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Fresh from the White House, Obama’s champion is back in a new stoner comedy…
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November 04, 2011


Fresh from the White House, Obama’s champion is back in a new stoner comedy.


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In the 2008 presidential race, plenty of Hollywood A-listers lent their names to Barack Obama’s election effort—Scarlett Johansson, Robert De Niro, and Jay-Z, to name just a few. But no one took devotion as far as actor Kal Penn, who is best known for starring as a pothead in the Harold & Kumar franchise. He stumped heavily through Iowa and then, after Obama’s inauguration, landed a wonky job in his administration as a public liaison. On his first day, the president’s approval rating was nearly 60 percent.

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