"It's the first time I've really admitted I'm a Democrat," Barrymore tells Harper's Bazaar. "His values," she says, "are my values."

She describes Obama as a "uniter and an engager." "For example, when I heard him speak about a gay person never having to sit outside the hospital room with their loved one sick inside, I burst into tears because so many people I care about are homosexual and it was profound to have someone be sensitive to that. That's the kind of world I want to live in, where we're not holding our own principles in judgment above someone or against someone."

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