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Taking an afternoon joyride, Brad Pitt was spotted cruising down the street in New Orleans, Louisiana on Monday (October 5).
Doing his best impersonation of a Mormon missionary, the “Fight Club” stud sported a white button-up shirt with black trousers, black shoes, black sunglasses, and a grey fedora.
Obama on tv now: dangerous crisis, lots of blame to go around, everyone has to help this crisis, swiftly. This seems like his joint statement he was supposed to release with Maverick McCain before McCain ran away to Washington to get in the way! Obama says he had a conversation with McCain today about the joint statement. "When I got back to the hotel, he was already on tv." Jesus Christ. In re. debate suspension: "I thought this was something he was mulling over, it sounds like this is something he was decisive about." Obama sounds like he's going ahead with the debates.
Obama on tv earlier responding to the McCain debate stunt: dangerous crisis, lots of blame to go around, everyone has to help this crisis, swiftly. It seemed like the joint statement he was supposed to release with Maverick McCain before McCain ran away to Washington to get in the way! Obama said he had a conversation with McCain today about the joint statement. "When I got back to the hotel, he was already on tv." Jesus Christ. In re. debate suspension: "I thought this was something he was mulling over, it sounds like this is something he was decisive about." Obama sounded like he's going ahead with the debates. More (paraphrase): "We both have big planes, they can get us from Washington DC to Mississippi pretty quickly." FURTHERMORE: John McCain's at CBS right now! No time for debating, always time for Katie Couric!
John McCain and his wife, Cindy own a whopping THIRTEEN cars, including foreign-made automobiles.
Why do they need that many cars?????
By contrast, Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, only have one car to their name.
[Photo via Getty Images.]
Barack Obama turns down Lindsay Lohan’s help
In an effort to help Presidential-hopeful Barack Obama, Lindsay Lohan offered to host a series of events geared towards younger voters. Barack’s response? No thanks. From Bill Zwecker at the Chicago Sun Times:
A top source in the Barack Obama team tells me the actress ”is not exactly the kind of high-profile star who would be a positive for us.” Given Lohan’s past problems, plus ongoing brushes with controversy, I’ve learned the campaign quietly told the actress ”thanks, but no thanks,” but in far more diplomatic terms. (Source)
BWAHAHA! Considering the Democrats want nothing to do with her, Lindsay should take a closer look at the Green Party . . . though considering her disdain for trees, at this point even they wouldn’t take her. If Lindsay really wants to get involved in the political process this year, I’d suggest she do what the rest of Hollywood plans on doing: Move to Canada. Please.
CLICK HERE to see what Barack had to say at a campaign stop on Wednesday about the whole "pig" fracas!
From all accounts, the final night of the Democratic National Convention felt more like a concert than a stuffy political event. And with gals like Jessica Alba and Fergie in the crowd, it’s easy to see why.
The “Good Luck Chuck” mommy and the “Big Girls Don’t Cry” songstress looked to be enjoying themselves on the historical evening that included the first African American man nominated to Presidential Candidacy.
So, what does Team Barack think about John McCain's choice of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to be his Vice Presidential running mate.
Well, Obama's spokesperson, Bill Burton, says:
"Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency," Obama spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement.
Burton also criticized Palin as a vice presidential pick for her support of oil drilling in the Alaskan wilderness and her anti-abortion stance, referring to the 1973 Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal in the United States.
"Governor Palin shares John McCain's commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade, the agenda of Big Oil and continuing George Bush's failed economic policies. That's not the change we need, it's just more of the same," he said.
So, that's what they say.
What do U say????
[Image via WENN.]
So what did bug supporter Oprah Winfrey think of Barack Obama's acceptance speech last night????
"I cried my eyelashes off," she says. "I think it's the most powerful thing I have ever experienced."
The talks show queen called Obama's words "transcendent."
She adds, "He's not an African-American candidate. He's a candidate for Americans."
Yes we can!!!!!
[Image via WENN.]
On-hand at the Democratic National Convention on Monday night, actress Anne Hathaway told press that she wasn’t sure how she first felt about presidential candidate Barack Obama - revealing that she was hesitant to trust Obama because she had placed her trust into other candidates and been let down before.
“I’ve been burned by politicians before that I wanted to believe in and just didn’t live up to it,” the newly single star explained. “And I was afraid to trust him and I was afraid to have hope when I first kind of became aware of him.”
Madonna’s Sticky and Sweet tour opened Saturday night in Cardiff Wales. The 50 year-old pop legend put on a two hour performance that included video montages featuring Kanye West, Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears. The night was based on four themes: “Pimp”, “Old School”, “Gypsy” and “Rave,” and the pint-sized powerhouse wore multiple pants-less outfits designed by Givenchy, Stella McCartney and Miu Miu, with some American Apparel tube socks thrown in for the sporty look.
Not one to pass up a chance to stir up publicity-seeking controversy, one of the videos playing in the background featured photos of “bad” things like war, global warming, Hitler - and John McCain. McCain’s Presidential rival, Democratic candidate Barack Obama, was included on the “good” video of humanitarian leaders:
Amid a four-act show at Cardiff’s packed Millennium Stadium, a video interlude carried images of destruction, global warming, Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, Zimbabwe’s authoritarian President Robert Mugabe — and U.S. Senator John McCain. Another sequence, shown later, pictured slain Beatle John Lennon, followed by climate activist Al Gore, Mahatma Gandhi and finally McCain’s Democratic rival Barack Obama.
[AP as found on PopEater]
Didn’t Madonna already do this in her “American Life” video? At least she’s not hanging herself on a cross or making fun of the church this time around. Blasphemy is so 1989, yet she threw some into her Confessions tour for lack of imagination.
McCain has responded to Madonna’s diss in the humorless, offended way she surely hoped he would. He’s been smearing Obama with attack ads, and yet he’s pointing out that Madonna is doing the same thing to him.
“The comparisons are outrageous, unacceptable and crudely divisive all at the same time,” Bounds said in a statement reported by Fox News.
“It clearly shows that when it comes to supporting Barack Obama, his fellow worldwide celebrities refuse to consider any smear or attack off limits.”
[From News.Yahoo.com]
This is the guy who has an ad calling Obama elitist but who can’t name how many houses he has and thinks that you’re only rich once you make your first $5 million. (link leads to video.) He also keeps repeating that Obama is going to raise taxes, which just isn’t true for 95% of Americans. If you make less than $227,000 a year you’ll save money under Obama’s plan.
He’s right though that douches like Madonna, Ludacris and Roseanne aren’t helping Obama by dissing the Republicans. They’re just giving McCain more fodder to accuse Obama of being elitist and backed by celebrities.
Madonna might had plenty of publicity ahead of her tour for her non-affair with A-Rod and her brother’s “unauthorized” biography, but it wasn’t enough to fill the seats. Only 40,000 out of 70,000 available tickets were sold to the venue. At £150 /$276 USD, they weren’t exactly affordable for a lot of people. Concert-goers said she put on a great show, though.
Here’s the video in question from Saturday set to “Get Stupid,” thanks to user MadonnaWyat on YouTube:
Photos are of Madonna’s opening night in Cardiff on 8/23/08. Credit: Daniel Deme / WENN
Barack Obama on the beach with his family in December, 2006. Credit: #99/Fame Pictures
Tyra Banks has an upcoming interview in Harper’s Bazaar in which she talks about her admiration and hope for presumptive Democratic candidate for US President, Barack Obama, and his wife, Michelle. We reported last week that Banks would dress up as Michelle Obama for the cover of the magazine. She does appear as a preppy looking Michelle posing by a lookalike Barack in the Oval Office, but that photo is in the inside of the magazine, not the cover. Banks gives a lot of stupid quotes about Obama in the interview, advance details of which were printed in Star Magazine. You have to wonder if her endorsement is any help to the candidate whatsoever. She does have an inexplicable fan base I guess, as her show is popular enough:
Tyra Banks… would love to score Michelle Obama as a guest on The Tyra Banks Show! The supermodel-turned-TV titan is so fascinated by Mrs. Barack Obama that she was thrilled when Harper’s Bazaar tapped her to pose as the Democratic First Lady hopeful for its September issue, on newsstands Aug. 19. “She’s got that direct-eye-contact, truly connecting thing,” says Tyra, who’s met Michelle before. “[She is] so warm and gracious.”
“With Barack Obama, his becoming President is them becoming President, because Michelle was there from the beginning,” Tyra tells Harper’s Bazaar. “Without Michelle, he wouldn’tbe there.” What kind of First Lady would Tyra be, given the chance? “I’d wear a V-neck shift and a two-inch heel. Even if the President were taller, I would keep them low. Otherwise it gets a little too sexy,” she says. As for hair, Tyra jokes that her biggest dilemma would be “to weave or not to weave.” And her Secret Service acronym? “KMFA: Kiss My Fat Ass.”
But all joking aside, Tyra says she’d stand by her man. “In the end, the First Lady should be her man’s rock and his boulder and his mountain. And she should be calling about 50 percent of the shots!”
“When Barack won the nomination, I just started bawling,” confesses Tyra. “I started calling all these people, and everybody was talking to me like I was crazy. They’re like, ‘Well, he hasn’t won yet,’ but I’m like, ‘Yes, he has, because he’s gotten this far.’ I think he gives everybody so much hope.
“What gives me tears is if Barack Obama wins, kids are going to say a black man can be President too.”
[From Star Magazine, print edition, August 18, 2008]
Michelle Obama would do well to distance herself from Tyra Banks and say she’s too busy to appear on that tabloid talkshow. She probably knows better than to appear on Tyra’s show. At least Bazaar didn’t put the Tyra as Michelle photo on the cover of the magazine, but the stunt certainly got them enough publicity anyway.
Michelle has said that she doesn’t get involved in every policy decision for Barack. She said that “I am not going to realistically be the policy expert on every opinion and position that Barack has because I don’t have the time to do it, quite frankly. And I have to be okay with that.” In another interview she said “My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief” to their two daughters Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7. Tyra is not doing her any favors by declaring Michelle should be calling 1/2 the shots if her husband becomes President. People vote for a candidate, not his wife, and there’s already some wariness around Michelle because she’s an accomplished woman. It just seems like some of these celebrities and their half-baked statements are not helping Obama at all.
I’ll stop with all the political news today, but it seems like it’s really creeping into the celebrity realm. If it gives me an excuse to publish more shirtless pics of guys I’m on it.
Here’s Obama shirtless in Hawaii on 12/21/06. I just started subscribing to Fame Pictures and was excited to see they have those exclusive Obama beach shots. He looks a lot better in most of them than the one that was the most popular.
"Michelle Obama, you're one hot mama," Tyra Banks says in the new issue of Harper's Bazaar.
The Top Model host did her best First Lady in waiting impersonation for the mag's new issue.
Tyra also talked and talked about Obama and Michelle.
She says, "When Barack won the nomination, I just started bawling. I started calling all these people, and everybody was talking to me like I was crazy. They’re like, ‘Well, he hasn’t won yet,’ but I’m like, ‘Yes, he has, because he’s gotten this far.' So what gives me tears is if Barack Obama wins, kids are going to say that a black man can be president, too," she goes on. “I think it will give so many people – black, Latin, Asian, even white people that feel forgotten – hope. I did not think I would see it in my lifetime, and I’m only 34.”
And, as for Barack's wife, Michelle, Banks says, "With Barack Obama, his becoming president is them becoming president because Michelle was there from the beginning. Without Michelle, he wouldn’t be there.”
Amen!
So, what would Tyra like to see in a First Lady???
“Oh, I want her to not take herself too seriously," she says. "She’d need to know how to take a fierce picture, but at the same time be able to eat fried chicken, have grease on her fingers, and be okay with getting photographed like that, too. I’d want her to feel like every child in America is hers – to have a true connection.”
Hmmm, not so sure about the grease on the fingers part!
Situated in South Beach since departing out of LAX Airport on Friday, Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck made the trip to the sunshine state with politics on the agenda.
And last night (August 2), Jen and Ben attended a fundraiser in support of presidential candidate Barack Obama, as the high-price ticket event was also attended by Affleck’s longtime pal Matt Damon and his wife, Luciana Barroso.
I want to hit her so bad
Paris Hilton is not happy that John McCain used her image in an ad released earlier this week in which he referred to Barack Obama as the biggest celebrity in the world. Her rep told People:
“Miss Hilton was neither asked, nor did she give permission, for the use of her likeness in the ad, and has no further comment.” (Source)
She’s kidding, right? “Paris, honey, I want to use your image in one of them moving picture advertisements — ‘talkies’ I think the kids are calling ‘em nowadays — in which I accuse Barack Obama of being a celebrity. Pretty much the entire country is gonna be talking about you for the next week.” Do you really think Paris would say no to that? Her head would literally explode in delight.
[WENN]
Barack Obama compared to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears
In his latest ad for the 2008 election, John McCain invokes the power of Paris and Britney. As the narrator calls Barack Obama “the biggest celebrity in the world,” two pictures of Paris and Britney are quickly flashed on the screen. Damn that is low. Barack, I just wanna let you know that I’m here for you (read: give me $$$$$$$$$). If John McCain wants to turn this election into a celebrity analogy attack fest, I’m your man. I’ve already started working on some new slogans (the last one’s particularly cruel):
Barack Obama is more famous than Paris and Britney
Michelle Obama gave a cute interview with People magazine as part of their recent cover story on her husband, democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Michelle talked about raising their two young daughters Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, keeping balance in her life, and how she still gets star struck.
When you think about the future for your children, what do you worry about?
Michelle: There are the small worries, micro-worries, about whether we’re doing all we can to let them be fully themselves, trying to make sure they have the space to be who they are and that they feel loved and supported. Then, there’s the macro worry about, ‘Okay, if we do our jobs and they turn out well as individuals, what kind of world are they going to be in?’Do you ever have a “pinch me” feeling about all of this?
Michelle: Oh, yeah. I mean, we’re still Michelle and Barack, so meeting Bill Cosby, it’s like (gasp!), ‘We LOVE you, Bill Cosby! What do you mean you’re honored to meet me? You’ve got to be nuts. You’re Bill Cosby! C’mon, now.’Another friend of yours told me about you and Barack slipping away for date nights on the campaign trail.
Michelle: We were in this stadium and the staffers were like, ‘You guys are going to have a date night.’ They had set up a little room in the stadium with tablecloths and candles, and people came in and served, but we had, like, 10 minutes to eat. That was just squeezing it in, but it was fun, it was cute. You don’t try to have a romantic [time] at the stadium. Our romantic [time] is almost every Saturday night or Friday night, if he’s home. We spend the day with the girls doing girls’ stuff and that’s a family. Then we have date night, and the girls like it. As parents, you realize they do notice this stuff and it matters. You’re worried about taking time away from the kids to be with each other when, in their minds, that’s a good thing. It’s like, ‘Yeah, Mommy and Daddy, go! Go have dinner; it’s so cute!’ and that makes me feel like, ‘Okay, I don’t feel as bad that, after spending a day together, then we went and had a nice dinner while you had hamburgers with Grandma.’
[From People]
Michelle also says she isn’t involved in policy because she can’t give it her all. She definitely strikes me as a type-a personality; and says she feels the need to give 120%. Obama knows she’s smart and capable enough that if she could only give 70% of herself to it she’d still do a pretty good job in terms of performance, but it wouldn’t feel good to do it because it wouldn’t be her absolute best.
Considering the massive amount of upheaval that must be going on in their daughter’s lives, it sounds like the Obamas have done a really good job of keeping things as normal as possible. And they seem to have a really down-to-earth and responsible parenting style. They don’t give the girls birthday presents because they get so many presents from other people – and essentially the party is their parents’ present. The girls also get a $1 a week allowance for their chores. Something tells me that may go up a little bit with inflation – and there are probably more chores in the White House.
Here’s Halle Berry wearing her “Barack The Vote” t-shirt in Century City yesterday. Images thanks to Fame.
It looks like nobody has to wonder who Halle Berry will be voting for come the 2008 Presidential Election in November. She’s wearing her preference on her shirt.
The “Monster’s Ball” babe was very clear about who she wants to run our country as she sported a “Barack The Vote” while shopping in Century City, California yesterday afternoon (July 29).
Presumptive Democratic US Presidential nominee Barack Obama and his wife Michelle have a new interview with People Magazine in which they speak candidly about their family life. They primarily talk about how they work together to create a normal life for their daughters, Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7. The Obamas received some slack earlier in the month for allowing their children to talk on camera to Access Hollywood. It was a casual and low-key interview that seemed harmless to many people. We’ll have to see what kind of fallout they get from the TV pundits for being so open with a celebrity glossy. They come across as a normal and close knit family who try to teach their daughters the value of hard work. They don’t reveal anything incredibly personal, and if anything show that they don’t mind talking about their family and what works for them:
They don’t give their daughters birthday presents and do parties instead
PEOPLE: Someone told me today that you don’t do birthday presents.
Michelle: No, because we spend hundreds of dollars on a birthday party and movie tickets and pizza and popcorn …
Barack: That sleepover is enough. We want to teach some limits to them. And their friends bring over presents.
Michelle: They get so much stuff that it just becomes numbing. Malia believes there is still a Santa Claus even though she’s a little wary because some of her friends are non-believers. But Malia says, “Ma, I know there is a Santa because there’s no way you’d buy me all that stuff.” [Laughing]
[From People.com]
10 year-old Malia gets a dollar a week allowance for chores
Do you give your girls an allowance?
Michelle: Sorta, kinda. [Laughs]
Barack: I’m out of town all the time, so Malia will say, “Hey, you owe me 10 weeks!” … Originally, we were giving her a dollar a week as long as she did all her chores. It turns out that she’s been doing her chores even without prompting from the allowance, which makes me feel guilty that she’s been carrying on her end of the bargain and I haven’t been as consistent.
Daughters are worried if their dad becomes President because they’ll have to leave their friends
Last year, when we first met, Malia said that she sometimes wished maybe you wouldn’t win. Do you think they still have those mixed feelings?
Barack: I am absolutely certain because we’ve talked about it – that they are not looking forward to moving. They have a wonderful life in Chicago, they have lifelong friends in Chicago and the prospects of having to make new friends, that’s never something that kids are looking forward to. So I’m sure that there’s a part of them that says we won’t be heartbroken if things don’t work out.And if they said tomorrow, “I don’t want you to be President, I want you to be Daddy”?
Barack: Well, so far those issues haven’t been mutually exclusive. We talked about this before we started and Michelle and I monitor their attitudes pretty closely.
Michelle: They’ve been stable. Their lives just haven’t changed that much.
Barack: And our job, more than anything, is to make sure that in addition to monitoring whether or not they’re feeling sad or neglected at all, that they’re also not feeling special because their dad is running for President.
Michelle: That’s right.
Barack: One of the things I’ve been really happy about is how nonplussed they’ve been by the whole thing. They don’t bring it up, they don’t talk to their friends about it. If anything, they’re actually more courteous and more careful with other people now than they were before I ran….How are you preparing them for possible life in the White House?
Michelle: Slowly. We talk to them about it as they are curious. … They ask about schools and making friends. … Their anxiety has nothing to do with the White House; it has everything to do with what kids think about: “If I have to go to a new school, will I make friends and what about my old friendships?”
On teaching their daughters to be humble and to empathize with other people
Did you talk about that, their behavior in a fishbowl?
Barack: It was more just like making sure the same standards we set before we were in the public eye were maintained.
Michelle: Be considerate of how other people might feel, you know, empathize. Put yourself in the place of other people.
Barack: And just never think that you’re better than anybody else. Or worse than anybody else.
Michelle: That’s also one of the reasons why we don’t campaign with them a lot. Because no matter what you do at a campaign setting, they are special, right? It’s Fourth of July and everybody is singing “Happy Birthday” to Malia. … And everybody loves the kids so they get special treatment. That’s nice for a day or two, but they need to go back home, just so they realize that this isn’t life.
Barack: Which is good when they’re doing activities like soccer. Malia loves soccer, but she’s still so tall and gangly compared to some of these little kids who are zipping around her, although she’s getting better. The fact that she’s not good at everything right away – and Sasha’s not good at everything right away – means learning lessons about having to work hard at something and improve.
On the difficulties of balancing everything for their family and in their marriage
Can you tell me how this experience has changed your marriage?
Barack: It’s made it stronger. The tough times for us were when the kids were real small, I was away a lot and Michelle was still working. So, the burden on her was enormous, and I think there’s a feeling that maybe I didn’t fully appreciate that burden. That was something we worked through. And I think we’re both more patient with each other. We both know how to avoid making the other person feel aggravated. And I’m so proud of her and I think she knows how much I love and appreciate her. So, she puts up with me.
Michelle: I think it has made us stronger. Time and love and sacrifice and hard struggles, I think, make you stronger.
Barack: I also think that she knew at the beginning when I was doing this that if she came to me and said don’t do it, I wouldn’t have done it.
Michelle: That’s the key, for sure.
Barack: And if I ever thought that it was ruining my family, I wouldn’t do it.
Michelle: We’re constantly balancing each other. I know that if I were to say, “I can’t take this,” it would be over.
Barack and Michelle come across as very open and honest about their family and the things they go through to make it work day to day, and you can tell that they instill good values in their daughters. Whatever your political beliefs, you can see that they have a strong family and really care about their daughters and giving them a stable life. I also like the last part about how Barack is honest that he didn’t help as much as he could have when the girls were little. He said they worked through that rough stage, though, and have reached a better understanding of each other and what they need to do for Sasha and Malia.
You can read more of the interview and see exclusive photos on People.com and in their upcoming issue.
Picture note by JayBird: Here’s Senator Barack Obama speaking at the ‘Women for Obama’ breakfast at the Hilton Hotel in New York on July 10th. Images thanks to WENN.
This is the ad Barack Obama should release.
Discuss.
The above is a new ad paid for by John McCain.
Discuss.
Presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, his wife Michelle and their two daughters sat down with Maria Menounos of Access Hollywood for a quick interview that focused on their family life. Access Hollywood happened to be covering a birthday party for Obama’s older daughter, Malia, who turned 10 on the Fourth of July. Menounos described how the interview happened, and said she was just planning on covering the party, but that the family casually agreed to sit down with her for a quick interview.
The segment aired on Tuesday and is below. It was the first time Obama’s two daughters have spoken to the media. Both Malia, 10, and Natasha, 7, were given leeway by their parents to speak and they were super cute. Malia told a story about how she had to tell her dad not to shake hands when he met her friends because kids don’t shake hands. And little Natasha said her dad doesn’t like ice cream, but that he likes pie. She also said he doesn’t like fruity gum, he likes minty gum.
It’s clear that Michelle and Barack were comfortable having their girls on camera and that it didn’t occur to them that they were putting their daughters at harm in any way or that they had somehow made a poor decision about letting them speak to Menounos.
Yesterday pundits at the cable networks threw a huge stink, airing clips from the interview and questioning Obama’s decision to expose his daughters by putting them in front of the media. When questioned about it, Obama admitted he wouldn’t do it again given the fallout.
Menounos said that the Obamas were so easy going about the interview because they got the chance to get to know her first. The girls are also big Jonas brothers fans and were hoping to say something about them. It sounds like the girls showed up and inserted themselves into the interview and that their parents just accepted it and went with it:
Maria Menounos, the “Access Hollywood” reporter who conducted the interview, told MSNBC’s Dan Abrams Tuesday night while guesting on his show that that she only expected to be interviewing the couple.
“And I had time to hang out with them before. And it just became something where it was just that kind of a chill situation. And they just jumped into the interview. We had no idea.”
“….It was not something that they had told us was going to happen in any kind of way. We showed up that day. And they said, you know what, the girls really love The Jonas Brothers, and they`re kind of intrigued at the fact that we`re going to be doing this interview, they may want to say something at the end about The Jonas Brothers.
“And I said, hey, anything from the girls will be great, you know, wonderful. And the senator and his wife sat down, they were right next to each other, and all of the sudden after their miked and we`re about to go, the girls pop in.
“And Sasha sits in between. She like wedges her way in. And the senator goes, you look like you figured out where you want to sit….. So it just kind of happened. And I know that they may have discussed the possibility of it behind the scenes before, but it was not something that was intentional. When I first met the girls, they were very sweet but very shy and quiet.
“We had the whole day to kind of — not the whole day, but at least an hour before where a friend of mine who had traveled with me was taking them on a tour of the Mining Museum and had great rapport with them. And they kind of got comfortable with us. That`s just how it happened,” she said.
CBS’ Russ Mitchell, asking if the girls will be seen more, was told no by Obama on Wednesday.
“We had a unique situation in Montana where it was Malia’s birthday, and all of us, I think, got caught up in the festivities. And so they had a chance to be their adorable selves on TV, but generall y we’ve been very protective of them. And, you know, in retrospect, I think if you’d asked me, we probably wouldn’t have done it then, and we wouldn’t do it again.
While the Obama daughters have been on occasion campaigning with their folks for a year—they spent July 4, 2007 in Iowa—their parents have never put them in front of a microphone.
NBC’s Matt Lauer wondered if the Obamas made the right call in giving up some of their private life for the sake of exposure on the show.
“You know, I think that we got carried away in the moment. We were having a birthday party and everybody was laughing, and suddenly this thing cropped up. And I didn’t catch it quickly enough. And I was surprised by the attention it received as well.”
Would he do it over again?
“We wouldn’t do it again, and we won’t be doing it again.”
[From The Chicago Sun Times]
You understand how they’re campaigning as a family and aren’t always super careful with their daughters. They don’t see the need to be hyper vigilant, but the media sure reminded them. The ironic thing is that if there was any danger to Malia and Natasha by letting them speak on camera, the news channels made it much worse by focusing so much on that story.
Barack Obama’s family on Access Hollywood
And Here’s Access Hollywood’s coverage of the media’s attention to their interview.
Photo Credits: Obama is shown speaking to students in Taylor, MI on 6/17/08. Photos below are from Obama’s official Flickr. Header photo courtesy Access Hollywood.
Future U.S. President Barack Obama looks very presidential on the cover of the new issue of Ebony magazine.
Filed under: Hot Bodies, Prez Election 2008
TMZ.com: Barack Obama is gearing up for the fight of his life -- by hitting the gym!The candidate for change was spotted at a DC sports club on Friday morning in a baseball cap, t-shirt and running pants, working his triceps and hoisting 65 lb dumbbells,... Read more
Barack does his best Scarlett Johansson impersonation
Scarlett Johansson claims to have a “personal dialogue” with Barack Obama . . . which is news to Barack Obama. Earlier this month, Johansson told Politico.com:
She told Politico: “You’d imagine that someone like the senator who is constantly traveling and constantly ‘on’ - how can he return these personal emails? But he does, and in his off-time I know he also calls people who have donated the minimum to thank them. Nobody sees it, nobody talks about it, but it’s incredible. I feel like I’m supporting someone, and having a personal dialogue with them, and it’s amazing.” (Source)
Obama told reported Tuesday:
“[Scarlett] sent one email to [my assistant] Reggie [Love], who forwarded it to me. I [wrote] saying, ‘Thank you Scarlett for doing what you do,’ and suddenly we have this email relationship.” (Source)
Careful Barack, those are mighty dangerous waters you’re treading. If Scarlett wants you, she will do and say whatever it takes to get her hands on your ripped, sexy body and then not even call you the next morning BITCH WHY DIDN’T YOU CALL!!!
NOTE: I know one of the higher ups working on the Obama campaign. He claims Halle Berry is straight-up obsessed with him. She’s been quoted as saying she would “do anything for him” which my source backs up (in his words, Halle has a “schoolgirl crush” on him). Earlier this year Halle was trying to set up an appearance on the Today Show with Barack but the idea was killed by Michelle, Barack’s wife. She pretty much hates Halle and doesn’t want her getting within 50 feet of her husband.
[WENN]
He wipes his butt when he poops!
Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, are just like us, y'all.
The political couple and hopeful future first lady and President of the United States grace the cover of the new issue of Us Weekly.
The National Enquirer is next!
Filed under: Prez Election 2008
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The Internet can change elections! Just not through Meetup and Friendster like some people thought. Okay, these five pictorial jokes about Barack Obama and John McCain won't be entirely responsible for Obama's imminent November victory. They're just mobilizing the base! Because Influential Thought Leaders don't join "One Million Strong For Obama On Facebook," but they do link to political jokes on their Tumblr blogs.
1. NOPE
Grabbed from the ether and copied all over Tumblr, a parody of the Obey Giant "HOPE" poster.
Less faithful to the aesthetic, but with a satisfying result:
2. President of Awesome
Taken from a 4chan forum.
4. Barack Marx Hitler Bin Laden Birth Certificate
Made by Shakespeare's Sister, a blog that's now investigating the rumor that McCain fellates livestock.
5. McCain: For The Tech Illiterate
From Daily Kos.
There’s nothing like a day of pampering to get ready for a beautiful summertime weekend - and that’s exactly where Kristin Cavallari could be found.
The former Laguna Beach babe made her way over to the celeb-friendly Neil George Salon in Beverly Hills on Thursday afternoon, looking sexy in a pair of shades and a curve-hugging black dress.
Filed under: Wacky and Weird, Prez Election 2008
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On Tuesday Senator Barack Obama sealed the contest for the Democratic nomination. Today Hillary Clinton sent out an email stating that she will withdraw her candidacy from the race: “I have said throughout the campaign that I would strongly support Senator Obama if he were the Democratic Party’s nominee, and I intend to deliver on that promise.” Celebrities have lined up to loudly endorse Obama from the beginning of his run (though a few notable celebs have been in Clinton’s camp). In the last two days many of the Hollywood elite have spoken favorably about Obama, and it’s expected that countless more will do so in the next few months.
George Lucas:
Lucas was in Japan on Wednesday to promote his latest film, “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” as Obama clinched the Democratic Party’s nomination for president.
“We have a hero in the making back in the United States today because we have a new candidate for president of the United States, Barack Obama,” Lucas said when asked who his childhood heroes were.
Obama, “for all of us that have dreams and hope, is a hero,” Lucas said.
[From Yahoo News]
Oprah:
Oprah Winfrey says she is “euphoric” over Barack Obama clinching the Democratic presidential nomination.
“I’ve been doing the happy dance all day,” she tells Entertainment Tonight. Winfrey, 54, has been a staunch supporter of Obama from the beginning of his campaign.
“I’m so proud of Barack and Michelle Obama and what this means for all of us … the new possibilities for our country,” Winfrey says. The talk show host says she’s willing to do whatever it takes to get her candidate elected.
“If he wants me to,” she says, “I’m ready to go door to door.”
[From Us Weekly]
Gwyneth Paltrow:
“I don’t feel there’s any lip service with [Obama]. I don’t feel like he’s one of those jaded politicos who say one thing and are talking out of both sides of their mouth. I also feel we’ve done such damage to our reputation - and as someone who lives outside America for half the year, I overhear things that I wish I didn’t overhear. A lot of people in the West think that we’re not very sensitive to the rest of the world, and I think that having a president called Barack Hussein Obama in 2008 says that we are part of the world, and we don’t want to make unilateral decisions about the fate of all of us. I just pray to God that he wins.”
[From Harper’s Bazaar via The Huffington Post ]
Kate Walsh:
“I think this is a great movement in American history,” Walsh tells Us exclusively. “The American people want a change in their government and Barack Obama is the best person to lead and serve and bring about the real changes people want. I am thrilled.”
[From Us Weekly]
While people should certainly make up their own minds about who they’re going to vote for, right or wrong, celebrities can have an impact. Bill Clinton’s celeb connections were widely believed to positively impact his image in 1992. Obama seems to have gotten a massive amount of Hollywood support witho
