January 21, 2008 - 9:00am
A chilling endorsement
By Jessica Alaimo
Stephen King is supporting Barack Obama, the Bangor Daily News reported Saturday.
The best-selling horror-novelist, who just turned 60, is spending the winter in Sarasota, Fla. and is promoting his new novel Duma Key.
King now lives in Bangor, and has spent time in many Maine towns throughout his life. He is a known Democrat, and is also supporting Tom Allen in the Senate race.
"We’ve had enough Bush Republicanism to last the country for a long time," he told reporter Dale McGarrigle. "We’re seeing a lot of chickens come home to roost because of Bush Administration policies. You can’t pump billions of dollars into a foreign war without it affecting the economy."
He added: "We need a big change. It’s an amazing thing to see the two frontrunners be a woman and a black man. Obama has the least baggage of the two and is willing to try new things. It wouldn’t be business as usual. Also it would do wonders for us in the world community to have a black man in the White House."
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You make it sound like it's something to be ashamed of: "He is a known Democrat."
Funny that he is no longer
Funny that he is no longer registered in Maine because he wants to avoid the Democrats tax rates.
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