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Matt Damon Rips President Obama Again, in ‘Elle’ Interview

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GETTY E 102411 MattDamon?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1324556896680Gary Gershoff/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — When Barack Obama was running for president in 2008, Matt Damon was one of his biggest celebrity supporters.  Now, Obama may want to reach out to Damon if he’d like the actor to back him again in the 2012 presidential race.

In an interview with Elle magazine, the We Bought a Zoo star said, “I’ve talked to a lot of people who worked for Obama at the grassroots level.  One of them said to me, ‘Never again. I will never be fooled again by a politician.'”  He then added, “You know, a one-term president with some balls who actually got stuff done would have been, in the long run of the country, much better.”

Referencing the Occupy protests, Damon said the Democrats have received a mandate from people who are, “just wandering out into the streets to yell right now because they are so pissed off.”  He wondered aloud, “Imagine if they had a leader.”

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