Sean Penn: Tea Party Wants to Lynch Obama [Video]

When Sean Penn appeared on Piers Morgan Tonight, the Oscar winning actor had a few things to say about the political climate in America. Penn called the Tea Party the “Get the N-Word Out of the Whitehouse” party and said that the group is a problem and a distraction for Obama.

Penn said:

“You have what I call the get the ‘N’ word out of the White House party, the Tea Party, this kind of sensibility, which is much more of a distraction. .. At the end of the day, there’s a big bubble coming out of their head saying, you know, can we just lynch him?”

But Penn didn’t reserve all of his criticism for the Tea Party. Penn also faulted Obama for playing down to Americans.

Penn said:

“I would love to see Barack Obama be Bulworth (the fictional movie president who speaks the truth in the 1998 Warren Beatty movie of the same name). I’d love to see what I’ve always wanted to see, somebody run as a one term President and show me that people aren’t stupid. They do care about each other. And when he does the right things and takes on the controversies, he’s going to win the next election.”

But despite the President’ flaws, Penn said that he is still “very likely” to vote for him in the 2012 election. Penn believes that “Barack Obama is as capable of being a great president as anybody that we’ve got walking.”

Here’s a video of Sean Penn on Piers Morgan Tonight.

Do you think the Tea Party is racist? Should Obama be more like Bullworth? Should Sean Penn keep his mouth shut?