Has Matt Damon Lost His Passion for President Obama?
Hearing
Matt Damon say he was not a fan of President Barack Obama last week on CNN's 'Piers Morgan Tonight' may have come as a surprise to those who have followed the popular actor's liberal politics for the past few years.
In fact, Damon spent many days campaigning around the country for Obama when he was a presidential candidate in 2008. Together with his friend
Ben Affleck, Damon did talk shows, hosted events, gave interviews and allowed the Democratic Party to get as much mileage out of him as possible within the constraints of his busy work schedule.
When he canvassed the nation for Obama, Damon was impressed with the candidate's idealism and ambition to make significant change in areas like poverty, health care and education.
On those issues, Damon now believes President Obama has compromised too much.
He told Morgan, "Obama has misinterpreted his mandate and doubled down on a lot of things." The actor has also criticized the president on not finding an effective reform for Wall Street practices, and he is still waiting to hear the hows and whys of the troop buildup in Afghanistan.
Even though Damon still believes that the President is "brilliant" and a "deep thinker," he is especially upset over the state of world hunger.
"In his State of the Union speech, he didn't even say the word 'poverty,'" Damon, a spokesman for hunger relief organization Feeding America, told Morgan. "You've got millions of people languishing in it."
Now shooting the Cameron Crow film 'We Bought A Zoo,' where he plays a zookeeper, Damon would make an excellent political candidate himself if he weren't such a popular actor. He has said he is not interested in running for office, yet between his diversified acting roles, education and political activism, he could be a great asset should he ever reconsider.
Damon founded H20 African Foundation, the charity division of Running the Sahara, which merged with WaterPartners in 2009. He supports the ONE Campaign to fight AIDS and poverty in Third World countries, and he is an ambassador for OneXOne, a non-profit foundation that improves the lives of kids around the world.
But will he support President Obama for re-election in 2012? Stay tuned.
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D...yes I`m familiar with "Team America".Shows the leftist self serving Hollywood hypocrites for exactly what they are.
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They say 25 percent of the children in the US will be homeless in less than 2 years. Many go hungry. Yet we can afford to send food over seas and money over seas... we can ill afford wars and yet there is now talk about Lybia. I didn't vote for Obama but I think any president is screwed in this day and age. Things only seem to get worse.
Watch the movie "the Other Guys" the ending is eye opening.
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Watch the movie "W". THAT is eye opening also.
lol Look dumb and dumbier
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Matt Damon makes about as much sense as Charlie Sheen or Sean Penn. Arrogant liberal hypocrites make me sick.
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Bet Damon would support Hitler if he were alive today and campaigning as a liberal.
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Attention!!!! There is ACTUALLY human intelligence in Hollywood!
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What must it be like to feel that the biggest concern in your life is World Poverty?
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Another Hollywood liberal idiot.
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Another "idealist"living the American capitalist dream, while criticizing it! These hollywood people are so disingenuous. They have more money than they know what to do with and criticize Wallstreet? I bet his accountant does everything he can to help Damon avoid paying tax in the U.S. Hypocrite. By the way, his latest film is terrible.
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Nancy,
WHY did you go see his latest movie? The ONLY way to make these immoral arrogant people go away is to quit giving them money.
Yes, I agree... Matt should definitely stick with acting.
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Yes, I definitely agree... Matt should stick with acting. He is more delusional than Charlie Sheen for heaven's sake.
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...note to self...
...I have watched my last matt damon movie...
...whatever that was...
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Oh sure the Republicans have blocked Obama all the way!! He had the house and senate all Dems and just totally blocked the Republicans from any input and now that the people of the country have sent him a big message ( a shellacking) and the Republicans are doing what the American people want, the Dems look at it as "blocking". Get real!
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The President can't possibly mention everyone's cause in the State of the Union address. Cut him some slack. You can't fix problems building up for years in one year in office.
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The problem, Kathy, is that the problems having been building up much faster since he took office.
Obama won the election due to media, celebrity, and music endorsements, not because of the most important part, experience. Heck the majority of the time he served in Washington his vote of record was "Present". In future elections Americans should ask themselves is Oprah, Matt Damon, Anderson Cooper, Sarah Palin, P. Diddy or even AOL really serving my best interests? Did they even call you to ask what you need or how they could help you? I doubt it.
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I guess it's great that you can castigate both sides of the political divide, mem, but what is Sarah Palin doing in that list of movie stars and newscasters?
Just another left-wing radical Hollywood loon
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