Observer (UK): "Barack's debt to Larry David"

[bidenista]

Funny British article about the role of celebrities in the primaries:

Barack's debt to Larry David

Victoria Coren
Sunday February 3, 2008

...The meaty choice is between Barack Obama (George Clooney/Larry David) and Hillary Clinton (Barbra Streisand/Ted Danson). We can forget John Edwards; he's gone, probably because that poor sucker only had Jackson Browne and the plumber from Desperate Housewives

This leaves a quandary. Ted Danson and Larry David have endorsed different candidates, causing a nasty split in the Curb Your Enthusiasm vote. That's the first high-profile show Ted Danson did after his film career went wrong (one suspects he had to take it after Three Men And a Baby, Part 12 fell through) and it would be a terrible breach of etiquette to go against the main star.

Having said that, can Larry David really be trusted on these matters? Perhaps he's only supporting Obama to make up for a hilarious faux pas in which he mistook the senator for a parking valet, embarrassed his wife and got barred from the golf club....

More: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/7days/story/0,,2251553,00.html