Don Cheadle Considering Leaving The U.S.
Actor Don Cheadle is concerned enough about the future of the United States that he is considering leaving if the November elections don’t go the way he’d like.
“I mean it depends on this next election whether I’m going to stay in this country,” he said at a junket for his new movie Traitor. “I’m pretty serious about being pretty concerned. I wish I could say for sure I knew what was going to happen. But I think we’re in a mess right now and I don’t know why anyone would want to be President right now to begin with. If you are going to take that on, you’ve got a lot of stuff to untangle. To me right now, we’re in bizarre-o land with all of it.”
He would not be the first Hollywood type to live abroad by choice - Madonna, Brangelina, and hey - Scarlett Johansson is excited to embrace her new homeland after her marriage to Canadian Ryan Reynolds. However, Don should probably expect some people to be pissed off that he said such a thing. Folks got mad at Johnny Depp last year when he said he was “frightened” to raise his daughter in the U.S. Such as silly thing for folks to get bent out of shape about, IMO. But as for Don, I hope he keeps making great movies no matter where he decides to live. (And oh, by the way? Must be nice to be in a position to just decide what country you’d like to live in!)
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POSTED BY: gossipmonkey
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Well, good-bye then. Thanks for choosing to bolt instead of sticking around and actually doing something with your own money and time to make a difference. And no, telethons and charity appearances don’t count. Do something to get your own hands dirty. What a bunch of freakin’ elitists. You know, if I don’t know actors’ politics, it doesn’t bother me to go to their movies. However, if they spew their views, it’s hard to take the roles they play seriously so I choose to spend my money elsewhere. Shame, I actually was planning to go see Traitor this weekend. Thanks for saving me the money, Don. Hope you still have enough money for your plane ticket out of here on November 5.
I have been planning the same thing for more than a year now. I have done my part, written letters to Congress and whatever I can single-handedly but this Administration has a strangle-hold and McCain won’t be any different in my opinion. If he does win, the only saving grace is that he promised only 1 term, but 4 years after an exhausting and brutal 8 years is too long and too important for my young children to see the US in such termoil. When I hear McCain talk about ’shaking up Washington” and “Maverick” and things of this sort, it’s the same bullying tactics as we’ve seen. That doesn’t sound like someone who is willing to ‘talk and work alongside’ Congress…that sounds like DO AS I SAY OR ELSE. We’ve had enough of that. I feel that Obama can really take us to the future and turn us back into an innovative country and keep manufacturing IN our country. We sold ourselves and we sold ourselves cheap, it’s time to get our dignity back! I feel Obama will give power back to the people after 8 years of being stifled. I really believe that Obama can take us to a more advanced level of alternative and reusable energy. I am hopeful and imagining our country to be the leaders in these technologies rather than fighting and digging preserved land for oil.