I smell a celebrity feud brewing. Roseanne Barr has written a pretty scathing diatribe on her website about Angelina Jolie’s refusal to name a Presidential candidate she supports. Despite the fact that Barr was advocating for Hillary Clinton to land the Democratic nomination for the Presidency, she’s blasting Jolie for refusing to support Obama now that he’s the presumptive nominee. This long-winded post on Barr’s website lacks line breaks, punctuation and common sense. It seems to be in response to Angelin’s estranged father, Jon Voight’s op ed piece in the Washington Times calling Obama “militant” and questioning his fitness for the job:

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is a frightened little girl in a pink ballet tutu, who acts like Obama just wandered in from the rain forest with a bone thru his nose and a communist pamphlet in his loincloth. The neocons who own jon voight and make him dance on the chabad telethons are the worst most elitist people on earth. glen beck and jon voight are their bitches… both of them are used tampons who must be flushed down the toilet immediately! jon voight your evil spawn angelina jolie and her vacuous hubby brad pitt make about forty million dollars a year in violent psychopathic movies and give away three of it to starving children trying to look as if they give a crap about humanity as they spit out more dunces that will consume more than their fair share and wreck the earth even more. (just sayin’).
Also miss jolie says she likes mccain too and hasn’t decided who to endorse….huh? Aren’t you supposed to be somewhat enlightened, or do you not know that the african daughter you hold in every picture had parents who suffered and died because of the republican party’s worldwide economic assault on africa over the last few decades since reagan? whaaaa…??????!!!! (for that matter, the thai and vietnamese sons you are photo’d with weekly too!!!? who’s pictures you sell to raise money to help the poor? Their families are victims of America’s right wing military incursions too. Mccain wants to continue with the idea of war for profit…the americans are over that thinking now! They have drugged our troops and lower classes into supporting their oil business atrocities for long enough. We want to save not lose our souls thank you. Now go back to making your movies about women who love to handle big guns that shoot hundreds of people to death. Ps….it might be good for your asian and african children’s self esteem to know you support a brown man for the leader of the free world.)

[From Rosanne’s official blog via US Weekly]

I’m liberal and I agree with her general points and hear where she’s coming from, but such emotional, over-the-top attacks do nothing for our cause. People are welcome to support whomever they want to for President. That doesn’t mean they have personal failings no matter how much I disagree with their reasoning. Barr will get some publicity for this, but she sounds like an idiot. There are many people who think the war is incredibly wrong and a horrible atrocity, but they’ll also listen to people who disagree and give reasoned arguments. When you make such heated statements you just cause the other side to respond in kind and make yourself an easier target.

Jolie could possibly support McCain for President, but she may not ever admit it. McCain will save her a lot of money in taxes, while people who make less than $112k will save much more under Obama’s plan. Obama’s plan will give 90% of Americans a tax break that McCain’s plan won’t, but still McCain has the nerve to repeat that Obama is raising taxes. He is – for the people who are making over six figures and can presumably afford it.

This is a case of yet another celebrity making an emotional argument for Obama over McCain and hurling insults at someone else in the process. Obama would do well to continue to keep celebrities at arm’s length in his campaign.

Roseanne Barr is shown at the TV Land Awards on 6/8/08. Credit: Fame