“I think celebrity endorsements hurt politicians. As soon as Oprah Winfrey pops up and goes ‘Ha-la-la-la,’ I’m like ‘I love Barack Obama.’ I hate Oprah Winfrey. I don’t hate her. I just don’t believe in her, so I don’t want any part of any of that.”  –Kid Rock

Kid Rock/wikipedia.org

“…today her long, girlishly crimped Barbie blonde hair skims a pair of Action Man biceps. Madonna’s fans love her for the obvious sweat she has poured into holding their attention for three decades.”  –British pop critic Helen Brown

“Why do I like them (the Barack Obamas)? Let’s be honest, they’re just cooler than the option.” –Bill Maher

“If The New York Times or Washington Post had cared half as much about the truth behind President Bush’s Niger uranium claims as the National Enquirer cared about John Edwards’s sex life, America might have stayed out of a war.”  –The editors of The American Conservative magazine

From the National Enquirer

“After ten years of dishing scandal, something unusual happened. Rather than becoming inured to human misbehavior, I began empathizing with its victims and consequences. Sometimes, as I learned firsthand, it’s just better to keep your mouth shut. And who needs a gossip columnist who thinks like that?” —Ben Widdicombe in the Bergdorf Goodman magazine

“Ms. Heinz Kerry never got to be properly known by this country – a woman who could speak five languages and lead a major philanthropic organization, one of the largest in America and do good the way she has done … ought to be better understood in a nation that prides itself on meritocracy. I love her for who she is and for our relationship. I also love her for her courage and for what she did in ’04 to help set this country on a better path.”  –John Kerry on his wife Teresa 

John Kerry/kerry.senate.gov

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