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

[flasher3838]

i am currently in production on a movie about michael moore its titled disgusting fatso its all about how disgusting fatso's like him drive up health care costs for everyone. his eating habits are nothing more then self centered arrogance on his part.

[Darsan54]

Well, this certainly addresses the issues in a civilized, rational and adult fashion. Where do all these grade school dropouts come from?

[AlwaysFairDem]

That is what I thought too!!

[AlwaysFairDem]

Put a good use of your money on something constructive pal! You sound like a communist dictating how someone should eat and when they should eat. Don't you know we have freedom here in America...well whatever left of it from the Bush Administration.

[JacobSinger]

You should get off the computer now as an adult might want to use it....

[OverCoffee]

I had no idea Hillary had stooped so low. Previously I could write off her tactics to win as "just politics", but this is "just slime". She must really not give a hoot about our country and want McCain to win so she can maintain the illusion of winning in 2012. What a shame.

[kempis]

Well, Obama says McCain is better than Bush, so.....

[Thurber]

And that's somehow an endorsement of McCain? Saying he's better than Bush, is like saying he's better than an un-trained monkey. He probably is.

[SuperBunny]

So? What's that got to do with Clinton? Nothing. Weak arguments from the Hillary camp, as always.

[FrankBlackFrancis]

And Hillary claims MCain has more experience and Obama only has a speech. What of it?

[Avis]

So did Hillary ! Duh

[GhostOfSchlesinger]

Michael Moore has a history of stepping out with precisely what he genuinely believes.

Like him or not - and I like him - there's no BS to the guy. Period.

Strangest thing of all is that there are actually still Americans - I mean sentient, breathing citizens living in an at least marginally free society - that have failed to notice that Hillary and Bill's tactics have been disgusting since South Carolina, when Bill bizarrely channeled Strom Thurmond.

For me, ANYONE that actively seeks to perpetuate the politics of old automatically loses my support in perpetuity.

And the fact that Hillary and Bill have now aligned themselves with the very right wing press moguls that were at the heart of the "vast right wing conspiracy" should be a sickening warning to middle America. These are the very people that work every day, via talk radio and yellow journalism, to smash our liberties and sustain the many-headed hydra of the military-industrial complex in the guise of false patriotism - you know, the "flag pin" and "he's a Muslim" people.

Disgusting! What sort of plans are they hatching? What have they traded away on behalf of the American people?

Hillary Clinton - Racism, lies, smear, distortion, war and fear mongering, a pro-war voting record, support of extremist right wing positions on everything from bankruptcy to freedom of expression . . .

And there are actually American citizens willing to defile the voting booth by pulling a lever with this "candidate's" name

[Collielady]

You have aptly described Bill and Hillary. They're corporate whores who have sacrificed their integrity at the expense of the country. Bill was sold out when he connected himself at the hip with Bush 41. The Clintons have been lured into the vast right wing conspiracy, as Hillary herself labeled it, and have aligned themselves with everything most Americans have come to hate. They are, perhaps, the right wing's last hope of salvaging its power. They may even be a Karl Rove tactic, but many don't, or won't, see it.

[duze]

Apoyo. Hillary didn't feel that she had to stack the deck in her favor. She's always felt to was entitled to the presidency. One thing we don't need is Bill back in the White House with free time on his hands.
Hillary is absolutely sickening trying to relate to working class peple in Pennsylvania like she has something in common with them. How gullible. She's never been around middle class people in her life and has no intention to ever again. Especially after she gets their stupid votes. Nafta alone should have been enough to write her off. And I do believe she still doing secret NAFTA deals that why so many of her so-called sure bet Democrats have left her side. Doesn't this tell you people something,
people who know Hillary on a personal level want nothing to do with her. Delegtes that she thought she had in her corner, left her and went over to Obama. No one has said that the deserted party lines to go over to her side. But they have for Obama. This hard working for us, spirit of Rocky tall tale is just to make sure you let her into the club, just long enough for her to use you up.. Again for the last 20 years, there's been no one in the WHite House but Bushes and Clintons, yet here we are. You can't blame everything on the Bushes.

[DEHawk]

PERFECT. A match made in heaven, oh wait I shouldn't say heaven because then I will be clinging to some religious beliefs, I guess I should say match made in a place of nirvana. Two people that think America is the worst place in the world to live.

[raaf]

Nice, but i don't think this endorsement means much. Those who like Michael Moore's work were probably voting for Obama anyway. I mean what kind of liberal could vote for a warmonger like Hillary Clinton and look at himself/herself at the mirror the next day?

[eggman]

Could even hurt Obama in the general election. Being best buddies with Farrakhan is one thing, but getting Michael Moore's endorsement is like getting a valentine from bin Laden.

[JacobSinger]

Hey walrus face...koo-koo-kachoo!

[KDH]

Oh yeah, I can hear the Rove-GOP attack machine already. Something like: "Obama..... A Michael Moore - far left Democrat.

[Imabachi]

The Democratic slogan should be: I'm Left, but I'm Right! and You're Crazy!

[Kalima]

MM has the platform to say what he wants to say and quite frankly he can endorse whomever
he wants. I would like to thank him for using this platform for expressing how many people
in America and around the world, feel about Hillary and Bill's campaign. Thank you!

[willfarnaby]

Micheal Moore? Yeah, I hate him too, just like every right-thinking American must!

To be that informed, that creative and utterly involved in the democratic process and social justice... To be capable of rubbing two thoughts together and communicating above red neck threshold.

Why, except for being overweight, he's absolutely un-American.

[neoconsareliars]

You must be one of those red neck, right wing, toothless aholes that keep son voting for the neonazis Bush crowd. Un-American is your mantra.

[Darsan54]

WTF !?!?!?!?

[aznurse]

I believe Willfarnaby was being sarcasticl

[MinneapolisBob]

Hillary has only herself to blame for losing the candidacy. She has embellished stories too many times, and that has caused voters to lose confidence in her, and not trust her. Once is forgivable, twice is pushing it, three times she's lost it. it's now so numerous she has blown her credibility.

[killlthekingg]

1.The hospital story your referring to did indeed turn out to be true.
2.Bosnia is dumb.Its a story she has been telling for years that she exsagurated. Ronald Regan did it all the time.
3.Mark Penn was fired for his involvement with NAFTA/columbia & she spoke out againest Bill's involvement. Her voting record proves she opposes it.

Stop the dirty bashing. If you support a candidate who's candidacy is about new positive hopeful politics than you should practice what your being preached. I really didn't intend to come off so mean but whatever my bad.

[aznurse]

1. the hospital story was almost true.
2.Is Ronald Reagan our new standard?
3.Marc Penn wasn't fired. He still works for her.

Either way, Republicans have done their best to destroy this country.
They are what we need to keep focused on.

[eggman]

Clinton would have sailed to the nomination but a better candidate came along.

[CJCalgirl]

Dear Eggman! Bingo!! Boy, did a better candidate come along! I felt the power when he spoke at the last Dem. convention. He took the stage by storm and took me back to 1961. Nobody else even comes close, and he has it all. Brains of Adlai Stevenson, Charisma of JFK and the ability to face fire with the equanimity of Ghandi. Plus he's not afraid of Any question. It's such a rush to have any politician finally speak to us as if we were adults who are PART OF THE PROCESS! He Da Man!

[realtalk]

IF HILLARY BECOMES PRESIDENT, PEOPLE WILL FIND OUT SOON ENOUGH JUST HOW INCOMPETENT SHE IS: She will not have her husband to rely on in the White House, becasue all the trade deals she "says" she is against, her husband Bill Clinton is FOR THEM, and has been collecting money to promote them, for the Columbia trade deal, Bill Clinton has collected $800,000 dollar from the Columbia government to push for the deal to go through. While Hillary is out "speaking"negatively about China, including the trade deals with China, her husband has collected $1.2 million dollars in speaking fees from Chinese business men, guess what Bill Clinton was doing in his speeches to these men, (he was speaking positively of the CURRENT trade deals that exist.) Hillary "says" she's against NAFTA, but Bill Clinton loves NAFTA, don't be surprised that he will be working to get Hillary to drop the idea of renegotiation. When nothing gets done about NAFTA, or CAFTA, OR THE TRADE DEAL WITH CHINA, don't be surprised, because Hillary will have her husband in the White House, RECEIVING MILLIONS FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES to work against America's interests. Hillary will make out okay though, Bill will be building the family joint bank account!!! DON'T YOU PEOPLE SEE HOW CORRUPT THIS ALL IS!! ON TOP OF THAT, WE ARE ELECTING A WOMAN WHO CANNOT RUN A CAMPAIGN WITHOUT GOING BANKRUPT IN 8 MONTHS. HOW IS SHE GOING TO RUN A COUNTRY WHEN SHE CAN'T RUN A CAMPAIGN??????

[townsurrl]

THE LAST SENTENCE SAY IT ALL. DON'T BELIEVE THAT SHE AND BILL CLINTON "DISAGREE" ON MANY ISSUES. THIS IS ALL JUST A FACADE TO FOOL THE PUBLIC INTO BELIEVING HOW STRONG MINDED AND INDEPENDENT SHE IS. IF ELECTED THEIR UNITED AGREEMENT WILL BE EVERYWHERE WHERE THE RIVERS OF MONEY FLOW...
SHE LEARNED FROM BUSH HOW TO CAMPAIGN: LIE, DECEIVE, BLAME THE OTHERS, SCARE THE PEOPLE AND WHO KNOWS..MAYBE FIX THE VOTES?

[tiredoflies]

After all the good work he has done, it comes down to this. I suppose he has been missing being in the limelight, since he was run off during the last election. Michael, get your face out of the refrigerator and take a look around. Obama is no saint and I would say playing the race card is as low as anyone can go. Stick to your movie making, cuz they aren't bad.

[JacobSinger]

So says the Hillary-NeoCon-Bomb-Iran faction....

[TishiJo]

Too little too late Michael! Millions will stand behind Obama when he is in the White House, but you will have had nothing to do with it. Hillary went over the line way back in Iowa and New Hampshire, so where was your support then?

[rwilliams1961]

Ditto.

Where the hell were you, Michael, when the race's completion wasn't so definitive? It's easy to hop aboard Obama's train now.

Your conclusion is correct, but late.

That said, you've done a lot for your country and I'm a supporter. But crap, man, of all people, you should have gotten off your ass sooner.

[JacobSinger]

An endorsement is an exercise in freewill; you say he's too late, other say he's harming Obama by endorsing him at all.

Regardless, after the fact all you can do is bitch about it.

[PhoenixtheUndying]

i knew he'd do the right thing

[revolutionaryjerry]

These people who say that the media is slanted towards Obama are insane. Finally someone great finally comes along and you blind naysayers start pointing fingers, So then..you must've liked the media before this campaign season then, right? For the last 7 years we've heard about nothing but: war, death, terrorism, color-code threat alert levels, al-qaeda, hurricane Katrina, global warming, etc...Barack Obama knows he can't solve all of these problems, but he's going to do his best, he is ACTUALLY going to TRY to fix things. Barack Obama is genuine, anybody with a set of eyes can see that. His character is unmatched, and he is loved because he ought to be. This is a real movement for change, so there is no surprise that the media is going to feed on it. OBAMA 08!!!

[AnotherTry]

You sound like such an ignorant child.

[linquistic]

Oh here we go again. Once again Hillary supporters bashes another person who chooses to support Obama. They did it to Richardson and MoveOn, now they're doing it to Moore.

[kylie]

Better late than never!

Glad that Moore endorsed Obama.

So BushLeague that the Hillary machine is now trying to smear Moore.

How familiar that sounds to Bushkins and the Rove script.

You will not disagree with Hillary or her candidacy--it will not be tolerated!