Celebrity Stumpers: Chris Rock on Obama, 'The Right Side of History'
In this clip, Chris Rock introduces Barack Obama—the candidate for “progressive people that are not scared,” Mr. Rock says, who “want to be on the right side of history, because you’ll be real embarrassed if he won and you wasn’t down with it.” The comedian adds that the “smart” senator from Illinois, who he has met a few times, “is a change, and it’s time for a change.” After all, a new regime is needed, in the funnyman’s words, because “anything would be better than [George] Bush. You know, Bush, my god, it’s just…You knew he didn’t care. In a way, Bush’s presidency has been a success, because he hasn’t let us down. It was everything we thought it was going to be and worse. It was like a horror movie—man, that really scared me!” Mr. Rock says to loud applause, before drawing a distinction between the way the president handled Hurricane Katrina (no time for the black people drowning) and the wildfires in L.A. (pour Katrina water on the white people who are burning).
Here's a list of most of the key endorsements for Senator Obama:
http://acropolisreview.com/2008/02/endorsements-of-barack-obama.html
Chris Rock says that Obama voted against the war. I wouls like for him to tell me how Obama did that as he was a State Senator in Illinois during 2003.
Anything or anyone would be better than Bush. Not that race/gender/etc. really matter...but if a person really wants to look at it in one point of view...White man has been running the US, claiming territories as its own, slaughtering hundreds of thousands in the process just in the name of Liberty and Freedom. Give someone else a shot. Why not? It's the land of opportunity. The Great US Nation was founded, supposedly, on the diversity of different cultures combining. Let's get a different point of view. After all, it's only for 4 years right?
Chris must have gotten some dates wrong that's all. He never claimed to be a Historian..
On October 26, 2002, Obama said: "I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz and other armchair, weekend warriors in this administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the costs in lives lost and in hardships borne. What I am opposed to is the attempt by political hacks like Karl Rove to distract us from a rise in the uninsured, a rise in the poverty rate, a drop in the median income, to distract us from corporate scandals and a stock market that has just gone through the worst month since the Great Depression. That's what I'm opposed to. A dumb war. A war based not on reason but on passion."
In 2002, when Obama opposed war with Iraq, he knew he would run for the Senate in 2004 and this stand might cost him the election. No other major Democratic candidate for president opposed the war before it happened.