Actress Nia Long Pops Up to Support Obama Campaign (VIDEO)

Posted on 10. Jul, 2012 by Stevie in Politics / Current Events

The celebrity endorsements continue to roll in for President Obama these days.

Actress Nia Long recently sat down to tape a video endorsement of the president. The campaign posted the video on their YouTube channel on Tuesday.

For me, it’s important to see a figure like Long involved publicly with the campaign. It’s not that Obama is at a loss for black people to support him. However, it’s good seeing a strong African-American actress support the president and talk about key issues resonates with the community in a way the president perhaps cannot.

Think of it as a new way of telling the same story. I’m a fan of Long’s and appreciated seeing her in this capacity.

This is all a part of the Obama campaign’s continued strategy to reach specific groups of people — i.e., Latinos, African-Americans, women, LGBT — with targeted spokespeople.

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12507One Response2012-07-10+19%3A12%3A13Stevie to “Actress Nia Long Pops Up to Support Obama Campaign (VIDEO)”

Yolanda

12. Jul, 2012

I have two MAJOR issues with this endorsement:

Nia opens up by saying the President is sensitive to the core values of family. Isn't Nia a two time baby mama? Where's the core family values at? THIS is how the President wants to appeal to me? THIS is the only celebrity AA woman he could find? If she truly wanted to help BO's campaign she should have declined this offer.

My second issue is that this was Nia's chance to speak to the Black community and inform us about how our health care will be reformed. This was Nia's opportunity to inform us on the methods we can use to get the funds for college. This was such a waste of time and money in that the same things she said is the exact same abstract information we get from the main stream media. She then had the nerve to tell us to research it and discuss it with our neighbors. HUH? Isn't the affordable healthcare act over 2000 pages? Nia, baby, it would take me until AFTER the election to read, digest, and begin to interpret it, let alone inform my neighbors so that we can discuss it.

I'm left wondering who truly is supposed to benefit from this endorsement.

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