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Lindsay Lohan's Offer To Help Barack Obama Campaign Reportedly Turned Down

 
'Maybe LiLo is just too upstanding for Barack Obama,' a John McCain rep tells TMZ. By Gil Kaufman Lindsay Lohan Photo: Getty Images/ George Pimentel With the daily sniping and backstabbing, the presidential campaign is starting to look like a remake of "Mean Girls." And, wouldn't you know it, that movie's star, Lindsay Lohan, is in the middle of the latest catfight. According to Chicago Sun-Times gossip columnist Bill Zwecker , Lohan was interested in becoming "very involved" in the campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama and his running mate, Senator Joe Biden . In addition to recently blogging about her distaste for Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's views on homosexuality — in which she referred to the first-term Alaska governor as a "narrow-minded, media-obsessed homophobe" — the actress had reportedly offered to host a series of events to appeal to young voters on the Democrats' behalf. But an ... (link)

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