Susan Sarandon is no fan of Hillary Clinton...

I'm pretty stunned by this interview Susan Sarandon has given to The Advocate. She, in my opinion, is way too harsh on Hillary Clinton who spoke so admirably at the Democratic National Convention. But Sarandon speaks her mind - always - and I've always admired her for her talent and her guts.

The Oscar winner was asked if she would ever consider playing Hillary Clinton in a movie. Her answer is a doozy: "No. I've been around her and don't find her... At this point, to say after what's happened to her campaign and how they squandered all that money and all the different reasons her campaign fell apart, to blame it on sexism, I find so destructive to every young girl who dreams about making a difference through government. Instead of saying, "Look how far I've gotten and you can do it too," and all the positive things she could have done, she's turned into such a blamer and whiner, as if that was the reason, when clearly she wouldn't have been in the position she was in if she hadn't been a woman. If she hadn't been married to that man and hadn't had the Democratic machine behind her. To now turn around and say it was sexism I find so dishonorable and really destructive to women all over, young women all over. So I don't really respect her enough to want to play her, and I find it sad and disappointing. "
She is a Barack Obama supporter through-and-through and I saw her cheering in the stadium when Obama spoke last week at the Democratic National Convention.

Here are her thoughts on the 2008 election: "I was in Iowa when Obama came through. Now, Iowa is white. Farm country. A lot of unemployment. People took me aside to make it clear they were quite proud of the fact they were the ones to really launch him. I think that unfortunately the corporate media has very superficial ways of covering things. The whole sound-bite phenomenon. They would have you believe the USA is in a certain predicament in terms of red and blue, but in fact I think there's a lot of purple. People are in desperate straits economically, they're sick of the war, they really want change. But it is interesting [to deconstruct] why people would vote against their best interests, and a lot has to do with failures of communication or campaign ads that are out-and-out lies. The media doesn't really go in depth the way they do in Europe, for instance, where someone answers a question and they say, "but that's not true -- this is how you voted." I think Jon Stewart is the closest we have to anybody that actually looks in depth at some of the issues. But I think that people want a change and they're very nervous about the future of this country. If we don't get some last-minute confusing smoke-screen issue like gay marriage was the last time -- because of the language and framing of these arguments, you find people voting against their own best interests for fear of a lesbian buying a house next door. And then you have what seems like sheer stupidity on the part of the Democratic Party in terms of the way they deal with things. But I have faith in the American public, and the citizens of this nation will do the right thing because I don't really think they have much of a choice."