George Clooney: If Obama Were a Republican He’d Be Considered ‘Very Successful’
If only President Barack Obama were a Republican, then the public would realize he has been “a very successful” President, but Democrats, actor/activist George Clooney fretted, “are just very poor...at explaining” their accomplishments. The assessment from Clooney, who also declared “the President that I voted for, I’m very proud of,” came in a Meet the Press online “Press Pass” sit-down with David Gregory aired on the real Meet the Press. Clooney imagined that if he and Obama were Republicans:
I would be selling all of the, you know, you saved the auto industry and you got Osama bin Laden and you passed a health care bill that nobody could pass -- if that was a Republican issue. I would be able to sell his presidency as a very successful one. But Democrats are bad at that. We like to pick each other apart.
Clooney appeared Sunday on Meet the Press and Fox News Sunday to publicize the genocide in Sudan.
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From the March 18 Meet the Press:
DAVID GREGORY: What about the guy who does have interest in being re-elected. There are some who believe that he’s now heading into calmer waters for re-election and that he looks pretty good. Do you see that as a danger sign. Do you think President Obama looks good to be re-elected?
GEORGE CLOONEY: I think he’s always looked good to be re-elected, even before the field, as we’re still looking to find out what the field is, because I happen to believe that Democrats are just very poor in general at explaining what it is when they accomplish something, I think they’re pretty bad at it. Republicans are very good at it. You know, I’m an old Democrat but I grew up around a lot of Republicans and, you know, if I was a Republican, if Obama was a Republican, I would be selling all of the, you know, you saved the auto industry and you got Osama bin Laden and you passed a health care bill that nobody could pass -- if that was a Republican issue. I would be able to sell his presidency as a very successful one. But Democrats are bad at that. We like to pick each other apart. That’s our thing, you know. So I think it’s going to be an interesting time, you know. Listen, The worst thing you could do is feel in any way safe or cocky about it because you will always lose.
GREGORY: Your friend, Matt Damon’s been critical of the President, saying that he’s disappointed. Do you share disappointment?
CLOONEY: Not in the least. But, you know, Matt and I are really dear friends and that’s what makes the world go around, you know, that we will disagree on things. Matt’s issues and a lot of it were about teaching and education. It’s a very important part for him. I, on the other hand, the issues that I believe in, and the President that I voted for, I’m very proud of.
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I'm practically speechless
Submitted by Galvanic on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 9:47am.
If Obama were a Republican he'd have never gotten the nomination, and not because he is black, but because he would've had a thorough vetting.
I want Clooney to take over the Obama 2012 campaign from Axelrod and SELL Obamacare. I'd love to see it, as the empty, "hopeful" promises of Obamacare melt monthly before our very eyes.
Please, George, take it over. Push those so-called accomplishments.
Truer words were never
Submitted by Smartypants on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 10:08am.
Truer words were never written. There would never be a Republican President Obama, not with his background and complete lack of experience. The media would have torn him apart. The msm attack machine would have been doubled up on Obama, because a Republican who happens to be a member of a minority group, is always dangerous to the liberal cause and must be destroyed.
In addition to an actual vetting
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 11:17am.
In addition to an actual vetting, the press would have pounded Obama with Larry Sinclair's accusations regarding Obama's drug use and sexual proclivity. They would have treated him the same way they treated Herman Cain and trotted out any and all allegations concerning anything possible to embarrass and destroy a black Republican.
If Marco Rubio ever gains more prominence on a national level, it will be very interesting to see if the MSM drags him through the same mud pit that they never fail to use when a black man runs as a Republican.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
Good points, fish
Submitted by Galvanic on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 1:05pm.
And I could see the Race Industry questioning his authenticity as an African American. Since his mother was white and his father was a black African, they would remind us that he didn't receive the real "Black Experience" in America, and therefore could not possibly understand the black community.
If Rubio is selected to run as Vice President, it will be interesting to see how the Left handles him. My gut feeling is that trying to smear Rubio will not sete well with Latinos in general, and especially Cuban-Americans. It would cost them Florida outright, and the Dems desperately need that state.
George, shut up and act/direct!
Submitted by Mary Louise Turner on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 9:49am.
To George Clooney and all those idiot Hollyweird "activists" out there: Shut up and stick to your knitting! I've had it up to here with your inane liberalism...
what was the quote about having Republican friends?
Submitted by OuttaMyWay on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 10:55am.
really?
where, and we care about being conservative, not Republican.
How do we measure success?
Submitted by Radical1979 on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 9:55am.
By doubling gas prices? By increasing the costs of health care? By the unavailability of medicines? By increased unemployment (I don't care what they say, there is a huge lack of good paying full time jobs)? By a decrease in the respect of our country worldwide? By the alienation of our allies? By the increase in the price of EVERYTHING?
If those are measures of success, then Obama is a success. But George, this is not how Republicans measure success.
Clooney must see things in a
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 9:56am.
Clooney must see things in a much different world than I do. Didn't Obama just make a 17 min commercial to tout his achievements and doesn't he tout his horn every chance he gets? The reason Obama is poor at explaining hi accomplishments is everyone sees through the lies.
Bingo!!
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 10:31am.
And not just 17 minutes, but he's had a full time cheerleading squad in the newsrooms of America for 3 years. If you only listened to the network news broadcasts you'd be an idiot if you DIDN'T think he was doing a great job. That's all they've been saying for 3 years.
My dear, 82 year old mom only watches CBS. She's a lifelong Dem and doesn't realize that her party has been taken over by the radicals and Communists from the 60s. I try to tell her some of the things that Obama and his Cabinet have done and she has no clue about them. She thinks I'm making the stuff up because she hasn't heard it on the news, or read it in the Charleston (W.Va.)
PravdaGazette.Clooney spends more time in the White House than Plugs.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 10:00am.
And he won't be happy until he convinces Boy Wonder to invade Sudan.
Clooney is a coward
Submitted by Radical1979 on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 10:06am.
He always reverts to "I'm not a policy person" when asked what the U.S. should do. Bull, he wants us to invade Sudan and then claim he never wanted to war when it goes as badly as we all know it will.
And if Bush were a Democrat he would be considered "very
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 10:02am.
successful" by his liberal critics as well. So what's your point Georgie Boy?
Mr. Looney:
Submitted by almostacowboy on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 10:09am.
The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves.
What a Joke
Submitted by FaulknerFan on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 10:10am.
If it weren't for the grace of God and/or luck or whatever these celebrities, be they movies, music or media, would all be selling cars at a backwoods used car lot if they hadn't already boozed or doped themselves to death. To think that they have anything to add to the discourse of the running of the country is laughable. We live in an upside down world where the ludicrous is applauded as wise and profound and the down to earth common sense that made it possible for these clowns to live like kings is ridiculed as backwoods and ignorant. If it wasn't going to be so tragic for all of us, it would be funny to watch when the whole house of cards starts tumbling down.
And if Obama were white, he
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 10:09am.
And if Obama were white, he wouldn't benefit from that "soft bigotry of low expectations" and would be considered a miserable failure.
He is a failure.
Submitted by needle on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 10:44am.
The Obamas act very much like they have hit the jackpot with their numerous extravagant White House parties, and super-extravagant vacations; but as soon as the trash is swept out of the White House and the Kool-Aid wears off nationally, I predict Obama will be THE byword for failure for all time forward.
- Looking forward to the self-annihilation of the Manipulated Stories Machine.
Yeah, right...
Submitted by c5then on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 10:20am.
And if George W. Bush had been a democrat, he'd be considered the greatest President since FDR.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
LOL!
Submitted by needle on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 10:23am.
Like all of us, I am used to seeing outrageous super-silly headlines ALL THE TIME, and am pretty jaded.
But this is the first time, since I cannot remember when, that I actually broke out laughing upon reading a headline.
The lunacy abroad is simply breaking all bounds. I really expect something on a par with 9/11 to occur before the year is out, maybe several things. Heaven help us.
- Looking forward to the self-annihilation of the Manipulated Stories Machine.
This reinforces my view
Submitted by octavioj on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 10:33am.
That these people on the legt arecso insulated that theyvsimply do not accept the existence of the other or even conceive of it. If the president were a Republican he would NEVER have pursued the same policies. These Hollywood types do nit even know what being consevative means.
Well-Well
Submitted by NVRAT on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 10:39am.
Clooney the Looney has spoken. All God`s children obey and pray Obama becomes a Republican and all would be well in the Hollywood World. Yes Master I hear and obey. Hail to his majesty Obama.
If...
Submitted by Chulio on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 11:06am.
If GW Bush had been a Democrat then he might have been the most successful president ever.
If the president were Republican, he'd be considered successful?
Submitted by CO2Maker on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 11:08am.
So, it's not about race, eh?
Tell that the the frothing commentators. You're the kind of guy they'd listen to. Articulate, Democratic, good looking ... I'll stop now because Chris is getting a tinkle!
Following that logic...
Submitted by VideoSavant on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 11:25am.
...and if chicken s*** was chicken salad, there'd be no food deserts and nothing for Lady Moochelle to do.
Nixon
Submitted by Nosmo on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 11:54am.
So Georgie...If Nixon were a democrat he'd be considered 'very successful' also?
And if I had some bacon...
Submitted by CobraMan on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 12:03pm.
And if I had some bacon, I could make some bacon and eggs, if I had some eggs.
Of course, the truth is: if Obama had been a Republican, the Democrats would have made sure that this "uncle Tom" wouldn't have been President.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
And Clooney should know!
Submitted by Morganfrost on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 12:10pm.
I think he once met a Republican. Plus, he's a recognized Hollywood figure, so I'm sure we can rely on his wisdom and guidance.
Dopey Hollywood Liberals
Submitted by Bill Brasky on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 12:10pm.
Clooney, if Obama was a Republican and had this horrific record of failure, he would be buried by the media and would have NO CHANCE (deservedly) of being re-elected. Also laughable is the claim that the problem is that democrats aren't very good at explaining their successes... how many media cheerleaders would they need then to do that?? Moronic.
P.S Screw Tom Hanks.
Looney George, that's a false premise.
Submitted by WhoIsJohnGalt on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 12:25pm.
If Obama were a Republican, yes, his successes would be more popular. Not by virtue of his being a Republican, but by virtue of his policies and actions. A Republican would not have jammed this healthcare mess down our throats, a Republican would not have given GM billions, stolen that value of the debt and stock that debtors and stockholders had with GM, he would not have given that stock to the unions. A Republican would not have thrown untold billions at idiotic energy schemes that are not yet ready for the market, etc, etc, etc.
So yes, I would agree with you. If Obama were Republican, he would be more popular because generally, Republican leaders more closely align with the values of the 40% of Americans who identify themselves as Conservative. Whereas only 20% identify themselves as Liberals.
Let me expound upon that last point.Here's the false virtue in a Republican/Conservative trying to court the middle of the road voters. Conventional wisdom says that he ought to "run to the middle", to be less conservative. Well, the 60%of the voters mentioned above identify themselves 2 to 1 as right of center, correct? Well, of the remaining 40% who don't identify, if we apply the same breakdown (2 to 1) that one would logically assume lean to the left or right, if not to the point where they would identify themselves as one or the other, then that means that they would respond to a left or right message in roughly the same percentage breakdown (2 to 1). So we can therefore deduce that of that 40%, two-thirds would be almost 27% vs about 13%, right? So why do the strategists think that courting that 13% that would lean to the left make sense? As we always see, when a conservative runs as a Conservative, he usually wins, whereas when a Liberal runs as a Liberal, he almost always loses. Makes sense.
So it seems from the math above, that a conservative message would be received well, by as much as 67% of the country, while a Liberal message would be received well by 33% of the country. Tell me again why the conventional wisdom is to "run to the middle"?
Looney er Clooney
Submitted by mmilesll on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 12:32pm.
This guy is just too smart for words. He goes to Africa to help people who need help but have needed help for generations. No problem there, if that's what he wants to do. But he doesn't seem to care about people in his own country who have been trapped for generations here. Horrible schools, miserable living conditions, drugs and liberals who seem to think the only way to help these people is more money. Notice I didn't say more money to the people who are in poverty, more money to government programs that haven't worked and won't work. Help your own countrymen and when you help them out of poverty they can help others. Try not to always be "on camera".
Actually, Bonehead, Can't-do, and McDummell probably would...
Submitted by Dave. on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 1:00pm.
...consider the Dear Ruler to be a success if he were a repub, as they have done less than nothing to obstruct the progression of Obamunism for the last three-plus years.
If anything, they have helped it along.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
"Democrats are just very poor
Submitted by LinTaylor on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 1:05pm.
"Democrats are just very poor in general at explaining what it is when they accomplish something"
Really now? Why don't we talk about the Chosen One talking about the death of Osama bin Laden as if he stormed the compound like a real-life John Rambo and Seal Team 6 was nonexistent? And the countless other instances of barely-veiled egotism we've been subjected to for the last four years?
Then again, George is right in a way. Obama is very poor at explaining what he accomplishes, since in his mind everything he does, from brushing his teeth to wiping his posterior with the Constitution, is an accomplishment worthy of a ticker-tape parade.
Dear George C. Looney, If
Submitted by mattm on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 7:04pm.
Dear George C. Looney,
If Odumbo was a republican libtard asshats like you would be protesting his illegal wars, his unconstitutional rescinding of civil rights, his unending executive orders, his cronyisn, his billion dollar bailouts of campaign donor corporations, his profligate vactioning, and on and on and on... But then, if he was a republican (a true one, not a RINO), he wouldn't be involved in any of that Hitlerian behavior.
If Clooney had a brain he'd
Submitted by Average_JoeMN on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 8:16pm.
If Clooney had a brain he'd be considered a gnat.
Obama's Accomplishments?
Submitted by RealVet on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 10:44pm.
"Saved the auto industry" - Just type "GM Layoofs" into any search engine. Then there's the Chevy "Volt".
"Got Bin Laden" - I believe it was the work of the intelligence community and the Navy Seals. All he did was give the go ahead.
"Passed Health Care" - Oh Yeah, that was a great accomplishment. Hospitals, Doctors, Insurers, and patients just love it.
Funny how he left out gas prices, food prices, utility costs, taxes, the national debt, the foreign policy debacles, the gulf oil spill, the unemployment rate, the increase in food stamp users, etc., etc. Jimmy Carter was a prince compared to this jerk.
These people should stick to acting. They've been brainwashed since birth and have no other notable skills.
Seems that the only people who praise this moron on a regular basis are Hollywood idiots, welfare queens, gay & lesbian activists, racists, and brain dead college students.
successful Republican Obama? How?
Submitted by BullRider on Tue, 03/20/2012 - 10:25am.
How could Obama be regarded as successful as a Republican when he has never held a real private sector job? What a lot of nonsense from yet another Hollywood nitwit who ALSO has no idea about reality. Dream on, Clooney.
ha ha ha
Submitted by amyshulk on Tue, 03/20/2012 - 10:27am.
Huh, I kinda see his point. Hey left, you need to ditch O ASAP - he's a closet R!!!
Ronald Reagan