“I’ve talked to a lot of people who worked for Obama at the grassroots level. One of them said to me, ‘Never again. I will never be fooled again by a politician,’ … You know, a one-term president with some balls who actually got stuff done would have been, in the long run of the country, much better … If the Democrats think that they didn’t have a mandate – people are literally without any focus or leadership, just wandering out into the streets to yell right now because they are so pissed off … Imagine if they had a leader.”
– Matt Damon, quoted in a new feature in ELLE magazine highlighting his reputation as one of the nicest guys in Hollywood, as well as one of President Obama‘s earliest public supporters-turned-critics. Here he identified with Occupy Wall Street protesters as he echoed statements he made last year during an interview with CNN’s Piers Morgan, wherein he said the president “misinterpreted his mandate” from voters.
