Recently, actor Tom Hanks endorsed Barack Obama for President. He’s a Hollywood power player, so it shouldn’t surprise me. After all, The Democrats are the party of the Rich and elite, no matter what they try to tell us.
However, I was a bit shocked by it, considering Mr. Hanks last project was the HBO Miniseries “John Adams”, the biographical account of the progenitor of our nation who later became the second president of the United States.
Maybe I’m alone, but I find it a bit odd for someone to feel passionately enough about a small government conservative like John Adams to produce a 10 hour miniseries about him, and then turn around and endorse a big-government socialist like Barack Obama. That would be like me producing a Ken Burns–length epic on FDR. I’d sooner hang myself with barbed wire. I’d never do it. I’d feel so dirty.
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