hard hitting story from my local rag...'Obama seeks celebrity backing'

[spanone]

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Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton is there, labeled as a “philanthropist.” More than 30 years after she got her start in Nashville, talk show host/actress/icon/billionaire Oprah Winfrey is listed but given no title at all.

And two major country music acts, Lady Antebellum and The Band Perry, are there, too, though they say they shouldn’t be.

The names of those celebrities and 190 more — many of them household names — appear on a list of potential surrogates circulated by President Barack Obama’s campaign last month.

The list, distributed to a group of campaign donors in Washington and obtained by The Tennessean, gives a sense of who could help carry the Democratic president’s message to voters across the country over the next 10 months. It’s full of musicians, athletes, movie stars, elected officials, Cabinet members (though not Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Obama’s former rival) and other politicos.

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20120112/NEWS02/301120032/Obama-seeks-celebrity-backing?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

[tabatha]

1. I guess they have forgotten Chuck Norris and other rightwing celebs.

[rurallib]

2. but no Kelly Clarkson. Oh Noes!