Actor Samuel L. Jackson isn’t as pleased with President Barack Obama as he expected he would be at this point in the Commander in Chief’s first term,
Then again, no one will give Obama any [expletive] credit for all the [expletive] things the president has [expletive] done so far.
Yes, Jackson’s intense screen persona occasionally bleeds into the actor’s off-screen life, if his chat with Newsweek/The Daily Beast is any indication. Jackson shared his disappointment with the Hope and Change Meets Reality Tour before resorting to standard celebrity form. Yeah, but he’s still great:
Actor Samuel L. Jackson, an early supporter of the president, freely admits his ambivalence. “Some days I agree with Dr. West and what he says about the president not dealing enough with the plight of the poor,” says Jackson. “Then I think about how they won’t give him credit for anything… The president got about a week of moderate applause for capturing the most-wanted man in the world. You ask me, he should have put that motherfucker on ice and defrosted his ass Nov. 1.
Actress/director Debbie Allen didn’t bother with any equivocations while endorsing Obama for four more years.
Are things exactly the way I’d like them to be or need them to be? No, but he can get us there if he’s given the time he needs to do it.