Michael Moore Endorses Obama, Calls Clinton Tactics "Disgusting"

Michael Moore endorses Obama in a commentary on his site:

[O]ver the past two months, the actions and words of Hillary Clinton have gone from being merely disappointing to downright disgusting. I guess the debate last week was the final straw. I've watched Senator Clinton and her husband play this game of appealing to the worst side of white people, but last Wednesday, when she hurled the name "Farrakhan" out of nowhere, well that's when the silly season came to an early end for me. She said the "F" word to scare white people, pure and simple. Of course, Obama has no connection to Farrakhan. But, according to Senator Clinton, Obama's pastor does -- AND the "church bulletin" once included a Los Angeles Times op-ed from some guy with Hamas! No, not the church bulletin!

This sleazy attempt to smear Obama was brilliantly explained the following night by Stephen Colbert. He pointed out that if Obama is supported by Ted Kennedy, who is Catholic, and the Catholic Church is led by a Pope who was in the Hitler Youth, that can mean only one thing: OBAMA LOVES HITLER!

Yes, Senator Clinton, that's how you sounded. Like you were nuts. Like you were a bigot stoking the fires of stupidity. How sad that I would ever have to write those words about you. You have devoted your life to good causes and good deeds. And now to throw it all away for an office you can't win unless you smear the black man so much that the superdelegates cry "Uncle (Tom)" and give it all to you.

But that can't happen. You cast your die when you voted to start this bloody war. When you did that you were like Moses who lost it for a moment and, because of that, was prohibited from entering the Promised Land.

How sad for a country that wanted to see the first woman elected to the White House. That day will come -- but it won't be you. We'll have to wait for the current Democratic governor of Kansas to run in 2016 (you read it here first!).

There are those who say Obama isn't ready, or he's voted wrong on this or that. But that's looking at the trees and not the forest. What we are witnessing is not just a candidate but a profound, massive public movement for change. My endorsement is more for Obama The Movement than it is for Obama the candidate.

That is not to take anything away from this exceptional man. But what's going on is bigger than him at this point, and that's a good thing for the country. Because, when he wins in November, that Obama Movement is going to have to stay alert and active. Corporate America is not going to give up their hold on our government just because we say so. President Obama is going to need a nation of millions to stand behind him.

Comments

[Trinidad707]

03:24 AM on 04/25/2008

Dopey Michael doesn't check his facts well enough...he gets highly insulted because Clinton mentions Farrakhan's name out of the blue..saying he didn't even know Farrakhan...NEWS FLASH Michael...it has also been said in many an article about the funny Rezko land deal that Obama talked the doctor selling the house into selling the house and the house’s side yard separately.
There would be two separate buyers of the single property - both purchasing the property on the same day. ...Guess who owned Obama's house before Obama did..a doctor .....Dr Louis Farrakhan
Michael aren't you embarrassed!

[TimmySlagle]

10:58 AM on 04/23/2008

No surprise.

Chubby boys often grow up to resent women.

[mbu]

03:01 AM on 04/23/2008

"AND the "church bulletin" once included a Los Angeles Times op-ed from some guy with Hamas!"

I love how he is trying to be sarcastic here.

[Dendera]

06:19 AM on 04/23/2008

Uhm... he wasn't "trying" to be sarcastic. He was sarcastic.

Now, so, what is your point exactly?

[Trinidad707]

02:51 AM on 04/23/2008

Obama most definately has a connection to Farrakhan. Do you think it a coincidence that 1. Obama's pastor has known Farrakhan for years and Obama ha known his pastor for 17 years.then Farrakhan endorses Obama. also without the nation of islam you get no where in chicago politics. 2. Obama's home he purchased in Hyde Park with the Rezko money helping with the lot next door...guess who was the former owner...of Obama's home..Yep...you guessed it Louis Farrakhan...We could all be stupidly naive.....and say wowo...gee it must have been on the market, and it just so happened Obama saw it...not likely celebrity homes are usually sold on an inside circle.....Michael Moore is a disappointment....he just cares about selling books...he gives us sicko about healthcare, then endorses Obama who' shelathcare plan leaves some people out of healthcare...way to go hypocrit

[Dendera]

06:21 AM on 04/23/2008

Louis Farrakhan was the former owner of Obama's home? Really? Says who? Wouldn't Faux news be running with this from here to eterntiy if it were true? C'mon, where's the beef?

[armadillious2002]

07:25 AM on 04/23/2008

All this and Obama is still going to be President and prosecute Rove and the gang - this must really tick you off huh?

[haboob]

03:51 PM on 04/22/2008

that should re invigorate the obamacans

[ctom]

01:36 PM on 04/22/2008

Campaigns are the ultimate job interview. It's what you do here that will give insights to the candidate's performance on the job.

So let's take a tally:
1. One campaign is broke. The other not.
2. One has management issues, the other not.
3. One is losing, the other not.
4. One has coordination issues, the other not.
5. One has Bill, the other not.

It's getting clearer by the day, Obama is peforming better in his interviews and has the reference (i.e. votes, delegate count, etc.) to get the job. What remains is old time insider's track that Hillary enjoys.

[GrammyinPA]

12:59 PM on 04/22/2008

Michael Moore !!!!!

Another reason for me to vote for Hillary today.

[FrankBlackFrancis]

03:04 PM on 04/22/2008

Thanks for nothing.

[BeastOfYuccaFlats]

04:19 PM on 04/22/2008

Don't forget to take your anti-dementia pill before leaving the home.

[GrammyinPA]

09:48 AM on 04/23/2008

Thank you very much for reminding me to take my anti-dementia pill.

I forget that darn pill frequently !!!

[JacobSinger]

11:55 AM on 04/22/2008

Every time anyone with any degree of public visibility [particularly anyone associated with Hollywood] makes an endorsement people take the opportunity to call them out on it, making fun of them, asking what makes them so special that anyone should take their endorsement seriously. Or then someone calls them out for not speaking out soon enough.

Criticize Moore as you will; he's a guy who makes films about what he believes in, he's a progressive white guy in a world filled with pasty-white GOP guys, and he does his part in trying to push through progressive change.

Disparage him all you like, here are some facts, and they will not go away: he was right about Bush in every aspect, he did all that he could do to fire us up to vote against him in 2004, and in the end we didn't do our part.

So, for all of you Michael Moore bashers, if you didn't vote against Bush in 2000, 2004, or supported Bush & the invasion of Iraq in 2003, then you really should shut your pie hole, 'cause he's shown better judgment than you, and did so when it counted.

[WorkingClass]

10:32 AM on 04/22/2008

Michael Moore represents working class white guys. Thats why so many Democrats cant stand him. He has actual balls. He stands in the street with a bull horn and calls out the corporate creeps who are the true enemy's of working people. Kucinich, Edwards, Moore, anyone who will tell it like it is and take direct action is rejected by the Democrats. Y'all picked a fine time to obsess on your race and gender.

[JoInCalifornia]

11:32 AM on 04/22/2008

Yeah, and he flies around in private jets and got all huffy because his 5 star hotel room wasn't ready for him or some such nonsense last month. Look, all of these representatives of you and me are a bunch of phonies. Both of my Senators and my representative (Pelosi) are filthy rich. All that seems to happen when we support these people is that they get richer and we stay the same. As for the other side, did you hear that the ex-president of Goldman Sachs just bought an 81 million dollar house in Florida? All of these people are shafting us. The Clintons made like 10 million dollars last year, Obama made 4 million, and I don't know about McCain, but his wife's family is also filthy rich.

[basta]

11:45 AM on 04/22/2008

J.H. Christ, stop whining. You live in one of the most beautiful regions in the world, best weather, great economy,... These people are not ripping you off. Moore and Pelosi are representing you, the working slob, in Congress and in the media, and we choose them. The guy from Goldman Sachs is another story. For that we need a maximum wage law.

[WorkingClass]

09:20 PM on 04/22/2008

JoInCalifornia: With all due respect, I suggest to you that all rich people are not the same. Some of them are on our side. Like Michael Moore.

[AxelDC]

10:25 AM on 04/22/2008

Moore is wrong. Clinton did not make a mistake; she is fundamentally unsuited for executive leadership. Look at how poorly she has mismanaged her own campaign. She is deep in debt, far behind in the polls, and now only clinging desperately because it is in her nature.

Ever since her hollow victories in Texas and Ohio netted her no delegate advantage, everyone has come to realize that she cannot win. Her own claim to super delegates has become absurd as her lead shrunk from over 100 to now about 24. Of the 300 remaining super delegates, she will need 220, or 3/4. The odds of her winning 3-1 among the super delegates are long enough, but Reid, Pelosi and Dean want to put this thing away, and they will push congressional and DNC super delegates to endorse the candidate with the most popular votes and the most delegates. That will easily get him the 100 super delegates he will need for a majority.

Of course she knows this, but the only reason she continues is that she enjoys playing attack dog. After years of playing defense and counter-attack, now she gets to be the "vast right wing conspiracy". She gets to play Karl Rove, and she LOVES it. She has nothing against Obama. He jsut got in the way of her ambitions. She knows her candidacy is DOA, but now she just wants to savage him to a bloody pulp just to satisfy her vengeful instincts.

[KenBenobi]

12:33 PM on 04/22/2008

Nice. Even if I weren't supporting the Obama Movement, there would be no arguing with you AxelDC. That's exactly where we stand. I get the feeling Dean, Pelosi and Reid know it and win or lose for BO/HRC today, you're going to see a huge push to end this exercise in Clintonian futility thing STARTING TOMORROW.

[eggman]

09:02 AM on 04/22/2008

A few months Moore was dismissing Obama as an unknown neophyte. At the time, Edwards was saying all the labor-friendly things Moore likes, and Moore fell hard for Edwards' line.

I've been for Obama from the start, and I agree that some of Clinton's campaign tactics have been unfair. It's a campaign she should have won, she's losing, she's going to throw an elbow or two. Moore shouldn't crucify her for it.

[MiddleRoad1]

09:17 AM on 04/22/2008

I disagree. She definitely should be called on it

[townsurrl]

09:01 AM on 04/22/2008

Michael ! A man of your intellect should have been vocal much earlier and not stayed quiet just observing. Clintons had my support all those years ago but after seeing Bill traveling the world with the ex-president Bush I wanted to throw up and then watching Hillary lying, deceiving and basically following the Republican slimy style of climbing the ladder to presidency, made me equally sick. These are not the Clintons of the past. The Clintons of today are supporting the class of people they always wanted to belong to-the rich and powerful. They are in fact Republicans benefitting from fooling the Democrats and Liberals into believing otherwise. You know it as well as many others and therefore what were you waiting for? Miracles?

[EbonBear]

08:57 AM on 04/22/2008

Kind of a double-edged sword. I like some of Moore's work (like his books, less keen on his films) but a lot of people hate him with a passion and his endorsement of Obama may well cause people to see Obama as further left than he actually is. They've already started describing him as a far-leftist.

As for the reactionary brigade's charges:
Rev Wright: The only reason he is an issue is the insane American obligation to be inordinatly proud of your nation simply for existing. Here (Britain), his comments wouldn't even raise an eyebrow. Ditto Michelle Obama's comment about pride.
Ayers: From what I can tell, Obama and Ayers are casual aquintances, not personal friends. They move in the same circles and they're civil to each other, that's about it.
National healthcare: Works for every other industrialised nation in the world. Some good, some bad. The US could quite easily study the current systems and mix-and-match parts until they get the best result.
Rezco: Not commenting because I know nothing about it yet.

[iamjoyce]

09:23 AM on 04/22/2008

The people that hate Michael Moore will be voting Repug, anyway.

[blubastian]

08:50 AM on 04/22/2008

This Michael Moore endorsement is as bad for Obama as another one of those Wright/Ayers/Rezko type skeletons tumbling out of his graveyard size closet. Not exactly something Obama would want his drones to be bragging to the world about!

[AlwaysFairDem]

08:43 AM on 04/22/2008

She has become the devil himself...and I am very sad to have the legacy of Bill Clinton go down the drain because of Hillary. Well, you have to have the right Eve otherwise you are casted like Adam! --Adam & Eve!!

[blubastian]

09:02 AM on 04/22/2008

If you must make the comparison, I’d say that Hillary is more akin to Lilith, Adam’s first wife. Not the Lilith that the male dominated church has turned into a demon but the Lilith that was created from the same earth as Adam, his equal. Eve was created from Adam’s rib giving him the power to dominate her and use her as a no more than a servant and a womb for his heirs.