SEPTEMBER 16, 2008 --

What with the usual media attention going to Hollywood’s impact on the  presidential campaign, LPR wants to know who Dennis Haysbert and Chris Rock are supporting for president – and who Glenn Close and Geena Davis are supporting for vice president.
 
Dennis Haysbert played President David Palmer on the Fox television series “24.”  Chris Rock was President Mays Gilliam in the 2003 film “Head of State.” Mays Gilliam was a Washington, D.C. alderman when he was picked  as successor to  the presidential candidate who died during the campaign.
 
Considering the strong president Dennis Haysbert played on “24” LPR wonders if he would have been preferred over both major party candidates.
 
Glenn Close played Vice President Kathryn Bennett in the 1997 film “Air Force One.”    Her television roles include the part of Sarah Wheaton in the 1991 teleplay  “Sarah, Plain and Tall.”  Sarah is not vice president, but LPR noticed that “Sarah, Plain,” by switching the l and a in Plain (and dropping the comma), becomes Sarah Palin.

Geena Davis played Vice President MacKenzie in the 2005-6 television series “Commander in Chief.” Assassination of the president moved her into the Oval Office, over the opposition of Donald Sutherland, who played the Speaker of the House and wanted her to step aside so that he would become president. 

(In real life, Sutherland could reach the post of House Speaker, but his Canadian birth would bar him from the White House. He is, of course, the father of Kiefer Sutherland of “24.”)
 
LPR also wonders if a pundit will tell us that Ms. Close, Ms. Davis, Mr. Haysbert and Mr. Rock helped prepare U.S. voters for  a black presidential candidate and a woman candidate for vice president.
 
(LPR further wonders if a liberal blog will point out  the anagram of Palin mentioned above, but in a negative context.)