Colombian Singer Shakira Endorses Obama

CHICAGO — Colombian superstar Shakira says Democrat Barack Obama is the best candidate for president, citing his leadership skills.

In a statement Saturday, the Grammy-winning pop artist said Obama can restore peace and the world's confidence in the United States. Obama faces Republican presidential nominee John McCain in the Nov. 4 election.

Obama said he was honored to receive the singer's endorsement. The Illinois senator praised Shakira as a role model for young Latinas in the U.S. and beyond.

Shakira encouraged U.S. Latinos to vote in November.

The United States "has a profound importance to me, and I think to the whole world as well," she said.

Comments

[poiuytrewq1111]

All well and good, but I want to know what Boy Shakira has to say about the election!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIr3gaqefXg

[NoSillyName]

LOL, wasn't he amusing?

[avrillohan]

Really , Shakira like Obama?mmmmmmm
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[robey2640]

lol...gotta love the Fox news visitors over here on huff post...Thanx to all who blast the ignorant minds of the Fox news addicts...re: Shakira the international world is watching and waiting to see the results of this election...fyi Shakira is Lebanese and Columbian not Venezuelan like Chavez...lol...and she yields a lot of influence on the young latino pop. not to mention the butt obsessed men who would seemingly cast a voyeuristic vote for Palin/Mccain just to get their rocks off...

[luckyt]

To my Liberal minded friends I say, trying to penetrate the mind of a conservative is like trying to penetrate a coconut wit a pea shooter. Their redneck ways and racist beliefs would never allow them to the exposure of someone like Shakira. Shakira is an international star, who is considered one of the best female Spanish singers of her time. Her endorsement of Obama and our country makes her an Ambassador of goodwill on our behalf.

[avehicle4changedotcom]

Yay Shkira, I was just listening to her last night. I love her!!

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[clevelandchick]

Those hips don't lie! Yea Shakira!

[StephenJK]

Deep Thoughts by StephenJK...

What I really want to know: Who is her butt voting for? Whoever that is I'm voting for them too. Then I'll continue stalking her butt and when her butt finds out and asks me what I'm doing I'll say, hey I voted for that guy too. Then we'll probably be best friends and I'll live inside her butt for a time.

[NoSillyName]

Yikes, you are kinda scary!

[SaltySaltillo]

Why is this news? Foreign pop stars who don't even vote in US elections and carry passports from foreign countries all of a sudden have newsworthy opinions about the US election?

[JScott]

AHHHH such are the results of media consolidation, you only have to be minimally famous and dubiously talented (I'm not including Shakira in that group) to have a voice and face time in the MSM that most folks don't get, that fact that there was even speculation that Elizabeth Hasselbleccccch might quit The View and go to Fox News proves the point.

[TroubleNYC]

I didn't know she never became a US citizen. I'm surprised. Her English is pretty darn good for a "foreigner". You betcha!

[rzan1]

It is the business of the whole world who becomes president of the United States. We do not exist in a vacuum.

[thecanadian]

So does the World have opinions. It is important how the world sees a broken U.S. Find out for yourself!
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[jazzifay]

Just part of Obama's worldwide appeal. How many in the international community have done the same for McSame? ZERO. We know they can't vote, but they also know in the world, we're all in this together.

[urweatherman]

Whats next, endorsements from the Al Queda tabernacle choir or maybe the Taliban Dirt Band? I am sure that Chavez and Kim Jong II are endorsing Obama also because they know that they will be able to walk all over him......

[englishprof]

You are so pathetically full of it!

[Yola]

Go find something constructive to do. You are a waste of space.

[IndomitableLion]

'ur' a waste of DNA.....

F-off

[IForgotMyName]

Wow, you are so funny. Apparently you forgot that Osama bin Laden endorsed George Bush in 2004 by sending out his tape just days before the election and he succeeded. George Bush got reelected, drove this country into a ditch in Iraq, is on the brink of loosing in Afghanistan and managed to inherit the strongest economy in the world in 2000 and drive it into near-bankruptcy in just 8 years.
Contrary to Bush who just put up a banner, Osama bin Laden actually accomplished his mission. I hope that this time the American voters will be smarter.

[clevelandchick]

urweatherman....go to the dictionary...look up the word 'Twit' and insert a photo of yourself pronto.