'Obama has done a remarkable job': Morgan Freeman donates $1m to president campaign

Date
    July 20, 2012


$1m donation ... actor Morgan Freeman.



Morgan Freeman has become the latest Hollywood celebrity to donate to help re-elect Barack Obama, giving $US1 million ($968,000) to a campaign group backing the US president, his spokesman says.   

The Oscar-winning actor gave the money to Priorities USA Action, a so-called super-PAC independent of the official campaign, and praised Obama for his achievements in office since winning the White House race four years ago.

"President Obama has done a remarkable job in historically difficult circumstances," Freeman said, according to his spokesman Stan Rosenfeld.

"He ended combat operations in Iraq, put in place sensible reforms of Wall Street, saved the auto industry and protected the health care of every American," he continued.   


"He has led our nation to be more tolerant and placed impressive, accomplished women on the Supreme Court," added Freeman, who won an Oscar for best supporting actor in 2005 for his role in Million Dollar Baby.

Bill Burton, the head of Priorities USA Action and former Obama White House deputy press secretary, thanked Freeman for his "generosity" in a tweet linking to stories about the donation.

Other donors to Priorities US Action have included Dreamworks Animation boss Jeffrey Katzenberg, who gave $US2 million last year, and director Steven Spielberg who donated $US100,000, according to the opensecrets.org website.

US comedian Bill Maher announced in February that he had donated $US1 million to the Obama-backing super-PAC.

Freeman sparked lively debate, and drew criticism, when he said in a recent radio interview that Obama is not the United States' first black president.

"America's first black president hasn't arisen yet. He's not America's first black president. He's America's first mixed-race president," he told National Public Radio. Obama's father was Kenyan and his mother white American.

Morgan is famous for movies including 1989's Driving Miss Daisy, 2009's Invictus - in which he played Nelson Mandela - and the recent Dark Knight movies.

The African American actor also played a fictional US president in 1998 disaster movie Deep Impact, about a leader scrambling to prevent a comet from slamming into the Earth.   



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He will not win, he will probably make an excuse why he cant run or he will be directly challenged over not being a natural born citizen.

Anyway, he sucks as being a president. worse than even the bush's. A war monger to the highest order.

Yeah yeah, double digit unemployment and a trillion dollar deficit.

You've been such a smashing success Obama.

Doctor Jolly wrote on Jul 20^th, 2012 at 9:30am:

Romney would be just as bad if not worse.

progressiveslol wrote on Jul 20^th, 2012 at 9:54am:


All American politicians are crap because it's all driven by populism. I would rather be voting for a university professor, PhD student or a rabbi than a populist spin doctor. I would rather vote for Noam Chomsky or Steven Chu.

Barack Obama bin Laden is an insult to the intelligence of the American people.

Who really cares if it's Obama, Romney or Bush? They're all a load of nonsense -- except for Bill Clinton. I believe him when he says he did not have sexual relations with that woman.

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MOTR wrote on Jul 25^th, 2012 at 9:32pm:

Why tell us then if alan told you or are you just warning us that because alan told you and you told us, doesnt make it true. Well bugger me, whoda thunk it.

progressiveslol wrote on Jul 25^th, 2012 at 9:47pm:


Tell us why you are so certain Obama will lose.