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Obama’s Celeb Call-List

By Jaime Sneider

Forget about the Hillary emails. More interesting is Obama’s correspondence with several celebrities. Obama lived in California for two years, matriculating at Occidental College, before transferring to Columbia. But before he left Los Angeles, he seems to have internalized the cult of celeb-worship. He appeared with his kids on Entertainment Tonight. He’s done an interview with US Weekly. (McCain is still waiting for his equal time on that one.) And he seems totally gaga with several Hollywood stars who’ve endorsed him. First there was Scarlett Johansson, who is not just Woody Allen’s muse any more. Johansson’s brother works for Obama, and the actress struck up an unlikely relationship with the candidate over email that caused a bit of a controversy. Re: the Page Six candidate, the NY Post reports,

“You’d imagine that someone like the senator, who is constantly traveling and constantly ‘on’ – how can he return these personal e-mails?” she said. “But he does.” She said Obama even responded to one e-mail about a debate, noting it was “one silly question after another.”

Now we learn Obama corresponds regularly with George Clooney, who offers him advice on Middle East policy.

Democratic Party insiders have revealed that Clooney and Obama regularly send texts and emails to each other and speak by phone at least twice a week. One said last night: ‘They are extremely close. A number of members of the Hollywood community, including Brad Pitt, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, offered to help raise funds for Barack but it was with George that he struck up this amazing affinity. ‘George has been giving him advice on things such as presentation, public speaking and body language and he also emails him constantly about policy, especially the Middle East. ‘George is pushing him to be more “balanced” on issues such as US relations with Israel. George is pro-Palestinian. And he is also urging Barack to withdraw unconditionally from Iraq if he wins.’

Perhaps Clooney could head up the National Security Council if the One wins. But if the presumptive president gets so light-headed when in the presence of Hollywood types, how will he stop his knees from buckling when he’s sharing a room with Carla Bruni?

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