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Speakeasy: Obama’s Hollywood campaigning

By Andrea Shiell
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“We’re in Hollywood right now, so think about the movies, the arc of the story. If things were just smooth the whole way through, not only is it a pretty dull movie but it doesn’t reflect our experience. It doesn’t reflect life. Character is tested when things are hard. This country is being tested, but I have complete faith in its character. That’s what this election is about. It’s about values. It’s about character. It’s about who we are.”

– President Obama, speaking Monday to a crowd including stars and studio executives at a high-dollar Hollywood fundraiser. While there, Obama defended his plan to increase tax rates on the mega-rich, saying “Warren Buffett‘s secretary should not pay a higher tax rate than Warren Buffett. The fact is, is that we made it in part because somebody was paying for decent schools … somebody was paying for the research that went into DARPA that created the Internet that created the opportunity for Jeffrey to make a deal with Netflix. Somebody made those investments. And now it’s our turn. We should be doing the same thing. And that’s not class warfare, that’s common sense.”