Pure as the driven snow.

labor

http://www.lorealparis.com.au/spokespersons/eva-longoria.aspx

And smart and dedicated. Good face for any movement.

Clinton's SOS policies in the end helped make Syrian refugees. Sarandon at least wants to help them.

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/dec/29/susan-sarandon-refugees-lesbos-christmas

the very essence of a limousine liberal.

And massively overrated as an actress.

I guess successful folks can't support Bernie now?

people.

money supporting down-ticket Democrats all over the country as the Clooneys do.

despicable.

A Trump presidency will nor affect her, but it would be devastating for millions

There's a word for that.

Hypo . . . hypo something?

with no links or otherwise, but please, continue.

We all know it's only because she didn't sing 'TOUCH ME, creature of the night!' to you.

http://newyork.wearespin.com/

I'm sure I'd be able to afford that instead of one of hillaries dinners....probably for 99% less the cost too!

I like and admire Clooney -- but it is just an example of the hypocrisy of your post....


You know who hates rich Hollywood limousine liberals don't you? Warch you some Fox news. Your meme is straight out of the mouth of Greg Guttfield or Bill o'Reilly.

She was asked a question and answered it without saying it is what she wants.People are allowed to express themselves you know.

https://www.looktothestars.org/celebrity/susan-sarandon

http://www.israel21c.org/susan-sarandon-meets-israeli-aid-workers-helping-refugees/

http://www.heifer.org/join-the-conversation/blog/2012/October/susan-sarandon-heifer-internationals-work-empowers-women.html

http://www.microgiving.com/blog/2014/04/susan-sarandon-charity-star-works-end-hunger-empower-women/
Susan Sarandon Charity: Star Works to End Hunger and Empower Women
Posted in Help People by Becky Raymond
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newsday.com

Known for her roles in films like The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Bill Durham, Dead Man Walking, and Thelma & Louise, Susan Sarandon has had a successful and varied career in film. In addition to her roles as an actress, she has also served as a narrator for films and documentaries. She’s been in the spotlight for more than four decades now, and Sarandon often uses her celebrity to promote causes that help the poor, feed the hungry and empower women. Find out what the top Susan Sarandon charities are below.

Heifer International
Heifer International is a nonprofit organization dedicated to putting an end to world hunger and poverty. Sarandon has worked with them for years, and in 2012 did an in-person stint in Cambodia with Heifer International. There, she discovered that the women are the glue that holds families and communities together, especially when it comes to food. They both grow and prepare food and are the first line of defense against hunger. In September 2013, Susan Sarandon’s charity work was recognized by the organization when they made her the guest of honor at their latest benefit.

UNICEF
Since December 1999, Sarandon has dedicated much of her time helping UNICEF fight hunger, empower women and help people with HIV/AIDS. She became the UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador during that year. She helped launch the organization’s publication called “The State of the World’s Children,” a publication that focuses on childhood poverty. She has also done a number of PSAs for UNICEF to help promote their causes around the world.

Amazon Conservation Team
A favorite Susan Sarandon charity is the Amazon Conservation Team (ACT), a nonprofit that works to conserve the Amazon Rainforest and the culture of the people that live there. It was founded in 1996, and Sarandon has served on both the Board of Directors and the Advisory board for the organization. She has also narrated two award-winning films for ACT.

Yele Haiti
The Yele Haiti Foundation started by Wyclef Jean is another top Susan Sarandon charity. She serves on the board of advisors for the organization, which works to promote education, health, and community development in Haiti. Haiti is a poor nation, so Wyclef Jean’s objective is to give the country hope, strength, and optimism about the future. One of the organization’s biggest campaigns was for relief for the victims of the 2010 earthquake that ravaged the country.
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“There is only one candidate who cares about the environment in a real way and has not accepted money from the very people we’re trying to protect ourselves from,” Sarandon added of the independent Vermont lawmaker.

“I am very enthusiastic about having a candidate who lives and professes a progressive platform because I care about the environment, and I care about women and children and the middle class.”

Sarandon additionally derided the media for boosting Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s credibility with voters.

“The press is responsible for making Trump who he is,” she said. "Things have just not stuck on him, and I blame a lot of the circus that was created by the press and not treated seriously for allowing him to get as far as he has.

“We’re just not reporting in-depth, responsible, grown-up kind of journalism. For being such a powerful country, we need to be better informed and more responsible in how we go about choosing candidates.”

the world, but still, I commend her for her efforts.

However, when she goes on national TV and justifies people helping Trump win on the grounds that it would hasten "the revolution," she deserves to be called out on it.

... Sarandon is and that's the pity here.

Continue to excuse her, I'm sure the ussual "no one ever defended Sarandon" post will show up in a month or two

HRC is doing a bang up job of that on her own.

Instead of bringing the party together they are binge-flaming the progressive half of the base.
It's a dumb idea but they can't seem to stop. Too arrogant. Or maybe they really want Trump and Supreme Court, and etc....

I'm part of the progressive half of the base. People who are considering helping Trump become president aren't progressives.

Precisely. Why is the Clinton campaign doing that? It's so dumb to binge-flame the progressive base. It's going to let Trump win!

But she pulled herself up by her bootstraps, evidently.

willing to sing whatever song they called, for a small donation.

Couldn't tell the difference between Bush and Gore. After that disaster, it's hard to believe she's doubling down.

His message and life's work is exactly what many DUers have claimed to want over the years. But since he had the effrontery to run as a minor candidate in what should have been a landslide for the Democrats, but which was stolen by the Supreme Court he is now a demon.

Same thing is being done to Sanders and his supporters by some people on DU for having the effrontery to run against Clinton in the primary.

compared with their similarities.

Here's what Bernie said:

Bernie is a good man who will help us beat the GOP in the fall and go back to a productive life on behalf of the people in the Senate. Nader outlived his usefulness a long time ago.

Nader was right. And he and the network of organization have done a great job of einvestigating and trying to expose corporate malfeasance and abuse of power over the years.

Yes he was a moron in the political sphere, and he let his ego get the better of him. But his underlying message is still right on.

I think Gore had the right instincts. I remember his convention acceptance speech was great....but the corporate centrists subsequently muzzled him, and he lost his populist edge.

Gore has been much better as a private citizen where he could unleash his inner progressive.

The election wouldn't have been that close if not for the last week/10 days of his campaign when he shelved the canned stuff, started speaking from his heart and turned out the base. But who couldn't tell that W. was a smirking, incurious angryman who would do significant damage to our country? That was right there for everyone to see. And now, faced with Trump, an even more obvious disaster, we see otherwise intelligent people making the same dumbass mistake.

He was a fool for not doing that.

I'm not defending his personal failings. But Nader was voicing the frustration of many who were (and are) worried about the systemic corruption of our government and politics.

I think, if one removed the politics and personal animosity, if Naders achievements and message over the years were presented to Democrats, I think many -- even those who support Clinton for pragmatic reasons -- would totally agree with his positions.

Too bad as he ended up helping Cheney/Bush devastate the Middle East — still being felt today with ISIS and the like — and not to mention our own economy.

But his campaign did represent the same frustrations that are now being expressed on a more widespread basis by the movement behind Bernie

the misguided, IMO, tunnel vision of the "Bernie of Bust" crowd.

I vote blue no matter who, which would seem to be a no-brainer to sentient, progressive beings considering the alterative possibility of a Trump or Cruz presidency.

Time goes by so quickly, often we don't fully Grok the entirety of the changes along the way. There are many newish posters that are not at all representative of the DU we joined years ago. You earlier than I (I didn't officially register until '04. but did read the site along with Bartcop and a few others. previous to joining)

Back then and indeed for quite a while after, we were almost unanimously anti war, pro liberal and unapologetically against a corrupt system.

Now we are over run with people that favor war and hawks, defend corruption and embrace the corrupt system and write apologetic screeds in favor of such corruption and rather than being pro liberal, many are rabidly neo-liberal, I see it all the time coming from prolific posters with post counts triple my own that have only been here a year or two.

Where once I saw unity, I now see the seeds of division sown in an effort to promote a neo-liberal agenda and Rovian tactics being employed in such an obvious way that it appears the site we once knew has gone half circle (180°) and promotes so much of what Bush stood for as to be unrecognizable from the liberal haven it once was.

Those that would applaud the man's life work, many of whom did not agree with his run, but were aware enough to know it was election fraud and a corrupt SCOTUS that installed an un elected hawk that favored the interests of the wealthy into the WH, are fewer now than ever, having been slowly replaced with those that not only favor War and it's chief current hawk, but also the interests of the wealthy and elite corrupt system that was at one time universally opposed here.

My dear friend, this is no longer the site we joined and those of us that still believe in such principles as were once common here are being slowly, but efficiently replaced by what we joined together here to fight against over a decade ago.

The same has happened to the party, which is why those registered as Democrats are shrinking at an alarming rate. The entire dynamic is unstable, and so the only thing certain is uncertainty regarding both the party and the site. Perhaps both will implode or both will return to saner, more equitable and just ideals, only time will tell.

One thing has however become apparently certain, the underground aspect of the site is nearly now non-existent for it is fast becoming just another extension of a party corrupted as surely as it's chair DWS.

There's always been a similar division on DU, and I think there are still a lot of progressives here.

But overall, I agree that the increase in outright conservative nonsense seems quite contrary to what the majority here were once about.

and that Sanders says totally different things than his most famous surrogate? she is way off message with this "things will really explode" bullshit. That is nothing to smile and laugh about. Bernie cannot be happy about this.

When Chris Hayes said "But isn't that dangerous?

She responded (slightly paraphrased) "If you don't think it's dangerous to prop up the present status quo then you're not paying attention."

I agree. If we keep going in this direction, we'll soon either be mired in dystopia or experience a series of not very pleasant reactions to a system that is depriving people of opportunity, decimating the middle and working class, ignoring the poor.....All while the upper 10 percent keep siphoning obscene levels of wealth upward....And if the political system continues to be in thrall to Big Corporations and the Billionaire Class......well, it won't be pretty.

I realize those are sweeping statements but there are specifics of that everywhere.

he is- and those that followed him. Thanks for Bush/Cheney

Have you ever bothered to read what he has said and written outside of the two-party political frame?

I could find links but i won't bother.

That interview should be broadcast nationwide.

who wants to preserve every tax break for people who make a million dollars a year because that's really only middle class.

About sums it up for me.

Go blow smoke somewhere else.

And if you want to go blow smoke I can suggest where

Her shit post trended for hours last night. Feeble efforts to hand-wave it noted.

All the anti-Hillarys are in cahoots to ban alternative opinions on the StopHillary Underground.

Or, perhaps not?

Thought he was a Clinton supporter.

You mean that kind of civil rights icon?

No I don't think Clooney has done that.

and other polls show her losing support and him gaining too.

(Insert dismissive little smiley snark here)

The candidate that wins the nomination. And then we can all come back and see who was right.

If I have to explain it to you....it's not worth explaining

... and having power to change it and being a minority of some type which everyone in the country falls into that category during their life.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Gosh, why did those qualities of hers not make the list?

Her appearance on the Chris Hayes show was disturbing

https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten/status/714636508880363520/photo/1

The BoB movement is almost nonexistent.

So it appears to be a nonissue.

Is all you've got for why we should vote for Hillary is that she'll continue to destroy democracy and disenfranchise people of color, not to mention the middle class, much more discretely than a crazy person like Trump?

Fuck, at this point I'd rather somebody step on the gas and wake people up than to continue this sleepy cruising speed towards the cliff. That isn't white privilege speaking. It's looking long term. If I thought that Clinton didn't work for the very interests that are literally pilfering the American Dream, which is disproportionately hurting minorities, and then buying our democracy with the spoils, I wouldn't be so conflicted about whether or not to vote for her in the general.

But I'm not going to be manipulated into voting to the right of Eisenhower because the alternate choice is "armageddon." That's a staged narrative. Hell, given that we have such a disaster on the Republican ticket, Clinton could tack far left, as Bernie has shown, and still beat him handily in the general, but she won't, because we aren't who she's working for. Don't tell me it's because she needs to work across the aisle, Obama tried working across the aisle. He made concession after concession, but with the money in politics we have, and the gerrymandered districts to boot, there was literally no incentive for the GOP to compromise. If for some reason Clinton can, as she says, get legislation passed, then I shutter to think of the consequences of that legislation.

By the way, as a rich person, Susan actually does stand to pay more in taxes under a realized Sanders tax plan. I have no problem with people voting their self interests, but when insiders and CEOS, basically anybody making over 200,000, get behind Clinton, that's far more predictable, because it's actually good for them. It doesn't mean its the reason, but it's a hell of a lot more convenient. To pretend that its them that's looking out for everyone else and its people like Susan who are in an insular bubble, is kind of a hard sell to me when their politics just happen to align with the lining of their pockets, or with the health of their particular cause through access. It's just kind of silly that people keep pointing out every single Bernie supporter who's a millionaire, because these people are either fundamentally misunderstanding what it is we are objecting to -- money in politics -- not to having money, or they are intentionally misrepresenting it for the easy zinger. I look forward to future memes of "it snowed here in Arizona, so much for climate change."

from those who say, "see, many Bernie supporters won't support Hillary, so give up on her and vote for Bernie instead, otherwise we'll make sure that the Dem base is split and the Republican wins."

I won't be blackmailed into not supporting Hillary by a bunch of people who are too immature, too pure, or too privileged to see or care about the difference between Trump and Hillary.

By the way, I agree, nobody should be trying to convince you to vote for Bernie because enough Bernie supporters wont vote for her in the general. I think she's almost a shoe-in to win, even without my vote, and I don't feel like that tactic is worthy of Bernie supporters, who in general, should be more interested in the issues and the ethics than being on the winning team for the sake of winning. Of course there are even more posts daily about how, a little over 50% through the primaries, Bernie should drop out, as if getting as many delegates as Clinton did in the first half, would be impossible in the second. THATS JUST MATHEMATICAL REALITY!!!

For the record, I'm not giving ultimatums. If I don't vote for Hillary, it will be because I think this pretend democracy is ruining our nation and our environment, and I'm not going to simply push the blue button because the red one is obviously covered in shit. I'm pretty sure there's fecal matter on both, and at least the red one reminds us to sanitize.

so am I one of those "immature", "too pure", or "too privileged" voters?

I feel like the game is rigged, and that both teams are playing for the same side. How will I determine this? By the policies and bills they support, and not just the ones they do publicly. I voted for Obama twice and I voted for Kerry, and in fact, to date, every down-ticket vote I've ever made has also been for a democrat. I've been very forgiving of their voting records and policy alignments, because I held out hope that they had good intentions but were hamstrung by a corporate media and huge money that could clobber them. That was true to some extent, but I've always had that sinking concern that we just keep getting good cop bad copped, and that our mainstream democrats don't necessarily dislike this machine as it runs.

In a year when Hillary could go left and clobber Trump(as I've already stated), it feels clearer to me than ever that this is actually the truth. In a year where the DNC and the politicians it shepherds have been outspoken in anywhere from support to shilling for Hillary, it's never been more clear to me just how corrupt with money even this side of the aisle is.(and no, I don't think every politician going for Hillary is doing it because they are corrupt, or because of quid pro quo, but some of the rhetoric from respectable public figures has been pretty disingenuous.

So there's my answer. How about you counter with a "I will vote for the Democrat, even if..." thread.

Is that what you're asking for? And, yeah, unlike you, I completely believe the Democrat is always better than the Republican, particularly regarding this election. Btw, this site is for Democrats.

The difference between us is that I feel like this is a false choice that's part of a con, especially now with all the money in politics going to both parties. You apparently don't, and I wish I had your optimism.

As to your point about this site being for democrats, I am a registered democrat. if I abstained from a Presidential ticket vote for a democrat, and voted mostly democrat down-ticket(with rare abstentions), would I or would I not still be a democrat?

vote Dem. If you doubt me, just look at the TOS. You're new so maybe you are not aware how seriously this subject is taken here.

particularly on the primary board. Thanks for looking out for me.

You're welcome!

you would define democrat. Oh, are you talking about wearing the jersey with the D on it? I guess in that case a democrat just goes where his team goes. "Come on, be a team player." "It's not wrong when a Democrat does it." WTF

But defining myself as a democrat almost says nothing about me except that I'm less a republican than some independent voters. What then, is your litmus test for being a democrat? All I could come up with was that it was proudly displaying the D, but maybe you actually have an idealogical metric. What does it mean to you, when you say somebody isn't a Democrat, if its not about rooting for the home team?

Many independents are voting for him. This a democratic website with many independents and Bernie supporters. I am voting for the Democrat in the race who happens to be Hillary Clinton. Democrats get to pick who they want the Democratic nominee to be. It seems as if Bernie supporters say all this negative stuff about Hillary in hopes of changing our minds into not voting for Hillary. But she is the Democrat in the race, and she should be winning and she is. Sure Bernie is a Democrat for now, but after it is said and done, he will return to being an independent (I). And that's not a Democrat.

Voting for a third party has consequences. Thanks for Bush/Cheney

The truest dumbasses of our political discourse.

Every day Dan.

If Sarandon was pro-Hillary you'd be proudly waving her around as proof of Clintons progressive bona fides.