Angie Harmon: To Disagree With Obama Isn’t Racist

Actress Angie Harmon doesn’t need a teleprompter to know what to say—unlike our current president who relies heavily on a wide-screen version so big it rivals a movie screen. Harmon, who starred in Baywatch Nights and Law & Order, has annoyed her liberal buddies in Follywood by going “off script”—she refuses to tow the party line on Barack Obama’s socialist policies. After speaking her mind, the starlet has been blasted as being a racist.

“Here’s my problem with this,” Harmon said last week in Los Angeles, as reported by FOX NEWS. “I’m just going to come out and say it. If I have anything against Obama it’s not because I’m a racist, it’s because I don’t like what he’s doing as President and anybody should be able to feel that way, but what I find now is that if you say anything against him you’re called a racist.”

Disagreement is a fundamental right of a free society.

She adds, “But it has nothing to do with it, I don’t care what color he is. I’m just not crazy about what he’s doing and I heard all about this, and he’s gonna do that and change and change, so okay … I’m still dressing for a recession over here buddy and we’ve got unemployment at an all-time high and that was his number one thing and that’s the thing I really don’t appreciate. If I’m going to disagree with my President, that doesn’t make me a racist. If I was to disagree with W, that doesn’t make me racist. It has nothing to do with it, it is ridiculous.”

While Harmon disagrees with Obama’s policies, she’s a big fan of Gov. Sarah Palin. “I admire any kind of woman like her. My whole motto is to know what I stand for and know what I don’t stand for and have the courage to live my life accordingly and she does exactly that,” Harmon said. “The fact that this woman has made the decisions she’s made and literally lived her life according to that and takes heat for it is absolutely disgusting to me,” she added.

“People cannot look at this woman. I really think they’re afraid of her and her morals, ethics and values and the fact that she hangs on them. Is she the most experienced person in the world? But she was running to be the Vice President, so we then put the most inexperienced person as the President. That didn’t make any sense to me.”

Charges of racism aside, Harmon is weary of the media’s double-standard when reporting on Obama: “I do think McCain would have done a better job, only because I think he has more experience. I also think if W or John McCain or Reagan would have gone and done a talk show, the backlash would have been so huge and in his face, and ‘What is our president doing? How unclassy!’ But Obama does it and no one says anything,” she said.