Ashley Judd: Breathless
By: Jeff Dufour
Editor at Large/Columnist, "Yeas & Nays"
01/27/09 4:20 PM EST
Ladies roomAmong the millions of people who are excited by the election of President Obama is Ashley Judd, as she demonstrated at the 40th birthday luncheon for NARAL Pro-Choice America at the Hilton Washington Tuesday.
After flubbing a few lines, Judd, who emceed the event, stopped and said, “I need to take a breath. I get so excited.”
After a brief slide show featuring Bush and other anti-abortion politicians, during which the crowd booed and hissed, Judd remarked, “It’s so nice to live in America again.”
NARAL President Nancy Keenan, whom Judd called the “Barbra Streisand of the pro-choice movement” because “she does it all," had the mostly female crowd cracking-up during her speech, as she showed a picture of the bathroom at NARAL’s headquarters, which sports a photo of President Bush signing anti-abortion legislation.
“Can you think of a better birthday gift?” Keenan questioned as the picture morphed into the new president and this year’s newly elected Democratic senators.
Also on hand for the event: freshman Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Pulitzer-Prize winning writer Cynthia Tucker.
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