I knew this Barack Obama sensation seemed too easy:
Dennis Haysbert likes to believe his portrayal as the first African-American U.S. president on Fox’s “24” may have helped pave the way for Barack Obama.
“If anything, my portrayal of David Palmer, I think, may have helped open the eyes of the American people,” said the actor, who has contributed $2,300 to the Illinois Democrat’s presidential campaign.
“And I mean the American people from across the board — from the poorest to the richest, every color and creed, every religious base — to prove the possibility there could be an African-American president, a female president, any type of president that puts the people first,” he said Tuesday.
Sorry Dennis, but you’re forgeting about the Chris Rock comedy “Head of State.” There was some high-level-white-people-mind-changing moments in that flick.
“24” is racking up quite the list of accomplishments, by the way.
1. Causing the War in Iraq. Putting images of nuclear holocaust on U.S. soil into the imaginations of the easily scared.
2. Electing Barack Obama
3. That one time when Jack’s daughter Kim ran from a cougar – the cat, not a woman. Although, the woman storyline would have been better. Kim picks up a dude at the bar. A cougar had been working the same dude over earlier, to no avail. Angered and jealous at the young, delicious blonde, the cougar shows her claws and chases Kim out of the bar and into the wilderness.
Elisha Cuthbert is good looking.