From Winehouse to the White House

Here's something perhaps a little unexpected: Mark Ronson is donating to the Obama campaign, and doing fundraisers:

“I got to meet Obama at a small fundraiser,” Ronson said. “He is incredibly intelligent and you know that he can talk honestly about who he is. Sometimes I can’t help but feel with Hillary that she tacks which way the wind is blowing.”

As Jeff Jarvis has observed over on BuzzMachine, there's quite a distance between being 'honest about who you are' and 'revealing what you believe in', but The Times chooses to boil down Ronson's support to something a little less noble still:

Acting out of antipathy to President Bush, Ronson will transfer his support to Mrs Clinton if she prevails in the primaries. He said: “As long as we get the Republicans out, I don’t care.”

The suggestion that this 'antipathy to Bush' is surely reducing support for the Democrats into something akin to disrespect - making it sound almost snide to be prepared to throw your weight behind whoever your party chooses to lead it, even if they wouldn't be your first choice.