Celebrities defect in droves from the Clintons’ “2 for 1” presidential campaign

Nothing has distinguished Sen Barack Obama’s nascent presidential campaign quite like the rush of Hollywood players – who supported Bill Clinton in two elections – enlisting to help Obama defeat Hillary. And no one has unnerved the Clintons more with his defection than entertainment mogul David Geffen (center) – the man credited with raising over $18 million for Bill and to whose home the Clintons coveted an invitation as much as celebrities coveted an invitation to the White House.

Here, in part, is how Geffen testified about his political conversion as reported yesterday by Maureen Dowd of the New York Times:

And, to baptize A-list celebrities like Oprah Winfrey, George Clooney and Tom Cruise with Obama’s cleansing grace, Geffen (along with his movie-mogul partners, Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg) hosted a fundraiser in his honor in Beverly Hills on Tuesday night that was akin to winning the Oscar for favorite presidential Candidate and the California lottery.

Meanwhile, instead of being the belle of this Hollywood ball – as she and Bill clearly felt she was entitled to be – Hillary was reduced to issuing a patently jealous, fatuous and hypocritical statement admonishing Obama to “denounce Geffen and return his money”.

That said, I am not at all impressed by these celebrities who are suddenly becoming morally indignant about the Clintons’ political venality now that Obama offers them a more virginal vessel in which to pour their noblesse oblige. After all, some of us have been raging against their pathological lies for over a decade. Indeed, I was inspired to declare my own disaffection after former Clinton advisor George Stephanopoulos – who now hosts the ABC News political program “This Week” – chronicled his conscientious objections to Bill and Hillary’s co-presidency in his 1999 book, All Too Human.

Therefore, I admonish Obama to beware that where it’s politically sensible to take their money, it would be politically foolish to take the endorsements of these fickle celebrities too seriously or to become too enamored of them – as the Clintons clearly have become…much to their chagrin..

Finally, I warned Obama (in the Related Articles linked to below) about the dirty tricks the Clintons would deploy to derail his campaign. And, true to form, they have already planted stories insinuating that because his middle name is “Hussein” and he attended grade school in Indonesia, he must be a closet Muslim Jihadist who cannot be trusted to be president of the United States. Never mind that Obama is a devout Christian who attended an entirely secular public school in the most pro-American Muslim country in the world.

So, just imagine what scurrilous slime the Clintons will unleash when Obama reduces Hillary’s lead in the polls to a single digit….

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