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Everyone and their mutha wants to be part of the Barack Obama rally tonight –- including Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige, Diddy, and Ben Affleck.
But Obama wants this night to be all about him -- as it should -- so he's asking his celeb backers to stay away, reports the Chicago Sun-Times. "There really only needs to be one star in Grant Park," says a source, "and that's Barack." They want the celebs to focus on the inauguration in January -- if that's tonight's outcome, of course.
Naturally, Oprah Winfrey will be there tonight. Not even Obama tells O to go away.
11/4/2008 5:00 AM PST BY TMZ STAFF
Obama to Celebs -- Barack Off!
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Bummer of party if he loses.
What's that saying about counting your chickens?
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OBAMA 08
i can tell you who's possibly gonna be there: the clintons (bill, hillary, and chelsea), jesse jackson, caroline kennedy, maria shriver, ethel kennedy (rfk's widow)
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This is the guy we want to elect?! This kind of arrogance is what keeps the Democratic party out of touch with so many Americans. God help us if he wins.
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I pray to God none of you dumb f*** extremist, terrorist, evangelical ,crazy repubs kills him when he does. Sadly I'm sure one of you crazy right wing-nuts will try.
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I highly doubt he actually said the night should be about him... more likely that the night should be FOR those average people who supported and voted for him and not just for celebs. Stop trying to spin something from nothing... so pathetic.
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Jesse Jackson better not have his sorry azz there! If anything he has hurt more than helped the Democratic cause...
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Ummm... you do realize that it's the liberals you are referring to when you say "extremist, terrorist" don't you? And as far as the "evangelical" part, well I'm sorry if your prophet is Barack Obama but I'm pretty sure Christianity is the way to go between the two. Hey, if you don't know God, don't want to know God, fine by me. You and your deity B.O. can burn with the rest of the immoral nation, and there is plenty of immorality to go around these days.
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J Z???? That figures. If Obama gets in the White House as President I am going to live in Europe.
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Thanks Lola, but you are wrong I was not speaking about liberals , actually you sound exactly like the type I'm talking about... I'm talking about the extremist and terrorist repubs. You know the one's who use God as an excuse to kill people and blow up clinics.. marry children because the bible says so, bomb first ask questions later... so funny how you people like to try and blame everything negative on the liberal when it's the repubs doing and saying all the truly hateful things in this election.
Here's an idea instead of jumping on the 'liberals' are bad bandwagon why not go look up some of the things they believe, you know like LESS power to the government, freedom of speech?? Oh that's right people like you only like those things when they actually suite YOU.
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Obama's wife made Oprah stay away. YOU told us that TMZ. May he WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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His arrogance makes me sick. I hope the American People do the right thing and vote MCCAIN/PALIN....
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If you followed Barack from the beginning you could see that he is arrogant and very self serving
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I understand why Obama did this. Only a few celebrities (like Oprah, Halle, Hill Harper, Kerry Washington) supported Barack from DAY 1. Many others have used Obama for a photo op. As an Obama supporter, I can admit that it has become fashionable to endorse/support Obama.
I still think he's the better canidate.
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