By DUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ
McALLEN, Texas |...Some friends. In politics, you can stick by them through thick and thin, even gather pals for a quick fundraiser to help a campaign. That for a good while was actor George Clooney's friendly relationship with President Joe Biden.
Last month, Clooney hosted - along with actresses Barbra Streisand and Julia Roberts - a nice get together in Los Angeles that garnered Biden a few million for his race against flawed Republican Donald J. Trump.
Then something happened and Clooney was off the Biden bandwagon.
In a stinging editorial published by The New York Times on Wednesday, Clooney wrote: "I love Joe Biden. As a senator. As a vice president and as president. I consider him a friend, and I believe in him. Believe in his character. Believe in his morals. In the last four years, he's won many of the battles he's faced.
But the one battle he cannot win is the fight against time. None of us can. It's devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe 'big F-ing deal' Biden of 2010. He wasn't even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate."
Well, okay. Goodbyes can at times be strange and dirty affairs.
It was an intriguing turnaround, to say the least.
And maybe 63-year-old Clooney is being honest about his feelings and his reasons for asking the president to give up the fight. Who knows?
But a month earlier, in May, wife Amal Clooney's name surfaced as the writer of a report for the International Criminal Court in The Hague in which she documented atrocities committed by Israelis in that country's war against Palestine.
The ICC sought charges and arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials, including Prime Minster Bibi Netanyahu.
Presumably, the 46-year-old Mrs. Clooney, a noted English attorney of Lebanese descent, was okay with that.
The U.S., however, was not.
Indeed, President Biden called talk of charges and arrests of Israelis "outrageous."
The response likely upset Amal Clooney. We ask: Was there some sort of familial fallout that angered husband George?
Only George Clooney knows...
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