Academy Award winner Tim Robbins joins the Edwards “Main Street Express” bus tour in Iowa and speaks to a town hall meeting in Des Moines. Robbins says the media is bamboozling voters and that Edwards has “the best chance to beat Republicans in the general election.”
Sound Bite: “Eight months ago with eight viable Democratic candidates running, we were being sold a fiction that this was a two-candidate race. Why? No one had voted yet. We’re the voters. We decide who the frontrunner is.”
it’s all Oprah all the time this weekend for the Obama camapaign — a whirlwind tour with stops in Iowa, New Hamsphire and South Carolina. Can Oprah’s blessing do for Obama what it does for authors and advertisers? We’ll see. But there’s no doubt that the Big O can turn out the crowds and the media.
Oprah deals with Obama’s “experience” issue.
Sound Bite: “I challenge you to see through those people who try and convince you that experience with politics as usual is more valuable than wisdom won from years of serving people outside the walls of Washington, DC.”
Curt Schilling, pitching ace for the world champion Boston Red Sox, speaks at a town hall meeting in Manchester, NH in support of Senator John McCain.
Sound Bite: “We are at a point in time when integrity, honor, loyalty and respect stop being punchlines. They have to be the core components to the character and the makeup of the person we put in the White House.”
Popular recording artist and entrepreneur Usher takes time out from hawking perfume (Usher for Women and Usher for Men) to rally the youth vote for Barack Obama.
Sound Bite: “The fate of the world is in your hands. No pressure.”
A soft-spoken Sean Penn endorsed Hugo Chavez, er, Dennis Kucinich yesterday in a speech at San Francisco State University. Ignore the media’s depiction of Kucinich as not electable, says Penn, and vote for the “most deserving and noble of candidates.”
Sound Bite: “If those of us who truly believe in the Constitution of the United States of America — all of us — vote for Dennis Kucinich, he’ll be elected. Could we call him electable then?
