Spike Lee supports Barack Obama

**mrs.v** · April 7th, 2008, 08:28 PM

Spike Lee Supports Barack Obama

Movie director Spike Lee is switching his allegiance from Hillary Clinton to her Democrat Presidential rival Barack Obama, after discovering the Illinois Senator is a fan of his films.
Lee backed Bill Clinton in two elections and intended to support his wife in her battle for the White House. However, the Malcolm X filmmaker was put off by Clinton's recent false claim that she came under sniper fire in Bosnia.
He tells New York magazine, "The Clintons man, they would lie on a stack of Bibles. Snipers? That's not misspeaking; that's pure bulls**t. I voted for Clinton twice, but that's over with." And Lee admits he has been won over by Obama: "Barack told me the first date he took Michelle (his wife) to was Do The Right Thing."

Spike Lee Supports Barack Obama - Starpulse Entertainment News Blog

*DIVA! · April 7th, 2008, 08:35 PM

Isn't that a crock of cute bs.

Sidenote...Do The Right Thing was a good movie Spike!!

**DoveFeatheredRaven** · April 7th, 2008, 08:36 PM

Whadda ya wanna bet that when BO is elected the media will hound him and hound him until they catch him in a lie. It's their business- politicians lie and the media hounds. Tis' gonna happen.

*DIVA! · April 7th, 2008, 08:38 PM

Originally Posted by DoveFeatheredRaven

Whadda ya wanna bet that when BO is elected the media will hound him and hound him until they catch him in a lie. It's their business- politicians lie and the media hounds. Tis' gonna happen.

However, that doesn't dismiss her lies about Bosnia that she kept telling over and over again, even when Sinbad said it wasn't true..she called him a liar. Now, it's the story about the woman in Ohio..she lied about that!

**DoveFeatheredRaven** · April 7th, 2008, 08:41 PM

I agree- HRC is fully capable of lying. I don't even bother keeping up anymore. lol

**kingcap72** · April 8th, 2008, 12:34 AM

I admire Spike as a director, but that's a stupid reason to support somebody because they like your films.

*DIVA! · April 8th, 2008, 12:55 AM

Originally Posted by kingcap72

I admire Spike as a director, but that's a stupid reason to support somebody because they like your films.

There's more of the article at Huffpo...he says more..

**kingcap72** · April 8th, 2008, 01:03 AM

Originally Posted by SSDiva

There's more of the article at Huffpo...he says more..

Yeah, but he still goes back to Obama taking Michelle to see Do The Right Thing. He's still making it about him and his movies.

But at least he admitted that he was backing Hillary because of Bill, which is why a lot of people are.

*DIVA! · April 8th, 2008, 01:10 AM

Originally Posted by kingcap72

Yeah, but he still goes back to Obama taking Michelle to see Do The Right Thing. He's still making it about him and his movies.

But at least he admitted that he was backing Hillary because of Bill, which is why a lot of people are.

You know Spike had to make it all about him. I remember him and Wesley Snipes being at the debate in California... I guess they were both backing her back then. I think a lot of people feel they owe Bill something so they are backing her.. However, he did what he did for them way back then, and they shouldn't be intimidated into backing her because of the 'perks' he afforded them.

**kingcap72** · April 8th, 2008, 02:36 AM

Originally Posted by SSDiva

You know Spike had to make it all about him. I remember him and Wesley Snipes being at the debate in California... I guess they were both backing her back then. I think a lot of people feel they owe Bill something so they are backing her.. However, he did what he did for them way back then, and they shouldn't be intimidated into backing her because of the 'perks' he afforded them.

Hey, anybody that feels like they 'owe' Hillary a vote because of some favors they got from Bill shouldn't be voting to begin with.

**cmmdee** · April 8th, 2008, 12:16 PM

Barack told me the first date he took Michelle (his wife) to was Do The Right Thing

LOL. That's funny

*DIVA! · April 8th, 2008, 04:59 PM

Originally Posted by cmmdee

Barack told me the first date he took Michelle (his wife) to was Do The Right Thing

LOL. That's funny

You know I need my black card taken away from me, I was thinking of school daze when I read this thread! School Daze was a pretty good movie.

**cmmdee** · April 8th, 2008, 05:01 PM

^^ LOL SS

**celeb_2006** · April 8th, 2008, 06:31 PM

I love "Do the Right Thing." Forget that 'McDonald's' movie version of race relations in America, 'Crash.' To me DTRT is still the most accurate and painfully true portrait of race relations in America (hard to believe it's almost 20 years old).

Oh, got carried away there for a minute. What I find interesting is that prominent and not so prominent Black Americans feel a need to 'justify' their choice of supporting Obama. For example a Black associate of mine's is supporting Obama, and her reasoning is that Hillary has so much dirt on her that is going to be exposed that Barrack is a better choice. Huh, I was like, WTF? And here we have Spike using the 'sniper' story so now Obama is better. Like Obama has never engaged in a bit of embellishment about his past himself, right?

Anyhoo, in my opinion I feel that some Blacks do not want to admit that they support Obama because he is Black, one of their "own." They want to use some other reason, any reason, than a racial one. And I don't fault those that do, because I can see where they are coming from. It's not "P.C." these days to support anyone because of their race, or at least not P.C. to say it outright but instead through "code."

Hell, I'm not Black but I would vote for Obama because he IS Black. Why not, out of all the candidates out of this entire lackluster group, why not go ahead and make history by casting a vote for a Black president of America. I think that it would show the world how far we have come, and that Black Americans can finally be proud of one of their own being the leader of one of the most powerful nation on earth.

But that's just me.