George Clooney Doesn’t Need to Keep His Thoughts to Himself
Yes, he is an actor, but he’s also a citizen
Ever since President Biden’s disastrous debate (of which I have a few things to say about here), more than a few people have called for Biden to exit the presidential race: Rep. Bill Hines, Rep. Eric Sorensen, and Rep. Scott Peters to name just three.
And then there’s George Clooney. Here’s some of what he had to say in a piece published in The New York Times:
I love Joe Biden. As a senator. As a vice president and as president. I consider him a friend, and I believe in him. Believe in his character. Believe in his morals. In the last four years, he’s won many of the battles he’s faced.
But the one battle he cannot win is the fight against time. None of us can. It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe “big F-ing deal” Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.
One reader of the newspaper was not pleased to read Clooney’s remarks:
[I]t’s pretty rare that I read an opinion article like the guest essay you published by George Clooney and have to question why the author was given such a platform by The Times.
