{"id":2225,"date":"2011-12-21T10:51:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T18:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=2225"},"modified":"2011-12-21T10:58:59","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T18:58:59","slug":"matt-damon-blasts-obama-one-term-president-with-balls-would-be-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/matt-damon-blasts-obama-one-term-president-with-balls-would-be-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Damon Blasts Obama: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153One-Term President With Balls\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Would Be Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gossipcop.com\/matt-damon-obama-elle-magazine-one-term-president-balls\/\">Gossip Cop<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gossipcop.com\/tag\/matt-damon\">Matt Damon<\/a> rips <a href=\"http:\/\/gossipcop.com\/tag\/barack-obama\">President Obama <\/a>in <strong><em>Elle<\/em><\/strong> magazine, blasting his leadership qualities and saying he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d prefer \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a one-term president with some balls who actually got stuff done.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The actor, a longtime supporter of the Democratic Party and onetime Obama advocate, reveals frustration with the administration in his wide-ranging interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve talked to a lot of people who worked for Obama at the grassroots level,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elle.com\/Pop-Culture\/Celebrity-Spotlight\/Matt-Damon-Hollywood-s-Sexiest-Mr.-Nice-Guy\/Matt-Damon-Hollywood-s-Sexiest-Mr.-Nice-Guy-Read-More-Celebrity-Interviews-on-ELLE.com\" target=\"_blank\">says<\/a> Damon. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153One of them said to me, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcNever again. I will never be fooled again by a politician.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Damon then gets even more direct with his own criticism.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153You know, a one-term president with some balls who actually got stuff done would have been, in the long run of this country, much better,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d argues the <em>We Bought a Zoo<\/em>star.<\/p>\n<p>He adds, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If the Democrats think that they didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a mandate \u00e2\u20ac\u201c people are literally without any focus or leadership, just wandering out into the streets to yell right now because they are so pissed off.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Imagine if they had a leader,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d wonders Damon.<\/p>\n<p>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br \/>\nEvery single time I see political commentary from Damon all that comes mind is the Team America improv of him&#8230;<br \/>\n<object width=\"360\" height=\"213\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZWTzyU5MFgM?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gossip Cop Matt Damon rips President Obama in Elle magazine, blasting his leadership qualities and saying he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d prefer \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a one-term president with some balls who actually got stuff done.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The actor, a longtime supporter of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[291,10,7,292,14],"tags":[107,4212,78,4209,4210,4214,4,4211,4213],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}