Not in the same way, of course, but you get the idea.

While he recently came to the defense of Abbie Cornish, the actress who some say broke up Phillippe's marriage to Reese Witherspoon, yesterday he was standing by somebody entirely different, expressing his political views on a t-shirt.

Yes, you can add Ryan Phillippe to the growing list of celebrities backing Barack Obama. Scarlett Johansson, Kate Walsh and will.i.am would be proud.