KISS’ Gene Simmons Wants His Vote For Obama Back: ‘I Fell Victim To The Charm’by Matt Schneider, June 14th, 2011 at http://www.mediaite.com/tv/kiss-gene-simmons-wants-his-vote-for-obama-back-i-fell-victim-to-the-charm/ |
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Gene Simmons is most famous for sticking out his tongue while singing in the band KISS, but now he’s sticking out his tongue at
President Obama too. Simmons appeared on
Varney & Co. this morning [14Jun11] and told
Stuart Varney that he is embarrassed by the fact that he voted for Obama in 2008. Coming from a man who usually wears make-up in public, that’s certainly saying a lot.
Simmons explained that he was hopeful Obama would surround himself with business leaders and not professors:
“I want my vote back. This is a good man . . . but I don’t think the man is qualified to understand the structure and what business needs, which is to be well-informed. . . . Our President had two years of local experience, was born in Hawaii and never ran a business in his life.”
Simmons first lost faith in Obama a few weeks ago when he made the controversial comments regarding Israel’s borders. Simmons has strong ties to Israel and called Obama’s recommendation to Israel the “height of lunacy.” Given that Simmons so passionately opposes Obama now, Varney was a bit perplexed as to why Simmons voted for Obama at all. The KISS icon admitted, “I fell victim to the charm and I wanted to be a part of that moment in history and I’m ashamed to say I didn’t look at the resume long enough.”
With Simmons jumping ship, Obama might want to take efforts to shore up the aging musician wing of his celebrity base of support before anyone else bolts!
Watch the clip from Fox Business below:
Video of Rock Star Gene Simmons: Obama Doesn’t Have a Clue
KISS rock star, Israeli-born Gene Simmons, tells the CNBC Christian networkthat U.S. President Barack Obama “has no idea of what the world is like." He also calls the United Nations “the most pathetic body on the face of the earth.”
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Jane Wells interviewed Simmons on CNBC and asked him what he thinks of President Obama, for whom Simmons voted and now regrets it. He answered, “If you have never been to the moon, you can’t issue policy about the moon. For the president to be sitting in Washington D.C. and saying, ‘Go back to your ‘67 borders in Israel' – how abut you live there and try to defend an indefensible border – nine miles wide?"
“On one side, you got hundreds of millions of people who hate your guts. On the other side you got the Mediterranean. Unless you control the Golan Heights, it is an indefensible position. it is a nice idea, [but] when you grow up, you find out that life is not the way you imagine it.
“President Obama means well - I think he actually is a good guy, He has no idea of what the world is like because he does not have to live there."
Simmons also told the interviewer that “women are much brighter than we are. You should have thousands of babies.”
He was born in Israel in 1949 as Chaim Witz and moved with his family to New York when at the age of eight. His Polish mother survived the Holocaust.
He has written about the United States, "I wasn't born here. But I have a love for this country and its people that knows no bounds. I will forever be grateful to America for going into World War II, when it had nothing to gain, in a country that was far away... and rescued my mother from the Nazi German concentration camps. She is alive and I am alive because of America. And, if you have a problem with America, you have a problem with me.”
Last March, he performed in a homecoming visit to Israel and said, "I'm Israeli. I'm a stranger in America.” He also said that artists who boycott Israel are "fools." |
http://www.jewishpathways.com/jewish-history/jews-and-founding-america
