Ron Howard Obama ads

[ATL Muskie]

I'm sorry, but this is ridiculous. I was embarrassed for them when I watched this. Stomach-churning.

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/cc65ed650d

[Cheesehead]

I was just amazed at how much younger Ron Howard looks w/ a wig.

[Snipe]

I am all for people getting into the political process. It looks like he had fund with it. That is all I can say in his defense.

I agree with ATL, that was painful to watch.

On a bright note, it is good to see that Andy is still alive and looking good too. Good for him.

[blobfan]

I'm all for personal grooming but did we really need to see him get his nose hair trimmed? I need a nauseated smiley for that one.

[nuts4xu]

I honestly thought Andy Griffith was dead.

[Snipe]

Doesn't he look great? At first I assumed that they has super imposed some old footage or something. Then he went on talking about "Change!"

That is some really bad footage with the Fonz. Talk about jumping the shark.

[xudash]

All I can do here is respect another person's right to their opinion, his courage in taking a stand, and his body of work, which has been exemplary - up until this footage.

Damn.

Change can be good. And change can be bad. If these clowns gain total control of the White House, the Senate and the House, and if they then enact their tax policy and spending plan, I hope each of you here is prepared to ride it out financially.

Leave the tax code alone or enact lower taxes to stimulate growth, which - IT IS A FACT REPEATED MANY TIMES IN HISTORY - leads to job creation.

Cut/control spending (Bush and the Republicans failed miserably at this and lost their mandate). I'm now convinced that the Iraq War should never have happened. We would still be having a constant diet on the airwaves of Saddam waving his gun from his porch, and I guess his sons would still be butchering people, but at least all those American lives and all that money would have been saved, as we countered terrorism elsewhere and in other, more productive, covert ways.

We should move forward, working our way out of this mess, communicating along the way that it will take some shared suffering and a lot of time, but that we can get there over time.

Kennedy basically had it right: "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." What do we have today? Ads from both sides, promising this and promising that. A public that takes it in like baby birds with their beaks wide open, waiting for their processed-puke food dropping. Society is being conditioned to look for handouts and to expect public solutions for privately made mistakes.

Where are we headed? An idiot and his idiot left wing party who doesn't get how it really works. IF Obama attempts to share the wealth by redistributing money via the tax code and his social programs, I hope those of you who intend to vote for him have a very, very secure job. The economic train wreck this guy and people like Pelosi will cause will be staggering. In the extreme, he'll continue to receive all these votes until funding for these programs run out.

BTW, how will his share the wealth plan work - is it a continuous redistribution or like a one time stimulus check? If it is continuous, why doesn't he just make me go out and adopt a poor person who has no desire to help themselves and who isn't paying anything into the system now. Perhaps I should add a room or two, and move them in.

This shouldn't be about Republicans and it shouldn't be about Democrats. This should be about leadership. This should involve a little "Churchill" action, which is to say that the message should be a combination of the hard truth about what is required to keep this great country moving in the right direction and the fact that some sacrifice will be required from everyone to make that happen.

Moderate, reasonable policy would be nice and mostly productive. I tend to not expect that from the 1st and 3rd most liberal Senators in the U.S. Senate.

[Stonebreaker]

Hollywood needs to stay out of the political arena.

Fonzie looked cool, tho. AAAAAAYYYY

[PM Thor]

I did laugh when Henry couldn't say "Wrong". It caught me off guard.

[Strange Brew]

Sad........just sad. Ron, stick to fiction.

[Fred Garvin]

Who could forget Andy Griffith as Lonesome Rhodes in "A Face in the Crowd"?

I gotta question Ron Howard's acting chops. I didn't find him very believable. Especially when he said he had voted for both Democrats and Republicans. Yeah right, and DC Muskie is a registered Republican.

[XU Dozer]

Better recent video with Andy in it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glYTXMMQ1Xk

[DC Muskie]

Yeah right, and DC Muskie is a registered Republican.

I am. I don't know what that has anything to do with anything. But there you go. Run with it!

[Emp]

Face in the Crowd is an unremittingly obvious as Mr Smith goes to Wash, but 20 years too late, and Andy is no Jimmy Stewart. Doh, hick corrupted by greed and hubris. Cut the last hour.

Best Andy Griffith ever, get a clip of What it Was, it Was a Football Game. On a par with Who's on First.