Ben n’ Jen hit Hub for Barack

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner–he, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Good Will Hunting and director of wait-where-did-this-come-from Gone Baby Gone, and she, the terrorist-demolishing star of Alias and The Kingdom–hosted a primo event for Obama right here in Boston a few nights ago.
From the Herald:
Calling the senator from Illinois a “genuine, real force” the Cambridge homey [...]

Keeping up with the Obama supporters…

She’s famous for, well, being the daughter of someone famous (and a little x-rated tape), but Kim Kardashian still counts. She was spotted out with this not-so-subtle t-shirt.

Find your favorite celeb’s political picks!

Very interesting. Borderline Orwellian. NEWSMEAT’s website publicizes the political donations of celebrities. It’s fascinating browsing, especially given some of the big-money celebrities that have donated. Tom Clancy, for example, sent about 1/10th of a Red October ($237,050) to the Republican party; Michael Douglas donated $587,450 to the Democratic Party.
And some big New England sports figures [...]

Good enough, smart enough, and dog-gone it, people (apparently) like him

Former SNL writer / actor and Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot author Al Franken, who is taking on incumbent Senator Norm Coleman for his Minnesota senate seat, has taken the lead in the polls. From The Washington Times:
While Minnesotans have been open-minded — they elected former professional wrestler Jesse “The Body” Ventura [...]

Said, it’s 3 a.m. I must be lonely…

The little girl from the now-infamous Clinton “3 a.m.” ad? From Time:
Casey Knowles didn’t much like a recent campaign commercial for Hillary Clinton _ even though she’s in it as a sleeping 8-year-old.
After all, she about to turn 18 now and is a big supporter of Barack Obama.
“What I don’t like about the ad [...]

MAJOR LEAGUE endorsement: Indians GM for Obama

Indians GM Mark Shapiro is hoping Barack has better luck against Hillary than his Indians did in the ALCS against the Red Sox:
So what was Mark Shapiro doing on the WKNR (850-AM) radio last week explaining to Tony Rizzo why he wants Barack Obama to be president?The way Shapiro sees it, he not only is [...]

Interesting Times article on celebrity causes…

Not really much on their electoral support, but an intriguing article nonetheless.
Well, who is? But it is the way it works. Stars — movie stars, rock stars, sports stars — exercise a ludicrous influence over the public consciousness. Many are happy to exploit that power; others are wrecked by it. In recent years, stars have [...]

Rolling Stone endorses Obama

They even give tie it in with a Star Wars title. Jann Wenner pens the endorsement:
The tides of history are rising higher and faster these days. Read them right and ride them, or be crushed. And then along comes Barack Obama, with the kinds of gifts that appear in politics but once every few generations. [...]

But the vote was 10 to 8. The Chief, he’s got his hand up! Look!

Jack Nicholson and A Few Good Men director buddy Rob Reiner have teamed up to slice-and-dice some of his classic roles into a Hillary Clinton ad. From the U.K.’s The Guardian:
“Hubba hubba hubba, money, money, money, who do you trust?” asks Nicholson in the guise of the Joker at the start of the compilation, which [...]

Dream, dream, dream dream dream…

The New Yorker has a great blurb on candidate-related dreams, profiling a website that invites strangers to detail their nighttime visions of Hillary or Barack, dancing in their heads.
To no surprise, a few celebs pop up in some dreams. No offense to the honorable Mr. Carville, but it appears that Obama’s got the skin-deep factor.
Metapsychologists [...]