Gwyneth Paltrow has urged fellow Americans living abroad to vote for Barack Obama in a new advertisement.
By Jon Swaine
Last Updated: 7:05PM BST
04 Aug 2008
The American actress, who lives in London with her husband, Chris Martin, the singer in the rock group Coldplay, leads a video encouraging ex-pats to register to vote from overseas in the presidential election in November.
Speaking alongside several other Americans living abroad, Miss Paltrow says: "Start now - right now. I'll be voting from London, but you can vote from anywhere. If you live abroad, you've got to do it. Every single vote will count."
She asks American ex-pats: "Where on earth will you vote?" The video concludes: "Vote Democrat. Vote Obama. Vote From Abroad."
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Well, gee, since she is asking - I may as well say NO.
Dense is one word.
There are others.
I am not interested Ms Paltrow / Martin, what you think about anything politically. Your views are of absolutely no interest to me, not now nor ... ever. Please refrain from blurring the line between comedy and stupidity with your statements - you've made them before as I recall. Do what you do, and do it well and we will all be happy.
Thank you.
Visit the Telegraph link for the video she appears in - again, comments section are interesting. Why don't actors and others understand we really do not want to hear them. They have a right to speak, absolutely - well sort of - in England, the 1st Amendment is not protected as it is here regardless of whether you are an American, same with Brazil or Germany or Portugal or Canada - so I guess, they don't have the absolute right to say anything in their current place of domicile outside the US. However, set that aside - so she has the right to speak, let her. But understand it drives people away from your work, because as hard as we might try to set aside politics from your character - you march right in and tell the Spanish how dumb Americans are, and slap us awake again. You have the right to speak, and we have the right to not see your films and send you to oblivion - in England, where they are much more civilized, I suppose. I don't think they are, and I have probably spent longer living there than you have (albeit, when I was younger - but who cares about truth anyway).
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