Is Ron Howard’s deliberately self-abasing, pro-Obama video funny, sincere, or just desperate? Vote below, America.
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Comments (1-30) of 294 Add your comment
It’s lame. They have every right to say what they want but it just seems so conceited and self important that they and the other hollywood folk seem to think that anyone gives a rat’s what their opinion is.
I like this Funny Or Die video better: Obama Tax Plan
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/d76e3236cf
What about this Funny or Die video?
Obama Tax Plan -
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/d76e3236cf
It’s totally funny!
Very funny, creative, becoming of an oscar winner. Cinematic and clever. I love it. But I’m voting for Hillary Clinton, I want my vote to count and mean something.
It is pathetic. A guy who’s entire life has been pretending and playin make-believe, suddenly thinks he knows what the country needs.
He is so far out-of-touch with middle income America, as is all of the ‘Left Coast’ it isn’t worth wasting your time watching his video.
Hey Howard. How about moving into a normal home and give away all your money to those people you say need our government to support?
Oh wait, you don’t want to do that? Why? It is good enough for those people you want to tax who have real jobs.
I thought it was terrific. Regardless of one’s political affiliation, seeing Opie and Pa, and Richie and the Fonz together again was great.
I love this video, its nostalgic and sincere, without being a smear campaign. Way to go Ron,Andy and Henry I applaud you.
To shamil – how exactly will voting for someone on the ballot “count and mean something”? Are you serious???
The video was hilarious and a creative way of making a point.
I find it baffling that some people out there enjoy criticizing people in the entertainment industry for expressing their political views. These entertainers are every bit as American as their critics are, and have the same rights and freedoms of expression as any other American.
Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jesse Ventura… all were entertainers turned politicians. If they had stayed quiet and kept their political views to themselves, out of some ridiculous fear of appearing “conceited” or “self-important” then they never would have reached office.
ALL Americans have the right to express their views, even entertainers. People can choose to listen to them or not.
To shamil – how exactly will voting for someone NOT on the ballot “count and mean something”? Are you serious???
I think actors should stick to what they know – how to pretend to be something they are not. This political season has turned from someting historic to something very sad. When actors and actresses think they know what the “real world” is like or what real people need – it is a sad world. All the money that has been wasted on these unrealistic ads could have been well spent taking care of those people who really need help – in the real world.
Go Obie! You always knew what was right!
wow, if I was American, I would vote Obama, and this was very sincere, no need to smear. as Ron stated he voted for both sides, and honestly, I would of too, there were good dem’s and good Rep’s.
This is almost as funny as when McCain described himself as a “washed up old terrorist”.
Funny – not a word about Obama’s real opponent, John McCain.
Of course celebrities have a right to their opinions, and of course we care – we watched this video, didn’t we?
Why should Ron not use the means at his disposal to say what he wants to say? How un-American would it be if he were not “allowed” to do so?
The real problem is not that some celebrities get involved in politics, but that some American voters base their opinions solely on the words of celebrities.
To JCM and others,
Actors, Sports figures, and others in the limelight are very influencial to those folks who admire and idolize them. Most Americans these days don’t think for themselves and simply adopt views from someone they believe they can relate to without giving any effort to understand the issue or, in this case, the person. Actors have every right to have a political view but they use their fame inappropriately when they express those views to the media.
If the rich and famous can have an opinion about the middle class, why should a guy who owns 7 houses be allowd to be president?
This was a unique way to get the message across, and funny too.
Seems like a sincere endorsement, but no one mentions why Obama might be better for the country. A reasonless plea for a vote means nothing.
McCain=Bush.. voted w/him 90%.. end of McCain story. Support Obama and then.. lets work together to get USA back into shape. Its going to take ALL of us!
Ron Howard was a good actor and has been a better director. He has views and the talent to express them intelligently. Why shouldn’t he?
Well, I have to believe in a product in my heart. Not just what the system offers me. Liberty means to be free of choice not choosing between limited choices.
I actually would have preferred Collin Powell, there are ample, ample other accomplished and trained and noteworthy blacks in America than the current choice to be seated as the president, so if I’m not happy with what the system offers me, my liberty remains in tact by being free to cast a vote for those whom I think are capable of responsibility, albeit, incapable of winning the office.
mscisluv Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 01:49 PM EST
To shamil – how exactly will voting for someone NOT on the ballot “count and mean something”? Are you serious???
What nonsense. How can Andy Griffith (or anyone else) assume a “change” to Barack Hussein Obama would automatically be for the better? Is change always better? Ask Coke how they did with that “new Coke” formula back in 1986.
Sincere? Oh I’m sure he means well. Ron try having a family of 5 living off $35,000/yr instead of your fantasy world of the Hollywood uber rich far left out of touch with reality. LOL get real, you have no clue what its like to be ‘middle’ anything.
Obama wants to cut taxes on big companies. Translation: the big companies will then turn around and raise the price of their products and/or services and WE will end up paying more. Howz that work for YOU? Obama wants to ‘give middle class Americans a tax cut’. Translation: that’s left-winged double-speak spin for ‘ha ha sucker, I’m gonna get you to vote me in then I’m gonna raise your taxes. It’s what Dems DO’. I don’t pay taxes, I already get a break. Why should YOU pay more for ME?
I do not like his far-left ideals, I do not like his ’share the wealth’ socialism, I do not trust his judgement, and I do not think he is the direction this country needs to take.
Democratic Republic NOT Socialist Democracy.
Wow! Got my attention Thanks
I really liked this. I was already going to vote for Obama, so it didn’t change anything for me. It just made me feel happy. Thanks, guys.
Nice! That was so cool to see.
Hey Karin – it’s Opie not Obie.