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09.13.2008 11:29 am

Is that you, Ashley? Actress Judd stumps, phones for Obama in Mo.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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The Barack Obama campaign is bringing some star power to Missouri today.Ashley Judd

Actress Ashley Judd will pitch-in at phone banks in Cape Girardeau, Arnold and Sikeston, before arriving in St. Louis this afternoon for a roundtable talk with other Democrats.

Judd, daughter of country singer Naomi Judd, will appear at Pi, a gourmet pizza shop in the Delmar Loop, for a 5:15 p.m.  “Women’s Economic Policy”  forum with former U.S. Sen. Jean Carnahan, State Rep. Rachel Storch, and Melody Barnes, a senior domestic policy advisor for the Obama campaign.

Though Judd is perhaps better known for her partisanship towards University of Kentucky basketball, she has also been vocal supporter of abortion rights, sharing her views at last month’s Democratic Convention in Denver.

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Perhaps she could be added to the celeb add. Great job Obama keep bringing in movie stars it won’t help in MO.

— Dave
11:39 am September 13th, 2008

If the repubs weren’t predisposed to intellectual blindness in the face of immature distraction, McCain would never have picked Palin as a running mate. She has celebrity good looks and a gender identity that women immediately perceive as inherently feminist. She’s a shiny, pretty, little-known junior governor McCain is using to lift his campaign, and it’s been effective in Missouri. The party is paying no attention to her utter lack of fitness for the office of VP. She knows nothing about the midwest and its values. She knows nothing about representing us in Washington or about representing the U.S.A. on the world stage. She knows Alaska and its politics, and Missouri republicans are as guilty as the rest of swallowing the fiction that she is ready to be a cancer patient’s heartbeat away from the American presidency. Absent McCain, her closest advisors appear to be some of the who’s who in Alaska and some Washington lobbyists she hired to help Wasilla obtain pork from the federal government.

— Consider This
1:27 pm September 13th, 2008

Celebrities are all bad…unless they help my party. Then they’re just famous people who have the right values.

— Any Republican in Missouri
1:43 pm September 13th, 2008

Ashley Judd’s appearance for Obama - “full of sound and fury signifying nothing.” Celeb’s have a very small - probably so small it’s unmeasurable - impact with their endorsements. Most people know that the majority of these Celeb’s - especially those endorsing Obama - are intellectual lightweights.

Obama knows nothing about representing anybody in Washington or the world stage either - he has been too busy running for president to be a functioning senator. He certainly knows nothing about midwest values except the “buzz” words that he thinks will deceive people into thinking he really knows what he is talking about - which he doesn’t - or that he cares - which he doesn’t.

What he does care about is being elected president. Lord help us if he catches the car he is chasing - he won’t know what to do with it but will screw things up royally while redistributing wealth and discouraging job creation driving us toward being a third world nation. For the enironmental wacko’s that might be a good thing since no jobs mean not much “pollution” but for the rest of us it sucks.

The only upside if the worst case scenario of Obama being elected were to come true is that in 2012 - is that it will likely give rise to the next Ronald Reagan to come on the scene to straighten out the mess Carter er I mean Obama will be leaving. Unfortunately - even another Reagan will be unable to completely correct everything Obama drove into the ground.

— JasonB
2:12 pm September 13th, 2008

Celebrities stumping for the celebrity d’jour. Very impressive.

— Nick Kasoff
2:46 pm September 13th, 2008

Where do you think Chicago is?????? Besides being the place where Obama has spent the majority of his career, it’s in the midwest. The real intellectual lightweights believe that there has NOT been a significant redistribution of wealth in this country in the last 8 years. Even more dim-witted are those that believe any of the benefit of the tax policy of the last 8 years has trickled down to 80% of us. Please tell the one in twenty UNEMPLOYED Missourians where they can get one of those new jobs that the republicans are so adept at creating. I have to hand it to Rove and company, I never would have guessed you could pee down the legs of so many middle class voters and convince them it’s just a little rain. Only a real man like Obama would have the passion and commitment to take on the unbelievable mess the republicans have left in Washington, while knowingly subjecting himself to the kind of disrepect and lies we have come to expect from you and your kind.

— Consider This
3:33 pm September 13th, 2008

How Choice!! More Fluffy fluffsters for Nobama- king of fluff. Another delusional actress divorced from the real world that actually thinks the ward organizer is qualified to be commander in chief. But as Joe Biden says, Shes Pretty

— kc
3:43 pm September 13th, 2008

Karl Rove is truly a master of deception! He and McBush have been able to convince a sizable number of the population that McBush and Palin are anything other than ‘fluff’! Keep harping on untruths until they become real in the minds of those prone to believe anything they hear from ‘authorities’! Whatever happened to the independent thinkers? Whatever happened to people who know how to look at all sides of argument before making a judgment?

For the past eight years this country has been on a downward spiral for middle class folks. But that’s not the issue in this election as evidenced by the comments of many of these bloggers–its the color of the candidates skin and whether he is capable of telling the biggest most outrageous lies! Smear and fear can only achieve so much! The candidate who had been known for his integrity and honesty seems to have laid them down in order to pick up an election.

— concerned
4:14 pm September 13th, 2008

“consider this” - News flash, idiot, but the unemployment rate right now is LOW. For those who care to see the data, see the link below. It was lower from 1997 through 2001, during which time we had a labor shortage. But from 1980 through 1996, it was never lower than it is now.

Democrats can whine all they want about the economy. Yes, there are a few problem areas. Energy costs are high. The banking industry isn’t doing so good, and the housing sector is suffering from its ills. And the American auto industry seems to be replaying the late 70s. But otherwise, things are going pretty well.

http://www.nidataplus.com/lfeus1.htm

— Nick Kasoff
5:47 pm September 13th, 2008

“Where do you think Chicago is?????? Besides being the place where Obama has spent the majority of his career, it’s in the midwest.”

Chicago is to the midwest what a hairball is to an ice cream sundae. I was stationed in Chicago for a year. Trust me-there’s a reason why Illinois is consistently the only blue state in the midwest. Chicago is simply a city misplaced.

— SMC
5:51 pm September 13th, 2008

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