Paul Newman was a maxed-out contributor to the campaign of Barack Obama for president

[No Passaran]

In 2006, the actor helped Connecticut's Ned Lamont mount a successful Democratic primary challenge to U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman. (Newman got so into the Lamont campaign that he even volunteered to do calls for the campaign -- and wrote his own script.)

This year, Newman was a maxed-out contributor to the campaign of Barack Obama for president.

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/365464

We lost a great man yesterday:(

[shraby]

1. It's too bad he didn't get a chance

to vote for him.

[JeffR]

3. Perhaps he did.

I'd love to think so. I'd be content having the course of democracy largely determined by citizens as discerning and human beings as totally great as Paul Newman.

[BlooInBloo]

2. I'm proud to be from the same country as him.

[Hekate]

4. Paul Newman was a mensch to his bones. He'll truly be missed. nt

[Raine]

5. What a loss ...

:cry: