Brilliant Video: Opie and Richie for Obama
Well this breaks my heart as The Andy Griffith Show and Happy Days were two of my favorite shows as a kid but hats off to Ron Howard for doing an excellent job in creating a pro-Obama video. Howard appears sincere and I don't believe he's part of the usual knee-jerk Hollywood liberal crowd, this is the view that he has come to on his own. Still, he doesn't give you specific policy reasons as why to vote for Obama other than he doesn't like George Bush or Dick Cheney.
And one important point - Fonzie was always a Republican, just like Howard Cunningham.
And one important point - Fonzie was always a Republican, just like Howard Cunningham.
Labels: andy griffith, Barack Obama, happy days, henry winkler, ron howard
Posted by Michael Higby @ 10/23/2008 10:15:00 PM
17 Comments:
The reason Opie, Richie and Fonzie are voting Obama were stated ... 8 years of Bush and the republican party and the terrible results.
McCain has often stated how he voted with Bush and the republican party line %90 of the time, now he is trying to distant himself from Bush and the old republican party.
At the same time you have Sarah Palin embracing all the old republican party divisive talking points....parts of American don't love America, Muslims are bad people and etc.
Many Americans aren't buying their bullshit, you can't have your V.P. following the old republican talking points and the president saying he is a maverick for change.
They why does Bush not support McCain? Why does he hate him? Why is the Republican power elite fear McCain?
The Bush wing of the party does not represent me or John McCain.
All is not lost. You still have Jackie Mason on your side. ;)
Edward Headington you meshugana how right you are oy, Jackie Mason is the bomb he is. A mensch he is!
Mayor Sam,
Last chance to come back from the dark side! Step into the light of Opie!
BTW, what's up with Greenspan finding the free market flawed?
OUCH!
Where the race stands this morning.
NATIONAL - OBAMA +7.5 (51)
MINNESOTA - OBAMA +15 (56)
PENNSYLVANIA - OBAMA +12 (53)
INDIANA - OBAMA +10 (51)
IOWA - OBAMA +13 (52)
VIRGINIA - OBAMA +7 (52)
MISSOURI - OBAMA +5 (49)
OHIO - OBAMA +7 (50)
NORTH CAROLINA - OBAMA +2 (49)
FLORIDA - OBAMA +2 (47)
COLORADO - OBAMA +5 (50)
With the exception of Minnesota, EACH of the above states was won by George Bush and McCain NEEDS THEM ALL.
Add to this considerable softening in Montana and North Dakota (now moved to "toss-up") and some lighter softening in Georgia, West Virginia, and even Arizona. New Hampshire is now out of reach for McCain.
RCP has Obama at 306 Electoral votes, McCain's camp admits a popular vote victory for Obama is now all but certain and it is getting next to impossible to mathematically figure how all of this changes in 11 days.
To put this in perspective, these polls SHOULD be tightening, especially with early-voting. The "undecided" pool should be over-represented especially in Florida, Ohio and North Carolina and polls should reflect a closing of the race, but Obama's lead is getting WIDER.
One could see how a state or two will shift or a poll or two is wrong but for McCain to win this he has to hope EVERY poll in EVERY state is wrong by at least 6 points.
Even worse for McCain is that he has never held a significant lead except for a few days after the convention. The Palin bounce has turned into an anchor and some in his campaign are already abandoning ship, and not making TV appearances to help preserve their own reputations. (Kind of difficult to say your candidate is going to win when your down by more points than there are days left in the campaign, and still have any credibility after you get wiped out)
Oh, one last point - 15% of the electorate has already voted.
This is getting painful to watch.con
I wonder if they type of "change" that "Opie" and "Fonzie" envision is being taxed an extra 20% (5% Federal and 15% lifting the social security limt) on the millions they make each year under the Obama tax plan so that they will be in an effective 65% tax rate. How many jobs will that "change" kill in Hollywood?
I think Andy Griffith has lost it and they used an old man without his knowledge.
Taxes, schmaxes.
Are we "the greatest county" in spite of taxes? Or because of them?
Seems that whenever we cut back, thins just get crappier and crappier.
You can't have it both ways.
Party mottos-
Dems- "Tax and Spend"
Repubs-"Just Spend"
Higby, why then have all the Bush people been working for McCain? What do you think that Karl Rove and all the little Bushites have been doing - joining their local PTA's?
This is all about power. Big time power. Those who have it (the Bush people) aren't about to give it up. McCain has so little experience in White House matters that he needs their help. If McCain is elected, it will be the Bush White House without Bush, but the supporting cast will remain the same.
Nope. McCain will have his own team. He can't stand Bush, especially for what Bush did to his younger daughter in 00, all the Bushies will on the street unless Obama wins and hires some.
Don't be surprised too if McCain appoints Hillary to his cabinet.
Hey Jim -
I see that Texas is even going like 70-30 for Obama. Man, looks like McCain is only going to get three votes, his, his wife and Sarah (we know Sarah's husband can't vote because he's a Russian citizen and a felon).
Nah, good ole Ang knew what he was doing.
Ron would never do anything to harm Andy.
Sure, he's from Mount Airy, NC but Andy was hanging with Elia Kazan and crew in NYC back in the day. He's an old time lefty.
THANKS JIM. PLEASE KEEP US POSTED. WE ARE BIG OBAMA SUPPORTERS BECAUSE LOOK AT WALL STREET TODAY AND NO WAY DOES THIS COUNTRY NEED ANOTHER REPUBLICAN AND A LAME BRAIN FOR VP.
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK JIM. YOUR FRIENDS OVER THE HILL
I support McCain/Palin but I thought this was very sweet and charming.
No screaming or finger-jabbing, "Vote for Obama!!!”…just stating his case calm and eloquently.
And Andy Griffith has been a life-long Democrat, so there's really no surprise there.
Ugly you are right. If all Democrats were like Ron Howard things would be a lot different.
But Ron grew up in a different time and place and Hollywood really hasn't changed him. The guy may vote Democrat but he lives Republican.
The Andy Griffith Show and even Happy Days to some extent were shows about family values that people can still get great moral lessons from. And they had very funny moments.
I met Garry Marshall just shortly after Ron Howard won the Oscar for Apollo 13. He gave Ron his start by letting him direct Happy Days episodes. Garry was quite nice and was so proud of Ron.
Why can't more Hollywood liberals be like them and less like Madonna, Big Mouth Michael Moore, Matt Damon, Foul Mouth Sandra Bernhard, etc.
Interestingly Ron Howard has removed this video from YouTube other than short clips from news shows.
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