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George Clooney praised Joe Biden for bowing out of the presidential race after his recent op-ed urging him to step down: 'The most selfless thing that anybody's done since George Washington.'
George Clooney praises Joe Biden for bowing out of presidential race after op-ed: 'All the credit goes to him'
The actor called the president's decision "the most selfless thing that anybody's done since George Washington" at a Venice screening for his new film "Wolfs."By Shania Russell
Published on September 1, 2024 01:22PM EDT
We left some people speechless.
George Clooney is commending President Joe Biden for stepping aside as the Democratic nominee in the 2024 presidential race.
Earlier this summer, the Oscar-winning actor and producer was one of several political and Hollywood figures who called for the president to end his re-election bid, going as far as penning a New York Times op-ed titled, "I Love Joe Biden, but We Need a New Nominee." Now, Clooney is breaking his silence on Biden’s decision to bow out of the race and put his support behind Vice President Kamala Harris.
"I've never had to answer that question, so I suppose I'll do it here," Clooney said Sunday at the Venice Film Festival press screening of his upcoming movie Wolfs when asked about his essay. The crowd promptly erupted into applause, to which Clooney responded, "The person who should be applauded is the president, who did the most selfless thing that anybody's done since George Washington."
George Clooney; Joe Biden.
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"All the machinations that got us there, none of that's gonna be remembered and it shouldn't be," Clooney continued. "What should be remembered is the selfless act of someone who… You know, it's very hard to let go of power. We know that. We've seen it all around the world. And for someone to say, 'I think there's a better way forward,' all the credit goes to him, and that's really the truth."
Before Biden's July 21 announcement that he would be dropping out of the race and endorsing Harris, Clooney expressed concern about his ability to lead the Democratic Party to victory.
"The Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe 'big f---ing deal' Biden of 2010," Clooney wrote in his July 10 op-ed. "He wasn't even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate."
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Voicing his worries about the president's age — he is 81 — in the wake of his much maligned performance at the June 27 debate with Donald Trump, Clooney added, "As Democrats, we collectively hold our breath or turn down the volume whenever we see the president, who we respect, walk off Air Force One or walk back to a mic to answer an unscripted question."
The actor also alleged that he had spoken privately to numerous Democratic senators and members of congress and that "every single one" shared the sentiment that "we are not going to win in November with this president." Clooney was one of many entertainers to express such concerns, with others including Stephen King, Rob Reiner, Michael Moore, John Cusack, and Michael Douglas.
Addressing the role his more notable critics may have played in Biden's decision, Clooney argued that only the president's decision to step aside would go down in history. "All the rest of it will be long gone and forgotten," he said at the Wolfs press conference in Venice. "And so I'm just very proud of where we are in the state of the world right now, which I think many people are surprised by, and I think we're all very excited by the future."
Since dropping out of the race, Biden has stood firmly behind Harris and her pick for vice president, Tim Walz. "My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my vice president," he wrote in his initial announcement. "And it's been the best decision I've made. Today I want to offer my full support and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our party this year. Democrats — it's time to come together and beat Trump. Let's do this."
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My mother said they (staff) had similar conversations with him.
I wish there was an alternate universe to see how or if we would be better off under segregation.
One of the things it did was take the success out of the hood. Back in the days you could have a janitor on one side and a doctor or lawyer on the other, that way a child could have an example of who they could potentially be in this world. They see success in both people and the trajectory of their life changes
Now, kids only see success in the dope boys. Those are the ones in their line of sight that have the things that they want. Success to kids in the hood now are be a ball player or a rapper or a dope boy. They don't see many other options for themselves
I did not know he had a son
Most of our kids now days ain't in the hood.
Hm. Understand the success(es) of the black doctor or tradesman was in small number and in no comparable to the financial well being of similar white professionals - part of segregation was the simple fact that you were locked out of recognition and in many many many cases legal protection of your ideas and even the products of your works.
You see the success of the dope boys and criminals becuase of the same type of system that hid black people from cultural and popular sight - media companies in large part still and predominantly white owned sector has a vested intrest in selling and make no doubt that its intentional ( often our own participation ) that we have the hood and street life as a vehicle of our popular image and as part of media entertainment.
Understand that you still have a industry that trades on black stereotypes - once upon a time we were depicted as servile lazy and cowardly but we were childlike danced and mystical a d our sexual objectification moved into shit we take as a compliment- we dance well becuase we have innate rhythm we want only a simple life and take salt of the earth jobs - black women are sexual but not necessarily beautiful black men we packing in the bed and shit ...all of that is an outgrowth of the old stereotype where black women were built to bear babies and black mens worth was coupled with their value as a breeding bull like cattle...We have unfortunately not fully thrown off how we are stereotypically portrayed
Financially black people were limited where they could invest or even what kind of job you could get or even if you could be in a union - you could barely own a home and legally you could only get that home where and instituion and cultural white racism allowed for that ownership to occur ...and that shit STILL goes on ...its would be a 1000 times worse if we didn't eliminate segregation...
Thats becuase his shitty sister dominates the cycle with her both sides bullshit until her more true colors come out ...
You can't make this shit up
Former President Donald Trump made a number of controversial pardons and commutations on his way out the door in 2021, but one that has flown under the radar has been the sentence commutation of Jaime A. Davidson, a New York man who spent decades behind bars after being convicted of murdering a federal law enforcement officer in the early 1990s.
Since his pardon, however, it seems that Davidson has not kept his nose clean.
Independent progressive journalist Judd Legum recently did some digging on Davidson and discovered that he was convicted on domestic violence charges and sentenced this past summer to three months in jail after authorities say he strangled his wife during a domestic dispute.
BREAKING: Kamala Harris and Tim Walz shock MAGA Republicans by announcing a $25 million donation to boost down-ballot Democrats — the largest transfer ever in a presidential election cycle.
And it gets so much better...
"If we want a future where every American’s rights are protected, not taken away; where the middle class is strengthened, not hollowed out; and a country where our democracy is preserved, not ripped apart, every race this November matters," said Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon.
"The Vice President believes that this race is about mobilizing the entire country, in races at every level, to fight for our freedoms and our economic opportunity," she added.
The funds include:
-$10 million to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
-$10 million to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
-$2.5 million to the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, which works to win control of state legislatures
-$1 million to the Democratic Attorneys General Association
-$1 million to the Democratic Governors' Association.
"Like President Joe Biden before, when Vice President Kamala Harris and Tim Walz enter the Oval Office, they’ll rely on strong partners from the Hill to state legislatures to move America forward," said DNC Chair Jaime Harrison.
"We must win at all levels of government, up and down the ballot, to safeguard our freedoms and continue our economic progress — be it in red, blue, or purple America," he added.
If we elect Kamala Harris and hand her a majority in the House and Senate this cycle we could see real, material changes in the lives of average Americans. A brighter future is possible and it falls to all of us to help build it.
I want to say he's a BGOL member, but BGOL menfolk are usually too smart to actually PAY for porn.
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