need new voices, new blood. We need to get a whole group out, get a new group in."

The 71-year-old Redford is best known for his roles in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , The Sting and All the President's Men . He won his first Oscar as a director for the emotional family drama Ordinary People in 1980.

After receiving a standing ovation from a crammed auditorium when he arrived just before 6.30pm, Redford spoke of his close relationship with the late Sydney Pollack, and of the protracted process of bringing to screen Jeremiah Johnson - an innovatively-made film that still brings him pride but was initially unloved by the distributor - culminating in its proper release four years after it was shot.

(Excerpt) Read more at irishtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: actor; hollywood; obama; robertredford; victory
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To: NormsRevenge

Always go to foreign country to Bad Mouth your own ... you wimp. BTW .. I thought you died in Bolivia.


21 posted on 07/12/2008 1:43:26 PM PDT by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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To: detective
"If only the Democratic Party would just go away think of how great this country could be."

If only. If all the 'Rats went away all we will have left is an aimless nation of "moderates" and RINO's who won't stand for anything except their own power.

22 posted on 07/12/2008 1:44:09 PM PDT by LiberConservative ("Typical" white guy)
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To: detective

That wouldn’t be so bad getting rid of idiots like Redford.


23 posted on 07/12/2008 1:44:58 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: NormsRevenge
And another thing, Norm:

He's smart. And he does represent what the country needs most now, which is change.

1)If he was so damn smart, he wouldn't have to be 'adjusting' his position all the time.

and

2) The kind of change this country really needs is far less governmental interference, better security, and more energy,i.e. OIL!! BO promises none of that.

24 posted on 07/12/2008 1:45:04 PM PDT by tbpiper (NObama '08 - Unfit in any color)
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To: Don Corleone

That really was a great movie, though.


25 posted on 07/12/2008 1:49:47 PM PDT by synbad600
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To: NormsRevenge
Change! CHANGE! CHANGE!

Never mind defining why changing from what to which, how. Just CHANGE!

Which change has nothing in common with the others:

Hitler changed Germany;
Pol Pot changed Cambodia;
Lenin & Stalin changed Russia;
Mao changed China;
Idi Amin changed Uganda;
Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson, et al changed the American colonies;
Mohammed changed Arabia & the Middle East;
Mugabe changed Rhodesis Zimbabwe.

26 posted on 07/12/2008 2:00:20 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The Great Obamanation of Desolation, attempting to sit in the Oval Office, where he ought not..)
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To: NormsRevenge

Asked if he harbors political ambitions:”No.Never did,never would.That would be a great mistake.”At least he gets that much.Problem is celebtards like Redford have done incalculable harm to our culture.MSM provides the soapbox and portrays them(Redford,Fonda,Penn,MMoore,etc) as credible critics of America,and a lot of Americans buy into it-hook line and sinker.


27 posted on 07/12/2008 2:01:52 PM PDT by Thombo2
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To: NormsRevenge

There will always be a Democratic Party. As long as you have shyster lawyers, people looking for a hand-out, busy-bodies wanting to see whats in your refrigerator and tell you how to cut your grass, as long as you have misfits who hate God and hate you more, as long as you have racialists and race-mongers, as long as you have back-alley abortionists trying to go mainstream, as long as you have marxists who hate the very idea of America, you will always have a Democratic Party.

People have a way of sorting themselves out. People who know how to do things, sort themselves into one group. People who don’t know but are sure they should be in charge of telling you how to do it, naturally sort themselves into the other group.


28 posted on 07/12/2008 2:05:31 PM PDT by marron
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To: Thombo2

MSM provides the soapbox and portrays them(Redford,Fonda,Penn,MMoore,etc) as credible critics of America,and a lot of Americans buy into it-hook line and sinker.

yup, mush for brains can do that to some folks


29 posted on 07/12/2008 2:06:06 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE toll-free tip hotline 1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRget!!!)
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To: NormsRevenge
An old has been. Nuf said.
30 posted on 07/12/2008 2:11:55 PM PDT by kempo
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To: detective

note my new tagline.


31 posted on 07/12/2008 2:13:07 PM PDT by EDINVA (“If ...Obama doesn't win ... you can kiss the Democratic Party goodbye" R Redford 7-11-08)
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To: EDINVA

the tag came out wrong ?


32 posted on 07/12/2008 2:14:17 PM PDT by EDINVA ("If ...Obama doesn't win ... you can kiss the Democratic Party goodbye" R Redford 7-11-08)
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To: NormsRevenge
Another talentless has-been chimes in.Oh,please...Mr Redford....tell us that you're moving to Germany...or Canada...or Zimbabwe....if Osama Obama loses.
33 posted on 07/12/2008 2:15:02 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The problem with the rat race is,even if you win you're still a rat.)
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To: They'reGone2000

I remember years ago when he was behind “save the Condor”, LOL, now he looks like a condor.


34 posted on 07/12/2008 2:15:37 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: NormsRevenge
John McCain "represents yesterday"

Pssssst, Bob! Looked at yourself lately? You're not exactly the Sundance Kid. And your ideas are straight outta Woodstock.

35 posted on 07/12/2008 2:21:45 PM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: NormsRevenge
IF BARACK Obama doesn't win November's presidential election in the United States, "you can kiss the Democratic Party goodbye", the actor and director Robert Redford told an audience in Dublin last night.

One can only hope so...

36 posted on 07/12/2008 2:22:04 PM PDT by Red Boots
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To: NormsRevenge
If the Empty Suit doesn't win November's presidential election in the United States, "you can kiss the Democratic Party goodbye", said someone whose best days are way behind him.

From Redford's mouth to God's ear.
37 posted on 07/12/2008 2:37:06 PM PDT by Category Four (Joy, Fun, the Joke Proper, and Flippancy.)
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To: Don Corleone
"...I thought you died in Bolivia." "The Sundance Kid" was with Che Guevara in spirit, when he met his non-fictional demise in Bolivia.
38 posted on 07/12/2008 2:40:17 PM PDT by smedley64 (Dems go all-in every 4 years with a 7-2 offsuit marxist, hoping to hit the flop big just one time.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Redford is nothing more than a little squirt......


39 posted on 07/12/2008 2:40:23 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: BerniesFriend
IN Redford World the pastel blue Candidste won
40 posted on 07/12/2008 2:44:22 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Society is well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law)
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