{"id":2380,"date":"2008-11-10T20:00:31","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T20:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2008\/11\/obama-won-so-is-baldwin-canada.html"},"modified":"2008-11-10T20:00:31","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T20:00:31","slug":"obama-won-so-is-baldwin-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2008\/11\/obama-won-so-is-baldwin-canada.html","title":{"rendered":"Obama Won, So Is Baldwin Canada-Bound?"},"content":{"rendered":"<form mt:asset-id=\"1857\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"stephenbaldwinpicforuic.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/imgs\/stephenbaldwinpicforuic.jpg\" width=\"178\" height=\"232\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/form>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/Faiths\/Christianity\/2005\/08\/Hardcore-Faith-Interview-With-Stephen-Baldwin.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Ah, Stephen Baldwin.<\/a>  Between your passion for your faith and your movie career, you have provided Idol Chatter with much content over the years. And during this election, you did not disappoint, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/fishbowlLA\/show_business\/stephen_baldwin_is_a_tool_88321.asp?c=rss\" target=\"_blank\">vocalizing your disapproval of Barack Obama<\/a>, now our incoming President, and the celebs who supported him. You noted that equating four years of John McCain with four more years of George W. Bush was &#8220;the most stupidest thing&#8221; you ever heard. And when pressed, you crossed your fingers and promised that if Obama wins, you were leaving the country:<center><embed type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' src='http:\/\/foxnews1.a.mms.mavenapps.net\/mms\/rt\/1\/site\/foxnews1-foxnews-pub01-live\/current\/videolandingpage\/fncLargePlayer\/client\/embedded\/embedded.swf' id='mediumFlashEmbedded' pluginspage='http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer' bgcolor='#000000' allowScriptAccess='always' allowFullScreen='true' quality='high' name='FOX News' play='false' scale='noscale' menu='false' salign='LT' scriptAccess='always' wmode='false' height='275' width='305' flashvars='playerId=videolandingpage&#038;playerTemplateId=fncLargePlayer&#038;categoryTitle=undefined&#038;referralObject=1772879' \/><\/center>Stephen, regardless of our individual politics, we support your right to be a political dissenter. But because we are also a center of pop culture reporting, we feel obliged to reveal something that our research and collective memory has yielded: If you head north, be careful. Remember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bfi.org.uk\/sightandsound\/review\/201\" target=\"_blank\">what &#8220;Canada&#8221; did <\/a> in &#8220;South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut&#8221; as it declared war on the US? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.locatetv.com\/person\/stephen-baldwin\/5547\" target=\"_top\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.locatetv.com\/person\/stephen-baldwin\/5547\/351x85_belief.gif\" alt=\"Stephen-Baldwin at LocateTV.com\" title=\"Click to see LocateTV results for Stephen-Baldwin. Always up to date, always relevant to you.\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, Stephen Baldwin. Between your passion for your faith and your movie career, you have provided Idol Chatter with much content over the years. And during this election, you did not disappoint, vocalizing your disapproval of Barack Obama, now our incoming President, and the celebs who supported him. You noted that equating four years of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrities","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Obama Won, So Is Baldwin Canada-Bound?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2008\/11\/obama-won-so-is-baldwin-canada.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Obama Won, So Is Baldwin Canada-Bound?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ah, Stephen Baldwin. 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