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False Prophet and Shaving Heads: Just Another Day for Obama

By Marcus Gilmer in Miscellaneous on Jun 9, 2009 6:40PM

As if his life weren't surreal enough, President Obama found himself coming under fire yesterday from two different actors for two very different reasons. First, actor Jon Voight took to criticizing President Obama's stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, outlined in his Cairo speech last week, by calling Obama a "false prophet."


On a more light-hearted note, President Obama was forced to order General Ray Ordierno to shave Northwestern alum Stephen Colbert's head.

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