Annie Lennox: 'Obama Is More Bill Cosby Than Malcolm X'

I tend to agree that celebrities can lean towards being blowhards now and again. I care more about what my best friend thinks about politics and social issues than Annie Lennox or any other celebrity, for that matter. Granted, it gives us all something to talk (read: gossip) about, but listening to what some overpaid entertainer has to say about world issues is not my idea of an intelligent discourse. William Buffet talking about economics - I listen. Annie Lennox (who is Scottish, by the way) opining on our American president? I'll take a pass, thanks.

Who's Annie Lennox? Didn't she have a candle factory somewhere, or was it an air conditioner?

Annie Lennox is choosing the weirdest manner to revive her ailing and now dead 1980's carreer. She needs to dye her hair and go back to being a man.

I'm sorry why should I care what Annie, Cheryl, Sean, or anyone else in the entertainment industry thinks about politics? Honestly, the ego's on these people are ridiculous. Just because one entertains for a living doesn't entitle them to wax political. Give me a break, stick to singing Annie, that you can have authority on.

BTW Jeanepratt,
Take a look at Obama's voting record. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that he is quite a leftist. Gosh.

Nothing wrong with being "left" or "right" as such -- it all depends on what particular policy we're talking about --, but it's ridiculous to call Barack Obama "far left" or call him "the most liberal" of our Senators.

Bernie Sanders, Ind. of Vermont, identifies himself as a "democratic socialist" (a la several Scandinavian and European democracies) and is much more "liberal" than Obama. I'd say Russ Feingold is also more liberal. And, of course, Ted Kennedy. Probably a few others (including Ron Wyden of Oregon and others).

Before you draw any conclusions about a politician because some interest group has labeled him/her as "liberal" or "conservative," you need to ask them to DEFINE their TERMS and then cite their evidence that the particular politician meets those criteria.

Barack Obama has taken a number of non-liberal, non-populist positions on various issues. In many ways he seems to be more a centrist a la Bill Clinton than a true liberal.

It may be that that's just practical politics. He truly does want to go beyond partisan politics and bring together liberals and conservatives, Republicans and Democrats. We'll see if that works.

But those who call Obama an extreme liberal are either ignorant of what those terms mean or simply trying to paint the center as "far left" to make it easier for the public to be pulled to the extreme right.

ignorance is bliss...Obama does not make money from any thing that other people are making off of him....he is a
public figure and so anyone can make big bucks off of him..do your homework....Stilleto9

"He is a balanced point right in the middle as far as I can see, and I think that's a great thing."

OMG HELLO?????

He's as Liberal Left and Socialist as there has ever been.

Another idiot "star" who is clueless.

and it would be very nice if Mr. Obama would release Obama Toilet Paper in conjunction with every possible product he has out right now. with all the money he makes off of pimping himself out like Miley Cyrus, it would be nice if 10 percent of his profits are put directly into the deficit, give the government back some of the money he's frivolously spending.

To Daddy Dear: it amazes me how many people think Obama is a liberal. newsflash, Obama is a centrist; he doesn't want any significant changes to be made to the republic, now does he? so how is he a liberal? he seems to be a man standing on a very fine line, in a blatant attempt at maximizing his already commercial appeal into the stratosphere. it's a sad, sad day when corporate whores like Obama are viewed as liberal.

Barack is a balanced point right in the middle??? He had the most liberal voting record in the US Senate. It's amazing how people think. Liberals think Obama, CNN, and MSNBC are centrist and Fox News is far right wing. Conservatives thing that Fox News is fair and balanced and Obama, CNN, and MSNBC are left wing lunatics.