Filmmaker Ken Burns endorsed Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, although that doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll see a camera slowly panning over photographs of the Illinois senator while Keith David speaks slowly about the man’s past.
Burns, of Walpole, Mass., said he decided to endorse Obama because of recent “slash-and-burn character attacks,” although he didn’t identify exactly what attacks he was referring to.
But Obama and Hillary Clinton have been trading barbs in recent weeks.
Clinton campaign co-chair Bill Shaheen — husband of former New Hampshire Gov. Jeanne Shaheen — resigned Dec. 14 after telling reporters that Obama’s admitted, past drug use could hurt him in a general election.
In Burns’ endorsement, the filmmaker made a remark that could be interpreted as an oblique jab at the Clinton camp. Without referring to Clinton by name, he wrote:
“We need a president who is authentic.” (Italics his)
Do you think Clinton and other candidates have been using “slash-and-burn character attacks?” Do you think Burns’ call for “authenticity” is a jab at Clinton?
