Famous white people who endorse John McCain. Obviously, this is simply because he’s white and they are too.
- Stephen Baldwin
- Wilford Brimley
- G. Gordon Liddy
- Tom Selleck
- Jon Voight
- Karl Rove
- Burt Bacharach
- Sen. Joe Lieberman
- Fmr. Sen. Phil Gramm
- Fmr. Sen. George Allen
- Fmr. Gov. Mitt Romney
- Fmr. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani
- Pastor Rod Parsley (isn’t he a porn star?)
- Pastor John Hagee
- Pat Boone
- Kelsey Grammer
- Patricia Heath
- Robert Duvall
- Elisabeth Hasselbeck
- Joan Rivers
- Sylvester Stallone
- Dick van Patton
- Nolan Ryan
- Roger Staubach
- The National Rifle Association
Famous white people who endorse Barack Obama. Obviously, this is simply because he’s white* and they are too:
- George Clooney
- Zach Braff
- Warren Buffet
- Susan Eisenhower
- Leonard Nimoy
- Christopher Buckley
- Richard Clarke
- Cindy Crawford
- Fmr. Pres. Jimmy Carter
- Fmr. Pres. Bill Clinton
- Fmr. Vice Pres. Al Gore
- Sen. Robert Byrd
- Fmr. Sen. Bob Graham
- Fmr. Sen. Lowell Weicker
- Gov. Rod Blagojevich (isn’t he…oh, never mind)
- Gov. Bill Ritter
- Gov. Tim Kaine
- Gov. Janet Napolitano
- Warren Christopher
- Anthony Lake
- Gen. Wesley Clark (Ret.)
- Brig. Gen. John Adams
- Madeleine Albright
- Paul Volcker
- Judy Blume
- Stephen King
- Phillip Roth
- Ben & Jerry
- David Geffen
- Marc Jacobs
- Alec Baldwin
- Ben Affleck
- Drew Barrymore
- Sarah Silverman
- Robert de Niro
- Leonardo DiCaprio
- Lily Tomlin
- Sarah Jessica Parker
- Ron Howard
- Dave Matthews
- Mariah Carey
- Howard Stern
- Hulk Hogan
- Billie Jean King
- Bill Walton
- Maria Shriver
- Rabbi Ethan Tucker (Stepson of Sen. Joe Lieberman)
- Prime Minister Gordon Brown
- Pirate Party of America
* As anyone not living under a rock knows, Barack Obama is as white as he is black. In some parts of the world, having one drop of black blood — as our antebellum miscegenation laws defined it — does not make you black. We of course live in a country where all that people see is ethnicity and race.
It’s funny that those talk radio and FOX News folks leave out the fact that Obama failed to check a box next to which ethnicity he was when he applied to Harvard. Had they been screening the applications, they might have required a photo be attached so they could make their decision accordingly.
Whoa! Actually, in Mississippi, and most other states back then, 1 drop of ‘negro’ blood made you 100% black. There’s an old famous saying in MS, “If you have 1% Negro Blood, Mississippi will gladly throw in the other 99% for you.” Love your blog, but check the facts on this one.
That’s exactly what I said Slim Charles. During antebellum times here, having one drop of black blood made you black, but in some parts of the world (obviously not our own country, judging by the way everyone regards Obama) today this is not the case. Some people seem able to entertain notions of true diversity. As to our country’s past I was thinking more of Louisiana, with its intricate and detailed “color” laws, than of Mississippi.
Asthetically, Obama appears to be African American and therefore his life experience would be impacted thusly.
Comparing what other cultures do or how they view race is like comparing apples to oranges and inconsequential domestically. But also while there are cultures who have more diverse views around the 1 drop of blood concept, there are still nations with deep seeded perceptions around race that are detrimental.