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Re: Howard: Obama has Mayberry spirit

ryantech — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:09:36 -0400

Gomer, sweet and simple though he was, always turned out to be right and true representative of single professionals. the McCain campaign is grasping at straws & it comes off as totally desperate.

Re: Hussein Obama NOT a native born U.S. Citizen??

usdoc458 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:38:33 -0400

Wupto...you would make a great Nazi follower. They believed everything they were told also. Note* the smallest minds are the easiest ones to clean!

Re: Howard: Obama has Mayberry spirit

riverrd — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:11:45 -0400

Fear not! The Day of Liberation is at Hand! Obama '08!!!!!!

Re: Gomer has the spirit

Isaac136 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:06:21 -0400

Hollywood doesn't always produce sweet and simple, but Gomer *was* always right. Now if Jim Nabors does an ad as Gomer for McCain, I'll have to rethink this theory.

Meanwhile, trying to knock Obama as a celebrity didn't work out so well for McCain, and the effort to tag Andy Griffith as a shill from Hollywood probably won't work either.

Naw. Try agin'.

Re: Gomer has the spirit

Prototype — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:13:01 -0400

Hollywood writes scripts where everything always comes out just like they want it....sweet and simple.

Re: Gomer has the spirit

Isaac136 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:55:21 -0400

Well, as I'm sure you recall, Gomer, sweet and simple though he was, always turned out to be right.

Re: Gomer has the spirit

Prototype — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:52:54 -0400

There is absolutely no question in my mind that Gomer would be an Obama supporter! I'll bet they share a lot of the same views.

Re: Howard: Obama has Mayberry spirit

Isaac136 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:43:17 -0400

As Gomer would say, Gooo-oo-ooooolly~

I bet they'll be talking about this at Floyd's barbershop for weeks!

Re: Howard: Obama has Mayberry spirit

Prototype — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:20:56 -0400

Obama is the darling of Hollywood. They never liked Reagan even though he was one of their own. But Obama has all the qualities that are sacred in Hollywood.

Hollywood has written a script for Obama's administration. And like Mayberry, if anything goes wrong then Hollywood can alter the script and everything will work out just fine.....like it did in Mayberry.

I look forward to Hollywood's influence in Obama's reign. It should be a whole lot of fun with no consequences whatsoever.........and that's what life should be.

Re: Howard: Obama has Mayberry spirit

Lady_Lazarus — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:09:24 -0400

Wuptdo> Please stop w. the racism. We're all getting a little tired of it. Is this how you want the rest of the world to see NC? Disagree w. someone's politics all you want, but it's rude to attack someone's character when you don't even know him.
His name is BARACK, not Hussein. Hussein is his middle name and was given to him by his parents, something he had NO control over. I'm pretty sure "Hussein" is like Smith in some parts of the world, so to imply that he is somehow related to Saddam is ridiculous.
You and the McCain campaign are grasping at straws & it comes off as totally desperate. You might as well get used to saying "President Obama". Sorry.

Re: Howard: Obama has Mayberry spirit

FFC1304 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:22:48 -0400

Hey Opie, thats the DOOFIEST red 'hairpiece' ever worn in front of a camera. Pitiful ignorance from this bunch.

STRIVE to be SMARTER than a democrat!

Re: Hussein Obama NOT a native born U.S. Citizen??

Wuptdo — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:33:43 -0400

If Hussein Obama is not a native born U.S. Citizen, how can he even remotely have the Mayberry Spirit. We are about the same age, but when I was watching the Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry RFD, Hussein Obama was being taught at the local islamic school in Indonesia. If I recall, they didn't even have electricity where he was living. So I ask again, if he didn't live in the U.S., how could he have the spirit of Mayberry? Check this out folks:
http://www.obamacrimes.com/index.php/component/content/article/1-main/38-press-release-obama-a-dnc-admit-all-allegations-in-berg-v-obama

Re: Howard: Obama has Mayberry spirit

mountainman — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:27:10 -0400

sorry if I offended you with my spelling or my grammer, but I suspect it was the truth that offended you. SORRY. "can't spell but I sure can vote"

Re: Yes saying "Bitter Clingers" sure sounds like Mayberry

Isaac136 — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:11:33 -0400

Nawww, "Liberty11," I don't see Gomer or Floyd or Andy or Barney being that way. Maybe Ernet T. Bass. Don't get me wrong, I love me some Ernest T. Bass, but mostly because he makes me laugh.

I wouldn't vote for the boy. As our good friend Barney would say, "He's a nut."

Re: Howard: Obama has Mayberry spirit

carbonLib — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:02:29 -0400

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Howard: Obama has Mayberry spirit

ryanteaguebeckwith — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:19:57 -0400

Ron Howard says Barack Obama represents the Mayberry spirit.

In a phone interview with Dome, the former "Andy Griffith Show" actor and Hollywood director said that he decided to use his past to make a Web video for Obama because this election is "a really crucial moment" for Americans.

"I've never done anything like it at all," he said. "(I've) never been outspokenly supportive. Once in a while, might answer the question honestly if someone put it to me in the past, and sometimes I avoid it. But I had this idea."

He said he mentioned it to producer Judd Apatow, who referred him to Adam McKay, cofounder of the "Funny or Die" Web site. McKay and a group of writers drafted the script, while Howard talked Andy Griffith and Henry Winkler.

"I knew that Andy was a Democrat, but I wasn't even sure how he stood on the presidential race because we hadn't talked in months and months," he said. "When I broached the subject, he was excited."

Griffith's part was filmed in the woods near his Manteo home, while Howard took time off from shooting "Angels and Demons" to film his on a Los Angeles backlot. The two were brought together with special effects.

Putting on a striped shirt and hairpiece, Howard said "definitely took me back."

For audio of the interview, click here.

More after the jump.