Angelina Jolie Might Vote For Barack Obama, Provided She Can Find The Time After Satisfying Her Babies
Because, you know, her life is that full of lovely goodness and rainbows and fairy dust. Yes, it is just that much better than yours.
Angelina Jolie, citizen of the world (and possible founder of her own nation) and all-around better person than you, hints that she might be checking off the Obama box on her election ballot:
“Obama is fighting for international justice, he wants to intervene militarily in genocides abroad, and he wants to close down Guantanamo Bay,” she tells the German edition of Vanity Fair. “They are things which could move me to vote for him, not his roots.”
Still, Jolie – whose father, Jon Voight, has endorsed John McCain – says just because Obama would be a good example for her family isn’t “reason enough to vote for him.”
Well, she’d better get moving. Depending on what state she calls home (for this particular example, I’m going to use both Louisiana and California), and if she decides to use absentee voting (since they never stay in one spot for long) she’s got until 8PM Election Day to get her vote in, but only until November 3 in Louisiana.
Frankly, I couldn’t care less who Angelina is voting for, or any other celeb for that matter. Why is it that reporters always ask the celebs who they’re voting for and why? Are their opinions any more or less valid than Joe Schmoe The Ragpicker up the road? In fact, I’d be more inclined to listen to ol’ Joe, since he’s probably more in tune with the problems facing the common man than a multi-millionaire like Angelina.
McCain or Obama, the important thing is that you vote…and the next important thing is that you don’t let some celeb influence who you vote for. Have you seen how whacked-out some of these famous people are? Are you seriously going to take political advice from them?
Look, if I want relationship advice, I’m not gonna go to a person who has been married twelve times. If I want cooking advice, I’m not gonna go to a person who gets all their nourishment from microwave meals. And if I want advice on who to vote for, I’m not gonna go to people who don’t even live in America most of the time.
Oh, and about that whole nursing-earth-momma thing that Anges and Brad are trying to pull off? Well, first, obvious news is obvious:
As for her new twins, Jolie admits, “It’s a damned arduous business, and we are often simply whacked out because it is twice as hard with two babies as with one.
“But it also makes for double the fun,” she adds. “After we flew back from Europe, we were all suffering a bit from jetlag. We were all in bed early, but at half past four, they were awake and making a real racket.
“Brad took care of them. He said to me, ‘Go back to sleep, you’re back to work in the morning,’ and moved into the kids’ room with them. He is an astounding father, full of devotion.”
Hooray, Brad Pitt loves his kids, just like any other normal father worth his salt. But wait, what about when the babies get hungry and it’s nursing time?
For the most part, the twins “have quite similar, stable rhythms,” she says. “Every three hours they get hungry, then I have to satisfy them. But that’s OK, the two of them are totally sweet.
“Satisfy them”? I don’t think I’ve ever heard a mother call it that before. “Oh, hold on, the baby is crying, I have to go satisfy it. I don’t mind, though, since the baby is so sweet.” What? Just an odd way of putting it, I thought. Satisfy.
Hey, I ain’t sayin’, I’m just sayin’.
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You’re a hypocrite. Why are you doing a gossip blog? You’re a leech living off the celebrities you claim to despise. Without them, you wouldn’t have a lazy way of making a living. All celebrities are just as good or bad as Jane & John Doe – except richer, and many times hotter and more beautiful.
Comment by Ligaya — October 13, 2008 @ 12:23 pm
Give it a rest Ligaya. Go watch ‘Entertainment Tonite’ or ‘Inside Edition” if you’re so easily offended. You won’t hear a critical comment there.
Another great piece k. (To those of us with a sense of humor anyway)
Comment by Rachel — October 13, 2008 @ 3:35 pm
“Are their opinions any more or less valid than Joe Schmoe The Ragpicker up the road? In fact, I’d be more inclined to listen to ol’ Joe, since he’s probably more in tune with the problems facing the common man than a multi-millionaire like Angelina.”
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That might not be as good an idea as you think it is. Keep in mind, it’s the “Average Joe’s” who think Sarah Palin would be a good vice president, because she’s “just like us.”
Comment by J.R. LeMar — October 14, 2008 @ 1:15 am
Well, not necessarily saying that we should vote for McCain/Palin over Obama/Biden, I let people draw their own conclusions.
It just irritates me that most of the people in positions of power in this country don’t have knowledge, or at least recent knowledge, of what it is like to clip coupons and ration gas/travel and wonder if there will be some paycheck left at the end of the week. And let’s face it, celebs like Angelina Jolie are not living hand to mouth like so many Americans, so it irks me to have one of them come along and condescend to tell us who we should vote for.
I firmly believe most, if not all, of Washington and our leaders are totally out of touch with the average American, all parties included.
(For the record, I don’t believe Palin has been “just like us” for a long time now, according to her finances. But then, neither has Obama, or McCain, or Biden.)
Comment by k — October 14, 2008 @ 1:37 am