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Q&A with Morgan Freeman on Obama Generation
- How have you reacted to the first 6 months of the Obama presidency?
I am hopeful about it. I think he is doing the best job possible.
- What acting role do you recall most passionately and why?
It was for a movie – Street Smart. In the late 80s with Christopher Reeve, who played the intrepid reporter. I played the role of Leo Smalls, a peculiar character. A pimp. It was fun. As an actor, I like playing different and varied roles.
- How do you feel about the recent “beer summit” with the President, Prof. Gates, and the Cambridge political officer?
I agree with the President that the police in this situation were acting stupidly. I think they should have apologized. The beer summit was a smart move on the part of the President to diffuse a stupid situation.
- How can we tell if the Obama admin — after four or …
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One-Third of 18-24 Year Olds: Obama Is Abandoning Progressive Causes
As important as the youth demographic was in electing Barack Obama to the White House, it seems young Americans have lost faith in the president’s political motives.
According to a new ScoopDaily/Zogby poll, 30% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 believe that President Obama is “abandoning many of the progressive causes he championed during his campaign.” In addition, only 44% of 18- to 24-year-olds firmly believe he is still “working as hard as he can to fulfill” those same progressive causes.
Is President Obama abandoning liberal principles he heralded during the campaign? Compared to a slimmer averaged 20% across the older demographics, 18 to 24 year-olds say yes.
Overall, only slightly more than half (54%) of Americans view Obama as sticking to his campaign goals.
Minorities seem to give the first black president the benefit of the doubt more often. African-American (74%), …
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ScoopDaily/Zogby Poll: Young (and Old) Say Obama Has Lobbied Effectively for Reform
Even while facing steepening criticism—an open fire-practice for progressives as well as conservatives—a majority of Americans believes that President Barack Obama has lobbied effectively for health care reform, a new Zogby/Scoop44 poll shows.
Young Americans, in particular, said that the administration was waging a formidable online campaign to win the hearts and minds of Americans.
Steve Ross, a former Michigan-based Obama for America staffer, said the administration has proactively articulated its case for reform via online townhalls and frequent use of new media / social networking like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to disseminate their positions, ones that are still unclear to many Americans.
Ross added that Obama has effectively “confront[ed] the malicious lies being spread by opponents of reform” on its ‘Reality Check’ Website.
More than half of eighteen to twenty-four year olds (55.9%) said Obama was effectively courting those undecided about health care reform, while just over a quarter (25.4%) disagreed. In the …
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Expert Love Doctor Confirms ScoopDaily/Zogby Poll Results
Interview Transcript with Helen Fisher
And I am not at all surprised. Between 85-90% of Americans will marry by middle age. And those who don’t actually marry generally fall in love and form an attachment to someone anyway. The drive to love and form a pairbond is ancient. I think this drive evolved at least 4 million years ago or earlier–whenever our forebears began to descend from the fast disappearing trees of Africa to start a new life on the ground.
As a result we have primordial brain systems for the sex drive (which gets us out looking for a range of partners), romantic love (which enables us to focus on one individual), and attachment (which enables us to form a pairbond with this individual and remain attached at least long enough to rear a single child through infancy as a team).
Pairbonding is human. And inspite of our many contemporary variations on …
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Bono is Celebrity Choice for Obama Advisor, ScoopDaily/Zogby Poll Says
Bono, an international rock star of U2 fame, is the celebrity of choice to advise President Barack Obama on matters from international diplomacy to green energy, according to a recent Zogby/Scoop44 interactive survey.
Survey respondents would tap Bono, alongside California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger – interestingly both foreign-born citizens of Ireland and Austria, respectively – to serve as the chief celebrity counselors to the Obama White House.
Both Bono, 49, and Schwarzenegger, 62, boast political or humanitarian experience as well as broad popularity across the global stage.
Despite their age barrier with Millennials, according to voters surveyed, Bono and the Governator transcend appeal along older generational lines when their work was at the pulse of American pop culture.
But they remain at the prime of their status to influence public policy, if not entertainment, based on young people’s responses.
Next came champion golfer Tiger Woods, actor and good samaritan Brad Pitt, and television heroine Oprah …
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