Obama to Celebrities: 'You're the Ultimate Arbiter of Which Direction This Country Goes'

cnsnews.com ^ | 6/15/12 | Ben Feller

[Justaham]

President Barack Obama soaked in the support — and the campaign cash — of Manhattan's elite entertainers Thursday as his re-election team sought to fill its fundraising coffers.

The president and first lady Michelle Obama made a rare joint fundraising appearance when they visited the home of actors Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick. The intimate dinner banked about $2 million, with 50 people paying $40,000 each.

The dinner was the Obama campaign's latest attempt to bank on celebrities for fundraising help in countering the growing donor enthusiasm from Republicans supporting Mitt Romney's presidential bid.

[mrsmel]

You're correct. As long ago as the silent film days, Hollywood (the industry) was making films showing unwed mothers as sympathetic, even heroic. Even the great Lillian Gish played that role and she was a lifelong conservative. Early talkies showed homosexual figures as comic and nonthreatening. Films disseminated liberal ideology to the masses as theater never could have.

[Talisker]

Maybe, maybe not ...

THE WRATH OF THE AWAKENED SAXON by Rudyard Kipling

It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate.

They were not easily moved,
They were icy — willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the Saxon began to hate.

Their voices were even and low.
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show
When the Saxon began to hate.

It was not preached to the crowd.
It was not taught by the state.
No man spoke it aloud
When the Saxon began to hate.

It was not suddently bred.
It will not swiftly abate.
Through the chilled years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the Saxon began to hate.

[SaraJohnson]

If the entertainment industry is America’s future...oh boy. What a vision for America this pitiful excuse for a human being projects.

[liberalh8ter]

Marxist Propagandist speaking to his subordinates.

[uncbob]

Yep I want to puke when I see that crap

[Lazamataz]

Obama to Celebrities: 'You're the Ultimate Arbiter of Which Direction This Country Goes'

Incorrect.

But thanks for playing.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Shakespeare was wrong about lawyers...