Actress Blythe Danner headed to Bluffs to stump for Obama
Source: Omaha World Herald
Blythe Danner, an Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress, will visit Council Bluffs tonight on behalf of the President Barack Obama re-election campaign.
Danner will join leading Democratic women who have been touring the state this week in support of Obamas policies on womens issues.
The final stop will be Council Bluffs at the local Obama headquarters, 1851 Madison Ave., Suite 200. Danner and the other women are expected to arrive at 7:15 p.m.
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Blythe Danner
Tanuki
(14,919 posts)Good for her...I am always grateful to celebrities who use their appeal and ability to generate interest for the greater good.
no_hypocrisy
(46,149 posts)progressoid
(49,992 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,149 posts)Not Hepburn and Tracy, but still . . . . not bad.
Archae
(46,340 posts)She played Hawkeye's old flame.
progressoid
(49,992 posts)She's done a lot of cool stuff.
adigal
(7,581 posts)Said they are terrible, rude, condescending people. So I don't like her.
jmondine
(1,649 posts)LynneSin
(95,337 posts)So is Lindsay going to be stumping for Mitt, like Blythe is doing for Barack? I don't think that Mitt wants her touting his tax cuts for millionaires plan in public.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)and btw welcome to DU
Squaredeal
(398 posts)Blythe had a Friends school education, where Quaker values are taught, influence and remain with the students for a lifetime, which includes a responsibility toward the larger community and not just oneself. The Friends have always been heavily involved in rights for women from their beginning in England because of their belief that everyone is equal in the eyes of God. That included fighting for the women's right to vote, a right that colonial western New Jersey had because of its Quaker influence, which was given up to join the Union.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)Especially East Coast Quakers. Reason I call that out is because Richard Nixon was also Quaker but he's from the West Coast. Nixon did have some good progressive policies in regards to the social issues but in regards to the war well he definately did not follow Quaker ideology.
I believe that Nixon was a deeply tortured soul throughout his life, conflicted between his Quaker upbringing as a boy and his politics as an adult.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)-I have been to were liberal. Welcome to DU
skeewee08
(1,983 posts)Skittles
(153,170 posts)she is my ideal for graceful aging