Barrack Obama Campaign 'Wish List' Includes Clooney, Jay-Z, will.i.am, Alba & More

President Obama is looking to add a whole lot of star power to his re-election campaign.

Obama was joined on the campaign trail and supported by a huge stock of Hollywood stars four years ago, and his campaign staff last month put together a sprawling list of notable names that they'd like to see serve as surrogates and activists for the President as he looks to stave off the eventual Republican nominee. The Tennessean obtained the list, which was dated December 5th, and published it on Thursday.

Amongst the 190 names on the list are a number of stars that were very vocal supporters last cycle: will.i.am, Jay-Z, Oprah Winfrey, Tom Hanks, Eva Longoria, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Olivia Wilde.

Not all of those on the wish list plan on helping out, though; country band Lady Antebellum's publicist said that she was surprised to see the group on the list, and that "the band has never commented on their political affiliations nor do they plan to in the future."

Absent from the list is Matt Damon, who campaigned for Obama in 2008 but has become a vocal critic of his educational and Wall Street policies. The President has received less in donations from Democrats in Hollywood at this point in this campaign than he did during the last one, and his team has assigned an ambassador to help raise support and plan fundraisers for the President in Los Angeles later this year.

At one point, it was speculated that the President wanted to avoid being seen publicly with stars, though clearly that is no longer the case. On Wednesday, he even greeted Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt at the White House.

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Barrack Obama bans daughters from Facebook

But Barack Obama has admitted he has banned his daughters from using Facebook – because he doesn’t want ‘strangers knowing our business’.


The U.S. President said it ‘does not make much sense’ to put the most private details of his family life on public view.


His elder daughter, Malia, is 13, and just old enough to use Facebook. Her younger sister Sasha is ten.

But Mr Obama said he won’t consider allowing them to join the site until they are both four years older.


His admission seems somewhat ironic, given that he made full use of Facebook and other websites to encourage the young to vote for him in the presidential election – and to raise millions of dollars for his campaign.


In an interview, the President described the thinking behind the Facebook ban as: ‘Why would we want to have a whole bunch of people who we don’t know knowing our business? That doesn’t make much sense.’


But he seemed to have few qualms earlier this week when using Facebook to release the latest official family portrait.


The photograph shows the President sitting with First Lady Michelle and their two daughters, all grinning broadly.

It was given the caption: ‘The new Obama family portrait!’ and has so far drawn 71,000 ‘likes’ and 11,000 comments.

It was released to coincide with Christmas, but is not the official Christmas card, which shows an empty room in the White House with the family dog, Bo, lying by the fire.

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