Mary Steenburgen and Ted Danson Supporting Clark

[Kat45]

Today I received an email, through the Clark campaign, from Steenburgen and Danson urging support of Wes Clark. Apparently, she's known him since childhood; their mothers were best friends who worked together.
Here's a piece of the email:

"But the support that Ted and I pledge to Wes goes beyond our cherished friendship with him and Gert. The fact is, Wes is the most qualified candidate to lead our country at a time when we so desperately need new leadership. He alone has the character, wealth of experience, and vision to move America ahead and help us achieve our great promise as a nation.

We need Wes Clark as our next President, and we know what we must do to help him get elected. Ted and I are committed to doing everything we can to ensure Wes' nomination this spring, and we're greatly looking forward to continuing our support into the 2004 general election against George W. Bush."

I don't put a lot of weight on celebrity endorsements, but I thought this was interesting, and I happen to agree with what they have to say.

[Jack_Dawson]

1. Always begins with the smart people...

Easy Dean supporters, I know a lot of you are smart too. I'm just saying a lot of trends begin in California...

[liberalnurse]

3. Oh, it did start in California.....

Rob Riner began early supporting Dean.

[Jack_Dawson]

5. More like Vermont though, really

[TrueAmerican]

7. He's a Meat Head

eom

[Scoopie]

17. And Meathead said:

He was angry with Clark about saying something about supporting an anti-flag burning amendment.
Well, Meathead, your candidate is the only governor in the whole of the states to SIGN INTO LAW an anti-flag-burning amendment.
So much for Cally-forn-I-A.

(I LOVE the Beverly Hillbillies)

[shivaji]

6. and Vice President Gore supports Dean

n/t

[TrueAmerican]

8. He's also a MeatHead :)

eom

[QC]

9. Since we get five ecstatic threads every time a retired postmistress

or a sanitation commissioner endorses Dean, surely you can let supporters of another candidate take a little bit of pleasure in an endorsement without running into the thread to make a juvenile remark.

Can't you?

[thinkahead]

10. trust me

the feeling is mutual. But congrads regardless :)

[jonnyblitz]

12. LOL.

Good post!! I appreciate a good snarky retort. :hi:

[incapsulated]

2. That's interesting

That stuff about Steenburgen's and Clark's mothers, I mean.

Cool. Danson is a good guy, too. :)

[MariaS]

4. Another Hollywooder Supporting Clark

I read an article on an Australian site that tells that
the well respected and talented American director Richard Donner
maker of such films as the lethal Weapon movies and hundreds more is
a Clark supporter. This is the paragraph from the article. It is
about half way down in the article.


Donner is proudly American and during his interview with AAP wears a
badge promoting Retired Army General and US presidential candidate
Wesley Clark. But as patriotic as Donner is, he understands every
movie he makes cannot be made in the US.

http://tinyurl.com/2oeg8

www.wisconsinforclark2004.com

[Toucano]

11. Things are getting better here!

This thread has gone on for over 2 hours and no one has ripped Ted and Mary apart yet!

How impressive! Thanks all.

[Kat45]

13. Cool! As the person who started the thread, I appreciate that as well.

n/t

[retyred]

14. Yeah? Well I heard that

Mary blah, blah,blah,blah,blah, because Ted blah,blah,blah,blah,blah, and Mary said blah,blah,blah,blah, so there!!!


retyred in fla
“good night paul, wherever you are”
So I read this book

[meow mix]

15. well that just about settles it, clark wins.

i got that mail too! =)

"The fact is, Wes is the most qualified candidate to lead our country at a time when we so desperately need new leadership. He alone has the character, wealth of experience, and vision to move America ahead and help us achieve our great promise as a nation"
-Mary Steenburgen

so what time is thier drawing and quartering start?

[Myra]

16. No drawing or quartering here

Just dittoing:

"The fact is, Wes is the most qualified candidate to lead our country at a time when we so desperately need new leadership. He alone has the character, wealth of experience, and vision to move America ahead and help us achieve our great promise as a nation"
-Mary Steenburgen

[maddezmom]

18. Two more for Clark

good news, even if they are from Hollywood. hehe :)

[RetroLounge]

19. Who cares what those darn hollywood types think?

Stupid movie stars. What do they know? (/sarcasm off)

Seriously, congrats Clark Supporters.

2 nice endorsements from 2 smart and politically active liberals!

"Hey, is that a star over there?"
"No, that's just Ted Danson."
- Doc Hollywood...

[HFishbine]

20. The Dean Campaign still thanks Ted

For that nice fat $2,000 contribution.