Will Angelina Jolie publicly endorse Barack Obama or John McCain?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/moslive/article-1022472/Ive-got-Tomb-Raider-guns--Im-afraid-use-says-Angelina.html

'I've got my Tomb Raider guns - and I'm not afraid to use them,' says Angelina

Angelina Jolie has revealed she owns real versions of the guns she toted in the movie Tomb Raider - and she and partner Brad Pitt wouldn't be afraid to use them. The actress, who is rumoured to have given birth to twin girls Isla and Amelie, says she and Pitt keep a firearm in their house to protect themselves and their expanding brood...

Angelina Jolie is clearly pro-2nd Amendment. This leans her toward McCain.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/02/angelina-jolie.html

Angelina Jolie: US Must Stay In Iraq

February 29, 2008 8:01 AM

In a Washington Post op-ed all-but-ignored by most of the media, actress and United Nations High Commission for Refugees goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie writes seems to make the case against an immediate withdrawal of US troops from Iraq.

"My visit left me even more deeply convinced that we not only have a moral obligation to help displaced Iraqi families, but also a serious, long-term, national security interest in ending this crisis," she writes.

"Today's humanitarian crisis in Iraq -- and the potential consequences for our national security -- are great. Can the United States afford to gamble that 4 million or more poor and displaced people, in the heart of Middle East, won't explode in violent desperation, sending the whole region into further disorder?

"What we cannot afford, in my view, is to squander the progress that has been made. ...As for the question of whether the surge is working, I can only state what I witnessed: U.N. staff and those of non-governmental organizations seem to feel they have the right set of circumstances to attempt to scale up their programs. And when I asked the troops if they wanted to go home as soon as possible, they said that they miss home but feel invested in Iraq. They have lost many friends and want to be a part of the humanitarian progress they now feel is possible…"

She is for staying in Iraq. One more point in favor of her supporting McCain.

She played the wife of slain reporter Daniel Pearl in a movie about him, which was produced by husband Brad Pitt. Possible point in McCains favor.

http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2005/06/mr_mrs_smith_pl.html

After a visit to the Al-Ruweished Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan, Jolie quoted them approvingly in her journal: "Be patient we will take our revenge [sic] we will take our homes back . . . . (Smiles, fists in the air) Palestine, your name is in our veins." Jolie explains, "Their dream is to see their homeland. . . . It was very moving to hear them speak of the dream." Like the late Yasser Arafat, Ms. Jolie finds Palestinian kids' call for "revenge" with fists in the air "very moving." Is this what she's teaching her adopted son, Maddox? She now sports an Arabic tattoo she got on her Christmas vacation with Maddox to Lebanon and Egypt.

Jolie was honored at a March benefit for refugees at the Kuwaiti embassy. But her buddies in Kuwait, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and the rest of the Muslim world refuse to give a penny to her young Palestinian refugee friends who live in their midst.

Then there's Jolie's absurd politics here. For those who want to stop illegal immigration, Jolie is not your man - or woman. She pushed for establishment of a National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children and lobbied for the Alien Child Protection Act, a bill that would provide lawyers refugee minors who come to the U.S. But these benefit one type of immigrant children - illegal ones. We don't need to provide "centers" and ACLU-style lawyers for illegal immigrants. We need to deport them. Sympathy, like that of Jolie, for under-age illegal aliens is exactly what their parents are counting on when they take advantage of America and smuggle themselves in. In many cases, these are children of terror suspects, and they grow up with the same anti-American ideologies.

Late last year, Jolie made a check-up on a Homeland Security facilities for asylum seekers in Phoenix. Her UN commission opposes detention of these illegal aliens (perhaps we should just let them escape into thin air). Good ole Angelina was there to monitor conditions and make sure we Americans are acting humanely. No surprise that she told Marie Claire her favorite website belongs to the far-left, anti-American Human Rights Watch.

Pro-palestinian, pro-illegal-immigrant... points in Obama's favor.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,254640,00.html

Angelina Jolie to Join Council on Foreign Relations

Monday, February 26, 2007

NEW YORK — The prestigious Council on Foreign Relations is about to get a jolt of sex appeal.

The exclusive, Manhattan-based foreign-policy group has decided to admit actress Angelina Jolie, a U.N. goodwill ambassador who has taken more than 30 trips worldwide to advocate for refugees, AIDS orphans and disaster victims.

On Friday night, the council's membership accepted Jolie's nomination — meaning she will soon be rubbing elbows with other club members such as Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell and Alan Greenspan.

The group requires no academic credentials but looks for members who take part in world affairs.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,502444,00.html

SPIEGEL: Can you picture yourself going into politics?

Jolie: I'm able to be very effective now because I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican. So, I'm not tied, and I'd never want to be tied to anything, to some constituency that I would have to answer to.

I hope she endorses someone. How else will I know who to vote for?

Actually it looks like since McCain is soft on illegal immigration, thats a neutral issue for both candidates.

McCain is up on points. The main things in Obama's favor is his youth and sex appeal, I think, which always appeals in superficial Hollywood, though Jolie tends to be rather more intelligent than the typical vapid celebrity. Also her father is pretty conservative.

sex appeal?!?!?!? and she does not have a good relashionship with her dad at all so...

that is true about her relationship with her dad, typically kids are in general agreement with parents politically (even if they dont get along) or are vehemently allergic to their views (even if they do get along). Angelina tends to lean feminist/anarchist/libertarian. I think Palin is going to have some influence on her choice.

I don't think this article constitutes a public endorsement, but it does suggest that Jolie is strongly pro-Obama, even though her dad Jon Voigt supports McCain:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081011/ap_en_mo/people_jolie_obama