...and Jon Voight's voice is important because....one ridiculous Rep biased blog after another...along with sinking ratings.
CNN obviously wants to get in on the internet right wingers on the "messiah talk. What a reality tv show you have made of journalism. What about a story about the Red Cross worker who was held falsely at Gimo for 7.5 years. If you need background, check NBC's lead story from last night.
June 9, 2009 09:55 am at 9:55 am |
jesse
so an out of work actor, dead beat dad is a new face for the GOP's family values?
funny!! (or not so funny and kind of sad)
June 9, 2009 09:55 am at 9:55 am |
Helene
That poor man has finally gone off the deep end. I agree with his daughter!
June 9, 2009 09:56 am at 9:56 am |
Real Change
Right.....and the real profits are Dick and Rush and Sarah and Newt.
June 9, 2009 09:56 am at 9:56 am |
Sniffit
And Jon Voight's opinion matters why? His only worthwhile accomplishment was making Angelina. He'll go out knowing that's the only beauty he added to the world.
June 9, 2009 09:56 am at 9:56 am |
Monrob
Jon Voight cannot even hold a relationship with his children.
June 9, 2009 09:57 am at 9:57 am |
Nan
All of this from a man whose own daughter will have nothing to do with him. It is so frightening to hear the hawkish hatemonger speeches that went on at this event. I hope the Dems, moderate Repubs and Independents stay vigil or we could be back to the crazy extreme right wing of the repub party ruining this country and starting unprovoked wars.
June 9, 2009 09:57 am at 9:57 am |
IndieWoman
He's famous for a movie about hicks and his daughter. No one cares about this has-been.
June 9, 2009 09:58 am at 9:58 am |
Tim
Who gives a rat's hind part what he thinks?
June 9, 2009 09:58 am at 9:58 am |
MJM
Good call, Voight!!
June 9, 2009 09:58 am at 9:58 am |
Casy
I couldn't agree more with Mr. Voight!!
June 9, 2009 09:58 am at 9:58 am |
Really??
And his opinion matters to the rest of us because....????
June 9, 2009 09:59 am at 9:59 am |
Gopher
I'm anxiously awaiting the outrage from the right regarding a Hollywood celebrity invoking his First Amendment right to make a political statement. (insert sound of crickets chirping). Don't tell me it's a one-way street.
June 9, 2009 09:59 am at 9:59 am |
BeefMasterX
Wrong Jon. Obama is the Anti-Christ.
June 9, 2009 09:59 am at 9:59 am |
John Z.
What cares what actors like Chuck Norris and Jon Voight have to say? Give me a break!
June 9, 2009 09:59 am at 9:59 am |
Sandy
Is it me or does Jon Voight seem to have trouble saying "President Obama"? He keeps saying "Obama". Why can't the right wing show some respect?
June 9, 2009 10:00 am at 10:00 am |
JC
Hmmm...Didn't he used to be Jon Voight?
June 9, 2009 10:00 am at 10:00 am |
PULEEEZZZ!! lets tell some truth
IT was George W Bush that spent our political capital in the world. We are becoming a weak nation? That started with Reagan and outsourcing. Mr. Voight needs to get off his self rightious point of view about the US and take a look at what has happened under G.W.BUSH
June 9, 2009 10:00 am at 10:00 am |
Brad
I thought you said an "actor" blasted Obama....this is talking about Jon Voight.
June 9, 2009 10:00 am at 10:00 am |
Bram
Hey John!!
You are a lousy actor and know even less about politics. You are of the same ilk as Charlton Heston.
Can you spell WHACKO??? That's W-H-A-C-K-O!!
Here's a man from another country (y'know, John, there ARE other countries/opinions out there) who believes PRESIDENT Obama is doing a great job. It's so refreshing to finally see an American who actually is trying to refurbish America's image on the world stage.
June 9, 2009 10:00 am at 10:00 am |
Natasha
Who cares what you think Voight......When have we really favored you in recents years.
June 9, 2009 10:00 am at 10:00 am |
Blue in Maine
To quote that southern gentleman Forrest Gump.
"False is as false does"
After 8 years of W is wise to be skeptical but I see nothing about Obama as false so far.
June 9, 2009 10:01 am at 10:01 am |
EO
John Voight, is not in a position to call anyone any names, when your daughter don't want to have anything to do with you. Go and have a father daughter conversation with Angela.
John you are pot calling a kettle black, stay with acting.
June 9, 2009 10:01 am at 10:01 am |
Goldenmom
An "actor," who pretends to be someone else for a buck, calls Obama a false prophet.
Was he pretending to be a preacher, and how much was he paid to show up?
June 9, 2009 10:01 am at 10:01 am |
Paul
All Voight will achieve here is to push a few more independent and moderate Republican voters toward Obama, because sensible people see the danger in voting for the Party of Crazy (formerly the Party of No).
June 9, 2009 10:02 am at 10:02 am |
Cowboy in West Texas
Aren't all Presidents at some time in their term – making promises they can't keep?
June 9, 2009 10:02 am at 10:02 am |
Scott T.
Amen! I didn't think anyone in Hollywood would have the guts to stand up and say that.
June 9, 2009 10:02 am at 10:02 am |
SLM
Wow an actor with a brain!! His message his loud, clear and honest, too bad the Democrats all need hearing aids and are oblivious to the mess they are creating. Change – Be careful what you wish for.
June 9, 2009 10:03 am at 10:03 am |
Middle man
You must be kidding me! I listed to the two minute tirade that was captured and like all the others of his ilk he does not offer a solution . He claims the country is weak. Hellooo! Who weakened it, and did it happen overnight? By the way, Obama never proclaimed himself a prophet, so GET THEE HENCE!
June 9, 2009 10:03 am at 10:03 am |
4obama
Jon Voight is delusional.
June 9, 2009 10:03 am at 10:03 am |
Frank
Say goodbye to your career Mr. Voight.
Only lying leftist Obama bootlickers are allowed in Hollywood!
June 9, 2009 10:03 am at 10:03 am |
anna
Mr. Voight we do not care what you think of our President.....stick with what you do best....ACT!!!
June 9, 2009 10:03 am at 10:03 am |
Debby
Boy for an actor who use to read scripts by the dozens you would think he would be a better orator. Obama is in limbo right now he hasn't been in long enough to accomplish anything, so I do think its premature to call him a false prophet.
June 9, 2009 10:04 am at 10:04 am |
Jim
another sensationalist republican.
just so you republicans know ... Obama has never been viewed by anyone as a prophet. Your calling him one, or implying that anyone really thinks of him as one, only shows how weak your arguments are.
please try to come up with something better. something real would be nice.
June 9, 2009 10:04 am at 10:04 am |
Maggie
And the reason he's an expert on false prophets is . . .?
June 9, 2009 10:04 am at 10:04 am |
KC
There go any future acting jobs for him. Hollywood is one of the most if not the most discriminatory place on earth. Hope he had a large savings.
June 9, 2009 10:04 am at 10:04 am |
Lowell
Oh good grief.
WHAT is with these people? NOBODY thinks Obama is the second coming. I know a lot of GOPers thought Bush could walk on water, but I'd say the vast majority of Americans are well aware that Obama is a regular guy in an unusual job doing the best he can while at the same time not forgetting he's a regular guy just like the rest of the population.
June 9, 2009 10:04 am at 10:04 am |
phoenix86
Obamabots do not care what their leader says. They just want someone to take care of them and think for them.
June 9, 2009 10:04 am at 10:04 am |
Ann
I understand completely that everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but COME ON!!!
June 9, 2009 10:04 am at 10:04 am |
Angelina
And we care about his opinion because........
June 9, 2009 10:04 am at 10:04 am |
Mark D. Zemanek
Thank-you, Mr. Voight. I agree. I agree that the USA has been and can continue to be the greatest force for good the World has seen. Let us have faith in God and as God gives us the right to see. Mr. Obama may the worse influence on American society that I have seen in my 51 years and as I read American history.
We must refuse socialism. Change must occur, but correctly and from the people left to embrace their talents. A country with a government, not a government with a country.
June 9, 2009 10:05 am at 10:05 am |
Robert
Like anyone cares what you think Jon.
June 9, 2009 10:05 am at 10:05 am |
Robert Austin, Texas
This old B-listed actor should stick with his B-listed movies and shut his mouth unless somebody writes the lines for him.
June 9, 2009 10:05 am at 10:05 am |
sparky
That's right, Jon. The country has gone from liberator and moral beacon to a disaster in a mere four months. What a tool!
June 9, 2009 10:06 am at 10:06 am |
Once You Vote Black: Mute Newt
Voight is such a fool. He is like a crazy uncle. And this is who the GOP wants to follow. The GOP would do better to present ideas and policy then to put Obama down at every junction. But they do not know how to do that which is why they will loose in 2010.
June 9, 2009 10:06 am at 10:06 am |
Eddie of New York
The GOP constantly criticizes the democrats for lack of bipartisanship. After something like this, why would anyone WANT to work with the GOP. The GOP get's together and says "we need to do this, we need to do that" and rail against Obama. But yet again, there are no solutions folks. Where are your answers to our problems GOP?
Grow a pair and stop whining, become the leadership you so often tout you provide, and give us something constructive to work at. It's no wonder the democrats do not want to work with you. After insult after childish insult (my celebs no less). It's like tooling on your own brother and then asking him to help you work on your house. Small wonder why he says "F-you!"
June 9, 2009 10:06 am at 10:06 am |
Bill
Please I do not recall we were voting on a prophet in November 2008? I know we were voting on voting out the Republicans from the White House. Frankly I could of ran my loving dog aganist any Republican and won.
June 9, 2009 10:06 am at 10:06 am |
steel
where did he speak? what did the crowd look like (i can guess)
has his daughter returned any calls yet? the better story was his delirious rant about wanting to talk to his family – who want nothing to do with the washed up loser looking for his 'prophet'
June 9, 2009 10:06 am at 10:06 am |
gpenn
Voight trying to drum up some work for his declining career.
June 9, 2009 10:06 am at 10:06 am |
Ernesto
And Jon Voight's opinion is important because..............????
Being a jerk is is so easy when you're playing to a room full of jerks with no ideas,
June 9, 2009 10:06 am at 10:06 am |
Mike
Who is Jon Voight to be such an "expert?"
Maybe he'd like to move to the West Bank and see what it's like to live under an occupation. To have the audacity and the stupidity to call President Obama a "false prophet" is a complete and total outrage. Maybe Voight prefers to see the world at war, all countries under siege and spiraling ever downward for the rest of his life. I do not.
We just removed a group of zanies from power. We don't need Jon Voight to become the faux secretary of state.
June 9, 2009 10:06 am at 10:06 am |
Crystal
This really ticks me off. The sound bites hear disturb me greatly. Its not America's job to keep Israel safe. Heck we need to concentrate on keeping America safe. Mr. Voight should spend more time on mending his family bonds instead of bad mouthing the President. How dare he even utter this man to be a false prophet. Mr. Obama is not a prophet and has not claimed to be one. I am fed up with the right wing trying to make everything wrong in America and the world for that matter an obama problem. The Israeli Palestian issues have long been there and are not going anywhere unless both sides start to consider what they are doing. America doesn't owe Israel a thing. And i am sick and tired of everybody thinking that we should be running to bail them out everytime they decide to send a missle over the wall.
Mr. Voight stay out of politics and go and make a movie.
June 9, 2009 10:07 am at 10:07 am |
Belleville
Sometimes nutcases shouldnt be given a public forum. Perhaps Mr Voight should move to Waco Texas...
June 9, 2009 10:07 am at 10:07 am |
Richard L
After all the complaining from the right-wingers about Hollywood actors, finally they have one they will agree with. Except, of course, for all the Hollywood actors they have elected.
June 9, 2009 10:07 am at 10:07 am |
TJJ
Jesus, all right-wingers are just psycho, huh?! I mean, Voight (the same dense, bull-headed jerk who wouldn't even speak with his own daughter for years, and still doesn't speak to her from what I understand-let's you know what kind of person you're dealing with) is so full of it it's not even funny. Obama's foreign policy so far has been a STANDOUT success. I mean give me a break. Why does it seem like every Republican lives in fairy tale land where they imagine these gallant fairy tale type battles of good and even where America is the ultimately ruler with God-like infallability? That's why much of the world hated America before Obama was elected. Killing people is killing people. Other people don't suscribe to your "storyline" and fantasy that you have in your head, they just know that you're murdering their brothers, their mothers, their children, with guns and bombs. That's bound to leave a bad taste in their mouth. Yes, sometimes war is inevitable, but give me a break with the fairy tale nonsense right-wingers.
June 9, 2009 10:08 am at 10:08 am |
diamond j
i like jon voight.right on.
June 9, 2009 10:08 am at 10:08 am |
jenn
I'm sure all the anti-Hollywood conservatives will conveniently overlook the fact that Voigt is an actor. But really, this whole dinner was great for Democrats. The GOP proved once again that it has nothing to offer except criticism. That is not an alternative vision for this country. News flash to the GOP: the only people who are listening are the mouth-breathing 30% who thought GWB was awesome!
June 9, 2009 10:08 am at 10:08 am |
JT
Voight is not playing with a full deck.
June 9, 2009 10:08 am at 10:08 am |
Damien
Wow.
This guy is on drugs. America the great liberator? After 8 years of Bush where did the Republican 'liberation' get us? Time for change.
He should go duck hunting with Cheney.
June 9, 2009 10:08 am at 10:08 am |
William Cowan
It's always fun to burn down a strawman, isn't it John?
June 9, 2009 10:08 am at 10:08 am |
Deborah
Excellent and truthful speech! Kudos Jon! I wish more Hollywood republicans would come out and speak the truth! The Obamanation in the White House must go!
June 9, 2009 10:08 am at 10:08 am |
Jee Hose
Seems somebody took their role on 24 a might too seriously.
June 9, 2009 10:08 am at 10:08 am |
Jeff in Virginia
So says the father of Angelina Jolie..
Please...
June 9, 2009 10:09 am at 10:09 am |
W. Art
Perhaps Jon Voight needs to scold his daughter on how she stole another woman's husband. He needs to get his relationship fixed with his daughter.
See this is why Republicans are not getting ahead. Too busy sitting somewhere behind closed doors name calling, acting like children. Why can't they put their idiotic sayings aside and start help to create jobs, programs, health care. It's call working together to help find a solution.
June 9, 2009 10:09 am at 10:09 am |
ruthanne
An actor calling the president a "false prophet" is moronic–nothing more, nothing less.
June 9, 2009 10:09 am at 10:09 am |
stoph
Actors, are entitled to their opinions. However, I think this guy is totally clueless.
President Obama has been in office for less than 5 months and somehow Voight thinks he's been a disaster? Give me a break. I don't think Obama sees himself as a prophet. He's trying to clean up a real mess that he inherited. America is still committed to Israel however, it doesn't mean that we can't show a little more candor in trying to bring about real peace in the Middle East. Voight and his ilk clearly don't understand that a one-sided approach is fruitless, as history has shown.
Now it's time for Jon to go back to the movies, or TV, or infomercials.
June 9, 2009 10:09 am at 10:09 am |
Rashid Rahman
Is this man out of his mind!!!!
June 9, 2009 10:09 am at 10:09 am |
Dean
Who cares what an actor thinks? And he's not supposed to be a ptophet, he's supposed to be the president. Come on people, this guy has no business discussing politics, he's an actor, his job is to pretend to be someone he's not. If the president is a false prophet then Mr Voight is a false Idol.....
June 9, 2009 10:09 am at 10:09 am |
Greg & Matt in Houston
As far as the Gay Community is concerned he certainly is a false prophet. O.K. we'll cut to the chase, as far as the Gay Community is concerned he is an out and out liar. I hope the Obama people see this because read our lips: "We will be voting with our pocket books next time, not our hearts.'
June 9, 2009 10:10 am at 10:10 am |
JWB
Why do all failed actors wash up in the GOP? Reagan, Schwarzenegger, Thompson, Voight .......
June 9, 2009 10:10 am at 10:10 am |
Daryl Ewers
Where is Voight/ talking? Who is he addressing? It would be interesting to know.
June 9, 2009 10:10 am at 10:10 am |
steven harnack
so? steven harnack says john voight is a false actor. so?
June 9, 2009 10:10 am at 10:10 am |
Roger
I have always admired Jon Voight as an actor, from his earliest role in Midnight Cowboy to his latest role on "24", but his politics leave a great deal to be desired. If he wants to speak of false prophets, he need only look out into the audience from the podium where he made his caustic remarks.
June 9, 2009 10:10 am at 10:10 am |
Jeff B.
Right on!!!
June 9, 2009 10:10 am at 10:10 am |
Mr Tibbs
Who is this guy Voight........??? Perhaps he should have used a teleprompter to delivver this little speech that he didnt appear to have written himself. His message sounds like the same good ole boy message living in the hearts of every day closet racist. Mr Voight, its okay, but you will have to let go of your White Male Phobia!! America is going to be just fine!!!!!
June 9, 2009 10:10 am at 10:10 am |
Rumpusgoopus
You know, ever since I heard about Obama, I had to wonder: what did actor Jon Voight think about him? Now I know. Thanks CNN for that wonderful coverage.
June 9, 2009 10:11 am at 10:11 am |
videodrome
Forget it, Voight.
America is NOT the "great liberator" and should have never been put in this role to begin with.
I am tired of the expense and sacrifice that this country has made, just to have our borders overtaken by illegals and every anchor baby becoming a citizen. The fact that being BORN in this country to LEGAL parents means nothing anymore.
Go back to living in your glory days, Voight.
June 9, 2009 10:11 am at 10:11 am |
Gus
Nice to see someone standing up against Obama.
June 9, 2009 10:11 am at 10:11 am |
JP
what exactly does Jon Voigt have to add to polital discourse in this country? I still have a clear memory of Mr. Voigt as the 'Midnight Cowboy'. Now he's preaching to me on the morals of a president who does not wear his apparently deeply held religious beliefs on his sleeve. I wish Mr. Voigt would attend to his own relationship with God rather then spend his time questioning someone else's faith. Of course, he part of that right-wing conservative cabal that navigates through the world and makes political hay by questioning the faith of others. I'm thinking that the last election was a message from the American electorate that this ain't workin'. Maybe Mr. Voigt didn't get the memo.
June 9, 2009 10:11 am at 10:11 am |
TM in CO
I don't believe I've ever heard Obama call himself a "prophet", the "Messiah" or anything remotely like it. Regardless of who likes it or not, he is our President and if he fails, so do the American people......Was the same when GW Bush was President. He did fail and so did the American people...............................
June 9, 2009 10:11 am at 10:11 am |
EJ
what's that phrase I'm looking for again.. oh yeah, shut up and act?
June 9, 2009 10:12 am at 10:12 am |
Sandy
Amen!
June 9, 2009 10:12 am at 10:12 am |
KLK
Voight is looney tunes. And to think, this is the guy the GOP chose to be the MC at their event. Very telling. Very telling, indeed.
June 9, 2009 10:12 am at 10:12 am |
Ann
God. No wonder his daughter won't have a thing to do with him. What an embarrassment to the human race. You have to be proud of your parents and respect them – who could be proud and respect this? Time for him to permanently join the unemployed has-been actors association.
June 9, 2009 10:12 am at 10:12 am |
Eva, Falls Church, VA
My brain is bleeding – that was painful to listen to. "Only we..." excludes anyone who is different from him. I have a problem with that.
June 9, 2009 10:12 am at 10:12 am |
rightminded
One time I would like to hear Voight say "everything Obama has recommended has been disaster" and actually point out specifically what he means. The man has been president for less than 5 months. Bush was president for 8 months when 9/11 happened. Was he a complete and total falure because he let that happen? Rhetoric without substance serves only to agitate the unthinking.
June 9, 2009 10:12 am at 10:12 am |
dblzap
Both voit and gringrich need to stuff a sock in it!
The conservitive adjenda has put us into the mess we are in and it will take time to undo the damage 30 years of Regan economics to be repaired
America is not about a "owner ship" society where if your smart enough and willing to sell your soul to the almighty dollar you can get ahead on the backs of the rest of us!
June 9, 2009 10:12 am at 10:12 am |
Jon Voight, the actor?
good, cause we just don't have enough shooting from the hip about this new president
it is really to early to condem or to praise, but I do think all his hard work is paying off and it is improving, if only slightly
no, not a prophet, but we are very lucky he decided to serve, and he is doing a great job
June 9, 2009 10:13 am at 10:13 am |
B40
Right ON!!! So nice to hear a voice of reason from a Hollywood person. Voight is a stand-up guy.
June 9, 2009 10:13 am at 10:13 am |
Lilia from MD
I think you just saw a Zionist at its best. God save us from people like him.
June 9, 2009 10:13 am at 10:13 am |
Vickie
"We, and we alone are the right frame of mind to free this nation from this Obama oppression."
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
WHAT ?????
There's your problem right there. Thinking that YOUR way is the ONLY way!
Oh, and the false prophet thing, that's rich!
June 9, 2009 10:13 am at 10:13 am |
HK
Someone needs to remind Mr Voight how we got into this mess. It really amazes me how the Republicans have a short memory.
June 9, 2009 10:13 am at 10:13 am |
Fresh
Wow, Jon is really showing how egotistical people can be. I didn't know that we (americans) were the liberaters of the whole world. I must have missed that news story. He seems to think he knows everything, maybe it is he who is the "false prophet".
June 9, 2009 10:13 am at 10:13 am |
L. Hutchison
Where is Voight's pointed white hood? I bet he's off to have a scotch on the rocks with Cheney. These hateful bigoted old white men cannot accept defeat. Pathetic that.
June 9, 2009 10:13 am at 10:13 am |
Rumpusgoopus
Well, we have that, but what does Jon Voight think of Ted Kennedy? MN Governor Tim Pawlenty? Adam Lambert? There are so many unanswered questions.
June 9, 2009 10:13 am at 10:13 am |
jayson69
And Voigt's an idiot who's own daughter despises him...
I haven't heard Obama saying he's come from God to carryout a religious mission. He's just like all other politicians and Presidents and promotes his ideas and plans. Nothing wrong with that.
June 9, 2009 10:13 am at 10:13 am |
Kile Anderson
Finally, someone has the nerve to stand up and say it. This man is a complete disaster. He has no clue on how the real world works. Obama is the real enemy of America. The next 3 1/2 years can't go by fast enough.
June 9, 2009 10:14 am at 10:14 am |
Fla.
A right wing actor who supported Rudy Giuliani, of all people, is projecting "false prophet" onto someone else. Oh, the irony...
Quick, someone call Pat Robertson for another endorsement. LOL
Credibility, please.
June 9, 2009 10:14 am at 10:14 am |
Maria
What's wrong with Mr. Voight? Obame took the presidency in January 2009 ... and is he making this nation weak? ... What is all that about US conquering the rest of the world? .... What is he suggesting ... US should subgugate other nations? ... Is that the spirit of globalization? Respect to others? .. is Mr. Voight suggesting that the freedom Americans enjoy cannot or should not be enjoyed by non-Americans? ... Really, Mr. Voight ... what's wrong with you?
June 9, 2009 10:15 am at 10:15 am |
Brennan
Well you would know JON! You're the best at acting like one!
June 9, 2009 10:15 am at 10:15 am |
Larry Nobrega
What arrogance we Americans have thinking that we know what is best for people of the rest of this planet. The idea that war is preferable over negotiations is insanity to me. I don't know if Obama actions in the international community will be successful but I pray they will be. I find that people that stand up and criticize what President Obama is trying to do speak from a fear based, hate based, and discrimination based ideology.
June 9, 2009 10:15 am at 10:15 am |
hrp
Another 'has-been' looking for free publicity.
June 9, 2009 10:15 am at 10:15 am |
ghost
Looks like one more flew over the cuckoo's nest.
I wish CNN would give more details. Like the venue in question. I wonder why the Israel part was in it. However, to say that everything the man has done has failed is pre-mature at best and disingenious at worst. I really wish folks would give up forecasting and stick to their day jobs.
I ask yet again, what happens should all of his plans actually work? Will any of you man up (or woman up, as it were) and admit it? Probably not. Already republicans are saying (I predicted this, but who didn't?) that any recovery may not be linked to the stimulus plan. Already trying to cover their tracks.
June 9, 2009 10:15 am at 10:15 am |
Peggy - TX
No, President Obama is not a false prophet. He has never claimed to be a saint or a prophet or a savior. He has only claimed to be a man, with a vison that Government should work for the people, rather then for Big Business and the hard cold facts, that the GOP is not able to bear , is that he is doing an extrodinary good job so far cleaning up the mess left by 8 years of neglect and mismanagement by the old GOP's selection for the POTUS.
June 9, 2009 10:16 am at 10:16 am |
Jeff
Jon must have stopped taking his medication again. Now his delusions have taken over and he thinks he knows something about foreign policy! Such addled hysteria would be funny if it were not pathetic. Jon, you should have learned from Bush that foreign policy is not for amateurs; it is best left to those experienced professionals who have studied and practiced it. Obama and his staff know a helluva lot more about it than you do.
June 9, 2009 10:16 am at 10:16 am |
Ian
Let's see how many times the word "racist" comes from the left.
God forbid anyone might actually have a legitimate complaint about Obama's policies.
June 9, 2009 10:16 am at 10:16 am |
lucy2
False prophet? What is this, the middle ages? Come on. Obama was elected by a majority of the people, and is doing the job he was hired to do. It's one thing to disagree with him and his methods, but this sort of nonsense, especially by a Hollywood actor, no less, is just unnecessary. (And yes, I find Hollywood's infiltration of politics annoying when it's the Dems too)
The GOP needs to find NEW leadership, return to the true roots of their party, and start to propose some solutions that will actually be helpful. If they can figure out how to do that, I'm listening. Until then, no thanks.
June 9, 2009 10:16 am at 10:16 am |
Kevin
Interesting comment! Where was Mr. Voight in speaking out against Bush when he lied to the American people? What proof does he offer that the policies of Obama have weaken the nation? Are his comments driven by the fear of something new and different? Change is hard! I believe the President is on the right track. I do not agree with all of his policies, but I continue to believe in him. It is absolutely too early to tell if the policies are a failure or not. Mr. Obama may be a false prophet, but Mr. Voight has clearly taken the mantle as the new prophet of fear mongering.
June 9, 2009 10:16 am at 10:16 am |
Spicoli's Van
In times as challenging as these, it's important that we as a nation look to find examples of insightful leadership. I'm glad that, with all the educated, experienced and sober voices in the world to choose from, we as Americans give credence to Angelina Jolie's sometimes-stable actor father.
Gonna get right on that train, yessiree...
June 9, 2009 10:16 am at 10:16 am |
Larry from RI
"False Prophet"?
Yet another religious right, wing nut from the American Christian Taliban heard from!
BTW – I thought you GOPers didn't like Hollywood actors having a say in politics? So now it's OK with you – as long as they are saying something that you agree with!
June 9, 2009 10:16 am at 10:16 am |
Tom in Wheaton, Illinois
Must be tough for the Republicans when they have John Voigt as their "go-to" guy for criticism of President Obama. Of course, if Sarah Palin is your MAIN speaker, how far down the list to you go to get someone LESS relevant to follow her?
June 9, 2009 10:17 am at 10:17 am |
drkmbrown
Mr. Voight, your narcissism is quite evident here. You are welcome to share your opinions, but I would hope that not much weight would be given to such comments from an obviously biased person.
June 9, 2009 10:17 am at 10:17 am |
fielding mellish
Why do we need to listen to any of these actors on either side? This guy is about as smart as Joe Buck, the dumb hick he played in Midnight Cowboy.
June 9, 2009 10:17 am at 10:17 am |
lucy
I sure am glad someone has the guts to speak out and say what millons of people are wanting to say. It's a shame this man is running our country down to all these other countries and making us look like stupid idiots. have mercy on us.
June 9, 2009 10:17 am at 10:17 am |
IndyVoter
Shame on you John V....I rather like you as an actor, but you are way off on this one. Why do you and your friends insist of maintaining a warhawk attitude? President Obama is not a prophet at all, but he does speak the truth in wisdom. My bible says "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God" – Matt 5:9. It also says, "A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger." Proverbs (the book of wisdom) 15:1, finally, it says, "Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord" – Romans 12:19. That's not to say that we shouldn't have the best, most robust military/defense capability that this world has ever seen or punish crime and illegal and truly threatening behavior, but rather that we should employ it only when necessary. We certainly should not use it to "scare" the world into respecting us....because frankly, it doesn't and hasn't worked.
June 9, 2009 10:17 am at 10:17 am |
Pragmatic
False Prophet? Again getting religion and government all mixed up! We don't have prophets – false or otherwise – in government. We have legally elected officials who can be voted out of office on a regular schedule! This guy has been looking for the national treasure too long.
June 9, 2009 10:17 am at 10:17 am |
David
A perfect speech and Voight is exactly right. I am amazed that anyone in the spotlight has the stones to critize Obama.
June 9, 2009 10:17 am at 10:17 am |
katiec
CNN, why is what this man has to say against our president important? Why does he along with Gingrich, Cheney, Rove, Limbaugh, Palin etc constantly get your headlines? Where are
the headlines in support of President Obama? Where are
articles of importance, discussing the health care plan, economy,
the broken education system.
Where are the fact checks on what these hypocrits say, the questions
about their integrity?
Oh, forgot, those are reserved for the few you interview who show
opposition to the GOP.
June 9, 2009 10:18 am at 10:18 am |
tg
Amen! Jon Voight hit the nail on the head.
June 9, 2009 10:18 am at 10:18 am |
tochi
I suppose Obama hasn't invaded some random nation on false pretext,so he must be weak.. He is helping our car industry rather than frittering billions away on waging wars,so he must be weak. He is helping dig our financial system out of a hole rather than planning who to invade next,so he must be weak. He is waging a diplomatic war to bring peace in the Middle East, so he must be weak
June 9, 2009 10:18 am at 10:18 am |
hbg
Voight: How ignorant can one be??!!!???
June 9, 2009 10:18 am at 10:18 am |
Bill Carey
I don't know what Obama this guy is talking about, but nothing he said is describing the President. He sounds like a bitter sour grapes Republican, who has no solutions of his own, so spends his time criticizing one who does have solutions.
June 9, 2009 10:18 am at 10:18 am |
Jake
And I am supposed to be interested in what this has-been actor has to say about my President for what reason? And I didn't realize President Obama had been elected to prophecy anyway.
June 9, 2009 10:18 am at 10:18 am |
Barbara Rizzo
Maybe instead of blasting the President, our elected officials should be supporting him and lets have a little less from the private sector – these people are one of the problems with this country, we can't pay our bills, but we can pay $20 million to an actor for a movie, or millions to our sports figures – if they want to advise the president start with taking less money in their paychecks, my husband won't make $20 million in his lifetime let alone a movie! Remember that the president did not create this mess...it took over
8 years to get into ,it will take more than 6 months to get us out of it, so why don't we all cut him a break and give him the support he needs, at least he is trying~
June 9, 2009 10:18 am at 10:18 am |
Louis DeFault
Jon Voight is an actor. 'Nuff said...
June 9, 2009 10:19 am at 10:19 am |
Why??
I'm surprised to find out Jon Voight is such a hater. But now I see his true colors. All the time the Republicans were driving this country and our military into shame, where was he then??
June 9, 2009 10:19 am at 10:19 am |
Audrey Thomas
this man Jon Voight is obviously a serious hater......to stand in front of the people of the US and say such untrue statements about a president who brings about a spirit of hope, change and positivity to our nation. people like Voight are the reason that the US is in the situation it is today.....so sad!!
June 9, 2009 10:19 am at 10:19 am |
Ann
I understand completely that everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but COME ON!!! Did the President EVER say or imply in any way shape or form that he wanted to be viewed as a prophet. Has he EVER presented himself as such? Of all the ridiculous criticisms to date, this has to be the most outrageous of them all. Our President has not even completed a year yet and we are already expecting him to have fixed issues that are tremendous in size and convaluted in every aspect of their detail. What a role we are trying to make him step into, what an unfair assumption and how absurd can we be to expect these things from the President and the current administration in such a short time frame. It's as if some expect him to have a magic want to wash away all the issues the country is currently faced with. People...we all need to understand that it took a great deal of time for things to get as tangled and as detrimental as they are now, and it will take a much GREATER amount of time for policies and regulations to be set in place to resolve them. Whatever your feelings about our President, the administration or the current state of our country – let's be resonable and allow them the opportunity to work together in order to get the country back on its feet. It should not matter who our leader is in body, but what the vision that they hold to bring the country together and to put us in a better position that we are currently. Patience is definitely a virtue that we all need to embrace in these trying times and this type of criticism is not helping.
June 9, 2009 10:19 am at 10:19 am |
Roger
And who listens to a man who cheats on his wife and leaves his family for his own ambitions? On that's right, Jon Voight. Stick to acting.
June 9, 2009 10:19 am at 10:19 am |
Jason
So Voight says our president is "weak" but at the same time, he's also "oppressive". Are there any thinking republicans left? Ones that can voice a framework of ideas instead of just spouting negatives (contadictory negatives at that).
We've had 8 years of so-called "strong" defense but that didn't get us anywhere but in debt and the wars have not ended. I'll take Obamas approach any day.
June 9, 2009 10:19 am at 10:19 am |
russell
Who care 's what John Voight thinks , he's not a politician or running for public office , what I do see is constant republican attacks on the current administration , When will they decide to help trhe American people with solutions for this ailing economy , Amercians are tired of the constant bickering that the republican party haqs displyed over the past several months , how about rolling up your sleeves , and help the president come up with better solutions other than just complain about what you might be a better way to get us out of this mess that you so called greedy republicans got us into , and yes republicans are responsible for this mess , did you guys speak up when you knew that Bush/Cheney was giving no-bid cintracts to Haliburton , companies that Cheney himself worked for , so let's nbe clear about the lies perpetrated against Americans , how about doing this country a real service and help with the problems at hand and stop worrying about grabbing power away from our elected President .
June 9, 2009 10:19 am at 10:19 am |
Larry
I hope to see comments from the right condemning Voight as they would Sean Penn or Martin Sheen. "He's just an actor!" "Keep your opinions to yourself!" Don't disappoint me, wingnuts!
June 9, 2009 10:19 am at 10:19 am |
Andy
Who is this blow hole? Why do we care what some unknown 'actor' thinks? Actors really need to stay out of politics.
June 9, 2009 10:19 am at 10:19 am |
Drew
I find it funny that people like Voight take the time to open bash President Obama every chance they get. When Bush was sending our country rapidly into quicksand people like him wanted everyone to jump on the Bush wagon and be patriotic. I didnt know life was so bad from his million dollar seat in his million dollar home while he eats meals prepared by his chef... Tell him to come to Iraq/Afghanistan and stay a while... see what's REALLY going on and then he can go make a speech with another hideous tie...And it seems like every celebrety wants to be a politician now a days... maybe he should be a politician.... his acting career was below average anyway.
June 9, 2009 10:20 am at 10:20 am |
buki
one thing i know obama is not the messiah. he has no solution to middle east problem.
June 9, 2009 10:20 am at 10:20 am |
T
I hope that he will find work after this because having conservative beliefs in Hollywood means serious discrimination.
June 9, 2009 10:20 am at 10:20 am |
DaBird
Obama really believes he is the savior. Combine that with all the sheep and you get a situation that reminds me of WWII.
June 9, 2009 10:20 am at 10:20 am |
Robert
Why was he speaking at a Republican function? The only qualification they need is that the speaker actually be able to open their mouths, who cares if they have any insight on the topic at hand, right? He can't even be a decent father to his children, what is his opinion on politics worth?
June 9, 2009 10:20 am at 10:20 am |
D Stewart-Atlanta
This coming from a man whose own children dont care for him! Go figure! What did the Bush/Cheney Administration do for America. NADA! President Obama has never claimed to be a prophet or anything of the kind.
June 9, 2009 10:20 am at 10:20 am |
Shelby
I hope this man doesn't speak for all Americans. That is scary stuff he's putting forward, none of which is true. People don't really believe this garbage do they?
June 9, 2009 10:20 am at 10:20 am |
Larry Rosenberg
Mr. Voight would do well to stick to that which he knows, acting. He might also do well to read up on Western Civilization. Take your time and learn before spouting round-robin rhetoric. You didn't do to well with simple relationships such as that which you don't possess with your daughter so why do you think you can advise the world's relationships. Study first, then speak.
June 9, 2009 10:20 am at 10:20 am |
TRUTH
to late john (keep your unimportant opinion to yourself) the gop is gone thanks to bush/cheney
June 9, 2009 10:20 am at 10:20 am |
BillW
Hear, Hear!
June 9, 2009 10:21 am at 10:21 am |
john from dallas
hmm. all i'm hearing is the usual rhetoric from an outdated and outmoded actor whose party didn't win.
boo hoo for me. whatever. go cry under a rock voight.
June 9, 2009 10:21 am at 10:21 am |
Truth Teller
Voight needs to stick to acting and stay out of politics.
June 9, 2009 10:21 am at 10:21 am |
Allentown teacher
OMG. I cannot believe that someone said this! Is this the world we face?
June 9, 2009 10:21 am at 10:21 am |
Shawn Delaney
I agree. Obama is TOO secretive. I expected President Obama to share the truth about the world to the people. From there I expected him to lead the world into healing. So far I see him defending the mighty corporations with bailouts with nothing left over for the real people of the world – us INDIVIDUALS.
Mr. Voight – I salute your position.
Shawn Delaney
June 9, 2009 10:21 am at 10:21 am |
GT
It appears to Jon and his friends that it is acceptable, indeed our god-given duty (hey, Jon is the one who brought up religion by his use of the term prophet, right?) to wield the heavy hand and subject the rest of the world to our way of life. By golly, god is on our side evidently. So, we invade Iraq under false pretenses, but then wonder why the rest of the world does not kowtow to our "superiority."
June 9, 2009 10:21 am at 10:21 am |
Louisa
Will someone please tell me a single thing Voight has done for the needy/homeless people in his community rather than making a speech and accusing the president.
Come to think about it.... why didn't he run for president? Well.... I guess it's always easier to criticize and call others names.
June 9, 2009 10:21 am at 10:21 am |
RH
One boggles at the Republicans' continued use of religious terminology to attack Obama that only appeals to the fringe that failed to elect them last year.
It's the "messiah" tag that really gives me pause. Most, myself included, think this is ridiculous, of course, and Obama has never said anything of the sort about himself. Just for the sake of argument, though, what if he did turn out to be a messiah? What would be so bad about that? The world could certainly use one.
June 9, 2009 10:21 am at 10:21 am |
Too True For You
INTERESTING how the republicans love to deride actors and celebrity involvement in democratic politics, but sure don't miss any opportunity to trot out the occasional D list hack that will shill for them.
Did I say "interesting"? Perhaps a better term is "hypocritical".
June 9, 2009 10:22 am at 10:22 am |
didn't realize Jon Voight was an expert
then he should do more, run for office, share his expertise, not just shoot from the hip with baseless statements from the cheap seats
that is our job
June 9, 2009 10:22 am at 10:22 am |
David De Vore
It amazes me how people just don't want to realize fact. Obama and the Democrates did not create the state that this country is in today, and have only been in office for less than a year trying to fix a collasping econony brought on by corruption at the top level of our Corportations, and the cost of a war that we now realize we should not have been in. Voight calls Obama the false prophet, but my question is when has he called himself a prophet of any kind? Obama has never said he plans to sweet talk his way to peace, but he wants to try another approach towards obtaining a peaceful state instead of acting like a bully towards smaller nations. As far as who will proctect Isarel, she can take care of herself quite well and has been doing so very well by oppressing another people as they have pledge never to be oppressed themselves. The GOP needs to stop with the childish bickering and make an effort to try a different approach to making this nation a great one as it once was.
June 9, 2009 10:22 am at 10:22 am |
Audrey
Who the devil is Jon Voight? Why would he think anyone would pay attention to him? He had better watch his words. He's one of those that find it hard to believe that an African American has the brains to lead this nation. He thinks Sarah Palin does. Please give us all a break, and go find Angelina and mend fences with her.
June 9, 2009 10:22 am at 10:22 am |
Kate
Unbelievable! Comments like that are why I left the Republican party this year. Just when you think the comments and actions can't be any more ridiculous, extreme and loaded with hatred, someone else from the party comes out with something more ridiculous.
All I can say is, I'm glad I'm no longer a republican!
June 9, 2009 10:22 am at 10:22 am |
Brooklyn Boy
If anyone has a clue to what Voight is talking about – please educate me. This little clip has no context. Who was he talking to? Where did the speech take place. How and when did Jon Voght become an expert on foreign policy?
June 9, 2009 10:22 am at 10:22 am |
L. Jones
Let me start by saying false prophet President Obama is not. I haven't heard him prophesy not once. Everyone thinks we are a weaker nation because of Obama, but that is quite the opposite. No one wanted to talk to the U.S. regarding peace or anything else because they had not respect for us nor our former leaders. There have been more talks of peace and possiblitlies of wars ending in the last six months, than in the last eight years. Jon Voight needs to not worry about whether or not President Obama is a false prophet and take a cue from him on how to be a father and family man. Go mend things with your children and build a relationship with them and your grandchildren and then just maybe I can listen to anything you have to say about President Obama. He has worked harder and done more in the last six months, than Bush did in eight years.
June 9, 2009 10:23 am at 10:23 am |
walter
what were the other options Mr Voight??
June 9, 2009 10:23 am at 10:23 am |
Bruce Taylor, Berkeley, CA
Jon Voight should go back to acting.....oh, that's right, he can't do that anymore either.
The Republican Party is desperate for any sign of life. The only problem is they keep dredging up wraiths like Gingrich and Palin and parading them out as if they were new.
June 9, 2009 10:23 am at 10:23 am |
Jared
It's great how he makes incredibly bold claims about how everything Obama has done has been wrong...and then moves on to his next point. These people have nothing to back their claims with...they don't even try! Is he implementing a lot of new strategies and policies? Of course. Can you place judgment on if they have worked or failed yet? OF COURSE NOT!!! Give the man some time for Pete's sake. If his ideas truly do not work, than we should have a national discussion. Until you give the man time, all you look like is a biased Obama hater who wouldn't shake the man's hand even if he walked on water.
And may I mind you Mr. Voight, Obama is still cleaning up Bush's mess. Keep your religious rhetoric and false prophet nonsense jargon in the far right think tank fear machine where it belongs.
June 9, 2009 10:23 am at 10:23 am |
steve
Way to go Jon. A hollywood actor willing to tell the truth and not just go along with the rest of the obamabots...God bless this Man.
June 9, 2009 10:23 am at 10:23 am |
lxm
Thankyou!!! you hit the nail on the head...I totally agree. Obama is a disgrace!!!
June 9, 2009 10:23 am at 10:23 am |
Jerry
How does one make in intelligent argument of "everything Obama has recommended has turned out disasterously..", when hardly ANYTHING he has recommended has had time to produce results?
"....bring an end to this false prophet..." ??? BRING AN END!?
Voight has gone round the bend.
June 9, 2009 10:23 am at 10:23 am |
Ferlin Hussein
Obama is more than a "false prophet" as described in the Holy Bible. Obama is likely the Anti-Christ. The next few years will tell the tale about whether he is the Anti-Christ or not; watch and see, and by all means ask Almighty God to protect us from that evil.
June 9, 2009 10:23 am at 10:23 am |
fortydammer
This guy is crazy! Finding peace in the middle east doesn't start with a big stick. We have found what happens when we stop talking to these people. Everything we have done the past eight years has increased the hate of people all over the world. Go to Russia, Germany, Japan, France, or most any other country in the world, and you will find out just how much they have moved away from the United States. We need to start talking to the world again! We cannot embark on wars without good reason, and without backing from the rest of the world. We shouldn't go to war unless we have too. Clearly the discontent in this country is growing. It starts with the hate spewed out by Rush, Hanity, and Beck. Just eight years ago Hanity was on radio and TV telling everyone to stand behind their President "regardless of your opinion of his views" "BECAUSE HE IS YOU PRESIDENT" It was the patriotic Hanity, one that doesn't make money unless he stirs up the worst in people. Remember people, everything Obama is doing now is coming from a collective of intellectual minds from think tanks across this country. If you think he is making this up as he go's you are seriously mistaken. Just because Obama is listening to the Palestinians, and telling the Jews to back off on new settlements, doesn't mean he is selling out to terrorist. Hollywood is owned by corporate Jewish America, so folks like Voight are going to speak out. Israel wants peace in the middle east! Their lives depend on it! The Corporate American Jewish Community has different ideas for Israel.
June 9, 2009 10:23 am at 10:23 am |
James
Good point, we shouldn't be "sitting and waiting, watching for the possibility of a new holocaust"
What's your solution? You're solution is Genocide, Mr Voight. You want to act first and kill all of our enemies so they couldn't possibly harm anyone... whether they had malicious intent or not because we can't take any chances. You're a hypocrite!
June 9, 2009 10:24 am at 10:24 am |
Jim W.
Jon Voight should stick to acting.
June 9, 2009 10:24 am at 10:24 am |
Ren from Baltimore
Has everyone else also noticed, Mr. Voight, a wonderful actor, seems to be continuing his recent "anti-go'vt contractor bad-guy" role on the series "24"? Jon, the season is over, you were blown up in that SUV, the role is kaput.
The lines you used last night were from that show. Either you are plagiarizing your character's lines, or you were not acting after all--either way, you lose at this one.
June 9, 2009 10:24 am at 10:24 am |
Cheryl
Once again this guy has embarrassed himself and his family. What a joke.
June 9, 2009 10:24 am at 10:24 am |
Ted
Are we supposed to take this man seriously? He's an actor, and I like him as an actor. He's no political analyst, so maybe he's still acting at the behest of another.
June 9, 2009 10:24 am at 10:24 am |
JodyG
We are not only the strongest nation, but the leader in torturing our enemies. If this joker thinks Obama is bad, how does he classify the last administration?
June 9, 2009 10:24 am at 10:24 am |
Bradd Scharping
Is this a joke???
June 9, 2009 10:24 am at 10:24 am |
Brendan H., San Antonio, TX
Thanks, Jon, now go back to your busy schedule, sir. Oh, you don't have one? Imagine that! Angelina was enough, eh?!
June 9, 2009 10:24 am at 10:24 am |
BobAbrams
I love Voight. He was AWESOME at this event!!!
June 9, 2009 10:25 am at 10:25 am |
Big Ed
I thought Obama was running for president, not prophet! Mr. Voight, while you have your right to your opinion, and you have a right to express it in a responsible fashion, may I suggest you stick with acting. You are much better at that.
June 9, 2009 10:25 am at 10:25 am |
C
The Iraninan president is going down to a reformer in the next election, Heszbollah lost in Lebenon, local shooting at the Taliban in Afgan; lets see what your Cowboy deplomacy did the last eight years:
Iran going Nuclear
North Korea already Nuclear
Iraq a complete disaster that almost collapsed our economy
Taliban stronger that ever
Bin Laden sitting eating ice cream in a cave who knows where
Isreal had to go to war
should I keep going...
Go back to acting, or is that what your speech was...
June 9, 2009 10:25 am at 10:25 am |
Ken in Mt
This is terminally sick. so Jon wants to go back to the days of empire when all political decisions in the world must be cleared through Washinton and the American Right Wing? I thank God that the days of living in fear that the third worlders will take away outr"stuff" if we are not armed to the teeth are on the wane.
If this is the best that the right wingers can do it may be a long time in the wilderness for them. This is right out of the Joe McCarthy play book
June 9, 2009 10:25 am at 10:25 am |
RightasRain
YES! Please let us go back to being the country that crams our sanctimonious ideology down the throats of any and all nations that should disagree with our policing of this planet. I miss being scorned by the world.
June 9, 2009 10:25 am at 10:25 am |
Bonnie Haynes
Finally someone says what he really thinks! Watch out John the media will try to ruin you. Thats the name of the game they play. That's why they are going down hill. And they don't even know it!
June 9, 2009 10:25 am at 10:25 am |
RealityKing
foo leader is a better term
But he does speak well.., in front of a teleprompter
June 9, 2009 10:25 am at 10:25 am |
Raymond Dellenger
You, sir, are a washed-up, bas-been, realtively medicore actor - taking the last refuge open to pathetic attention-seekers: political pawn. You envy our hard-working, intelligent, and on-the-whole successful President; and you aren't fit even to mention his name.
Why don't you just go try for some Lifetime soaper flick and earn some money the honest way, Midnight Cowboy?
June 9, 2009 10:26 am at 10:26 am |
Well Said
Here here Mr. Voight.
June 9, 2009 10:26 am at 10:26 am |
Barbara
Hip, Hip, Hooray for Jon Voight. We are with you 100%.
June 9, 2009 10:26 am at 10:26 am |
Christine
I couldn't agree more.
June 9, 2009 10:26 am at 10:26 am |
Sidney Jacobs
Voight is right.
Obama is an abomination.
Silver tongued devil.
Evil incarnate.
Spawn of Saten.
Time will prove his opposition right.
History will condemn him.
Not all Americans are kool-aid drinking fools.
Thanks Jon.
June 9, 2009 10:26 am at 10:26 am |
BRENDA
how do you know what he is ? do you know what the true meaning of a prophet is? it is not in human form. as we think
president knows he will never please everyone he is trying to do a better job than the others.
what does prophet have to do with being a president, you should be concerned about him being and doing his job as pres.
i love and support him he is the best thing going right now. he came into a mess left by the o t h e r
June 9, 2009 10:26 am at 10:26 am |
Realist
The crazy liberals are going to have a heyday with this one, dont you knw you cant speak up against the prophet!!
President Obama is not a prophet at all. He's a politician and a leader.
But what I really can't wait for is all the wingnuts rationalizing why this Hollywood star's opinion is worthy, when they've spent the past ... forever keening and wailing about other Hollywood stars' opinions.
June 9, 2009 10:27 am at 10:27 am |
Sharon from Tampa
LOL...LOL...LOL...Only the kooks are calling him a "prophet"...Normal people call him President...
June 9, 2009 10:27 am at 10:27 am |
Jon
I guess this explains why Angelina refuses to allow him contact with her kids.
This poor washed up soul needs to go to the retired actors home and tell his glory day stories to people who can turn down their hearing aides. I cannot believe this sort of nonsense gets airtime. The man is clearly demneted.
June 9, 2009 10:27 am at 10:27 am |
beth
Isn't bad enough that we listen to nut cases like Sarah Palin....now we give washed up actors like Voight air time...
June 9, 2009 10:27 am at 10:27 am |
James
I'll tell you what else Mr Voight. Israel can take care of Israel, it's not our responsibility and they are strong enough to fend for themselves. And you can't proclaim your own country to be the "great powerful good in the world", that is a title given to you by the rest of the world who HATES US, because of republican foreign policy.
June 9, 2009 10:27 am at 10:27 am |
K. Owens
Those who live in glass houses should NOT throw stones. When did President Obama declare that he was running for Pope? I see a man who is a great husband, PHENOMENAL FATHER to his daughters, and a learned man. It's highly unlikely that we'll ever see Sasha and Malia on tv stating that they have cut off all ties with their father.
I really wish that people would let this man do his job ... because it's the GOP who led this country into this mess that we're in .... President Obama is working to get us out.
June 9, 2009 10:27 am at 10:27 am |
Scott Hall
don't you have to be a prophet to be a "false" prophet? I don't consider Obama anything but our current president... Good or bad, like him or not, he's just the president.
June 9, 2009 10:27 am at 10:27 am |
SarahNJ
Ah yes, because what Jon Voight says matters. Go make another movie in LaLa Land.
June 9, 2009 10:27 am at 10:27 am |
Mike W.
Funny! I don't recall President Obama ever laying claim to being a prophet.
June 9, 2009 10:28 am at 10:28 am |
Lynn
How come Republicans slam actors who take a Democrat/liberal political position as "having no right to an opinion," but when it is an actor on "their" side suddenly these guys are geniuses and worth listening to? Hypocrisy anyone?
June 9, 2009 10:28 am at 10:28 am |
Peter Marks
Just one more reason to avoid this actor's work. He was a lousy actor, a worse father, and an ignorant individual who's rants on politics hold no interest to most thinking Americans. Just another example of a celebrity who thinks that because he is famous his opinions are worth reading.
June 9, 2009 10:28 am at 10:28 am |
Diane Hellwig
I am very concerned about the well-being of Israel with this new administration.
June 9, 2009 10:28 am at 10:28 am |
Andrew Stair
Its offical. Jon voight lost his ever loving mind. What is he talking about? The United States needs to be more soft-spoken but carry a big stick!. We saw what 8 years of arrogance and cowboy talk got us. Two wars that we cannot get out of. Two buildings at the end of my city that are on the gone and still not built again! Does he really think that blind talk with "i'm better than you mentality "is gonna get us anywhere. Oh wait! He's in hollywood so yes he does think that. Dont mistake kindness for weakness. A humble attitude for complacency! The President has us headed in the right direction. I spoke to Arab americans on the streets of NYC and asked them, in your opinion is the US doing the right thing in changing your views? And they agreed. Isreal is not our enemy. The rest of the mid-east is. Wouldn't it make sense to repair that first? He said that all of Mr Obama's policies are a disastor. Can you look around and look! We're already in a disastor! Can check up on your kids and grand kids and leave the rebel rousting to Rush!
June 9, 2009 10:28 am at 10:28 am |
BlueMole
Why should anyone care what Jon Voight has to say.?
Opression? He seems to be a legend in his own mind.
June 9, 2009 10:28 am at 10:28 am |
J.P.
Translation:
"I never want to work in Hollywood again."
June 9, 2009 10:28 am at 10:28 am |
Wally
Hilarious. The reformed "anti-war" guy now pushes military over diplomatic rationale. It seems to me that folks who avoided going to war when it was their turn shouldn't be allowed to play the "tough guy" role once there's no chance that they'd have to backup their rhetoric.
June 9, 2009 10:28 am at 10:28 am |
Grady
Oh Jon...really!
June 9, 2009 10:28 am at 10:28 am |
Bea
Ok so conservatives need to stop...first they label the president as the messiah now they want him to be a prophet?...come on now...the guy is only human with no divine powers....
June 9, 2009 10:28 am at 10:28 am |
Jim
How exactly is President Obama a prophet? He's a politician who has never claimed to be a religious leader. I think John has religion and politics confused.
June 9, 2009 10:29 am at 10:29 am |
viosa
I can't express how much I enjoy being spoon-fed foreign policy by the wealthiest %2 of America. Is he doing his Jonas Hodges character from '24'? If so, when is he going to ice Hank Jennings with a crystal vase?
June 9, 2009 10:29 am at 10:29 am |
Chris
Wow – Jon Voight is apparently a bit crazy. Too bad, I always kind of liked him as an actor.
June 9, 2009 10:29 am at 10:29 am |
St Louie
Seriously??!! What kind of ridiculous drivel is this?
"Disastrous"?? What specifically has Obama done, that could be considered "disastrous"?
"Obama oppression"? Geez!
June 9, 2009 10:29 am at 10:29 am |
John
We Americans are seen as liberators? The great power for good? I guess Voight wasn't awake during the whole Bush adminastration. We've made MORE enemies because of Bush and Cheney and their war machine. America seen as weak? I think not! I think we'll be seen as more intelligent instead of STRONG arming everybody like the idiot bush did. When parents BEAT their kids instead of teach them, it only get's worse. We must use our minds before our guns. Obama a false prophet? How about "there are no prophets, just a leader who is trying to lead us with peace and intellect". Voight disapoint's me here. I won't be watching any of HIS movies for a long time. He sounds like a total pessimist.
June 9, 2009 10:29 am at 10:29 am |
Commadore
I love it when these old burned out actors come out and tell us what is right and what is wrong. Where was he the last eight years as we lost all touch with reality and invaded a country under false pretense? Where was he when our economy was in high gear to oblivion?
Old actors will do anything for publicity………I’ve lost all respect for Voight and his artistic work.
June 9, 2009 10:29 am at 10:29 am |
Sniffit
"False prophet"? Ha...amazing how similar the GOPers and the Taliban/Al Qaeda sound at this point, isn't it?
June 9, 2009 10:29 am at 10:29 am |
John
John Voight, does not make sense sober or drunk. Let's see...here is a guy that didn't participate in the upbringing of his own daughter and son. Obviously, his drug abuse of the past has affected his judgement just like limbaugh. There is obviously no value on what he has to say since it is not base on reality.
June 9, 2009 10:30 am at 10:30 am |
sheepwshotguns
i swear, these religious nuts are becoming more and more psychotic as their organized faith is nearing its inevitable demise.
June 9, 2009 10:30 am at 10:30 am |
Frank
Great. We get to hear that blowhard Jon Voight: obviously a relevant contributor to political discourse, as evidenced by his considerable senetorial (he was a senator in the Manchurian Candidate), defense (He was secretary of defense in the Transformers movie), and even as President of the United States (FDR in Pearl Harbor). He's also been Noah and the Pope, so I guess he's in the know when it comes to "false prophets."
Frankly, I'd be much more interested in the opinions of someone that has actually served in these capacities instead of an impersonator like Mr. Voight. Or at least someone like Ernest Borgnine.
June 9, 2009 10:30 am at 10:30 am |
Rich
The truth hurts. Friends of mine that voted for Obama are even admitting their mistake. He is on tracking for doing more harm than any president in my lifetime.
June 9, 2009 10:30 am at 10:30 am |
Russ
Gee Voight...why would anyone care what a has been like you thinks? To start with your analysis is correct because only a few Republicant losers like you call Obama a prophet. Since Obama isn't a prophet I guess you can call him a false prophet you moron. Find some new ideas to help your country instead of rehashing old loser Republicant talking points. No wonder your party is falling apart. You're just a bunch of name callers.
June 9, 2009 10:30 am at 10:30 am |
Leslie
DA One, DA Messiah Oprah have been bragging about is as FAKE as gold plated necklace sold in the sidewalk. Hussein Obama is articulate ONLY with TELEPROMPTER, without it, he's a fumbling idiot who doesn't know if he's coming or going.
The HIGHLY educated UNDERACHIEVER voted for him because they believed they're entitled to anything their overly educated mind can think of without working hard for it. 60 million Americans voted for the FOOL ON THE HILL and boy! They"re paying a high prize for their foolishness.
The lazy voted for Hussein and expect the rest of hardworking Americans to support them while they make their butts wide as four axe handle.
Hussein Obama is ten times WORSE than Jimmy Carter.
June 9, 2009 10:30 am at 10:30 am |
Joe Cano
It was only a matter time before we would all see Jon Voight finally lose his mind. Voight has managed to offend the majority of this country that voted for change. He is a prime example of white paranoia that is evident in this country and especially in the GOP these days. The white majority they knew and enjoyed has been sent to the trash heap by a larger much more multicultural group in this country. Voight is an actor so one can understand his false sense of reality. With his choice of acting jobs these days it is apparent he would want to revive his failing career. A bunch of old dried up white men looking up to Voight and Sara Palin for salvation. Gingrich calling for inclusion is laughable standing in front an all white crowd. The GOP will be seen in the same light as the all white political party in South Africa. Save your money, boycott Hollywood and Jon Voight films in response.
June 9, 2009 10:30 am at 10:30 am |
sf2
An Actor making an accusation like "False Prophet" is an oxy-moronic statement. Your life, your family have alot to say about you and how serious your opinions are taken politically and personally. What have you done for the system that remotely matches President Obama's effort to bring America back from reccession and world opinion bankruptcy. How can your children compare to those of Obamas? Your wife? Please know that just because you are an actor, doesn't give you automatic political correctness. Some actors are losing credability with political allys and showing their lack of political education and experience, and you even more after such a statement. You appear fool hearty and have no ground to stand upon. Though opinions are allowed, you have just put your foot in yours!
June 9, 2009 10:31 am at 10:31 am |
Jaimon
He is wrong! Obama is a true prophet! Oh wait...
June 9, 2009 10:31 am at 10:31 am |
Rick C.
No one but the detractors have labeled him a 'false prophet'. Eight years didn't work out, did they? Give this guy a chance.
June 9, 2009 10:31 am at 10:31 am |
Rita
What can I say? Amen!
June 9, 2009 10:31 am at 10:31 am |
Chuck
Now he's starting to believe his own acting roles.
June 9, 2009 10:31 am at 10:31 am |
Nick
Obama has never called himself a prophet. He is a measured man trying to get us past years of American hatred by the world brought to us especially in the last 8 years of the bush / Cheney Administration. I know this man hates Obama to the core! like it or not he is our leader and he has shown what a great leader he is! Obama is our Modern day King Solomon!
June 9, 2009 10:31 am at 10:31 am |
once upon a horse
reminds me of a "Dixie Chicks" type moment. Guess it's time to go and burn my Midnight Cowboy dvd.
June 9, 2009 10:31 am at 10:31 am |
Kevin B
You gotta be kidding me , why all the childish name calling from the GOP wing nuts? Presdient Obama has gone from "terrorist" to "celebrity" to "socialist" to "facsist" and now a "false prophet".
The GOP name calling and shrill rhetoric is a sign of desperation and and it shows a total lack of idea's and imagination.
Americans are growing weary of the GOP clown show.
June 9, 2009 10:32 am at 10:32 am |
Joel
Voigt ain't a f'real cowboy, but he is one helluva has-been.
June 9, 2009 10:32 am at 10:32 am |
ETM
I'm sure America is gratified now to know what the "Midnight Cowboy" thinks of Obama.
June 9, 2009 10:32 am at 10:32 am |
Tim
This coming from "The Midnight Cowboy".......
Who does this idiot think he is? If he's so worried about Israel then go join their army. It's not our responsibility to watch over these arrogant fools. Since when is Israel a part of the United States??
June 9, 2009 10:32 am at 10:32 am |
Joe The Plumber
Sounds like Religious overtones, what a joke. Bush is who destroyed America, Obama is trying to fix it.
June 9, 2009 10:32 am at 10:32 am |
In denial........
Jon's just upset President Obama equates both states (Israel and Palestine) maltreatment towards one another as the entire problem. Mr. Voight doesn't want to acknowledge Israel's invasion of the entire area (Palestine) beyond the territories gained in 1967 as aggression. The displacement and killing of Palestinians from an area where there isn't much room to migrate anywhere else. Conversely, Palestinians have killed innocent Israeli people in their attacks which is unexcusable as well. The right wing conservative Israeli's and right wing Hezbollah are both equally as EVIL. They're both the SAME. And anyone, including Jon Voight, who doesn't acknowledge both states are the problem.....is part of the problem.....
You see, many Christians (hypocritical ones) have a (Crusader mentality) from the middle ages and project their prejudice towards Muslims.....while many Muslim extremists project prejudice towards Jews and Christians. If ALL treated each others the way they themselves would want to be treated by others....the problem would be solvable. Instead, you have many "knuckle heads", like Jon Voight and Republicans carrying prejudice and denial into the negotiations.
June 9, 2009 10:32 am at 10:32 am |
janet in georgia
what on earth qualifies Jon Voight to judge a word leader?
June 9, 2009 10:33 am at 10:33 am |
Karen - Missouri
Oh, give me a break! Who cares about Voight???? What significance is he to politics? He's not even a popular actor. Another Republican nutcase
June 9, 2009 10:33 am at 10:33 am |
Pablo
Could not have said this any better myself. What a fool we have for a president–tripsing around the globe apologizing for everything from stale cereal to the weather. In everyone's haste to "make history" we made it alright–a bad history from day one. I'm glad my name is not associated with putting Obama in office.
June 9, 2009 10:33 am at 10:33 am |
sprkl12000
And Jon Voight is a "false father" who can't repair his relationship with his adult daughter....I think I'll wait for the GOP to get someone without their own "issues" to question Obama's actions....
June 9, 2009 10:34 am at 10:34 am |
Paul from Phoenix
North Korea is an amazing study in foreign policy. For 8 years, the Bush policy on North Korea was strong talk followed by regional influence from the surrounding countries. North Korea would talk every once in a while, but Kim Jong Il was generally quiet. Kim made agreements with the US, and Bush removed them from the list of terrorist state-sponsors. Obama and John Kerry both cheered these moves, and said the North Korea model was the way to handle other rogue nations.
North Korea continued to violate the terms of the agreements they signed (for example, not giving a complete nuclear arms update within 60 days in 2008), but it didn't matter, because people were confident Kim wouldn't do anything stupid.
However, since Obama took over, Kim has gotten much more aggressive, launching missle after missle, while Obama does nothing but say "Don't do that." Obama does not scare Kim. George Bush scared Kim. Kim has now become a major problem. Does Obama have the b*lls to do anything about it, or is he going to continue letting Kim do whatever he wants?
June 9, 2009 10:34 am at 10:34 am |
In denial........
Jon's just upset President Obama equates both states (Israel and Palestine) maltreatment towards one another as the entire problem. Mr. Voight doesn't want to acknowledge Israel's invasion of the entire area (Palestine) beyond the territories gained in 1967 as aggression. The displacement and killing of Palestinians from an area where there isn't much room to migrate anywhere else. Conversely, Palestinians have killed innocent Israeli people in their attacks which is unexcusable as well. The right wing conservative Israeli's and right wing Hezbollah are both equally as EVIL. They're both the SAME. And anyone, including Jon Voight, who doesn't acknowledge both states are the problem.....is part of the problem.....
You see, many Christians (hypocritical ones) have a (Crusader mentality) from the middle ages and project their prejudice towards Muslims.....while many Muslim extremists project prejudice towards Jews and Christians. If ALL treated each other the way they themselves would want to be treated by others....the problem would be solvable. Instead, you have many "knuckle heads", like Jon Voight and Republicans carrying prejudice and denial into the negotiations.
June 9, 2009 10:34 am at 10:34 am |
Nadia
Who yanked this goober's chain? When I think of great political minds, Jon Voight is not someone who makes the list. And I thought this man was an actor, isn't it his job to memorize lines? Why is he reading from his notes like a second grader trying to read an 8th grade level book?
June 9, 2009 10:34 am at 10:34 am |
wicked
Who cares what this washed up old actor has to say? The presedent never claimed to be a prophet. Its sad that people like this idiot are calling him weak because he wants peace in the world. History to write a different story...
Its amazing how there are so many haters in the Rep party, old white men who cant get over the fact this man is the leader of the free world and that the world loves him, its scary for them so they have to come up with all these hateful things to say about him. God will punish all of you haters!
June 9, 2009 10:34 am at 10:34 am |
Nick
....and where was Jon Voight during Bush's presidency. He misses the
fact that Bush over the period of 8 years managed to reduce this country
to a laughing stock around the world. Just as some of Mr. Voight's
performances are better than others, it's only fair that President Obama
be given time to solve the MANY problems he inherited from his
predecessor. Go and make another film Mr. Voight, that's what you
are good at. Leave the political punditry to the experts
June 9, 2009 10:34 am at 10:34 am |
Don Howard
Voight must have missed the last 8 years while making those hard-hitting Disney Channel Films. Boy, how the Midnight Cowboy has fallen out of the saddle.
June 9, 2009 10:35 am at 10:35 am |
Stephen Parker
Jon voight Is a looser just like GPO party. The party of NO new idai.
OBAMA is going to be great for this country he will take us back on the right direction. thay the GOP ran our country to the groung thanks to these looser.
June 9, 2009 10:35 am at 10:35 am |
Doug
A false prophet? That has to be a step up from being the anti-Christ. Seriously, ever since this guy screwed up his relationship with his daughter he's been getting nuttier by the day.
June 9, 2009 10:35 am at 10:35 am |
Roger
This man is talking about Obama oppression where was he during the GW/Cheney administration....if anyone disagreed or spoke out against the GW administration that were called unamerican....a bunch of right wing wackos....
June 9, 2009 10:36 am at 10:36 am |
Ryan Indy
Kinda like when you Democrats called GW Bush every name under the sun.????....What comes around goes around and Obama will be shown the same respect that you Showed Bush for the last 8 yrs. So stop crying about it and get tough......You people think you can call a republican anything you want the moment you get anything said critical about your MESSIAH you people flip out.....You people should have treated Bush with a little more respect or maybe just maybe get tougher skin...Isnt Karma beautiful????
June 9, 2009 10:36 am at 10:36 am |
Adam from Ohio
Haha ... an actor nobody cares about anymore is trying to be noticed. Now, shut up and bite George Costanza. (Gawd, he was even a washed-up punchline in the 90s.)
June 9, 2009 10:36 am at 10:36 am |
pj
Mr. Voight-
I have loved you acting through the years.
Very disappointed at what a complete kook & spook you are politically.
You guys and the fear card!
You played it one too many times, and now you guys are liable to be out of power for some time to come.
Wake up and smell the new world!
I will NOT be afraid.
June 9, 2009 10:36 am at 10:36 am |
Dave
Jon Voight has been a madman for quite some time now. He's a good actor (or at least he used to be; he's gotten kind of pedestrian now), but if you ever read his rantings, he's totally unhinged and out of touch with reality. And I'm talking just one step above "aliens are sending me secret messages through my breakfast cereal" crazy. There's a reason Angelina Jolie avoids her dad, y'know. Voight believes in so many insane things to begin with that he has no credibility in any regard. And in any case, I don't believe Obama's ever claimed to be a "prophet" in the first place, so Voight's accusations are ludicrous.
I accuse Jon Voight of not actually being a cedar tree! Whether he's ever claimed to be one (and it frankly wouldn't surprise me if he had, the lunatic) is immaterial, he still stands accused!
June 9, 2009 10:36 am at 10:36 am |
John O
Jon Voight is the very person he portrayed is Enemy of the State.
June 9, 2009 10:36 am at 10:36 am |
Matt in CT
Come on Jon, didn't you know that the only actors allowed to comment on politices were Sean Penn, George Clooney, Susan Sarandon, and Tim Robbins? The same geniuses who will criticize you on this comment board are the same yahoos who lauded the "contributions to civil discourse" by such heroes as Hanoi Jane.
June 9, 2009 10:36 am at 10:36 am |
JDubIII
"We and We alone..." What do you mean by that Jon? Do you mean that you and your peers, whoever they might be, have special insight? Do you really think that the world is totally wrong when it expresses some of the feelings about the US? I do not mean for a moment to imply that the US has not done a great deal of good in the world. By the same token, it amazes me that people either don't know or don't wish to face the reality, that our record is not spotless, that there have been grave injustices brought about by this country. The key to a being a complete being is to recognize the good and the not so good that is part and parcel of an individual. And until that happens, until we realize that "we and we alone " are not the sole arbitriers of good and have a monopoly on wise judgement, we can never approach the other members of planet earth with any degree of integrity or reality for that matter. "Obama oppression ...?" How is standing up to other countries and saying, yes we have erred, but yes we have done good as well...oppressive. Or does Jon Voight and his followers feel that we can legitimately stand before the world and say that we have NEVER done anything wrong. It is troubling what I am seeing in America, the vile hatred that is coming forth. And the inability to see the facts that are laid before us. And before any of you choose to leap at my comments, be aware, that all I am saying is that this is a great country, which has done its share of un-great things. Therefore, your argument has to be, "No, the US has only done great things..." Is that really what you want to argue. My goodness, ask any expert, the first step in becoming whole is to admit to past mistakes. That does not make one any less great. It makes them stronger in the end. Obama oppression...lol...Jon...how personally are you being oppressed right now? And as for the Israel, if you feel the best way for peace to take place is just to let them fight it out, then please examine your defintion of peace. Gee, don't we teach schoolkids that its better to talk your problems out than to just fight all the time? Maybe if you could ask your daughter Jon, you might learn something...oh that's right...excuse me for that one..
June 9, 2009 10:36 am at 10:36 am |
Dameun
i am glad to see yet another nut-job speak out against Obama. False Prophet? Come on John, you can do better than delivering the monologue anyone could. Dig Deeper.
June 9, 2009 10:36 am at 10:36 am |
Jay
Hey Jon, he's not a false-prophet with a messiah complex if he ACTUALLY SAVES THE WORLD.
You're guys broke. Just keep that in mind.
June 9, 2009 10:37 am at 10:37 am |
Once You Vote Black: Mute Newt
I am sure his comments make PUMA very happy.
June 9, 2009 10:37 am at 10:37 am |
Sean from Marin
And we care why? The right is so far away from reality it scares me to think that until recently they were in charge of our great country. Jon Voight should move to the south and join the rest of his regional party on the sidelines. They all seem to miss that "progress" is the core of progressive!
June 9, 2009 10:37 am at 10:37 am |
Kelby In Houston, TX
Normally, people on the right hate it when celebrities voice their political opinion. They act as no one cares or should care what they think. I wonder what will be said of Jon Voight's opinion.
I'll bet they will welcome these statements and elevate him to the inglorious status of a Fred Thompson
June 9, 2009 10:37 am at 10:37 am |
ee
How ironic, an ACTOR calling the president a false prophet. I wonder if he can see it? I doubt it.
June 9, 2009 10:37 am at 10:37 am |
Travis
Good to see that some Hollywood actors still have some common sense. Jon Voight rules...
June 9, 2009 10:37 am at 10:37 am |
Billy J in Texas
Oh dear. The midnight cowboy has lost a marble or two it seems.
June 9, 2009 10:38 am at 10:38 am |
larry
who claimed that the president was any kind of prophet except some crazy actor.
June 9, 2009 10:38 am at 10:38 am |
DJ Shorter
Rich, really rich coming from Jon Voight. "DEVoight" of any morals as a father.
June 9, 2009 10:38 am at 10:38 am |
Rich
Hey Jon- It's President Obama not just Obama.
June 9, 2009 10:38 am at 10:38 am |
Leo J
Jon Voight is right... for once! This almost makes up for that accent he had in Anaconda.
June 9, 2009 10:38 am at 10:38 am |
In Philadelphia, PA--Cradle of Liberty
I now believe that Jon Voight has lost his mind. His daughter, Angelina Jolie, has said for years that he's on the margin. But now I believe it also. His xenophobic, reactionary rant is irrational at best, and unbalanced at worst. What in the world is wrong with this country trying a different tack, to find peace and reconciliation, instead of aggression and division? The times call for a new approach, and I am glad that this new President has the fortitude (notwithstanding Jon Voight's act) to say what must be said, and do what must be done, to stabilize the mid-East. I don't know it if it can succeed: generations of resistence seem weighted against his efforts. But it is in the best traditions of this country for our leadership to seek solutions beyond violence, and I applaud Barack Obama for his initiative.
June 9, 2009 10:39 am at 10:39 am |
azkt1965
Wow...I never knew that the President 'prophesied" anything...thank you Jon Voight for enlightening me.
June 9, 2009 10:39 am at 10:39 am |
WI Voter
Why do we care what all the leftist socialist hollywood types have to say! All these west coast elitist liberal actors should just.. oh wait
June 9, 2009 10:39 am at 10:39 am |
Tara
they forgot the part where he praised fox news sean hannity, oreilly, and limbaugh. A network (Fox) whose president (Murdoch) said that Obama was 'dangerous' ..i mean what do you expect?
June 9, 2009 10:39 am at 10:39 am |
tim
Only the right wing called him a "prophet", so they could say these things, Voight played the character in "24" that disrespected the President; I see he didn't have to act for that part.
June 9, 2009 10:40 am at 10:40 am |
Bob from SC
To each his own....I disagree however with his premises/statements
June 9, 2009 10:40 am at 10:40 am |
THDALLAS
Jon Voight...Jon Voight... Ah yes, the creepy guy from Anaconda. I know who he is now.
June 9, 2009 10:40 am at 10:40 am |
Blake
The GOP has been blasting Obama and his plans since day one in a jealous rage, with petty accusations, and downright lies. The one thing I find lacking in all of their bluster is an antidote to everything they find wrong with this president's plans.
If they think he is so wrong, then they surely must have some plans of their own, short of the snivelling I have heard. Let's hear their plan. Or else, be quiet, and give him a chance to let his ideas work. Better yet, get behind him and HELP. And PLEASE get off the payroll of big business and give the AMERICAN people a chance to get this ccountry back on it's feet.
June 9, 2009 10:40 am at 10:40 am |
Jim
What exactly has Obama prophesized? The recurring theme that I've been hearing is, 'We're in a hole, we have a lot of work to do.' Obvious, perhaps, but hardly prophetic.
June 9, 2009 10:40 am at 10:40 am |
Gustave Ticky
Voight's frustration is understandable. As a father, he failed. As an actor, he was never that great. He campained for McCain, supported the war in Irak. Now he is disrespecting the President of the United States Of America. This to me, sounds more like the rants of a person who is borderline lunatic. The facial expression are a display of rage. Why is he so angry?
So Jon, fix your relationship with your kids first. Leave the running of America to the people with competence. Besides, if you were not an actor, nobody would pay attention to you.
June 9, 2009 10:40 am at 10:40 am |
Dave
Speaking of rhetoric... but not so lofty.
Nice to see the GOP is back at the "fear" schtick. The thing is... I'm not afraid.
I'm not afraid of gays.
I'm not afraid of other countries.
I'm not afraid of the poor.
I'm not afraid of religion.
I'm not afraid of the lack of religion.
You just don't scare me and you can't make me vote out of fear.
June 9, 2009 10:40 am at 10:40 am |
anon
didnt jack bauer already take care this?
June 9, 2009 10:41 am at 10:41 am |
Gerard Rohlf
John Voigt's choice of biblical references shows his own messianic narcicism. His worldview contains no room for any countries other than America and Israel. His fear is scary. He missed the whole "Blessed are the Peacemakers..." part of the message. He "...stands at the doorway to the temple, and keeps others out." If there is not a peaceful (whether amicable, at first, or not) resolution to the Israel-Palestine issue, the "holocaust" he fears will consume the World. Fear-feeding people like him will have brought it about.
June 9, 2009 10:41 am at 10:41 am |
kgeukes
this man is a washed up has been and a very bad actor to boot!! I don't watch 24 because he is on it. Sorry Kieffer. As for him calling Obama a "false prophet" that's scary because he wouldn't know one if it came up and slapped his face!!!! What a freakin' fear monger!!!!!
June 9, 2009 10:41 am at 10:41 am |
AD
Man, these republicans look like a bunch of hate mongers to me
June 9, 2009 10:41 am at 10:41 am |
Peggy Cavanagh
President Obama has a 70% approval rating as of today June 9,2009 (compared to Bush's 12% approval rating when he left office). President Obama keep up the good work and we are proud of the way you are re-framing the message Americans have for the world. We are safer now because we have a president who dares to lead the hard way - through listening, compromising and collaborating with other countries. Jon Voight is in the minority and his words are hollow.
June 9, 2009 10:42 am at 10:42 am |
Melissa
And Republicans are whiners who are just upset that they aren't getting their way. The only people referring to Obama in religious terms are trolling Republicans.
June 9, 2009 10:42 am at 10:42 am |
BB 22S
Mighty hubris rises again in Voight's message. It takes study and practice to become an orator. It requires words to ring with truth not distortions. Anyone can climb on a stage and stir people up to frenzy and anger with provocative language and manipulation of facts.
reminder: there is a major difference between a politician and a true statesman. America finally has a statesman to lead-
June 9, 2009 10:42 am at 10:42 am |
lefty loosy
Obama a false prophet ? No not at all. Chill Jon Voight ,if anything
Obama is a Liberal train wreck.
June 9, 2009 10:42 am at 10:42 am |
Rob
You are absolutely right.
June 9, 2009 10:42 am at 10:42 am |
thierry
what is his point? where is the substance?
June 9, 2009 10:42 am at 10:42 am |
Cathy
Finally, someone speaks the truth. Obama not only is a false prophet, he is our worst nightmare.
June 9, 2009 10:42 am at 10:42 am |
LuAnn & Wayne Houle
Does any one care what this wack-job old washed up Republitard has to say? I don't. Didn't even listen to the video. I've heard enough out of him over the years. He should concentrate on his dysfunctional family and spend less time blowing hot air.
June 9, 2009 10:42 am at 10:42 am |
Catapult
While I to some extent agree with Mr. Voigt's observations, I also believe that now is the time for the US to charter a new course in international affairs. I do not think, as Mr. Voigt claims, that all of Obama's actions have been disasters. It's far too early to tell. I fondly recall a saying I often heard and repeated from my military days: "Do something, even if it's wrong". Because we cannot predict the future, action is usually preferable to inaction and this goes as well for our president.
But one more thing. I have a problem with Hollywood actors, on the political left and right, who themselvs live in a priveliged environment of make belive and special effects, proclaiming themselves experts on events that take place in the real world. I really don'tthink they have a clue.
June 9, 2009 10:43 am at 10:43 am |
Moses
Jon Voight needs to sit his behind somewhere. This is not the TV show 24. We have try the approach of using our nukes and look where that has gotten us. After only two days of Obama's speech, Hasbullah party was defeted into the election over the weekend there in Beirut. That means people are listening. We don't have to kill innocent civilians there and continue to claim self defence. Also, I am not sure what he meant us being treated as liberator. By whom? and in what country we were treated as liberators? Iraq, South Korea, Kuwait, Iran, France these were all the countries that American soldiers lost their lives to help defend. Look were that got us. I am sure he does not beat his kids simply because he disagrees with what they had to say. His speech was for you and I Mr. Voight. The people of Beirut have taken the first step towards that. Something the previous administration with all thier treaths and fire power could not accomplish.
June 9, 2009 10:43 am at 10:43 am |
Larry in TX
Our war based on false pretenses has monumental waste that is still be tallied. There are your false profits, Jon.
June 9, 2009 10:43 am at 10:43 am |
James G.
This B-actor is delusional! Yes, America is weaker but our decline certainly didn't start in 2009 with the current administration. What about the collapse of American morals and values, unprecedented presidential power wielded during the Bush regime, a crumbling Educational system, corporate and individual greed, and general Apathy from the American people being called out as contribution factors to our decline? No – Mr. Voight will never share those facts because it doesn't generate headlines nor result in applause.
June 9, 2009 10:43 am at 10:43 am |
Dave in Albuquerque
This, from a guy whose greatest claim to fame is playing a male prostitute in a movie.
June 9, 2009 10:43 am at 10:43 am |
Greg from MA
I don't think anyone has called President Obama a "true prophet" to begin with, so calling him a "false prophet" is a bit...stupid.
It's the GOP, what can we expect. Maybe they'll try and go retro in style with Newt Gingrich as the new "voice" of the party. Wait, what's that? Gingrich was the keynote at last night's fundraiser.
Oh, the troubles we've seen.
June 9, 2009 10:43 am at 10:43 am |
Vince from DE
I wouldn't say he was a prophet. False, yeah, that would be one way to describe him.
June 9, 2009 10:43 am at 10:43 am |
Jeremy
Like it or not....he's got several points...
I voted for B-O, wishing I haden't.
June 9, 2009 10:43 am at 10:43 am |
Retired Army in San Antonio
Ya know.......I find it funny as hell that all the 'people' (term used lightly) who (derisively) refer to the President as the 'Messiah' and (false) 'Prophet'.....these people are all Conservatives/Republicans.
Which gets to my point.......it seems that these 'people' (term again used lightly) can't seem to make a point without the name calling and personal attacks.
Which leads to the one obvious conclusion that these 'people' really don't have a positive message; they're sad, desperate and weak as a group and the ONLY hope that they have is that they'll be able to spread suspicion, fear, and yes......even hate.
That's all that's left when you lack a message, direction and are leaderless. And they did it to themselves!!!!
June 9, 2009 10:43 am at 10:43 am |
Johnny Northwest
Really? So war is our only option? Wait, we tried that policy with republicans...one of the longest wars with no end, no peace in the middle east, etc. - thanks Bush, loves and hugs.
June 9, 2009 10:43 am at 10:43 am |
jmac
Finally, someone with some sense speaking out.
June 9, 2009 10:44 am at 10:44 am |
Chris
It is always old dissapointed white men crying for the job that belong to them for more than 200 yrs. Look at him talking about them being selfrighteous and doing the name calling. I imagine a chinese leader talking like that 20 yrs from now...
June 9, 2009 10:44 am at 10:44 am |
Bill
Wow. I guess its just not me who thinks this way. Thank God thinking people are starting to speak out publicly about the obamonation the coolaid drinkers elected. I think the groundswell has begun and the guy in the oval office is will have hell to pay. Great job Mr. Voight!
June 9, 2009 10:44 am at 10:44 am |
willard Roker
Why are right-wingers so paranoid? Are they driven by fear or hate. There is nothing wrong or weak with being part of the world instead of controlling it. Talk about acting like Rome. We are people sharing a planet with a lot of other people, not God's gift to humanity with the divine right to tell everyone how they should live.
Remember greed is the root of all evil.
June 9, 2009 10:44 am at 10:44 am |
mtv
Why is a washed up actor who could not really act in the first place and has made no contributions to the world................why is what he has to say pertinent???????????? Come on CNN stop giving power to losers........keep them out of the media............they are only getting in the media to try and make a comeback or get into the movies
June 9, 2009 10:44 am at 10:44 am |
Billy J in Texas
It must be nice to live off the largesse of Hollywood royalties and the money your managers and lawyers can scrounge up for you, while the rest of us have to work for a living. I suggest that Jon find a group of folks who don't humor him because of his status, and will tell him he needs to take the blinders off. He reminds me of an old version of one of those kids on 'Entourage'. Completely out of touch. I hope he runs for office, it would clinch the next election for the Dems.
June 9, 2009 10:44 am at 10:44 am |
Kirk Anderson
Please Mr. Voight – please enlighten us with at least one of the "disastrous decisions he's made." I guess the career isn't going so well. A guys gotta make himself relevant somehow
June 9, 2009 10:44 am at 10:44 am |
gabe
Word. Glad someone realizes it!
June 9, 2009 10:44 am at 10:44 am |
Erin Hall
ARE YOU SERIOUS?! Why must people continue to insist that America is blameless in this world. We have committed some truly horrid sins in our time. No country has clean hands. We all have dark spots in our past. The ability of humanity as a whole to realize our similarities rather than focusing on our differences, will be the path to peace in this world.
June 9, 2009 10:45 am at 10:45 am |
Fr3deR1cK
This confuses me. I had no real impression of Mr. Voight's position on politics but I thought he was informed. I was wrong.
Disagreement is normal and constitutional when talking about the president but who ever said he was a prophet in the first place. For him to say Obama is not a prophet implies that he thinks some people think of the president as just that.
That kind of talk especially from a celebrity is irresponsible. I hope this story comes and goes with minimal press. A man of his stature should have more respect for the president of the United States. I guess some people are having a problem coming to terms with the reality of the White House. Hey Jon,"The people have spoken," live with it. We lived with every other president.
Guess Mr. Voight needs to reorganize his investment portfolio and figure out a way to have a better relationship with his open minded daughter.
June 9, 2009 10:45 am at 10:45 am |
Molly
Wow! Not everyone in Hollywood is on the liberal-train. Way to go Jon!!
June 9, 2009 10:45 am at 10:45 am |
david y.
Mr. Voight is wrong and his long history of out landish conservative radicalism is cause for alarm His use of terms like "false prophet" is code language for radicals like him to others that President Obama muist be stopped at all costs. This is similar rehtoric that drove Mr. Roeder to kill Dr. Tiller.
June 9, 2009 10:45 am at 10:45 am |
Dan in NC
Let's see: Jon Voight, Dennis Miller, Ted Nugent, Victoria Jackson, Jerry Zucker of "Airplane!" fame, Kelsey Grammer. What do these people have in common?
First, they've all come out as conservatives (or neo-cons in some cases).
Second, every last one of them is washed up.
Moral of the story: You might be able to resurrect your flagging career by appealing to America's lowest common denominator.
June 9, 2009 10:45 am at 10:45 am |
L.A.
"Bring an end"? What is he calling for?
June 9, 2009 10:46 am at 10:46 am |
Jack
John Voight who????
It looks like he can't get an acting job so he is going into politics....thats what we need, another actor that can't get a job acting. Just go the actor grave yard, maybe he will find his acting career there. this is just like when Bush became president all the Dems said the same kind of things. The left or the right will just slam to other just to get the money from the donors for power. Maybe someday someone will really care about this nation and do the right thing instead of the "how do I stay in power"
It is time for a new party that cares about the people and not trying to just be in power and impose the beliefs on us.
Freedom was the reason our founding fathers made a nation.
June 9, 2009 10:46 am at 10:46 am |
TCM
Jon Voight's the MAN! He's 100% correct with his words; liberals take note, your time is over!
June 9, 2009 10:46 am at 10:46 am |
ric in NY
He is SO RIGHT. Obama is such a fake, a con man who is an empty suit on a daily basis.
I'm so EMBARRASED that Obama is our president.
June 9, 2009 10:46 am at 10:46 am |
Cameron
Wow, he is as crazy as his daughter. False prophet, I don't get that reference. Were their religious undertones, if so were they Christian, Jewish or Muslim?
I am sorry John V but whatever sensationalist propaganda that was fed to you was clearly abhorrent of any truth. We are the liberators of the world? We are a source for good? wow that is way off. We have have done some good things, we may have liberated some people, but we are not the SOURCE of good nor are we the LIBERATORS of the human race.
Speaking of sources, we are the # 1 source of all weapons found throughout the world. I assume that wasn't what he meant by the "source of good in the world."
June 9, 2009 10:46 am at 10:46 am |
Jared
Wow...The Great Liberators? Julius Caesar? False Prophet? Anyone who has to use phrases like that can't possibly have a meaningful thing to say to anyone, unless they are just like him. Thankfully he is in the minority. Obama should make Liberal Arts degrees free for the next four years–he would be King Obama by the end of his second term.
Anyone with an education and an open mind (who doesn't have some financial reason for thinking otherwise) can not deny that Obama is the best thing that has happened to America in generations. I really can't see how any educated person could think this Voight makes any sense at all. Reality is good place to be, Jon. Try it out! Make up with your daughter–maybe she'll let you babysit for a few bucks. No, on second thought, we don't your influence on any more young lives.
June 9, 2009 12:29 pm at 12:29 pm |
WhoCares?
Where does this "Prophet" stuff even come from?
So I guess 9/11 is old enough to not get the fear rising enough anymore so we are using "end of days" religious foretelling now as the source of fear.
Awesome use of the Holy Bible....To spread fear.
Nice going Voight!! Enjoy your special lake of fire.
June 9, 2009 12:29 pm at 12:29 pm |
Laughing hysterically
LOL at the premise of being oppressed because America is not being allowed to start another war.
June 9, 2009 12:29 pm at 12:29 pm |
Art
It really annoys me to hear someone speak about the thoughts and motivations of a person they've never met. To hear Jon voight tell people what President Obama is really thinking is like me telling someone what Jon Voight was really thinking when he made that ridiculous speech.
The fact that President Obama is well liked and even loved around the world is a cause for celebration here at home. I'm happy that we have an American President who can go to the middle east and not have shoes thrown at him or can openly visit european capitals without hiding and sneaking around.
The president's approach is simple and straight forward, we can gain more traction with friends than enemies. He's appealing to those who are willing to give America a chance and trying to build bonds between nations. He doesn't see an enemy in every Muslim or Arab and although his approach may take time to work, it's certainly a more morale approach than war, torture and pretending that our constitutional principles are simply too inconvenient to follow.
A solid majority of Americans agree. The RNC (Rush, Newt and Cheney) along with Palin and now Voight are stuck in a cold war attitude of "Us vs. Them", perhaps drawn into it by their devotion to anything 'Reagan'. But 1980 was nearly 30 years ago!
Your ideas are old and stale, and your time has passed. The 'Age of Obama' is upon us.
YES WE CAN!!!!
June 9, 2009 12:29 pm at 12:29 pm |
Mitchel
Peggy Cavanagh you said "President Obama has a 70% approval rating as of today June 9,2009 (compared to Bush's 12% approval rating when he left office). "
And what's your point...lets see what Obama's approval is when he leaves office.
June 9, 2009 12:30 pm at 12:30 pm |
Mary Lee
This man is a failed actor. Even his daughter will have nothing to do with him. Who is he to call the President of the United States a false prophet? He wants to blame Obama for the failure of the GOP. They are the ones who have dug a deep hole for this country. He and his cohorts have to pay the price for their deceitful misleading of this nation.
June 9, 2009 12:30 pm at 12:30 pm |
IsupportAllourPresidents
Why is it okay for Dem's to bring out celebrities, but if a Rep. celebrity speaks his mind you liberals have a fit. Not everyone is in love with Obama – get a grip!
June 9, 2009 12:30 pm at 12:30 pm |
jumpugly
It's really a shame that the GOP has sunk this low. It's a problem, a real problem, when the GOP's "leaders" sound more and more like Fascists everyday. Good Lord listen to yourselves!
June 9, 2009 12:30 pm at 12:30 pm |
KLK
Pres. Obama has NEVER said that he is the messiah or claimed to be a prophet. Perhaps there is real fear from the right that he may actually be such.
June 9, 2009 12:31 pm at 12:31 pm |
JB
I didn't know we had so many nuts and bigots in this country. You left wingers (socialists) wouldn't recognize a train wreck if you were in it.
June 9, 2009 12:31 pm at 12:31 pm |
SlowGun
Another drug addict speaking out ...at least Rush has some company
June 9, 2009 12:31 pm at 12:31 pm |
Dan Leavitt
What do you know! Charlton Heston reborn. Not only am I all done with right wing politics...I'm done with Jon Voights, Fox TV, Limbaughs and his "skinheads", and any other right wing idiot who dares to espouse the politics of fear, hate, ridicule and just about any other negative emotion these wingnuts can come up with disquised under the Conservative Republican Brand. Shame on all of you Un-American wacko's. As for Jon Voight please be advised you are hereby "banned" from any element of broadcast within my range of view, audible or otherwise, along side of your hero...Moses.
June 9, 2009 12:32 pm at 12:32 pm |
stevetall
Who gives a crap about what some over-paid has-been actor thinks about our president and his challenges? About as many people who give a crap about what you or I have to say.
Stuff it, Jon!
June 9, 2009 12:32 pm at 12:32 pm |
John W. Olver
Jon Voight, if it were Barbara Srteisand the media would be laughing at the thought of her making a comment. Bu then she's a woman and a liberal. Jon Voight, on the other hand is male and conservative so therefore he merits coverage as someone who matters. What baloney.
June 9, 2009 12:33 pm at 12:33 pm |
S Callahan
Well, I certainly wouldn't call him a prophet..that would be offensive to God. I find it intersting that CNN closed comments on the NYS coup...not like you...
Being from NY ...alot of folks are rambling this was hyjack of the voters choice....so untrue....this was pure demoracy at work. Our leaders were NOT listening to the majority of constituents...and Thank God Golisano didn't move yet...say waht you may about Espanda and Monsenate...but they did the right thing..and from my faith perspective God rewarded it. This state has suffered much...you have no idea across this country just how....and we 'know' what is right now...we are not straying from doing right.. we will have a prosperous state again...and the church bells will once again ring loudly!
June 9, 2009 12:34 pm at 12:34 pm |
Colorado Carol
Who cares what this washed up actor has to say? Slow news day?
June 9, 2009 12:35 pm at 12:35 pm |
Richard
CNN, why is my comment still waiting approval while others who have commented since me have been approved?
June 9, 2009 12:35 pm at 12:35 pm |
Steven
Many things have been placed onto Obama's plate and I am willing to say he has a lot of handle. But, he has not performed very well under pressure and has given too much to the people who got us in this economic mess. With that being said, I agree with Jon's comments who heatedly. He was the prophet and is completely false.
June 9, 2009 12:35 pm at 12:35 pm |
kelly
"In the time of the end...the king of the north...will he will have to come all the way to his end, and there will be no helper for him". Daniel chapter 11, the Holy Bible; the word of God. "During that time Michael will stand up, the great prince who is standing up in behalf of the sons of you people. " Daniel Chapter 12 vs 1 "Then if anyone says to you "Look here is the Christ' do not believe it". Matthew 24 vs 23
June 9, 2009 12:35 pm at 12:35 pm |
JG
John Voight you are a dead beat Dad!
June 9, 2009 12:35 pm at 12:35 pm |
douglas hatch
Who could possibly care what am actor has to say about Obama, or politics in general? The problem with the media these days is that anyone who is mildly famous can get some reporter from some organization to spout whatever they want. Where's the news in the coverage of this story?
June 9, 2009 12:35 pm at 12:35 pm |
Gayle
All of the name calling and division among Americans (Black and White) has to stop! President Obama NEVER called himself a prophet, never has he acted as such either. Those of us that have supported him do believe that he was placed in the position that he is in now because he is what this Country needs at exactly this moment. But by no means do we consider him a prophet nor worship him as some God. We are not a bunch of mindless individuals that follow blindly, we are educated, have minds of our own and can think for ourselves very well.
Why is that people do not realize that the power America once had is long gone and it is not due to us having President Obama in the White House, our standing in the world diminished eight years ago! No longer can we bully the rest of the world and expect them to lay-over and submit to our will!
The views of Mr. Voit breeds hate and anger, we can do without that. When are people going to realize this President did not create the mess this country is in and he is trying his best to fix the mess that was left for him. If you do not have anything constructive to say then by all means please keep your thoughts to yourself. By President Obama reaching out to the world and displaying a willingness to work together he is actually laying the foundation for a peaceful resolution to the hostility that is directed towards America! We cannot exist in this world alone so why not learn to work together?
June 9, 2009 12:35 pm at 12:35 pm |
Gilasevi
Wow. Voight turned out to be a wacko. Crazy, unrealistic, brainwashed talking, fearful people, especially ACTORS are dangerous. Seriously.
June 9, 2009 12:35 pm at 12:35 pm |
Ottavio
Mr. Voight could not possibly be more correct. Obama is an absolute disaster.
June 9, 2009 12:41 pm at 12:41 pm |
sammy
thanks jon! Obama speaks falsely on a lot of issues and kudos to your courage speaking out. The truth shall prevail!
June 9, 2009 12:41 pm at 12:41 pm |
sally
maybe CNN writers could use verbs other than 'blasts' or 'slams' . It seems like every controversial article written uses one of those words to make a point. Don't we have other verbs available?
June 9, 2009 12:41 pm at 12:41 pm |
Moderate Democrat
Jon Voight is just pissed because he sucks as a father and an actor. This mans words are as relevant as his relation to his daughter. When he can set a good example as a man (and an actor) then he can be respected for his opinion. But the guy sucks in all regards, so him having a delusional, pschyzoprhanic conspiracy theory, is not surprising.
Get meds dude, you need them!
June 9, 2009 12:42 pm at 12:42 pm |
Lisa
Do you know the definition of a false prophet? Or, are you saying you're a real prophet!
June 9, 2009 12:42 pm at 12:42 pm |
Brittany
I love him! He is right, Obama is nothing but a people pleasing celebrity! Stop talking and do something! You shouldn't pick on Voight because he has the balls to say something about it! I also enjoyed the swinging on the playground metaphor.
June 9, 2009 12:42 pm at 12:42 pm |
Runner
It doesn't matter about Mr. Voight's family or current ability or inability to earn money. What matters is that he is right about Mr. Obama. He is literally giving this country away while we sit by and watch, and he knows exactly what he's doing. What may seem like a plan gone wrong in our eyes is most likely a plan gone very right in his. Don't for one minute let yourselves believe that Mr. Obama has this country's best interest at heart. What he has at heart is his standing with his fellow Muslims and Allah. By the time he has served his 8 years in office we will have no freedoms left and probably will have lost all right to own property in our own names. The press will continue to cover for him and we will be lucky if know half of what he is doing in the White House. This is a very scary situation people; the United States will never again be the same country it was even a year ago so what shape will it be in 7 years from now.
I will be 60 years old tomorrow and I have lost a son and brother in wars to maintain this country's freedom. In less than 6 months Mr. Obama has begun to give it all away. Sad.
June 9, 2009 12:42 pm at 12:42 pm |
SoCalNick
Isn't this the same guy who's own daughter disowned? Funny how all the guys saying this stuff are Old White and at the end of their careers.
Yelling at clouds.
June 9, 2009 12:42 pm at 12:42 pm |
Jim Flores
This sort of overstatement says alot more about Voight's state of mind than it does about Obama's.
"False Prophet"??? I don't recall Obama ever even intimating that he was anything but a politician. Maybe you need to look up the definition of "prophet". Why not just avoid the looney references and respectfully disagree Mr. Voight? Maybe you're the one fixated on prophets because your argument lacks intellectual merit.
June 9, 2009 12:42 pm at 12:42 pm |
Marty Gold
Oh, hang it it up Jon, what do you know. You are just a washed up actor who knows nothing about The President. I really think he is doing a great job and i like that he is tring deplomacy instead of ignoring the whole country like Bush did, also Bush did nothing but put us in a big mess that Barack has to fix it. Well I know you didn't vote for Barack Obama.
June 9, 2009 12:42 pm at 12:42 pm |
andy
Jon It's time to leave your fear behind and grow up.
June 9, 2009 12:42 pm at 12:42 pm |
Malcolm in St Louis
Last night they raised half the money they usually do at this event.
That says it all. Even their money bags do not want anything to with them. Without fresh ideas and cash they are going nowhere.
June 9, 2009 12:42 pm at 12:42 pm |
Neva Stoltz
John Voight at least has enough guts to tell it like it is, unlike the fawning of the news media. It is time to stop the socialism that Obama is taking this country to. I am an independent that left the Democrats because of their actions. Obama is bad for this nation and will take us to a third world level!
June 9, 2009 12:45 pm at 12:45 pm |
Shelleyt
IsupportAllourPresidents: This is not a matter of the Dems or Reps bringing out celebrities. We only put so much stock in what celebs have to say anyway. What is really sad is that this particular one is saying nothing of any substance or even making any sense! The USA has a chance to reverse some of the damage that has been done to our reputation, serious damage that endangers us more than any time in the past. That the Republicans can take something as respectful as our President's speech to the Muslim world, and turn it into a negative just clarifies how shaky the ground is under them. Very sad.
June 9, 2009 12:45 pm at 12:45 pm |
Fatima
Who or why would anyone care what this hate-filled idiot says about Obama, politics or anything else?
Why is that people do not realize that the power America once had is long gone and this is a different world. Sooner we realize it, the better we all will be. No longer can we bully the rest of the world and expect them to lay-over and submit to our will!
The views of Mr. Voit is full of hate and anger and we can all do without that. Life is full of challenges without the hate & anger imposed by guys like him.
June 9, 2009 12:45 pm at 12:45 pm |
Obama = Bush
What neolibs and neocons have in common is trendy authoritarianism rather than equalitarianism. What is happening now is a repeat of the past 8 years. Regardless of what party may be "best".
The only unfortunate thing now is that there is a much larger "bill" attached, primarily due to finger-pointing being a very expensive game.
When are we going to take ownership for our mistakes?
June 9, 2009 12:45 pm at 12:45 pm |
AbbyNormal
There are insane mindless supporters on both sides. The people who worship Obama are as ridiculous as the people who worshiped Bush. Americans have become so emotional and stuck in their positions, it's impossible to have a rational conversation about politics with anyone.
June 9, 2009 12:50 pm at 12:50 pm |
Franco Tirado
Jon we wish you had said that 8 yrs ago about Bush. Otheriwise we would had never attakece and invaded a nation that had nothing to do with 911 and would have safe BUSH & CHENEY the false prophets from committing the many crimes against humanity?
Like waterboarding and all the other crimes against humanity committed in Iraq based on lies and false pretense from Bush, Cheney, Condi, Gonzales, Rummy, Rove and their war mongering cabinet members? Bush told us there was WMD and even showed us the "documents" we believed him and so did the world but those documents were false and he knew that and so did Cheney. That is why Colin Powel left after knowing that he lied to the US Nation on tv, "Those trailers that you see on these photos are now making WMD." What Bush didnt tell him was that those doc were false and yet Bush figured the country will listed to Powell for where there is fear there is power. Hittler, Mussolini, Lenin and Franco comes to mind.
We seemed to forget that Saddam/Iraq had nothing to do with 911 at all or with Osama. NO link between Saddam and Al-Qaida yet we forced our ways into Iraq by declaring a war based on WMD! IT was all LIES LIES. Then when those lies came clear Bush started saying that we went there to liberated those Iraqis. Fact is there were better off under Saddan. They never wanted us there and during the process over 800,000 Iraqis are now dead. You seemed to forget that over 5 million Iraqis had been maimed and you also seemed to forget that over 7 million Iraqis had been displaced from their own land. Then over 5,000 GI's are dead and over 50,000 maimed and destroyed for life. What about their suffering families? FOr a needless war.
The whole world kept saying, "there is not need to invaded Iraq there are not WMD." IF Chine or North Korea invades us would you fight to kill and chop their heads off too? YOU BETCHA!! We got ourselves into that mess and we get what we deserved for invading their land. Those folks were never terrorist until we went there. WE WERE THE TERRORIST! Yet now Bush and his palls now want to hid all the abuses/tortute/crimes committed during their regime?
Maybe we should hide all the films and photos from the Nazis Holocoust. We dont want to offend the German soldiers and paint them in a bad light. Lets not even talk about what happened in 1940-1945
If TODAY we are persecuting lLOW RANKING SS Nazi guards, who during WW2 didnt have much to do with decisions making, and if in the Trials at Nuremberg we brought to justice many of the counsel who follow the written law of its time or Hitler's law then why would those CIA and the many people like Cheney, Gonzales, Rummy, Wolfie, Rowe, Condie and Bush "the Buck Stops with HIM and Begins with him."
Or is all the same once again like n Germany during WW2 when NO EVEN a Nazi Party court, had the right to judge an SS man. Very familiar right,?
SO now Bush henchmen should go free? Torture, attacking and invading a nation and all the killing that follows has not time limitation. Injustice and wrong doings is accountable to all of those who took part of it. In less than 7 yrs Bush did more harm for the USA , world and Iraq than Saddan ever did in 50 yrs.
One of the biggest problem with the Bush administration was that NOBODY was responsible for anything. NOBODY stood up and said, "I was wrong and it was my fault. Put me in jail." Always pointing the finger and blaming someone else or a low ranked soldier. Now Reps dont want Obama to prosecute any of Bush cabinet members. Otherwise, "the buck stops with Bush." I am sure Nazis were saying the same, "dont go after Hitler he is an ok kind of guy. And dont go after us we were just following orders and the written law of the land."
Now Cheney, his daughter are the mouthpiece of the GOP. CHeney have said more in one week than in 8 yrs when he was the VP. But those abuses, torture, and other violations of the Geneva Conventions from Abou Ghraib to Guantanamo and other "secret rendition" locations were indeed "systemic" and ordered from the highest levels of the Bush administration.
And ONLY REASON we don't have a "real picture of what went on" is the self serving secrecy of Bush, Cheney, Condi, Wolfowitz, Gonzales Rumsfeld, Perle, and the rest of the Bush administration.
It the USA is weak on bringing these criminals to justice then I hope that Judge Garzon in Spain, or another international court is able to do so and remind us all that we cant forget the crimes of the SS Third Reich and we will never forge the atrocities of Bush policies either. NEVER!
June 9, 2009 12:50 pm at 12:50 pm |
Scott Eye
Wow, the comments I read on here are indicative of the liberal left. For eight years you on the left sat and threw giant spears at Pres. Bush and his administration. Every time he spoke, everytime someone spoke on behalf of his policies, you folks ranted and raved. Now, the shoe is on the other foot. The right will throw spears and you will have to endure. Obama and the left drug every liberal celebrity out of the closet and had them provide the mouthpiece for the Obama administration, and you clapped.
Suck it up, prepare for the battle and understand your responsibilty when the economy and our foreign policy continues to tank – for it was YOU that voted for Obama.
June 9, 2009 12:50 pm at 12:50 pm |
Art
I'm tired of hearing so called ' Hollywood Types " spewing off their opinions in the news. Just because they have a soap box to stand on and the media prints their opinions that doesn't meen they have a brain or in this case any value.
June 9, 2009 12:50 pm at 12:50 pm |
scott
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To all you blind Democrats... THE TRUTH HURTS, doesn't it?
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June 9, 2009 12:51 pm at 12:51 pm |
Dawn in Pa
Wow, here comes the BIble.... No wonder his daughter Angelina Jolie wants nothing to do with him....
The Republicans love to place fear into the American People and they think that is the way to go. Why does the GOP thinks we are gulliable.
June 9, 2009 12:51 pm at 12:51 pm |
Angie Freeman
And why does this guy have a microphone? Angelina and Brad, keep this guy away from your kids! Keep your venomous, hatred-filled garbage to yourself; exercise your right at the voting booth and be content with the outcome of a fair and just election. Write your Congressman, for God's sake. Beyond this seems treasonous to me. Sure, we all have a right to free speech, and thank God for it. Realize that the rancor you stir is purposeless, irresponsible, and perhaps even dangerous. With free speech comes much responsibility. I wish our President, our current government and their families my continued blessings, and pray that God keeps them in Her bosom. I pray for our country.
June 9, 2009 12:51 pm at 12:51 pm |
Jackie Rawlings
Fear makes people do strange things. After 8 years of hearing President Bush dictate to the World and the famous words If you not with me your against me. President Obama is just an intelligent Leader and looks to peace. Obama isn't interested in dictating to other countries are demanding they use US Policies. Most parents teach their kids to get along with other kids yet it seems adults now don't do the same thing. We're heard President Bush and Vice President Cheney lie for 8 years with the support of other Law Makers. Now Newt, Sarah, Rush and Cantor are fighting for the top spot. Newt left after his fake Contract with America the Americans knew nothing about and his mistress affair. Sarah lies so much it's hard to keep up and the famous I can see Russia from my window plus clueless to what the job of the VP is. Cantor lost his shot when he decided to go to see Britney Spears Circus Tour instead of working on the Republican Economy Plan. Now the speech by Actor Volt needed a scriptwriter as calling President Obama names wont change things. As for those who cheered well like sheep some will never think for themselves just follow as told.
June 9, 2009 12:51 pm at 12:51 pm |
Philly Guy
"We should be hailed as liberators"? "We are a weak nation"? What are you talking about? The Republicans created all this financial and military weakness! What a moron.
The only thing you can do is have your daughter adopt about 1,000 more kids so she can single handedly help world hunger. Oh yeah. She won't talk to you anymore. Wonder why?
June 9, 2009 12:51 pm at 12:51 pm |
Elsa Lee
What a shock to see Jon Voigt – an actor I respected in his craft – say such drivel about President Obama and his attempts to bring nations together – the Republicans really need to start listening and stop this old and outdated rhetoric about the US saving the world. Don't they get it: all nations have to work together and I'd rather it be on a "playground" with similar goals of peace – than on a battlefield where everyone loses.
June 9, 2009 12:51 pm at 12:51 pm |
New Independent
At Last, someone who calls it the way it is. It is amazing how many Obama fans come to his rescue everytime someone disagrees with him. They need to take off their blindfolds. Lets see what they have to say in a couple more years and $$$$$ in debt.
June 9, 2009 01:02 pm at 1:02 pm |
Roger
TO ALL YOU REPUBLICANS get over it, it is our turn, you had it for 8 years and messed up everything. Now we are having to clean up your mess & make things better for us all.....President Obama has been in office less than 6 months & he has taken on more than any other president in history....we want to move forward all the GOP can talk about is the past...
June 9, 2009 01:02 pm at 1:02 pm |
T. MCCULLOUGH
Is "ACTOR" Jon Voight for real? If Obama is a false prophet, what did that make Bush, the anti-Christ? Should we go back to byllying not only our enemies, but our allies as well to bend them to our will? We are better than that as a country. The last administration had so many countries hatiing us and our tactics that it was impossible for an American to travel overseas and not feel the hostility. Diplomacy and engaging in frank dialogue should not make Mr. Voight scared for this country's safety but he should welcome it with open arms. Last I checked what gave Mr. Voight the credentials or expertise to critique this administration's foreign policy?
It seems that no matter what this administration does, the GOP has a negative comment on everything. GOP you are acting like a spoiled little child who can't have their way and proceeds to throw a temper tantrum. If this is your plan to attract more people to your (divisive) party, you are failing miserably.
June 9, 2009 01:03 pm at 1:03 pm |
Jeff
America as a nation has become weak and feeble. Until we stop being such whiners, the rest of the world will never respect us as a superpower. We have to negotiate with a knee in the chest and a knife at the enemies throat. That is what the rest of the world understands and respects. We will all pay for the weak administration we currently have and those that understand what must be done will have to come to power and clean up the mess.
June 9, 2009 01:03 pm at 1:03 pm |
Joy
It's amazing isn't it that all you Libs are offended by Voight yet it's ok for MTV, Liberal Hollywood and the biased media to praise Obama on every network they are on. Hollywood can't even have the Oscars without mentioning Obama. So don't get on Voights case...he speaks the truth. Obama is the worst president (actually he is an actor) we have ever had and has nothing in his pocket except the naivety and inexperience that the uneducated voter fell for. Keep watching MSNBC and CNN...Voight just boosted his career... Go Jon !!!
June 9, 2009 01:03 pm at 1:03 pm |
Ruth, Orlando
Is this what the GOP has come to? Who gives a rat's patoody what Jon Voight thinks. Is he a scholar? Is he now a politician? What experience does he bring to the table? Again, we witness the negative, angry, self-centered, destructive stance that the GOP is becoming all too well known for.
June 9, 2009 01:03 pm at 1:03 pm |
BKrause
The hope of the Republican Party: A combo ticket with Jon Voight and Sarah Palin...the combined intellect and spiritual resonance of a newt...all designed to lead us out of darkness.
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Jon! How dare you talk of the Messiah that way!!
...and Jon Voight's voice is important because....one ridiculous Rep biased blog after another...along with sinking ratings.
CNN obviously wants to get in on the internet right wingers on the "messiah talk. What a reality tv show you have made of journalism. What about a story about the Red Cross worker who was held falsely at Gimo for 7.5 years. If you need background, check NBC's lead story from last night.
so an out of work actor, dead beat dad is a new face for the GOP's family values?
funny!! (or not so funny and kind of sad)
That poor man has finally gone off the deep end. I agree with his daughter!
Right.....and the real profits are Dick and Rush and Sarah and Newt.
And Jon Voight's opinion matters why? His only worthwhile accomplishment was making Angelina. He'll go out knowing that's the only beauty he added to the world.
Jon Voight cannot even hold a relationship with his children.
All of this from a man whose own daughter will have nothing to do with him. It is so frightening to hear the hawkish hatemonger speeches that went on at this event. I hope the Dems, moderate Repubs and Independents stay vigil or we could be back to the crazy extreme right wing of the repub party ruining this country and starting unprovoked wars.
He's famous for a movie about hicks and his daughter. No one cares about this has-been.
Who gives a rat's hind part what he thinks?
Good call, Voight!!
I couldn't agree more with Mr. Voight!!
And his opinion matters to the rest of us because....????
I'm anxiously awaiting the outrage from the right regarding a Hollywood celebrity invoking his First Amendment right to make a political statement. (insert sound of crickets chirping). Don't tell me it's a one-way street.
Wrong Jon. Obama is the Anti-Christ.
What cares what actors like Chuck Norris and Jon Voight have to say? Give me a break!
Is it me or does Jon Voight seem to have trouble saying "President Obama"? He keeps saying "Obama". Why can't the right wing show some respect?
Hmmm...Didn't he used to be Jon Voight?
IT was George W Bush that spent our political capital in the world. We are becoming a weak nation? That started with Reagan and outsourcing. Mr. Voight needs to get off his self rightious point of view about the US and take a look at what has happened under G.W.BUSH
I thought you said an "actor" blasted Obama....this is talking about Jon Voight.
Hey John!!
You are a lousy actor and know even less about politics. You are of the same ilk as Charlton Heston.
Can you spell WHACKO??? That's W-H-A-C-K-O!!
Here's a man from another country (y'know, John, there ARE other countries/opinions out there) who believes PRESIDENT Obama is doing a great job. It's so refreshing to finally see an American who actually is trying to refurbish America's image on the world stage.
Who cares what you think Voight......When have we really favored you in recents years.
To quote that southern gentleman Forrest Gump.
"False is as false does"
After 8 years of W is wise to be skeptical but I see nothing about Obama as false so far.
John Voight, is not in a position to call anyone any names, when your daughter don't want to have anything to do with you. Go and have a father daughter conversation with Angela.
John you are pot calling a kettle black, stay with acting.
An "actor," who pretends to be someone else for a buck, calls Obama a false prophet.
Was he pretending to be a preacher, and how much was he paid to show up?
All Voight will achieve here is to push a few more independent and moderate Republican voters toward Obama, because sensible people see the danger in voting for the Party of Crazy (formerly the Party of No).
Aren't all Presidents at some time in their term – making promises they can't keep?
Amen! I didn't think anyone in Hollywood would have the guts to stand up and say that.
Wow an actor with a brain!! His message his loud, clear and honest, too bad the Democrats all need hearing aids and are oblivious to the mess they are creating. Change – Be careful what you wish for.
You must be kidding me! I listed to the two minute tirade that was captured and like all the others of his ilk he does not offer a solution . He claims the country is weak. Hellooo! Who weakened it, and did it happen overnight? By the way, Obama never proclaimed himself a prophet, so GET THEE HENCE!
Jon Voight is delusional.
Say goodbye to your career Mr. Voight.
Only lying leftist Obama bootlickers are allowed in Hollywood!
Mr. Voight we do not care what you think of our President.....stick with what you do best....ACT!!!
Boy for an actor who use to read scripts by the dozens you would think he would be a better orator. Obama is in limbo right now he hasn't been in long enough to accomplish anything, so I do think its premature to call him a false prophet.
another sensationalist republican.
just so you republicans know ... Obama has never been viewed by anyone as a prophet. Your calling him one, or implying that anyone really thinks of him as one, only shows how weak your arguments are.
please try to come up with something better. something real would be nice.
And the reason he's an expert on false prophets is . . .?
There go any future acting jobs for him. Hollywood is one of the most if not the most discriminatory place on earth. Hope he had a large savings.
Oh good grief.
WHAT is with these people? NOBODY thinks Obama is the second coming. I know a lot of GOPers thought Bush could walk on water, but I'd say the vast majority of Americans are well aware that Obama is a regular guy in an unusual job doing the best he can while at the same time not forgetting he's a regular guy just like the rest of the population.
Obamabots do not care what their leader says. They just want someone to take care of them and think for them.
I understand completely that everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but COME ON!!!
And we care about his opinion because........
Thank-you, Mr. Voight. I agree. I agree that the USA has been and can continue to be the greatest force for good the World has seen. Let us have faith in God and as God gives us the right to see. Mr. Obama may the worse influence on American society that I have seen in my 51 years and as I read American history.
We must refuse socialism. Change must occur, but correctly and from the people left to embrace their talents. A country with a government, not a government with a country.
Like anyone cares what you think Jon.
This old B-listed actor should stick with his B-listed movies and shut his mouth unless somebody writes the lines for him.
That's right, Jon. The country has gone from liberator and moral beacon to a disaster in a mere four months. What a tool!
Voight is such a fool. He is like a crazy uncle. And this is who the GOP wants to follow. The GOP would do better to present ideas and policy then to put Obama down at every junction. But they do not know how to do that which is why they will loose in 2010.
The GOP constantly criticizes the democrats for lack of bipartisanship. After something like this, why would anyone WANT to work with the GOP. The GOP get's together and says "we need to do this, we need to do that" and rail against Obama. But yet again, there are no solutions folks. Where are your answers to our problems GOP?
Grow a pair and stop whining, become the leadership you so often tout you provide, and give us something constructive to work at. It's no wonder the democrats do not want to work with you. After insult after childish insult (my celebs no less). It's like tooling on your own brother and then asking him to help you work on your house. Small wonder why he says "F-you!"
Please I do not recall we were voting on a prophet in November 2008? I know we were voting on voting out the Republicans from the White House. Frankly I could of ran my loving dog aganist any Republican and won.
where did he speak? what did the crowd look like (i can guess)
has his daughter returned any calls yet? the better story was his delirious rant about wanting to talk to his family – who want nothing to do with the washed up loser looking for his 'prophet'
Voight trying to drum up some work for his declining career.
And Jon Voight's opinion is important because..............????
Being a jerk is is so easy when you're playing to a room full of jerks with no ideas,
Who is Jon Voight to be such an "expert?"
Maybe he'd like to move to the West Bank and see what it's like to live under an occupation. To have the audacity and the stupidity to call President Obama a "false prophet" is a complete and total outrage. Maybe Voight prefers to see the world at war, all countries under siege and spiraling ever downward for the rest of his life. I do not.
We just removed a group of zanies from power. We don't need Jon Voight to become the faux secretary of state.
This really ticks me off. The sound bites hear disturb me greatly. Its not America's job to keep Israel safe. Heck we need to concentrate on keeping America safe. Mr. Voight should spend more time on mending his family bonds instead of bad mouthing the President. How dare he even utter this man to be a false prophet. Mr. Obama is not a prophet and has not claimed to be one. I am fed up with the right wing trying to make everything wrong in America and the world for that matter an obama problem. The Israeli Palestian issues have long been there and are not going anywhere unless both sides start to consider what they are doing. America doesn't owe Israel a thing. And i am sick and tired of everybody thinking that we should be running to bail them out everytime they decide to send a missle over the wall.
Mr. Voight stay out of politics and go and make a movie.
Sometimes nutcases shouldnt be given a public forum. Perhaps Mr Voight should move to Waco Texas...
After all the complaining from the right-wingers about Hollywood actors, finally they have one they will agree with. Except, of course, for all the Hollywood actors they have elected.
Jesus, all right-wingers are just psycho, huh?! I mean, Voight (the same dense, bull-headed jerk who wouldn't even speak with his own daughter for years, and still doesn't speak to her from what I understand-let's you know what kind of person you're dealing with) is so full of it it's not even funny. Obama's foreign policy so far has been a STANDOUT success. I mean give me a break. Why does it seem like every Republican lives in fairy tale land where they imagine these gallant fairy tale type battles of good and even where America is the ultimately ruler with God-like infallability? That's why much of the world hated America before Obama was elected. Killing people is killing people. Other people don't suscribe to your "storyline" and fantasy that you have in your head, they just know that you're murdering their brothers, their mothers, their children, with guns and bombs. That's bound to leave a bad taste in their mouth. Yes, sometimes war is inevitable, but give me a break with the fairy tale nonsense right-wingers.
i like jon voight.right on.
I'm sure all the anti-Hollywood conservatives will conveniently overlook the fact that Voigt is an actor. But really, this whole dinner was great for Democrats. The GOP proved once again that it has nothing to offer except criticism. That is not an alternative vision for this country. News flash to the GOP: the only people who are listening are the mouth-breathing 30% who thought GWB was awesome!
Voight is not playing with a full deck.
Wow.
This guy is on drugs. America the great liberator? After 8 years of Bush where did the Republican 'liberation' get us? Time for change.
He should go duck hunting with Cheney.
It's always fun to burn down a strawman, isn't it John?
Excellent and truthful speech! Kudos Jon! I wish more Hollywood republicans would come out and speak the truth! The Obamanation in the White House must go!
Seems somebody took their role on 24 a might too seriously.
So says the father of Angelina Jolie..
Please...
Perhaps Jon Voight needs to scold his daughter on how she stole another woman's husband. He needs to get his relationship fixed with his daughter.
See this is why Republicans are not getting ahead. Too busy sitting somewhere behind closed doors name calling, acting like children. Why can't they put their idiotic sayings aside and start help to create jobs, programs, health care. It's call working together to help find a solution.
An actor calling the president a "false prophet" is moronic–nothing more, nothing less.
Actors, are entitled to their opinions. However, I think this guy is totally clueless.
President Obama has been in office for less than 5 months and somehow Voight thinks he's been a disaster? Give me a break. I don't think Obama sees himself as a prophet. He's trying to clean up a real mess that he inherited. America is still committed to Israel however, it doesn't mean that we can't show a little more candor in trying to bring about real peace in the Middle East. Voight and his ilk clearly don't understand that a one-sided approach is fruitless, as history has shown.
Now it's time for Jon to go back to the movies, or TV, or infomercials.
Is this man out of his mind!!!!
Who cares what an actor thinks? And he's not supposed to be a ptophet, he's supposed to be the president. Come on people, this guy has no business discussing politics, he's an actor, his job is to pretend to be someone he's not. If the president is a false prophet then Mr Voight is a false Idol.....
As far as the Gay Community is concerned he certainly is a false prophet. O.K. we'll cut to the chase, as far as the Gay Community is concerned he is an out and out liar. I hope the Obama people see this because read our lips: "We will be voting with our pocket books next time, not our hearts.'
Why do all failed actors wash up in the GOP? Reagan, Schwarzenegger, Thompson, Voight .......
Where is Voight/ talking? Who is he addressing? It would be interesting to know.
so? steven harnack says john voight is a false actor. so?
I have always admired Jon Voight as an actor, from his earliest role in Midnight Cowboy to his latest role on "24", but his politics leave a great deal to be desired. If he wants to speak of false prophets, he need only look out into the audience from the podium where he made his caustic remarks.
Right on!!!
Who is this guy Voight........??? Perhaps he should have used a teleprompter to delivver this little speech that he didnt appear to have written himself. His message sounds like the same good ole boy message living in the hearts of every day closet racist. Mr Voight, its okay, but you will have to let go of your White Male Phobia!! America is going to be just fine!!!!!
You know, ever since I heard about Obama, I had to wonder: what did actor Jon Voight think about him? Now I know. Thanks CNN for that wonderful coverage.
Forget it, Voight.
America is NOT the "great liberator" and should have never been put in this role to begin with.
I am tired of the expense and sacrifice that this country has made, just to have our borders overtaken by illegals and every anchor baby becoming a citizen. The fact that being BORN in this country to LEGAL parents means nothing anymore.
Go back to living in your glory days, Voight.
Nice to see someone standing up against Obama.
what exactly does Jon Voigt have to add to polital discourse in this country? I still have a clear memory of Mr. Voigt as the 'Midnight Cowboy'. Now he's preaching to me on the morals of a president who does not wear his apparently deeply held religious beliefs on his sleeve. I wish Mr. Voigt would attend to his own relationship with God rather then spend his time questioning someone else's faith. Of course, he part of that right-wing conservative cabal that navigates through the world and makes political hay by questioning the faith of others. I'm thinking that the last election was a message from the American electorate that this ain't workin'. Maybe Mr. Voigt didn't get the memo.
I don't believe I've ever heard Obama call himself a "prophet", the "Messiah" or anything remotely like it. Regardless of who likes it or not, he is our President and if he fails, so do the American people......Was the same when GW Bush was President. He did fail and so did the American people...............................
what's that phrase I'm looking for again.. oh yeah, shut up and act?
Amen!
Voight is looney tunes. And to think, this is the guy the GOP chose to be the MC at their event. Very telling. Very telling, indeed.
God. No wonder his daughter won't have a thing to do with him. What an embarrassment to the human race. You have to be proud of your parents and respect them – who could be proud and respect this? Time for him to permanently join the unemployed has-been actors association.
My brain is bleeding – that was painful to listen to. "Only we..." excludes anyone who is different from him. I have a problem with that.
One time I would like to hear Voight say "everything Obama has recommended has been disaster" and actually point out specifically what he means. The man has been president for less than 5 months. Bush was president for 8 months when 9/11 happened. Was he a complete and total falure because he let that happen? Rhetoric without substance serves only to agitate the unthinking.
Both voit and gringrich need to stuff a sock in it!
The conservitive adjenda has put us into the mess we are in and it will take time to undo the damage 30 years of Regan economics to be repaired
America is not about a "owner ship" society where if your smart enough and willing to sell your soul to the almighty dollar you can get ahead on the backs of the rest of us!
good, cause we just don't have enough shooting from the hip about this new president
it is really to early to condem or to praise, but I do think all his hard work is paying off and it is improving, if only slightly
no, not a prophet, but we are very lucky he decided to serve, and he is doing a great job
Right ON!!! So nice to hear a voice of reason from a Hollywood person. Voight is a stand-up guy.
I think you just saw a Zionist at its best. God save us from people like him.
"We, and we alone are the right frame of mind to free this nation from this Obama oppression."
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
WHAT ?????
There's your problem right there. Thinking that YOUR way is the ONLY way!
Oh, and the false prophet thing, that's rich!
Someone needs to remind Mr Voight how we got into this mess. It really amazes me how the Republicans have a short memory.
Wow, Jon is really showing how egotistical people can be. I didn't know that we (americans) were the liberaters of the whole world. I must have missed that news story. He seems to think he knows everything, maybe it is he who is the "false prophet".
Where is Voight's pointed white hood? I bet he's off to have a scotch on the rocks with Cheney. These hateful bigoted old white men cannot accept defeat. Pathetic that.
Well, we have that, but what does Jon Voight think of Ted Kennedy? MN Governor Tim Pawlenty? Adam Lambert? There are so many unanswered questions.
And Voigt's an idiot who's own daughter despises him...
I haven't heard Obama saying he's come from God to carryout a religious mission. He's just like all other politicians and Presidents and promotes his ideas and plans. Nothing wrong with that.
Finally, someone has the nerve to stand up and say it. This man is a complete disaster. He has no clue on how the real world works. Obama is the real enemy of America. The next 3 1/2 years can't go by fast enough.
A right wing actor who supported Rudy Giuliani, of all people, is projecting "false prophet" onto someone else. Oh, the irony...
Quick, someone call Pat Robertson for another endorsement. LOL
Credibility, please.
What's wrong with Mr. Voight? Obame took the presidency in January 2009 ... and is he making this nation weak? ... What is all that about US conquering the rest of the world? .... What is he suggesting ... US should subgugate other nations? ... Is that the spirit of globalization? Respect to others? .. is Mr. Voight suggesting that the freedom Americans enjoy cannot or should not be enjoyed by non-Americans? ... Really, Mr. Voight ... what's wrong with you?
Well you would know JON! You're the best at acting like one!
What arrogance we Americans have thinking that we know what is best for people of the rest of this planet. The idea that war is preferable over negotiations is insanity to me. I don't know if Obama actions in the international community will be successful but I pray they will be. I find that people that stand up and criticize what President Obama is trying to do speak from a fear based, hate based, and discrimination based ideology.
Another 'has-been' looking for free publicity.
Looks like one more flew over the cuckoo's nest.
I wish CNN would give more details. Like the venue in question. I wonder why the Israel part was in it. However, to say that everything the man has done has failed is pre-mature at best and disingenious at worst. I really wish folks would give up forecasting and stick to their day jobs.
I ask yet again, what happens should all of his plans actually work? Will any of you man up (or woman up, as it were) and admit it? Probably not. Already republicans are saying (I predicted this, but who didn't?) that any recovery may not be linked to the stimulus plan. Already trying to cover their tracks.
No, President Obama is not a false prophet. He has never claimed to be a saint or a prophet or a savior. He has only claimed to be a man, with a vison that Government should work for the people, rather then for Big Business and the hard cold facts, that the GOP is not able to bear , is that he is doing an extrodinary good job so far cleaning up the mess left by 8 years of neglect and mismanagement by the old GOP's selection for the POTUS.
Jon must have stopped taking his medication again. Now his delusions have taken over and he thinks he knows something about foreign policy! Such addled hysteria would be funny if it were not pathetic. Jon, you should have learned from Bush that foreign policy is not for amateurs; it is best left to those experienced professionals who have studied and practiced it. Obama and his staff know a helluva lot more about it than you do.
Let's see how many times the word "racist" comes from the left.
God forbid anyone might actually have a legitimate complaint about Obama's policies.
False prophet? What is this, the middle ages? Come on. Obama was elected by a majority of the people, and is doing the job he was hired to do. It's one thing to disagree with him and his methods, but this sort of nonsense, especially by a Hollywood actor, no less, is just unnecessary. (And yes, I find Hollywood's infiltration of politics annoying when it's the Dems too)
The GOP needs to find NEW leadership, return to the true roots of their party, and start to propose some solutions that will actually be helpful. If they can figure out how to do that, I'm listening. Until then, no thanks.
Interesting comment! Where was Mr. Voight in speaking out against Bush when he lied to the American people? What proof does he offer that the policies of Obama have weaken the nation? Are his comments driven by the fear of something new and different? Change is hard! I believe the President is on the right track. I do not agree with all of his policies, but I continue to believe in him. It is absolutely too early to tell if the policies are a failure or not. Mr. Obama may be a false prophet, but Mr. Voight has clearly taken the mantle as the new prophet of fear mongering.
In times as challenging as these, it's important that we as a nation look to find examples of insightful leadership. I'm glad that, with all the educated, experienced and sober voices in the world to choose from, we as Americans give credence to Angelina Jolie's sometimes-stable actor father.
Gonna get right on that train, yessiree...
"False Prophet"?
Yet another religious right, wing nut from the American Christian Taliban heard from!
BTW – I thought you GOPers didn't like Hollywood actors having a say in politics? So now it's OK with you – as long as they are saying something that you agree with!
Must be tough for the Republicans when they have John Voigt as their "go-to" guy for criticism of President Obama. Of course, if Sarah Palin is your MAIN speaker, how far down the list to you go to get someone LESS relevant to follow her?
Mr. Voight, your narcissism is quite evident here. You are welcome to share your opinions, but I would hope that not much weight would be given to such comments from an obviously biased person.
Why do we need to listen to any of these actors on either side? This guy is about as smart as Joe Buck, the dumb hick he played in Midnight Cowboy.
I sure am glad someone has the guts to speak out and say what millons of people are wanting to say. It's a shame this man is running our country down to all these other countries and making us look like stupid idiots. have mercy on us.
Shame on you John V....I rather like you as an actor, but you are way off on this one. Why do you and your friends insist of maintaining a warhawk attitude? President Obama is not a prophet at all, but he does speak the truth in wisdom. My bible says "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God" – Matt 5:9. It also says, "A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger." Proverbs (the book of wisdom) 15:1, finally, it says, "Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord" – Romans 12:19. That's not to say that we shouldn't have the best, most robust military/defense capability that this world has ever seen or punish crime and illegal and truly threatening behavior, but rather that we should employ it only when necessary. We certainly should not use it to "scare" the world into respecting us....because frankly, it doesn't and hasn't worked.
False Prophet? Again getting religion and government all mixed up! We don't have prophets – false or otherwise – in government. We have legally elected officials who can be voted out of office on a regular schedule! This guy has been looking for the national treasure too long.
A perfect speech and Voight is exactly right. I am amazed that anyone in the spotlight has the stones to critize Obama.
CNN, why is what this man has to say against our president important? Why does he along with Gingrich, Cheney, Rove, Limbaugh, Palin etc constantly get your headlines? Where are
the headlines in support of President Obama? Where are
articles of importance, discussing the health care plan, economy,
the broken education system.
Where are the fact checks on what these hypocrits say, the questions
about their integrity?
Oh, forgot, those are reserved for the few you interview who show
opposition to the GOP.
Amen! Jon Voight hit the nail on the head.
I suppose Obama hasn't invaded some random nation on false pretext,so he must be weak.. He is helping our car industry rather than frittering billions away on waging wars,so he must be weak. He is helping dig our financial system out of a hole rather than planning who to invade next,so he must be weak. He is waging a diplomatic war to bring peace in the Middle East, so he must be weak
Voight: How ignorant can one be??!!!???
I don't know what Obama this guy is talking about, but nothing he said is describing the President. He sounds like a bitter sour grapes Republican, who has no solutions of his own, so spends his time criticizing one who does have solutions.
And I am supposed to be interested in what this has-been actor has to say about my President for what reason? And I didn't realize President Obama had been elected to prophecy anyway.
Maybe instead of blasting the President, our elected officials should be supporting him and lets have a little less from the private sector – these people are one of the problems with this country, we can't pay our bills, but we can pay $20 million to an actor for a movie, or millions to our sports figures – if they want to advise the president start with taking less money in their paychecks, my husband won't make $20 million in his lifetime let alone a movie! Remember that the president did not create this mess...it took over
8 years to get into ,it will take more than 6 months to get us out of it, so why don't we all cut him a break and give him the support he needs, at least he is trying~
Jon Voight is an actor. 'Nuff said...
I'm surprised to find out Jon Voight is such a hater. But now I see his true colors. All the time the Republicans were driving this country and our military into shame, where was he then??
this man Jon Voight is obviously a serious hater......to stand in front of the people of the US and say such untrue statements about a president who brings about a spirit of hope, change and positivity to our nation. people like Voight are the reason that the US is in the situation it is today.....so sad!!
I understand completely that everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but COME ON!!! Did the President EVER say or imply in any way shape or form that he wanted to be viewed as a prophet. Has he EVER presented himself as such? Of all the ridiculous criticisms to date, this has to be the most outrageous of them all. Our President has not even completed a year yet and we are already expecting him to have fixed issues that are tremendous in size and convaluted in every aspect of their detail. What a role we are trying to make him step into, what an unfair assumption and how absurd can we be to expect these things from the President and the current administration in such a short time frame. It's as if some expect him to have a magic want to wash away all the issues the country is currently faced with. People...we all need to understand that it took a great deal of time for things to get as tangled and as detrimental as they are now, and it will take a much GREATER amount of time for policies and regulations to be set in place to resolve them. Whatever your feelings about our President, the administration or the current state of our country – let's be resonable and allow them the opportunity to work together in order to get the country back on its feet. It should not matter who our leader is in body, but what the vision that they hold to bring the country together and to put us in a better position that we are currently. Patience is definitely a virtue that we all need to embrace in these trying times and this type of criticism is not helping.
And who listens to a man who cheats on his wife and leaves his family for his own ambitions? On that's right, Jon Voight. Stick to acting.
So Voight says our president is "weak" but at the same time, he's also "oppressive". Are there any thinking republicans left? Ones that can voice a framework of ideas instead of just spouting negatives (contadictory negatives at that).
We've had 8 years of so-called "strong" defense but that didn't get us anywhere but in debt and the wars have not ended. I'll take Obamas approach any day.
Who care 's what John Voight thinks , he's not a politician or running for public office , what I do see is constant republican attacks on the current administration , When will they decide to help trhe American people with solutions for this ailing economy , Amercians are tired of the constant bickering that the republican party haqs displyed over the past several months , how about rolling up your sleeves , and help the president come up with better solutions other than just complain about what you might be a better way to get us out of this mess that you so called greedy republicans got us into , and yes republicans are responsible for this mess , did you guys speak up when you knew that Bush/Cheney was giving no-bid cintracts to Haliburton , companies that Cheney himself worked for , so let's nbe clear about the lies perpetrated against Americans , how about doing this country a real service and help with the problems at hand and stop worrying about grabbing power away from our elected President .
I hope to see comments from the right condemning Voight as they would Sean Penn or Martin Sheen. "He's just an actor!" "Keep your opinions to yourself!" Don't disappoint me, wingnuts!
Who is this blow hole? Why do we care what some unknown 'actor' thinks? Actors really need to stay out of politics.
I find it funny that people like Voight take the time to open bash President Obama every chance they get. When Bush was sending our country rapidly into quicksand people like him wanted everyone to jump on the Bush wagon and be patriotic. I didnt know life was so bad from his million dollar seat in his million dollar home while he eats meals prepared by his chef... Tell him to come to Iraq/Afghanistan and stay a while... see what's REALLY going on and then he can go make a speech with another hideous tie...And it seems like every celebrety wants to be a politician now a days... maybe he should be a politician.... his acting career was below average anyway.
one thing i know obama is not the messiah. he has no solution to middle east problem.
I hope that he will find work after this because having conservative beliefs in Hollywood means serious discrimination.
Obama really believes he is the savior. Combine that with all the sheep and you get a situation that reminds me of WWII.
Why was he speaking at a Republican function? The only qualification they need is that the speaker actually be able to open their mouths, who cares if they have any insight on the topic at hand, right? He can't even be a decent father to his children, what is his opinion on politics worth?
This coming from a man whose own children dont care for him! Go figure! What did the Bush/Cheney Administration do for America. NADA! President Obama has never claimed to be a prophet or anything of the kind.
I hope this man doesn't speak for all Americans. That is scary stuff he's putting forward, none of which is true. People don't really believe this garbage do they?
Mr. Voight would do well to stick to that which he knows, acting. He might also do well to read up on Western Civilization. Take your time and learn before spouting round-robin rhetoric. You didn't do to well with simple relationships such as that which you don't possess with your daughter so why do you think you can advise the world's relationships. Study first, then speak.
to late john (keep your unimportant opinion to yourself) the gop is gone thanks to bush/cheney
Hear, Hear!
hmm. all i'm hearing is the usual rhetoric from an outdated and outmoded actor whose party didn't win.
boo hoo for me. whatever. go cry under a rock voight.
Voight needs to stick to acting and stay out of politics.
OMG. I cannot believe that someone said this! Is this the world we face?
I agree. Obama is TOO secretive. I expected President Obama to share the truth about the world to the people. From there I expected him to lead the world into healing. So far I see him defending the mighty corporations with bailouts with nothing left over for the real people of the world – us INDIVIDUALS.
Mr. Voight – I salute your position.
Shawn Delaney
It appears to Jon and his friends that it is acceptable, indeed our god-given duty (hey, Jon is the one who brought up religion by his use of the term prophet, right?) to wield the heavy hand and subject the rest of the world to our way of life. By golly, god is on our side evidently. So, we invade Iraq under false pretenses, but then wonder why the rest of the world does not kowtow to our "superiority."
Will someone please tell me a single thing Voight has done for the needy/homeless people in his community rather than making a speech and accusing the president.
Come to think about it.... why didn't he run for president? Well.... I guess it's always easier to criticize and call others names.
One boggles at the Republicans' continued use of religious terminology to attack Obama that only appeals to the fringe that failed to elect them last year.
It's the "messiah" tag that really gives me pause. Most, myself included, think this is ridiculous, of course, and Obama has never said anything of the sort about himself. Just for the sake of argument, though, what if he did turn out to be a messiah? What would be so bad about that? The world could certainly use one.
INTERESTING how the republicans love to deride actors and celebrity involvement in democratic politics, but sure don't miss any opportunity to trot out the occasional D list hack that will shill for them.
Did I say "interesting"? Perhaps a better term is "hypocritical".
then he should do more, run for office, share his expertise, not just shoot from the hip with baseless statements from the cheap seats
that is our job
It amazes me how people just don't want to realize fact. Obama and the Democrates did not create the state that this country is in today, and have only been in office for less than a year trying to fix a collasping econony brought on by corruption at the top level of our Corportations, and the cost of a war that we now realize we should not have been in. Voight calls Obama the false prophet, but my question is when has he called himself a prophet of any kind? Obama has never said he plans to sweet talk his way to peace, but he wants to try another approach towards obtaining a peaceful state instead of acting like a bully towards smaller nations. As far as who will proctect Isarel, she can take care of herself quite well and has been doing so very well by oppressing another people as they have pledge never to be oppressed themselves. The GOP needs to stop with the childish bickering and make an effort to try a different approach to making this nation a great one as it once was.
Who the devil is Jon Voight? Why would he think anyone would pay attention to him? He had better watch his words. He's one of those that find it hard to believe that an African American has the brains to lead this nation. He thinks Sarah Palin does. Please give us all a break, and go find Angelina and mend fences with her.
Unbelievable! Comments like that are why I left the Republican party this year. Just when you think the comments and actions can't be any more ridiculous, extreme and loaded with hatred, someone else from the party comes out with something more ridiculous.
All I can say is, I'm glad I'm no longer a republican!
If anyone has a clue to what Voight is talking about – please educate me. This little clip has no context. Who was he talking to? Where did the speech take place. How and when did Jon Voght become an expert on foreign policy?
Let me start by saying false prophet President Obama is not. I haven't heard him prophesy not once. Everyone thinks we are a weaker nation because of Obama, but that is quite the opposite. No one wanted to talk to the U.S. regarding peace or anything else because they had not respect for us nor our former leaders. There have been more talks of peace and possiblitlies of wars ending in the last six months, than in the last eight years. Jon Voight needs to not worry about whether or not President Obama is a false prophet and take a cue from him on how to be a father and family man. Go mend things with your children and build a relationship with them and your grandchildren and then just maybe I can listen to anything you have to say about President Obama. He has worked harder and done more in the last six months, than Bush did in eight years.
what were the other options Mr Voight??
Jon Voight should go back to acting.....oh, that's right, he can't do that anymore either.
The Republican Party is desperate for any sign of life. The only problem is they keep dredging up wraiths like Gingrich and Palin and parading them out as if they were new.
It's great how he makes incredibly bold claims about how everything Obama has done has been wrong...and then moves on to his next point. These people have nothing to back their claims with...they don't even try! Is he implementing a lot of new strategies and policies? Of course. Can you place judgment on if they have worked or failed yet? OF COURSE NOT!!! Give the man some time for Pete's sake. If his ideas truly do not work, than we should have a national discussion. Until you give the man time, all you look like is a biased Obama hater who wouldn't shake the man's hand even if he walked on water.
And may I mind you Mr. Voight, Obama is still cleaning up Bush's mess. Keep your religious rhetoric and false prophet nonsense jargon in the far right think tank fear machine where it belongs.
Way to go Jon. A hollywood actor willing to tell the truth and not just go along with the rest of the obamabots...God bless this Man.
Thankyou!!! you hit the nail on the head...I totally agree. Obama is a disgrace!!!
How does one make in intelligent argument of "everything Obama has recommended has turned out disasterously..", when hardly ANYTHING he has recommended has had time to produce results?
"....bring an end to this false prophet..." ??? BRING AN END!?
Voight has gone round the bend.
Obama is more than a "false prophet" as described in the Holy Bible. Obama is likely the Anti-Christ. The next few years will tell the tale about whether he is the Anti-Christ or not; watch and see, and by all means ask Almighty God to protect us from that evil.
This guy is crazy! Finding peace in the middle east doesn't start with a big stick. We have found what happens when we stop talking to these people. Everything we have done the past eight years has increased the hate of people all over the world. Go to Russia, Germany, Japan, France, or most any other country in the world, and you will find out just how much they have moved away from the United States. We need to start talking to the world again! We cannot embark on wars without good reason, and without backing from the rest of the world. We shouldn't go to war unless we have too. Clearly the discontent in this country is growing. It starts with the hate spewed out by Rush, Hanity, and Beck. Just eight years ago Hanity was on radio and TV telling everyone to stand behind their President "regardless of your opinion of his views" "BECAUSE HE IS YOU PRESIDENT" It was the patriotic Hanity, one that doesn't make money unless he stirs up the worst in people. Remember people, everything Obama is doing now is coming from a collective of intellectual minds from think tanks across this country. If you think he is making this up as he go's you are seriously mistaken. Just because Obama is listening to the Palestinians, and telling the Jews to back off on new settlements, doesn't mean he is selling out to terrorist. Hollywood is owned by corporate Jewish America, so folks like Voight are going to speak out. Israel wants peace in the middle east! Their lives depend on it! The Corporate American Jewish Community has different ideas for Israel.
Good point, we shouldn't be "sitting and waiting, watching for the possibility of a new holocaust"
What's your solution? You're solution is Genocide, Mr Voight. You want to act first and kill all of our enemies so they couldn't possibly harm anyone... whether they had malicious intent or not because we can't take any chances. You're a hypocrite!
Jon Voight should stick to acting.
Has everyone else also noticed, Mr. Voight, a wonderful actor, seems to be continuing his recent "anti-go'vt contractor bad-guy" role on the series "24"? Jon, the season is over, you were blown up in that SUV, the role is kaput.
The lines you used last night were from that show. Either you are plagiarizing your character's lines, or you were not acting after all--either way, you lose at this one.
Once again this guy has embarrassed himself and his family. What a joke.
Are we supposed to take this man seriously? He's an actor, and I like him as an actor. He's no political analyst, so maybe he's still acting at the behest of another.
We are not only the strongest nation, but the leader in torturing our enemies. If this joker thinks Obama is bad, how does he classify the last administration?
Is this a joke???
Thanks, Jon, now go back to your busy schedule, sir. Oh, you don't have one? Imagine that! Angelina was enough, eh?!
I love Voight. He was AWESOME at this event!!!
I thought Obama was running for president, not prophet! Mr. Voight, while you have your right to your opinion, and you have a right to express it in a responsible fashion, may I suggest you stick with acting. You are much better at that.
The Iraninan president is going down to a reformer in the next election, Heszbollah lost in Lebenon, local shooting at the Taliban in Afgan; lets see what your Cowboy deplomacy did the last eight years:
Iran going Nuclear
North Korea already Nuclear
Iraq a complete disaster that almost collapsed our economy
Taliban stronger that ever
Bin Laden sitting eating ice cream in a cave who knows where
Isreal had to go to war
should I keep going...
Go back to acting, or is that what your speech was...
This is terminally sick. so Jon wants to go back to the days of empire when all political decisions in the world must be cleared through Washinton and the American Right Wing? I thank God that the days of living in fear that the third worlders will take away outr"stuff" if we are not armed to the teeth are on the wane.
If this is the best that the right wingers can do it may be a long time in the wilderness for them. This is right out of the Joe McCarthy play book
YES! Please let us go back to being the country that crams our sanctimonious ideology down the throats of any and all nations that should disagree with our policing of this planet. I miss being scorned by the world.
Finally someone says what he really thinks! Watch out John the media will try to ruin you. Thats the name of the game they play. That's why they are going down hill. And they don't even know it!
foo leader is a better term
But he does speak well.., in front of a teleprompter
You, sir, are a washed-up, bas-been, realtively medicore actor - taking the last refuge open to pathetic attention-seekers: political pawn. You envy our hard-working, intelligent, and on-the-whole successful President; and you aren't fit even to mention his name.
Why don't you just go try for some Lifetime soaper flick and earn some money the honest way, Midnight Cowboy?
Here here Mr. Voight.
Hip, Hip, Hooray for Jon Voight. We are with you 100%.
I couldn't agree more.
Voight is right.
Obama is an abomination.
Silver tongued devil.
Evil incarnate.
Spawn of Saten.
Time will prove his opposition right.
History will condemn him.
Not all Americans are kool-aid drinking fools.
Thanks Jon.
how do you know what he is ? do you know what the true meaning of a prophet is? it is not in human form. as we think
president knows he will never please everyone he is trying to do a better job than the others.
what does prophet have to do with being a president, you should be concerned about him being and doing his job as pres.
i love and support him he is the best thing going right now. he came into a mess left by the o t h e r
The crazy liberals are going to have a heyday with this one, dont you knw you cant speak up against the prophet!!
President Obama is not a prophet at all. He's a politician and a leader.
But what I really can't wait for is all the wingnuts rationalizing why this Hollywood star's opinion is worthy, when they've spent the past ... forever keening and wailing about other Hollywood stars' opinions.
LOL...LOL...LOL...Only the kooks are calling him a "prophet"...Normal people call him President...
I guess this explains why Angelina refuses to allow him contact with her kids.
This poor washed up soul needs to go to the retired actors home and tell his glory day stories to people who can turn down their hearing aides. I cannot believe this sort of nonsense gets airtime. The man is clearly demneted.
Isn't bad enough that we listen to nut cases like Sarah Palin....now we give washed up actors like Voight air time...
I'll tell you what else Mr Voight. Israel can take care of Israel, it's not our responsibility and they are strong enough to fend for themselves. And you can't proclaim your own country to be the "great powerful good in the world", that is a title given to you by the rest of the world who HATES US, because of republican foreign policy.
Those who live in glass houses should NOT throw stones. When did President Obama declare that he was running for Pope? I see a man who is a great husband, PHENOMENAL FATHER to his daughters, and a learned man. It's highly unlikely that we'll ever see Sasha and Malia on tv stating that they have cut off all ties with their father.
I really wish that people would let this man do his job ... because it's the GOP who led this country into this mess that we're in .... President Obama is working to get us out.
don't you have to be a prophet to be a "false" prophet? I don't consider Obama anything but our current president... Good or bad, like him or not, he's just the president.
Ah yes, because what Jon Voight says matters. Go make another movie in LaLa Land.
Funny! I don't recall President Obama ever laying claim to being a prophet.
How come Republicans slam actors who take a Democrat/liberal political position as "having no right to an opinion," but when it is an actor on "their" side suddenly these guys are geniuses and worth listening to? Hypocrisy anyone?
Just one more reason to avoid this actor's work. He was a lousy actor, a worse father, and an ignorant individual who's rants on politics hold no interest to most thinking Americans. Just another example of a celebrity who thinks that because he is famous his opinions are worth reading.
I am very concerned about the well-being of Israel with this new administration.
Its offical. Jon voight lost his ever loving mind. What is he talking about? The United States needs to be more soft-spoken but carry a big stick!. We saw what 8 years of arrogance and cowboy talk got us. Two wars that we cannot get out of. Two buildings at the end of my city that are on the gone and still not built again! Does he really think that blind talk with "i'm better than you mentality "is gonna get us anywhere. Oh wait! He's in hollywood so yes he does think that. Dont mistake kindness for weakness. A humble attitude for complacency! The President has us headed in the right direction. I spoke to Arab americans on the streets of NYC and asked them, in your opinion is the US doing the right thing in changing your views? And they agreed. Isreal is not our enemy. The rest of the mid-east is. Wouldn't it make sense to repair that first? He said that all of Mr Obama's policies are a disastor. Can you look around and look! We're already in a disastor! Can check up on your kids and grand kids and leave the rebel rousting to Rush!
Why should anyone care what Jon Voight has to say.?
Opression? He seems to be a legend in his own mind.
Translation:
"I never want to work in Hollywood again."
Hilarious. The reformed "anti-war" guy now pushes military over diplomatic rationale. It seems to me that folks who avoided going to war when it was their turn shouldn't be allowed to play the "tough guy" role once there's no chance that they'd have to backup their rhetoric.
Oh Jon...really!
Ok so conservatives need to stop...first they label the president as the messiah now they want him to be a prophet?...come on now...the guy is only human with no divine powers....
How exactly is President Obama a prophet? He's a politician who has never claimed to be a religious leader. I think John has religion and politics confused.
I can't express how much I enjoy being spoon-fed foreign policy by the wealthiest %2 of America. Is he doing his Jonas Hodges character from '24'? If so, when is he going to ice Hank Jennings with a crystal vase?
Wow – Jon Voight is apparently a bit crazy. Too bad, I always kind of liked him as an actor.
Seriously??!! What kind of ridiculous drivel is this?
"Disastrous"?? What specifically has Obama done, that could be considered "disastrous"?
"Obama oppression"? Geez!
We Americans are seen as liberators? The great power for good? I guess Voight wasn't awake during the whole Bush adminastration. We've made MORE enemies because of Bush and Cheney and their war machine. America seen as weak? I think not! I think we'll be seen as more intelligent instead of STRONG arming everybody like the idiot bush did. When parents BEAT their kids instead of teach them, it only get's worse. We must use our minds before our guns. Obama a false prophet? How about "there are no prophets, just a leader who is trying to lead us with peace and intellect". Voight disapoint's me here. I won't be watching any of HIS movies for a long time. He sounds like a total pessimist.
I love it when these old burned out actors come out and tell us what is right and what is wrong. Where was he the last eight years as we lost all touch with reality and invaded a country under false pretense? Where was he when our economy was in high gear to oblivion?
Old actors will do anything for publicity………I’ve lost all respect for Voight and his artistic work.
"False prophet"? Ha...amazing how similar the GOPers and the Taliban/Al Qaeda sound at this point, isn't it?
John Voight, does not make sense sober or drunk. Let's see...here is a guy that didn't participate in the upbringing of his own daughter and son. Obviously, his drug abuse of the past has affected his judgement just like limbaugh. There is obviously no value on what he has to say since it is not base on reality.
i swear, these religious nuts are becoming more and more psychotic as their organized faith is nearing its inevitable demise.
Great. We get to hear that blowhard Jon Voight: obviously a relevant contributor to political discourse, as evidenced by his considerable senetorial (he was a senator in the Manchurian Candidate), defense (He was secretary of defense in the Transformers movie), and even as President of the United States (FDR in Pearl Harbor). He's also been Noah and the Pope, so I guess he's in the know when it comes to "false prophets."
Frankly, I'd be much more interested in the opinions of someone that has actually served in these capacities instead of an impersonator like Mr. Voight. Or at least someone like Ernest Borgnine.
The truth hurts. Friends of mine that voted for Obama are even admitting their mistake. He is on tracking for doing more harm than any president in my lifetime.
Gee Voight...why would anyone care what a has been like you thinks? To start with your analysis is correct because only a few Republicant losers like you call Obama a prophet. Since Obama isn't a prophet I guess you can call him a false prophet you moron. Find some new ideas to help your country instead of rehashing old loser Republicant talking points. No wonder your party is falling apart. You're just a bunch of name callers.
DA One, DA Messiah Oprah have been bragging about is as FAKE as gold plated necklace sold in the sidewalk. Hussein Obama is articulate ONLY with TELEPROMPTER, without it, he's a fumbling idiot who doesn't know if he's coming or going.
The HIGHLY educated UNDERACHIEVER voted for him because they believed they're entitled to anything their overly educated mind can think of without working hard for it. 60 million Americans voted for the FOOL ON THE HILL and boy! They"re paying a high prize for their foolishness.
The lazy voted for Hussein and expect the rest of hardworking Americans to support them while they make their butts wide as four axe handle.
Hussein Obama is ten times WORSE than Jimmy Carter.
It was only a matter time before we would all see Jon Voight finally lose his mind. Voight has managed to offend the majority of this country that voted for change. He is a prime example of white paranoia that is evident in this country and especially in the GOP these days. The white majority they knew and enjoyed has been sent to the trash heap by a larger much more multicultural group in this country. Voight is an actor so one can understand his false sense of reality. With his choice of acting jobs these days it is apparent he would want to revive his failing career. A bunch of old dried up white men looking up to Voight and Sara Palin for salvation. Gingrich calling for inclusion is laughable standing in front an all white crowd. The GOP will be seen in the same light as the all white political party in South Africa. Save your money, boycott Hollywood and Jon Voight films in response.
An Actor making an accusation like "False Prophet" is an oxy-moronic statement. Your life, your family have alot to say about you and how serious your opinions are taken politically and personally. What have you done for the system that remotely matches President Obama's effort to bring America back from reccession and world opinion bankruptcy. How can your children compare to those of Obamas? Your wife? Please know that just because you are an actor, doesn't give you automatic political correctness. Some actors are losing credability with political allys and showing their lack of political education and experience, and you even more after such a statement. You appear fool hearty and have no ground to stand upon. Though opinions are allowed, you have just put your foot in yours!
He is wrong! Obama is a true prophet! Oh wait...
No one but the detractors have labeled him a 'false prophet'. Eight years didn't work out, did they? Give this guy a chance.
What can I say? Amen!
Now he's starting to believe his own acting roles.
Obama has never called himself a prophet. He is a measured man trying to get us past years of American hatred by the world brought to us especially in the last 8 years of the bush / Cheney Administration. I know this man hates Obama to the core! like it or not he is our leader and he has shown what a great leader he is! Obama is our Modern day King Solomon!
reminds me of a "Dixie Chicks" type moment. Guess it's time to go and burn my Midnight Cowboy dvd.
You gotta be kidding me , why all the childish name calling from the GOP wing nuts? Presdient Obama has gone from "terrorist" to "celebrity" to "socialist" to "facsist" and now a "false prophet".
The GOP name calling and shrill rhetoric is a sign of desperation and and it shows a total lack of idea's and imagination.
Americans are growing weary of the GOP clown show.
Voigt ain't a f'real cowboy, but he is one helluva has-been.
I'm sure America is gratified now to know what the "Midnight Cowboy" thinks of Obama.
This coming from "The Midnight Cowboy".......
Who does this idiot think he is? If he's so worried about Israel then go join their army. It's not our responsibility to watch over these arrogant fools. Since when is Israel a part of the United States??
Sounds like Religious overtones, what a joke. Bush is who destroyed America, Obama is trying to fix it.
Jon's just upset President Obama equates both states (Israel and Palestine) maltreatment towards one another as the entire problem. Mr. Voight doesn't want to acknowledge Israel's invasion of the entire area (Palestine) beyond the territories gained in 1967 as aggression. The displacement and killing of Palestinians from an area where there isn't much room to migrate anywhere else. Conversely, Palestinians have killed innocent Israeli people in their attacks which is unexcusable as well. The right wing conservative Israeli's and right wing Hezbollah are both equally as EVIL. They're both the SAME. And anyone, including Jon Voight, who doesn't acknowledge both states are the problem.....is part of the problem.....
You see, many Christians (hypocritical ones) have a (Crusader mentality) from the middle ages and project their prejudice towards Muslims.....while many Muslim extremists project prejudice towards Jews and Christians. If ALL treated each others the way they themselves would want to be treated by others....the problem would be solvable. Instead, you have many "knuckle heads", like Jon Voight and Republicans carrying prejudice and denial into the negotiations.
what on earth qualifies Jon Voight to judge a word leader?
Oh, give me a break! Who cares about Voight???? What significance is he to politics? He's not even a popular actor. Another Republican nutcase
Could not have said this any better myself. What a fool we have for a president–tripsing around the globe apologizing for everything from stale cereal to the weather. In everyone's haste to "make history" we made it alright–a bad history from day one. I'm glad my name is not associated with putting Obama in office.
And Jon Voight is a "false father" who can't repair his relationship with his adult daughter....I think I'll wait for the GOP to get someone without their own "issues" to question Obama's actions....
North Korea is an amazing study in foreign policy. For 8 years, the Bush policy on North Korea was strong talk followed by regional influence from the surrounding countries. North Korea would talk every once in a while, but Kim Jong Il was generally quiet. Kim made agreements with the US, and Bush removed them from the list of terrorist state-sponsors. Obama and John Kerry both cheered these moves, and said the North Korea model was the way to handle other rogue nations.
North Korea continued to violate the terms of the agreements they signed (for example, not giving a complete nuclear arms update within 60 days in 2008), but it didn't matter, because people were confident Kim wouldn't do anything stupid.
However, since Obama took over, Kim has gotten much more aggressive, launching missle after missle, while Obama does nothing but say "Don't do that." Obama does not scare Kim. George Bush scared Kim. Kim has now become a major problem. Does Obama have the b*lls to do anything about it, or is he going to continue letting Kim do whatever he wants?
Jon's just upset President Obama equates both states (Israel and Palestine) maltreatment towards one another as the entire problem. Mr. Voight doesn't want to acknowledge Israel's invasion of the entire area (Palestine) beyond the territories gained in 1967 as aggression. The displacement and killing of Palestinians from an area where there isn't much room to migrate anywhere else. Conversely, Palestinians have killed innocent Israeli people in their attacks which is unexcusable as well. The right wing conservative Israeli's and right wing Hezbollah are both equally as EVIL. They're both the SAME. And anyone, including Jon Voight, who doesn't acknowledge both states are the problem.....is part of the problem.....
You see, many Christians (hypocritical ones) have a (Crusader mentality) from the middle ages and project their prejudice towards Muslims.....while many Muslim extremists project prejudice towards Jews and Christians. If ALL treated each other the way they themselves would want to be treated by others....the problem would be solvable. Instead, you have many "knuckle heads", like Jon Voight and Republicans carrying prejudice and denial into the negotiations.
Who yanked this goober's chain? When I think of great political minds, Jon Voight is not someone who makes the list. And I thought this man was an actor, isn't it his job to memorize lines? Why is he reading from his notes like a second grader trying to read an 8th grade level book?
Who cares what this washed up old actor has to say? The presedent never claimed to be a prophet. Its sad that people like this idiot are calling him weak because he wants peace in the world. History to write a different story...
Its amazing how there are so many haters in the Rep party, old white men who cant get over the fact this man is the leader of the free world and that the world loves him, its scary for them so they have to come up with all these hateful things to say about him. God will punish all of you haters!
....and where was Jon Voight during Bush's presidency. He misses the
fact that Bush over the period of 8 years managed to reduce this country
to a laughing stock around the world. Just as some of Mr. Voight's
performances are better than others, it's only fair that President Obama
be given time to solve the MANY problems he inherited from his
predecessor. Go and make another film Mr. Voight, that's what you
are good at. Leave the political punditry to the experts
Voight must have missed the last 8 years while making those hard-hitting Disney Channel Films. Boy, how the Midnight Cowboy has fallen out of the saddle.
Jon voight Is a looser just like GPO party. The party of NO new idai.
OBAMA is going to be great for this country he will take us back on the right direction. thay the GOP ran our country to the groung thanks to these looser.
A false prophet? That has to be a step up from being the anti-Christ. Seriously, ever since this guy screwed up his relationship with his daughter he's been getting nuttier by the day.
This man is talking about Obama oppression where was he during the GW/Cheney administration....if anyone disagreed or spoke out against the GW administration that were called unamerican....a bunch of right wing wackos....
Kinda like when you Democrats called GW Bush every name under the sun.????....What comes around goes around and Obama will be shown the same respect that you Showed Bush for the last 8 yrs. So stop crying about it and get tough......You people think you can call a republican anything you want the moment you get anything said critical about your MESSIAH you people flip out.....You people should have treated Bush with a little more respect or maybe just maybe get tougher skin...Isnt Karma beautiful????
Haha ... an actor nobody cares about anymore is trying to be noticed. Now, shut up and bite George Costanza. (Gawd, he was even a washed-up punchline in the 90s.)
Mr. Voight-
I have loved you acting through the years.
Very disappointed at what a complete kook & spook you are politically.
You guys and the fear card!
You played it one too many times, and now you guys are liable to be out of power for some time to come.
Wake up and smell the new world!
I will NOT be afraid.
Jon Voight has been a madman for quite some time now. He's a good actor (or at least he used to be; he's gotten kind of pedestrian now), but if you ever read his rantings, he's totally unhinged and out of touch with reality. And I'm talking just one step above "aliens are sending me secret messages through my breakfast cereal" crazy. There's a reason Angelina Jolie avoids her dad, y'know. Voight believes in so many insane things to begin with that he has no credibility in any regard. And in any case, I don't believe Obama's ever claimed to be a "prophet" in the first place, so Voight's accusations are ludicrous.
I accuse Jon Voight of not actually being a cedar tree! Whether he's ever claimed to be one (and it frankly wouldn't surprise me if he had, the lunatic) is immaterial, he still stands accused!
Jon Voight is the very person he portrayed is Enemy of the State.
Come on Jon, didn't you know that the only actors allowed to comment on politices were Sean Penn, George Clooney, Susan Sarandon, and Tim Robbins? The same geniuses who will criticize you on this comment board are the same yahoos who lauded the "contributions to civil discourse" by such heroes as Hanoi Jane.
"We and We alone..." What do you mean by that Jon? Do you mean that you and your peers, whoever they might be, have special insight? Do you really think that the world is totally wrong when it expresses some of the feelings about the US? I do not mean for a moment to imply that the US has not done a great deal of good in the world. By the same token, it amazes me that people either don't know or don't wish to face the reality, that our record is not spotless, that there have been grave injustices brought about by this country. The key to a being a complete being is to recognize the good and the not so good that is part and parcel of an individual. And until that happens, until we realize that "we and we alone " are not the sole arbitriers of good and have a monopoly on wise judgement, we can never approach the other members of planet earth with any degree of integrity or reality for that matter. "Obama oppression ...?" How is standing up to other countries and saying, yes we have erred, but yes we have done good as well...oppressive. Or does Jon Voight and his followers feel that we can legitimately stand before the world and say that we have NEVER done anything wrong. It is troubling what I am seeing in America, the vile hatred that is coming forth. And the inability to see the facts that are laid before us. And before any of you choose to leap at my comments, be aware, that all I am saying is that this is a great country, which has done its share of un-great things. Therefore, your argument has to be, "No, the US has only done great things..." Is that really what you want to argue. My goodness, ask any expert, the first step in becoming whole is to admit to past mistakes. That does not make one any less great. It makes them stronger in the end. Obama oppression...lol...Jon...how personally are you being oppressed right now? And as for the Israel, if you feel the best way for peace to take place is just to let them fight it out, then please examine your defintion of peace. Gee, don't we teach schoolkids that its better to talk your problems out than to just fight all the time? Maybe if you could ask your daughter Jon, you might learn something...oh that's right...excuse me for that one..
i am glad to see yet another nut-job speak out against Obama. False Prophet? Come on John, you can do better than delivering the monologue anyone could. Dig Deeper.
Hey Jon, he's not a false-prophet with a messiah complex if he ACTUALLY SAVES THE WORLD.
You're guys broke. Just keep that in mind.
I am sure his comments make PUMA very happy.
And we care why? The right is so far away from reality it scares me to think that until recently they were in charge of our great country. Jon Voight should move to the south and join the rest of his regional party on the sidelines. They all seem to miss that "progress" is the core of progressive!
Normally, people on the right hate it when celebrities voice their political opinion. They act as no one cares or should care what they think. I wonder what will be said of Jon Voight's opinion.
I'll bet they will welcome these statements and elevate him to the inglorious status of a Fred Thompson
How ironic, an ACTOR calling the president a false prophet. I wonder if he can see it? I doubt it.
Good to see that some Hollywood actors still have some common sense. Jon Voight rules...
Oh dear. The midnight cowboy has lost a marble or two it seems.
who claimed that the president was any kind of prophet except some crazy actor.
Rich, really rich coming from Jon Voight. "DEVoight" of any morals as a father.
Hey Jon- It's President Obama not just Obama.
Jon Voight is right... for once! This almost makes up for that accent he had in Anaconda.
I now believe that Jon Voight has lost his mind. His daughter, Angelina Jolie, has said for years that he's on the margin. But now I believe it also. His xenophobic, reactionary rant is irrational at best, and unbalanced at worst. What in the world is wrong with this country trying a different tack, to find peace and reconciliation, instead of aggression and division? The times call for a new approach, and I am glad that this new President has the fortitude (notwithstanding Jon Voight's act) to say what must be said, and do what must be done, to stabilize the mid-East. I don't know it if it can succeed: generations of resistence seem weighted against his efforts. But it is in the best traditions of this country for our leadership to seek solutions beyond violence, and I applaud Barack Obama for his initiative.
Wow...I never knew that the President 'prophesied" anything...thank you Jon Voight for enlightening me.
Why do we care what all the leftist socialist hollywood types have to say! All these west coast elitist liberal actors should just.. oh wait
they forgot the part where he praised fox news sean hannity, oreilly, and limbaugh. A network (Fox) whose president (Murdoch) said that Obama was 'dangerous' ..i mean what do you expect?
Only the right wing called him a "prophet", so they could say these things, Voight played the character in "24" that disrespected the President; I see he didn't have to act for that part.
To each his own....I disagree however with his premises/statements
Jon Voight...Jon Voight... Ah yes, the creepy guy from Anaconda. I know who he is now.
The GOP has been blasting Obama and his plans since day one in a jealous rage, with petty accusations, and downright lies. The one thing I find lacking in all of their bluster is an antidote to everything they find wrong with this president's plans.
If they think he is so wrong, then they surely must have some plans of their own, short of the snivelling I have heard. Let's hear their plan. Or else, be quiet, and give him a chance to let his ideas work. Better yet, get behind him and HELP. And PLEASE get off the payroll of big business and give the AMERICAN people a chance to get this ccountry back on it's feet.
What exactly has Obama prophesized? The recurring theme that I've been hearing is, 'We're in a hole, we have a lot of work to do.' Obvious, perhaps, but hardly prophetic.
Voight's frustration is understandable. As a father, he failed. As an actor, he was never that great. He campained for McCain, supported the war in Irak. Now he is disrespecting the President of the United States Of America. This to me, sounds more like the rants of a person who is borderline lunatic. The facial expression are a display of rage. Why is he so angry?
So Jon, fix your relationship with your kids first. Leave the running of America to the people with competence. Besides, if you were not an actor, nobody would pay attention to you.
Speaking of rhetoric... but not so lofty.
Nice to see the GOP is back at the "fear" schtick. The thing is... I'm not afraid.
I'm not afraid of gays.
I'm not afraid of other countries.
I'm not afraid of the poor.
I'm not afraid of religion.
I'm not afraid of the lack of religion.
You just don't scare me and you can't make me vote out of fear.
didnt jack bauer already take care this?
John Voigt's choice of biblical references shows his own messianic narcicism. His worldview contains no room for any countries other than America and Israel. His fear is scary. He missed the whole "Blessed are the Peacemakers..." part of the message. He "...stands at the doorway to the temple, and keeps others out." If there is not a peaceful (whether amicable, at first, or not) resolution to the Israel-Palestine issue, the "holocaust" he fears will consume the World. Fear-feeding people like him will have brought it about.
this man is a washed up has been and a very bad actor to boot!! I don't watch 24 because he is on it. Sorry Kieffer. As for him calling Obama a "false prophet" that's scary because he wouldn't know one if it came up and slapped his face!!!! What a freakin' fear monger!!!!!
Man, these republicans look like a bunch of hate mongers to me
President Obama has a 70% approval rating as of today June 9,2009 (compared to Bush's 12% approval rating when he left office). President Obama keep up the good work and we are proud of the way you are re-framing the message Americans have for the world. We are safer now because we have a president who dares to lead the hard way - through listening, compromising and collaborating with other countries. Jon Voight is in the minority and his words are hollow.
And Republicans are whiners who are just upset that they aren't getting their way. The only people referring to Obama in religious terms are trolling Republicans.
Mighty hubris rises again in Voight's message. It takes study and practice to become an orator. It requires words to ring with truth not distortions. Anyone can climb on a stage and stir people up to frenzy and anger with provocative language and manipulation of facts.
reminder: there is a major difference between a politician and a true statesman. America finally has a statesman to lead-
Obama a false prophet ? No not at all. Chill Jon Voight ,if anything
Obama is a Liberal train wreck.
You are absolutely right.
what is his point? where is the substance?
Finally, someone speaks the truth. Obama not only is a false prophet, he is our worst nightmare.
Does any one care what this wack-job old washed up Republitard has to say? I don't. Didn't even listen to the video. I've heard enough out of him over the years. He should concentrate on his dysfunctional family and spend less time blowing hot air.
While I to some extent agree with Mr. Voigt's observations, I also believe that now is the time for the US to charter a new course in international affairs. I do not think, as Mr. Voigt claims, that all of Obama's actions have been disasters. It's far too early to tell. I fondly recall a saying I often heard and repeated from my military days: "Do something, even if it's wrong". Because we cannot predict the future, action is usually preferable to inaction and this goes as well for our president.
But one more thing. I have a problem with Hollywood actors, on the political left and right, who themselvs live in a priveliged environment of make belive and special effects, proclaiming themselves experts on events that take place in the real world. I really don'tthink they have a clue.
Jon Voight needs to sit his behind somewhere. This is not the TV show 24. We have try the approach of using our nukes and look where that has gotten us. After only two days of Obama's speech, Hasbullah party was defeted into the election over the weekend there in Beirut. That means people are listening. We don't have to kill innocent civilians there and continue to claim self defence. Also, I am not sure what he meant us being treated as liberator. By whom? and in what country we were treated as liberators? Iraq, South Korea, Kuwait, Iran, France these were all the countries that American soldiers lost their lives to help defend. Look were that got us. I am sure he does not beat his kids simply because he disagrees with what they had to say. His speech was for you and I Mr. Voight. The people of Beirut have taken the first step towards that. Something the previous administration with all thier treaths and fire power could not accomplish.
Our war based on false pretenses has monumental waste that is still be tallied. There are your false profits, Jon.
This B-actor is delusional! Yes, America is weaker but our decline certainly didn't start in 2009 with the current administration. What about the collapse of American morals and values, unprecedented presidential power wielded during the Bush regime, a crumbling Educational system, corporate and individual greed, and general Apathy from the American people being called out as contribution factors to our decline? No – Mr. Voight will never share those facts because it doesn't generate headlines nor result in applause.
This, from a guy whose greatest claim to fame is playing a male prostitute in a movie.
I don't think anyone has called President Obama a "true prophet" to begin with, so calling him a "false prophet" is a bit...stupid.
It's the GOP, what can we expect. Maybe they'll try and go retro in style with Newt Gingrich as the new "voice" of the party. Wait, what's that? Gingrich was the keynote at last night's fundraiser.
Oh, the troubles we've seen.
I wouldn't say he was a prophet. False, yeah, that would be one way to describe him.
Like it or not....he's got several points...
I voted for B-O, wishing I haden't.
Ya know.......I find it funny as hell that all the 'people' (term used lightly) who (derisively) refer to the President as the 'Messiah' and (false) 'Prophet'.....these people are all Conservatives/Republicans.
Which gets to my point.......it seems that these 'people' (term again used lightly) can't seem to make a point without the name calling and personal attacks.
Which leads to the one obvious conclusion that these 'people' really don't have a positive message; they're sad, desperate and weak as a group and the ONLY hope that they have is that they'll be able to spread suspicion, fear, and yes......even hate.
That's all that's left when you lack a message, direction and are leaderless. And they did it to themselves!!!!
Really? So war is our only option? Wait, we tried that policy with republicans...one of the longest wars with no end, no peace in the middle east, etc. - thanks Bush, loves and hugs.
Finally, someone with some sense speaking out.
It is always old dissapointed white men crying for the job that belong to them for more than 200 yrs. Look at him talking about them being selfrighteous and doing the name calling. I imagine a chinese leader talking like that 20 yrs from now...
Wow. I guess its just not me who thinks this way. Thank God thinking people are starting to speak out publicly about the obamonation the coolaid drinkers elected. I think the groundswell has begun and the guy in the oval office is will have hell to pay. Great job Mr. Voight!
Why are right-wingers so paranoid? Are they driven by fear or hate. There is nothing wrong or weak with being part of the world instead of controlling it. Talk about acting like Rome. We are people sharing a planet with a lot of other people, not God's gift to humanity with the divine right to tell everyone how they should live.
Remember greed is the root of all evil.
Why is a washed up actor who could not really act in the first place and has made no contributions to the world................why is what he has to say pertinent???????????? Come on CNN stop giving power to losers........keep them out of the media............they are only getting in the media to try and make a comeback or get into the movies
It must be nice to live off the largesse of Hollywood royalties and the money your managers and lawyers can scrounge up for you, while the rest of us have to work for a living. I suggest that Jon find a group of folks who don't humor him because of his status, and will tell him he needs to take the blinders off. He reminds me of an old version of one of those kids on 'Entourage'. Completely out of touch. I hope he runs for office, it would clinch the next election for the Dems.
Please Mr. Voight – please enlighten us with at least one of the "disastrous decisions he's made." I guess the career isn't going so well. A guys gotta make himself relevant somehow
Word. Glad someone realizes it!
ARE YOU SERIOUS?! Why must people continue to insist that America is blameless in this world. We have committed some truly horrid sins in our time. No country has clean hands. We all have dark spots in our past. The ability of humanity as a whole to realize our similarities rather than focusing on our differences, will be the path to peace in this world.
This confuses me. I had no real impression of Mr. Voight's position on politics but I thought he was informed. I was wrong.
Disagreement is normal and constitutional when talking about the president but who ever said he was a prophet in the first place. For him to say Obama is not a prophet implies that he thinks some people think of the president as just that.
That kind of talk especially from a celebrity is irresponsible. I hope this story comes and goes with minimal press. A man of his stature should have more respect for the president of the United States. I guess some people are having a problem coming to terms with the reality of the White House. Hey Jon,"The people have spoken," live with it. We lived with every other president.
Guess Mr. Voight needs to reorganize his investment portfolio and figure out a way to have a better relationship with his open minded daughter.
Wow! Not everyone in Hollywood is on the liberal-train. Way to go Jon!!
Mr. Voight is wrong and his long history of out landish conservative radicalism is cause for alarm His use of terms like "false prophet" is code language for radicals like him to others that President Obama muist be stopped at all costs. This is similar rehtoric that drove Mr. Roeder to kill Dr. Tiller.
Let's see: Jon Voight, Dennis Miller, Ted Nugent, Victoria Jackson, Jerry Zucker of "Airplane!" fame, Kelsey Grammer. What do these people have in common?
First, they've all come out as conservatives (or neo-cons in some cases).
Second, every last one of them is washed up.
Moral of the story: You might be able to resurrect your flagging career by appealing to America's lowest common denominator.
"Bring an end"? What is he calling for?
John Voight who????
It looks like he can't get an acting job so he is going into politics....thats what we need, another actor that can't get a job acting. Just go the actor grave yard, maybe he will find his acting career there. this is just like when Bush became president all the Dems said the same kind of things. The left or the right will just slam to other just to get the money from the donors for power. Maybe someday someone will really care about this nation and do the right thing instead of the "how do I stay in power"
It is time for a new party that cares about the people and not trying to just be in power and impose the beliefs on us.
Freedom was the reason our founding fathers made a nation.
Jon Voight's the MAN! He's 100% correct with his words; liberals take note, your time is over!
He is SO RIGHT. Obama is such a fake, a con man who is an empty suit on a daily basis.
I'm so EMBARRASED that Obama is our president.
Wow, he is as crazy as his daughter. False prophet, I don't get that reference. Were their religious undertones, if so were they Christian, Jewish or Muslim?
I am sorry John V but whatever sensationalist propaganda that was fed to you was clearly abhorrent of any truth. We are the liberators of the world? We are a source for good? wow that is way off. We have have done some good things, we may have liberated some people, but we are not the SOURCE of good nor are we the LIBERATORS of the human race.
Speaking of sources, we are the # 1 source of all weapons found throughout the world. I assume that wasn't what he meant by the "source of good in the world."
Wow...The Great Liberators? Julius Caesar? False Prophet? Anyone who has to use phrases like that can't possibly have a meaningful thing to say to anyone, unless they are just like him. Thankfully he is in the minority. Obama should make Liberal Arts degrees free for the next four years–he would be King Obama by the end of his second term.
Anyone with an education and an open mind (who doesn't have some financial reason for thinking otherwise) can not deny that Obama is the best thing that has happened to America in generations. I really can't see how any educated person could think this Voight makes any sense at all. Reality is good place to be, Jon. Try it out! Make up with your daughter–maybe she'll let you babysit for a few bucks. No, on second thought, we don't your influence on any more young lives.
Where does this "Prophet" stuff even come from?
So I guess 9/11 is old enough to not get the fear rising enough anymore so we are using "end of days" religious foretelling now as the source of fear.
Awesome use of the Holy Bible....To spread fear.
Nice going Voight!! Enjoy your special lake of fire.
LOL at the premise of being oppressed because America is not being allowed to start another war.
It really annoys me to hear someone speak about the thoughts and motivations of a person they've never met. To hear Jon voight tell people what President Obama is really thinking is like me telling someone what Jon Voight was really thinking when he made that ridiculous speech.
The fact that President Obama is well liked and even loved around the world is a cause for celebration here at home. I'm happy that we have an American President who can go to the middle east and not have shoes thrown at him or can openly visit european capitals without hiding and sneaking around.
The president's approach is simple and straight forward, we can gain more traction with friends than enemies. He's appealing to those who are willing to give America a chance and trying to build bonds between nations. He doesn't see an enemy in every Muslim or Arab and although his approach may take time to work, it's certainly a more morale approach than war, torture and pretending that our constitutional principles are simply too inconvenient to follow.
A solid majority of Americans agree. The RNC (Rush, Newt and Cheney) along with Palin and now Voight are stuck in a cold war attitude of "Us vs. Them", perhaps drawn into it by their devotion to anything 'Reagan'. But 1980 was nearly 30 years ago!
Your ideas are old and stale, and your time has passed. The 'Age of Obama' is upon us.
YES WE CAN!!!!
Peggy Cavanagh you said "President Obama has a 70% approval rating as of today June 9,2009 (compared to Bush's 12% approval rating when he left office). "
And what's your point...lets see what Obama's approval is when he leaves office.
This man is a failed actor. Even his daughter will have nothing to do with him. Who is he to call the President of the United States a false prophet? He wants to blame Obama for the failure of the GOP. They are the ones who have dug a deep hole for this country. He and his cohorts have to pay the price for their deceitful misleading of this nation.
Why is it okay for Dem's to bring out celebrities, but if a Rep. celebrity speaks his mind you liberals have a fit. Not everyone is in love with Obama – get a grip!
It's really a shame that the GOP has sunk this low. It's a problem, a real problem, when the GOP's "leaders" sound more and more like Fascists everyday. Good Lord listen to yourselves!
Pres. Obama has NEVER said that he is the messiah or claimed to be a prophet. Perhaps there is real fear from the right that he may actually be such.
I didn't know we had so many nuts and bigots in this country. You left wingers (socialists) wouldn't recognize a train wreck if you were in it.
Another drug addict speaking out ...at least Rush has some company
What do you know! Charlton Heston reborn. Not only am I all done with right wing politics...I'm done with Jon Voights, Fox TV, Limbaughs and his "skinheads", and any other right wing idiot who dares to espouse the politics of fear, hate, ridicule and just about any other negative emotion these wingnuts can come up with disquised under the Conservative Republican Brand. Shame on all of you Un-American wacko's. As for Jon Voight please be advised you are hereby "banned" from any element of broadcast within my range of view, audible or otherwise, along side of your hero...Moses.
Who gives a crap about what some over-paid has-been actor thinks about our president and his challenges? About as many people who give a crap about what you or I have to say.
Stuff it, Jon!
Jon Voight, if it were Barbara Srteisand the media would be laughing at the thought of her making a comment. Bu then she's a woman and a liberal. Jon Voight, on the other hand is male and conservative so therefore he merits coverage as someone who matters. What baloney.
Well, I certainly wouldn't call him a prophet..that would be offensive to God. I find it intersting that CNN closed comments on the NYS coup...not like you...
Being from NY ...alot of folks are rambling this was hyjack of the voters choice....so untrue....this was pure demoracy at work. Our leaders were NOT listening to the majority of constituents...and Thank God Golisano didn't move yet...say waht you may about Espanda and Monsenate...but they did the right thing..and from my faith perspective God rewarded it. This state has suffered much...you have no idea across this country just how....and we 'know' what is right now...we are not straying from doing right.. we will have a prosperous state again...and the church bells will once again ring loudly!
Who cares what this washed up actor has to say? Slow news day?
CNN, why is my comment still waiting approval while others who have commented since me have been approved?
Many things have been placed onto Obama's plate and I am willing to say he has a lot of handle. But, he has not performed very well under pressure and has given too much to the people who got us in this economic mess. With that being said, I agree with Jon's comments who heatedly. He was the prophet and is completely false.
"In the time of the end...the king of the north...will he will have to come all the way to his end, and there will be no helper for him". Daniel chapter 11, the Holy Bible; the word of God. "During that time Michael will stand up, the great prince who is standing up in behalf of the sons of you people. " Daniel Chapter 12 vs 1 "Then if anyone says to you "Look here is the Christ' do not believe it". Matthew 24 vs 23
John Voight you are a dead beat Dad!
Who could possibly care what am actor has to say about Obama, or politics in general? The problem with the media these days is that anyone who is mildly famous can get some reporter from some organization to spout whatever they want. Where's the news in the coverage of this story?
All of the name calling and division among Americans (Black and White) has to stop! President Obama NEVER called himself a prophet, never has he acted as such either. Those of us that have supported him do believe that he was placed in the position that he is in now because he is what this Country needs at exactly this moment. But by no means do we consider him a prophet nor worship him as some God. We are not a bunch of mindless individuals that follow blindly, we are educated, have minds of our own and can think for ourselves very well.
Why is that people do not realize that the power America once had is long gone and it is not due to us having President Obama in the White House, our standing in the world diminished eight years ago! No longer can we bully the rest of the world and expect them to lay-over and submit to our will!
The views of Mr. Voit breeds hate and anger, we can do without that. When are people going to realize this President did not create the mess this country is in and he is trying his best to fix the mess that was left for him. If you do not have anything constructive to say then by all means please keep your thoughts to yourself. By President Obama reaching out to the world and displaying a willingness to work together he is actually laying the foundation for a peaceful resolution to the hostility that is directed towards America! We cannot exist in this world alone so why not learn to work together?
Wow. Voight turned out to be a wacko. Crazy, unrealistic, brainwashed talking, fearful people, especially ACTORS are dangerous. Seriously.
Mr. Voight could not possibly be more correct. Obama is an absolute disaster.
thanks jon! Obama speaks falsely on a lot of issues and kudos to your courage speaking out. The truth shall prevail!
maybe CNN writers could use verbs other than 'blasts' or 'slams' . It seems like every controversial article written uses one of those words to make a point. Don't we have other verbs available?
Jon Voight is just pissed because he sucks as a father and an actor. This mans words are as relevant as his relation to his daughter. When he can set a good example as a man (and an actor) then he can be respected for his opinion. But the guy sucks in all regards, so him having a delusional, pschyzoprhanic conspiracy theory, is not surprising.
Get meds dude, you need them!
Do you know the definition of a false prophet? Or, are you saying you're a real prophet!
I love him! He is right, Obama is nothing but a people pleasing celebrity! Stop talking and do something! You shouldn't pick on Voight because he has the balls to say something about it! I also enjoyed the swinging on the playground metaphor.
It doesn't matter about Mr. Voight's family or current ability or inability to earn money. What matters is that he is right about Mr. Obama. He is literally giving this country away while we sit by and watch, and he knows exactly what he's doing. What may seem like a plan gone wrong in our eyes is most likely a plan gone very right in his. Don't for one minute let yourselves believe that Mr. Obama has this country's best interest at heart. What he has at heart is his standing with his fellow Muslims and Allah. By the time he has served his 8 years in office we will have no freedoms left and probably will have lost all right to own property in our own names. The press will continue to cover for him and we will be lucky if know half of what he is doing in the White House. This is a very scary situation people; the United States will never again be the same country it was even a year ago so what shape will it be in 7 years from now.
I will be 60 years old tomorrow and I have lost a son and brother in wars to maintain this country's freedom. In less than 6 months Mr. Obama has begun to give it all away. Sad.
Isn't this the same guy who's own daughter disowned? Funny how all the guys saying this stuff are Old White and at the end of their careers.
Yelling at clouds.
This sort of overstatement says alot more about Voight's state of mind than it does about Obama's.
"False Prophet"??? I don't recall Obama ever even intimating that he was anything but a politician. Maybe you need to look up the definition of "prophet". Why not just avoid the looney references and respectfully disagree Mr. Voight? Maybe you're the one fixated on prophets because your argument lacks intellectual merit.
Oh, hang it it up Jon, what do you know. You are just a washed up actor who knows nothing about The President. I really think he is doing a great job and i like that he is tring deplomacy instead of ignoring the whole country like Bush did, also Bush did nothing but put us in a big mess that Barack has to fix it. Well I know you didn't vote for Barack Obama.
Jon It's time to leave your fear behind and grow up.
Last night they raised half the money they usually do at this event.
That says it all. Even their money bags do not want anything to with them. Without fresh ideas and cash they are going nowhere.
John Voight at least has enough guts to tell it like it is, unlike the fawning of the news media. It is time to stop the socialism that Obama is taking this country to. I am an independent that left the Democrats because of their actions. Obama is bad for this nation and will take us to a third world level!
IsupportAllourPresidents: This is not a matter of the Dems or Reps bringing out celebrities. We only put so much stock in what celebs have to say anyway. What is really sad is that this particular one is saying nothing of any substance or even making any sense! The USA has a chance to reverse some of the damage that has been done to our reputation, serious damage that endangers us more than any time in the past. That the Republicans can take something as respectful as our President's speech to the Muslim world, and turn it into a negative just clarifies how shaky the ground is under them. Very sad.
Who or why would anyone care what this hate-filled idiot says about Obama, politics or anything else?
Why is that people do not realize that the power America once had is long gone and this is a different world. Sooner we realize it, the better we all will be. No longer can we bully the rest of the world and expect them to lay-over and submit to our will!
The views of Mr. Voit is full of hate and anger and we can all do without that. Life is full of challenges without the hate & anger imposed by guys like him.
What neolibs and neocons have in common is trendy authoritarianism rather than equalitarianism. What is happening now is a repeat of the past 8 years. Regardless of what party may be "best".
The only unfortunate thing now is that there is a much larger "bill" attached, primarily due to finger-pointing being a very expensive game.
When are we going to take ownership for our mistakes?
There are insane mindless supporters on both sides. The people who worship Obama are as ridiculous as the people who worshiped Bush. Americans have become so emotional and stuck in their positions, it's impossible to have a rational conversation about politics with anyone.
Jon we wish you had said that 8 yrs ago about Bush. Otheriwise we would had never attakece and invaded a nation that had nothing to do with 911 and would have safe BUSH & CHENEY the false prophets from committing the many crimes against humanity?
Like waterboarding and all the other crimes against humanity committed in Iraq based on lies and false pretense from Bush, Cheney, Condi, Gonzales, Rummy, Rove and their war mongering cabinet members? Bush told us there was WMD and even showed us the "documents" we believed him and so did the world but those documents were false and he knew that and so did Cheney. That is why Colin Powel left after knowing that he lied to the US Nation on tv, "Those trailers that you see on these photos are now making WMD." What Bush didnt tell him was that those doc were false and yet Bush figured the country will listed to Powell for where there is fear there is power. Hittler, Mussolini, Lenin and Franco comes to mind.
We seemed to forget that Saddam/Iraq had nothing to do with 911 at all or with Osama. NO link between Saddam and Al-Qaida yet we forced our ways into Iraq by declaring a war based on WMD! IT was all LIES LIES. Then when those lies came clear Bush started saying that we went there to liberated those Iraqis. Fact is there were better off under Saddan. They never wanted us there and during the process over 800,000 Iraqis are now dead. You seemed to forget that over 5 million Iraqis had been maimed and you also seemed to forget that over 7 million Iraqis had been displaced from their own land. Then over 5,000 GI's are dead and over 50,000 maimed and destroyed for life. What about their suffering families? FOr a needless war.
The whole world kept saying, "there is not need to invaded Iraq there are not WMD." IF Chine or North Korea invades us would you fight to kill and chop their heads off too? YOU BETCHA!! We got ourselves into that mess and we get what we deserved for invading their land. Those folks were never terrorist until we went there. WE WERE THE TERRORIST! Yet now Bush and his palls now want to hid all the abuses/tortute/crimes committed during their regime?
Maybe we should hide all the films and photos from the Nazis Holocoust. We dont want to offend the German soldiers and paint them in a bad light. Lets not even talk about what happened in 1940-1945
If TODAY we are persecuting lLOW RANKING SS Nazi guards, who during WW2 didnt have much to do with decisions making, and if in the Trials at Nuremberg we brought to justice many of the counsel who follow the written law of its time or Hitler's law then why would those CIA and the many people like Cheney, Gonzales, Rummy, Wolfie, Rowe, Condie and Bush "the Buck Stops with HIM and Begins with him."
Or is all the same once again like n Germany during WW2 when NO EVEN a Nazi Party court, had the right to judge an SS man. Very familiar right,?
SO now Bush henchmen should go free? Torture, attacking and invading a nation and all the killing that follows has not time limitation. Injustice and wrong doings is accountable to all of those who took part of it. In less than 7 yrs Bush did more harm for the USA , world and Iraq than Saddan ever did in 50 yrs.
One of the biggest problem with the Bush administration was that NOBODY was responsible for anything. NOBODY stood up and said, "I was wrong and it was my fault. Put me in jail." Always pointing the finger and blaming someone else or a low ranked soldier. Now Reps dont want Obama to prosecute any of Bush cabinet members. Otherwise, "the buck stops with Bush." I am sure Nazis were saying the same, "dont go after Hitler he is an ok kind of guy. And dont go after us we were just following orders and the written law of the land."
Now Cheney, his daughter are the mouthpiece of the GOP. CHeney have said more in one week than in 8 yrs when he was the VP. But those abuses, torture, and other violations of the Geneva Conventions from Abou Ghraib to Guantanamo and other "secret rendition" locations were indeed "systemic" and ordered from the highest levels of the Bush administration.
And ONLY REASON we don't have a "real picture of what went on" is the self serving secrecy of Bush, Cheney, Condi, Wolfowitz, Gonzales Rumsfeld, Perle, and the rest of the Bush administration.
It the USA is weak on bringing these criminals to justice then I hope that Judge Garzon in Spain, or another international court is able to do so and remind us all that we cant forget the crimes of the SS Third Reich and we will never forge the atrocities of Bush policies either. NEVER!
Wow, the comments I read on here are indicative of the liberal left. For eight years you on the left sat and threw giant spears at Pres. Bush and his administration. Every time he spoke, everytime someone spoke on behalf of his policies, you folks ranted and raved. Now, the shoe is on the other foot. The right will throw spears and you will have to endure. Obama and the left drug every liberal celebrity out of the closet and had them provide the mouthpiece for the Obama administration, and you clapped.
Suck it up, prepare for the battle and understand your responsibilty when the economy and our foreign policy continues to tank – for it was YOU that voted for Obama.
I'm tired of hearing so called ' Hollywood Types " spewing off their opinions in the news. Just because they have a soap box to stand on and the media prints their opinions that doesn't meen they have a brain or in this case any value.
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To all you blind Democrats... THE TRUTH HURTS, doesn't it?
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Wow, here comes the BIble.... No wonder his daughter Angelina Jolie wants nothing to do with him....
The Republicans love to place fear into the American People and they think that is the way to go. Why does the GOP thinks we are gulliable.
And why does this guy have a microphone? Angelina and Brad, keep this guy away from your kids! Keep your venomous, hatred-filled garbage to yourself; exercise your right at the voting booth and be content with the outcome of a fair and just election. Write your Congressman, for God's sake. Beyond this seems treasonous to me. Sure, we all have a right to free speech, and thank God for it. Realize that the rancor you stir is purposeless, irresponsible, and perhaps even dangerous. With free speech comes much responsibility. I wish our President, our current government and their families my continued blessings, and pray that God keeps them in Her bosom. I pray for our country.
Fear makes people do strange things. After 8 years of hearing President Bush dictate to the World and the famous words If you not with me your against me. President Obama is just an intelligent Leader and looks to peace. Obama isn't interested in dictating to other countries are demanding they use US Policies. Most parents teach their kids to get along with other kids yet it seems adults now don't do the same thing. We're heard President Bush and Vice President Cheney lie for 8 years with the support of other Law Makers. Now Newt, Sarah, Rush and Cantor are fighting for the top spot. Newt left after his fake Contract with America the Americans knew nothing about and his mistress affair. Sarah lies so much it's hard to keep up and the famous I can see Russia from my window plus clueless to what the job of the VP is. Cantor lost his shot when he decided to go to see Britney Spears Circus Tour instead of working on the Republican Economy Plan. Now the speech by Actor Volt needed a scriptwriter as calling President Obama names wont change things. As for those who cheered well like sheep some will never think for themselves just follow as told.
"We should be hailed as liberators"? "We are a weak nation"? What are you talking about? The Republicans created all this financial and military weakness! What a moron.
The only thing you can do is have your daughter adopt about 1,000 more kids so she can single handedly help world hunger. Oh yeah. She won't talk to you anymore. Wonder why?
What a shock to see Jon Voigt – an actor I respected in his craft – say such drivel about President Obama and his attempts to bring nations together – the Republicans really need to start listening and stop this old and outdated rhetoric about the US saving the world. Don't they get it: all nations have to work together and I'd rather it be on a "playground" with similar goals of peace – than on a battlefield where everyone loses.
At Last, someone who calls it the way it is. It is amazing how many Obama fans come to his rescue everytime someone disagrees with him. They need to take off their blindfolds. Lets see what they have to say in a couple more years and $$$$$ in debt.
TO ALL YOU REPUBLICANS get over it, it is our turn, you had it for 8 years and messed up everything. Now we are having to clean up your mess & make things better for us all.....President Obama has been in office less than 6 months & he has taken on more than any other president in history....we want to move forward all the GOP can talk about is the past...
Is "ACTOR" Jon Voight for real? If Obama is a false prophet, what did that make Bush, the anti-Christ? Should we go back to byllying not only our enemies, but our allies as well to bend them to our will? We are better than that as a country. The last administration had so many countries hatiing us and our tactics that it was impossible for an American to travel overseas and not feel the hostility. Diplomacy and engaging in frank dialogue should not make Mr. Voight scared for this country's safety but he should welcome it with open arms. Last I checked what gave Mr. Voight the credentials or expertise to critique this administration's foreign policy?
It seems that no matter what this administration does, the GOP has a negative comment on everything. GOP you are acting like a spoiled little child who can't have their way and proceeds to throw a temper tantrum. If this is your plan to attract more people to your (divisive) party, you are failing miserably.
America as a nation has become weak and feeble. Until we stop being such whiners, the rest of the world will never respect us as a superpower. We have to negotiate with a knee in the chest and a knife at the enemies throat. That is what the rest of the world understands and respects. We will all pay for the weak administration we currently have and those that understand what must be done will have to come to power and clean up the mess.
It's amazing isn't it that all you Libs are offended by Voight yet it's ok for MTV, Liberal Hollywood and the biased media to praise Obama on every network they are on. Hollywood can't even have the Oscars without mentioning Obama. So don't get on Voights case...he speaks the truth. Obama is the worst president (actually he is an actor) we have ever had and has nothing in his pocket except the naivety and inexperience that the uneducated voter fell for. Keep watching MSNBC and CNN...Voight just boosted his career... Go Jon !!!
Is this what the GOP has come to? Who gives a rat's patoody what Jon Voight thinks. Is he a scholar? Is he now a politician? What experience does he bring to the table? Again, we witness the negative, angry, self-centered, destructive stance that the GOP is becoming all too well known for.
The hope of the Republican Party: A combo ticket with Jon Voight and Sarah Palin...the combined intellect and spiritual resonance of a newt...all designed to lead us out of darkness.