Everyone knows celebrity endorsements sell everything from zit cream to Cambell's soup. This election season, celebrity endorsements are also selling policy. Heres a break down of some of the big names plugging for Barack Obama and John McCain.
John McCain:
Entertainment
Stephen Baldwin, actor
Jerry Bruckheimer, producer
Clint Eastwood, actor and director
Kelsey Grammer, actor
Dennis Miller, comedian
Kevin Sorbo, actor
Tom Selleck, actor
Sylvester Stallone, actor
Rip Torn, actor
Jon Voight, actor
Adam Carolla, comedian, television and radio host
Athletes
Troy Aikman, former Dallas Cowboys quarterback
Mario Andretti, former racecar driver
Arnold Palmer, former PGA player
Jack Nicklaus, golf champion
George Steinbrenner, owner of the New York Yankee
Business
Carly Fiorina former CEO of Hewlett-Packard
Tom Monaghan, Founder of Domino's Pizza
Frederick W. Smith, Founder, chairman, president, and CEO of FedEx.
Donald Trump, Chairman and CEO of the Trump Organization
Meg Whitman, former CEO of eBay
Political
George W. Bush, President and the guy McCain is trying to distance himself from
George H. W. Bush, Former President, The guy who made the guy McCain is trying to distance himself from
Dan Quayle, Former Vice President for the guy who made the guy McCain is trying to distance himself from, thinks he Invented the internet
Jeb Bush, Former governor of Florida, and brother to the guy McCain is trying to distance himself from
Rudy "Can we talk about 9/11 in this post?" Giuliani, former Mayor of New York
Barack Obama
Entertainment
Ben Affleck, actor
Robert De Niro, actor
Angelina Jolie, actress
Brad Pitt, actor
Jessica Alba, actress
Danny Devito, actor
Leonardo DiCaprio, actor
Jennifer Aniston, actress
Kevin Bacon, actor
John C. Reilly, actor
Harrison Ford, actor
Drew Barrymore, actress
Jodie Foster, actress
Jamie Foxx, actor
Michael J. Fox, actor
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, actress
George Lopez, comedian
Susan Sarandon, actress
Tobey Maguire, actor
Morgan Freeman, actor
Halle Barry, actress
Brendan Fraser,actor
Will Smith, actor
Jack Black, actor
Jennifer Garner, actress
Pierce Brosnan, actor
Ashton Kutcher, actor
Demi Moore, actress
Danny Glover, actor
Cuba Gooding Jr, actor
Ben Stiller, actor
Eddie Murphy, actor and comedian
Meryl Streep, actress
Charlize Theron, actress
Sarah Jessica Parker, actess
Charlize Theron, actress
Denzel Washington, actor
Tom Hanks, actor
George Clooney, actor
Bill Paxton, actor
Sean Penn, actor
John Cleese, actor and comedian
Matt Damon, actor
Scarlett Johansson, actress
Sarah Silverman, comedian
Ron Howard, director
Steven Spielberg, director
Oliver Stone, director
Michael Moore, director
George Lucas, producer
Christie Brinkley, model
Jennifer Lopez, actress and musician
Sheryl Crow, musician
Pearl Jam, rock band
Billy Joel, musician
Kanye West, Musician
Howard Stern, Radio Host
Oprah Winfrey, Talk show host
John Hodgman, writer, contributor to The Daily Show and plays "PC" in the Get a Mac commercials
Stephen King, writer
J.K. Rowling, writer
Athletes
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, former NBA basketball player
Muhammad Ali, former boxing champion
Charles Barkley, former NBA basketball player
Hulk Hogan, professional wrestler
Phil Jackson, LA Lakers coach
Michael Jordan, former NBA basketball player
Magic Johnson, former NBA basketball player
Emmitt Smith, former NFL football player
Business
Eric Schmidt, Google Chairman and CEO
Warren Buffett, investor and richest man in the world
Marc Andreessen, software engineer, Silicon Valley entrepreneur and co-founder of Netscape
George Soros, businessman and philanthropist
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, co-founders of Ben & Jerry's
Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook
Indra Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo
Hugh McColl, former CEO, Bank of America
Craig Newmark, founder of website Craigslist
Elisabeth Murdoch, daughter of Rupert Murdoch and Chairman and CEO of Shine Limited
Dan Rooney, owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers of the NFL
Vera Wang, New York-based designer
Political
Ron Reagan, son of Ronald Reagan
Colin Powell, former Secretary of State under George W. Bush
Jimmy Carter, former President
Bill Clinton, former President
Al Gore, former Vice President
Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the leader of the Labour Party
I had to leave a lot out from both candidates. But finding celebrity endorsements for Barack Obama was much easier than finding endorsements for John McCain. Additionally, those supporting Barack were much harder hitting, with at least 70 nobel prize laureates (Lets be real. I didn't list these because almost none of you would know their names), just about all of the top money makers in hollywood, and industry leaders cutting across the board.
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haha thanks:)... Yeah read it. Its a link to digg.com, but it points back to Two Days Away. 15 diggs so far! You should definately read it. Its far more of a response to "I Can't Believe Its Not Socialism" than this one is.
As for Zach, haha... he can obviously vote for whomever he thinks is the best candidate. This is probably the most significant election this country has ever had. So I hope his conclusion is well researched. :)
haha... yeah... I know, but someone next to me in bio lab was singing "Hit me baby one more time"... so her name just popped into my head as the anti-role-model. haha... and again, she may have supported G dubbya... but McCain is an entirely different candidate (despite what the Media bias would like America to believe)! And I will definitely check out the link below... and give you my (highly valuable) feedback :)
oh yeah... and I've been meaning to tell you that this site is really cool! (Kudos!)
ps. Your brother still supports McCain. :) heh heh heh...
You should read this instead.
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/My_Candidate_for_President
I appreciate the appreciation:). Just for the record, Britney Spears isn't on this list, but she did adimately support George W. Bush in his election. This post was more of "wow its interesting" as opposed to "you should vote for". Although some of the business category endorsers should carry some weight at least as to why they are going that way.
Hey Matthew :)
So, while I appreciate the research... I honestly dont really care what the celebrities think. I mean, am i really supposed to value the opinions of people who name their children after pieces of fruit?... People who marry and divorce and remarry as quickly as the wind changes direction?... people who consistently act "entitled", or as though they are above all forms of moral and civil law?
Well, I dont know about you, but I'd rather not follow the example of people like Britney Spears and company. So, the fact that Obama has a larger following than McCain of this sort of crowd just reaffirms my support of McCain. With that said, maybe we should be focusing instead on the type of people our two candidates have been known to associate with THEMSELVES (ie... Obama's known associations with Hate-speech peddler Jeremiah Wright... or his support of Bill Ayers... etc... etc...) This will tell us far more about their character than which man Lindsay Lohan would rather get drunk and go driving with.
Furthermore, while I do agree that Obama is a charismatic speaker... this again tells me nothing about his character, or how he will be as a leader of this great country. For, just as I am not one to jump on the celebrity bandwagon, I am also not going to allow myself to be blinded by Obama's "eloquence". After all, was not HITLER also a fantastic speaker?
That said, I'm still not falling for it! Go McCain! :)
ps... sorry I'd write more, but I'm supposed to be paying attention in biology lab right now....
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