Ben Affleck Actually Provides Sensible Political Analysis!
via News from The Associated Press.
“I voted for Obama last time although he got to be all things to all people then,” Affleck said in an interview to promote his new film “Argo.” “And now he’s got a record which makes it really different … I obviously have more complicated feelings.”
Affleck says Romney’s inability to connect with everyday Americans is reminiscent of past failed candidates.
“I think Republicans really had a chance to win,” Affleck said. “And they kind of ended up with like a sort of Mike Dukakis, Al Gore, Bob Dole type – who just couldn’t get people to see him as a real person somehow. Romney just had such trouble coming off as just like the kind of person you see at the grocery store. And I truly believe that has cost him the election.”
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“The world is a very tricky place in terms of foreign affairs. And really, really we’re in very bad shape economically,” he said. “My worry is less about the presidential election than whether or not we’re on a permanent downtrend. That really concerns me. Beyond the Obama administration and whoever the next – the Clinton administration – whoever gets elected next. That’s my main concern.”
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Kind of funny that he bashes Gore as a loser after campaigning for him in 2000.
“It aint over ‘tell it’s over”. Romney is not able to be like the people you see at the grocery store and that’s why people can’t relate? How many Obama’s does the average American (even black Americans) meet in their life time? Romney is the consumate political moderate; that is what many people dislike about him at a time when moderation in defence of liberty is no virtue. But to vote for Obama over Romney in these times is to vote in favor of that permanent downtrend you say worries you. And the next Clinton administration? Who is that going to be? Chelsea? Are we to establish a dynasty of Dear Leaders? How many Clintons shop at your grocery Ben?
Seriously: how many black people even know what “arugula” is?
Ben Affleck Actually Provides Sensible Political Analysis!
Oh the tyranny of low expectations.
Only one conceivable answer here. Ben must have found out the hard way that he is not immune to the Obama economy. His own investments must have taken a hit or he has close relatives back Boston who have been suffering recently and begging him for money.
Where do I go to check if he’s selling any of his properties?