A Good Reason To Miss “The Oscars” Meeting Obama
by Annemarie in Barack Obama, George Clooney
So the reason George Clooney missed "The Oscars" is because he had a meeting with President Obama. He appeared Monday on CNN’s "Larry King Live" and spoke of his visit earlier that morning with Obama to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Sudan’s Darfur region.
He told the president of his visit to camps in Chad where 250,000 refugees live, but he downplayed the risks he took to witness the suffering first-hand. "I don’t think people should be going there and coming back and saying how it affected them," Clooney told King via satellite from the White House lawn. "I think somehow we should all know that these people are hanging on by the skin of their teeth."
George asked the president to appoint a full-time regional envoy who reports directly to the White House, and to ask China to set aside its business interests in the region and pressure Sudan to prevent atrocities.
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