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2006-05-18 Home Front: Politix
Actress Susan Sarandon Endorses Clinton Opponent
NEW YORK -- Actress Susan Sarandon, a longtime liberal political activist and outspoken opponent of the Iraq war, endorsed an anti-war Democrat challenging Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's re-election bid Tuesday.
I love it when they eat their own
Sarandon is backing Jonathan Tasini, a labor advocate and former president of the National Writers' Union, who has based his longshot campaign on Clinton's vote in 2002 authorizing military intervention in Iraq.
"Warmonger!"
Clinton, who is widely considered the front-runner for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination if she chooses to run, has sharply criticized the Bush Administration's handling of the war. But she has also refused to call for American troops to be removed from Iraq.
She's trying to hold the the middle ground, but the far-lefties won't have any of it.
Sarandon has been a harsh critic of Clinton's vote on the war, telling a British television interviewer last month that Clinton had "crumbled under the pressure of the moment." She also told ITV1 that she wasn't enthusiastic about a Clinton presidential candidacy
Posted by Steve 2006-05-18 16:32|| || Front Page|| [11137 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 "crumbled under the pressure of the moment.": leftyspeak for "listened to her constituents instead of meeeeeee!"
Posted by mojo">mojo  2006-05-18 16:58||   2006-05-18 16:58|| Front Page Top

#2 The guppy graphic?
Posted by lol 2006-05-18 17:02||   2006-05-18 17:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Man! I can feel it! That Tasini Juggernaut is rolling now!!!
Hillary not Commie enough for you, Susie?
Posted by tu3031 2006-05-18 17:04||   2006-05-18 17:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Helps Hilly look like the moderate in the middle. Sort of like when she was between Bill and Monica.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-05-18 17:15||   2006-05-18 17:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Thanks Nimble. That mental image will now haunt me forever.
Posted by DarthVader 2006-05-18 17:38||   2006-05-18 17:38|| Front Page Top

#6 Dammit Janet!
Posted by DMFD 2006-05-18 18:25||   2006-05-18 18:25|| Front Page Top

#7 Where's my mind's eye gouger??? LOL!!!
Posted by Danking70 2006-05-18 19:45||   2006-05-18 19:45|| Front Page Top

#8 DMFD - first thing that came to my mind - lol!
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-05-18 19:55||   2006-05-18 19:55|| Front Page Top

#9 Brad - John Kerry
Janet - Susan Sarandon, of course
Frankenfurter - Screamin Howard Dean
Riff-Raff - Ward Churchill
Magenta - Hillary Clinton
Columbia - Nancy Pelosi
Rocky - John Edwards
Dr. Everett Von Scott - Al Gore
Eddy - Michael Moore
Posted by DMFD 2006-05-18 20:55||   2006-05-18 20:55|| Front Page Top

#10 Is that the same Susan Sarandon of "Dead Man Walking" fame?
Posted by Snump Ebbons4287 2006-05-18 21:31||   2006-05-18 21:31|| Front Page Top

#11 Snump - yep, the very one.

More importantly though, who gives a sh*t what this washed up heffer thinks. Like she knows anymore than the guy who works down at the plant, or the land scaper, or the bus boy at the Sizzler, or my sorry ass for that matter. What a presumptuous twat.

Yo Sarandon, you're an actress not an authority on strategic geopolitics - you get paid to do what little kids all across this country do every day - play make believe.
Posted by Broadhead6 2006-05-18 22:39||   2006-05-18 22:39|| Front Page Top

#12 I read that this was a labor advocate and expected some blue-collar type who I might respect but still disagree with, and who might command some voter influence. But then the next clause tells us that he was President of the National Writers Union. Good G*d! So much for working class hero, man of the people. This is something straight out of Monty Python. Have you seen the sketch with the gritty old writer whose rebellious son wants to be a polished, urbane coal miner?
Posted by Monsieur Moonbat 2006-05-18 23:04||   2006-05-18 23:04|| Front Page Top

#13 In my paranoid moments, I fret that the Hollywood freaks finally figure out that the voting public hate them and even their few remaining fans, for the most part, don't vote according to their proscriptions. I worry that they will get smart and secretly conspire to boost candidates like Hillary's centrist credentials with half-hearted moonbat denouncements. I fear that one day the Democrats will stop pandering to actors, musicians, studio heads, etc. and focus more on the real Mature-Adult-American community.
Posted by Monsieur Moonbat 2006-05-18 23:13||   2006-05-18 23:13|| Front Page Top

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