April 27, 2006

By George, is that Obama?

The former Dr. Ross himself is in Washington this weekend to bring attention to Save Darfur.

But a slightly nervous George Clooney brought in re-enforcements for this afternoon's appearance before a standing room only crowd at the National Press Club: Sens. Barack Obama and Sam Brownback were there to help the Academy Award-winning actor with the more wonky questions. [SHIRA R. TOEPLITZ]

Clooney's father, Nick, who ran for Congress in KY-04 in '04, also attended. The father-son team recently returned from a trip to the genocide-stricken region and showed a short video of their visit. Clooney told a poignant story about a young girl asking him when he would be back. When Clooney replied "Soon," the girl said, "That’s what you always say."

Brownback thanked Clooney for using his "political capitol and star power" to bring publicity to the vent. After laying out a strategy for entering the ravished region, Obama said Sudan had "slipped down the list of priorities" because of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, but he acknowledged that the Bush administration had been better than other Western countries on the issue.

Clooney said he was happy to bring attention to the issue by using "the credit card you get for being famous to do what I can." Aw, shucks.

Posted at 05:48 PM

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Dafur is an african matter not an international issue.Most of this people are just taking advantage of the publicity it affords and do not care about the poeople of dafur.Calls for non-african forces in dafur are unfounded and a sham. proper financing of current african union troops as well as getting regional powers like Kenya,South Africa and Nigeria with peacekeeping history involved would serve the people of dafur more effectively than calling for nato forces that would internationalize the conflict as alluded to by Osama bin ladin in his latest video.the situation in western Sudan is not as bleek as many commentators are painting it out to be .

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