OK, look. Someone in the Obama campaign is responsible for celebrity-wrangling – they have to be, it’s a modern campaign. If there were any republican celebrities, McCain would have someone, too.<\/p>\n
But this is freaking embarrassing. Are you folks tone deaf or just stupid?We’ve got George Clooney doing a fundraiser<\/a> in Switzerland.<\/p>\n Academy award winning actor George Clooney is set to host a fundraiser for Barack Obama in Switzerland next month.<\/p>\n \nThe event, taking place on the evening of September 2 in Geneva, Switzerland will be split into two parts: a reception and a dinner. According to Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s National Finance Committee, tickets for the reception where Clooney will speak are going for $1,000, followed by a dinner at the home of NFC member Charles Adams for $10,000 a plate. Space for the dinner is limited to 75 guests.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Look, anyone who can afford to come to that fundraiser could fly to freaking New York to hold it. Except maybe Marc Rich – can’t he now that he’s pardoned? It’s stupid, tone-deaf, and hands cases of ammo to the right-wing bloggers who are hammering home the arigula image – the one that Gallery Guy<\/a> is probably so fond of.<\/p>\n And now a Democratic GOTV group is pushing overseas voters<\/a> to register and vote – Democratic, of course. And Gwyneth Paltrow is their lead spokesman. Defamer comments<\/a>:<\/p>\n And as for Gwyneth? We’re not sure what it is about you that we’re supposed to identify with as being All-American these days. You live abroad (meaning, you’re not just there temporarily for a job). You’re married to a mopey musician (who was born, raised and currently abides in England). You’re raising your kids to be British. You won an Oscar … for playing a Brit. Forgive us if we’re finding it difficult to find the ties between you and baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet. Except, of course, for the fact that you named your kid Apple.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Look, there are lots of competent Hollywood political advisers (it’s where campaign staff get put out to pasture – working for movie stars and advising them on their political activities). Some of them have to be more competent than this (the ones that don’t work for Barbara Streisand?). <\/p>\n Using celebrity and celebrities is a good tactic – attention getting. But Obama’s supporters are hammering him hard on one of his greatest weaknesses – can you stop, please?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Paltrow and Clooney don’t do Obama any favors…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}