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In a new two-minute advertisement, Gwyneth Paltrow and several others urge the millions of Democratic voters living outside the country’s borders to vote in the ‘08 election.
The spot, titled “Where In The World Will YOU Vote?”, hopes to grab the attention of the more than 6 million estimated Democrats abroad… and hopefully get them to vote for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
“I heard people say that they didn’t have a right to vote, from abroad,” says the ad that the London-based Gwyneth helps narrate. “A vote is a vote, regardless of where you are. For anyone who says they don’t have a right to vote, you do.”
The spot concludes with: “Vote Democrat. Vote Obama. Vote From Abroad.”
For more information on this cause, visit VoteFromAbroad.org.
Gwyneth Paltrow: Vote From Abroad, Vote Obama
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At least she is getting involved, I suppose.
All I was saying to myself that someone is missing to support Obama! Yes it was Gwyneth!!!!
This woman is really annoying…..
VOTE OBAMA!
yeah. nice advert! obama 08!
i hate mccain’s ad. paris hilton ???? why was she included in that ad? weird.
….vote obama.
VOTE OBAMA!!
OBAMA ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NO OBAMA SUCKS!!!!!!!!!HE’S THE STUPIDIST PERSON EVER!!!!!!!AND HES GAY……….FLAT OUT!GAY I HATE HIM AND IM NOT VOTEING FOR OBAMA HELL NO………………………………..
VOTE SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!HES A FUCKEN MOREON LOSER ***** THAT’S GAY!!!AND HE THINKS STUPID!!!!!!SO HELL NO AM I GONNA VOTE FOR HIM THIS OLD LADY IS FRICKEN STUPID!!!!!
why would you want to vote for the president of a country you wont even live in? As far as a I am concerned if your home is in england you shouldnt have a say in what happens here no matter what your nationality is.
somehow I still wonder why stars advertise for politicians.. like do they just want their fans to vote for them because the fans have no opinion?? hmm.. well just weird I guess..
Yeah this woman speaks sense. Obama is THE man!!
This woman is such an attention *****.
Read my lips:
NOT.IN.A.MILLION.YEARS.
I’m voting for Obama, but I really don’t care who buttaface Paltrow is voting for.
Love Obama. Gwyneth sucks!
This women is desperately seeking attentions.
She is plain and … BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORING !
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love gywnnie
I’m voting Democrat but I think it’s cheesy when stars tell people how to vote.
Paltrow is so fugly.
Americans should realize why your most educated citizens are voting for Obama, rather than McCain. Its because they’re not stupid. You guys vote in McCain and you will continue to dig yourselves into a bigger hole and the world will continue to laugh at you.
I’m too lazy to watch the vid. Who else is in it?
They should have chosen Johnny Depp instead of this man-faced chick.
Depp is cool.
i love Obama but i’m disappointed he has Gwynnie Pig Paltrow shilling for him.
^ maybe he had no say in it…i dunno…still love you Bams!
I knew I smelled Fishsticks!
I’m tired of these Hollywood celebrities trying to tell people how to vote. People like them will change their minds when President Obama decides to put a limit on how much money they can make. Because, really, does anyone NEED to be paid $10M to be in a 120 minute movie…or $20M a year just to play basketball? Uncle Barack can put that money to much better use.
I love how these celebs tell us who to vote for but can’t get off their lazy @sses to actually vote. Ben Affleck is one of them who didn’t vote in 2000 but was trumping for Gore. He went 8 years without voting. Matt Damon said last election that he never voted in his life. I’m a college graduate whose been voting since I was 18. I don’t need someone who regurgitates lines for a living to tell me how to think. Most of them can’t even do simple math.
I would have more respect for her if she had simply told Americans living abroad to vote rather than whom to vote for.
You Americans…
No matter who wins you are still… Americans.
You Americans…
No matter who wins you are still… Americans.
LOL
I would say, it did not really matter who ads for whom, I would listen and analyze carefully their planning for my future, before I gave my vote.
General Elections is the only time in which I can influence the decisions of some politicians, even though it gives very small (if there is any) influence.
And not voting is simply waste of my voice. Because it means I agree with the status quo.
And hmh (@ 11), as long as Gwyneth has American Citizenship, she is an American, and she has the right to vote. If she agrees or not with the present administration, it is another matter!
Obama will win but they should have chosen someone with more substance for this message than Paltrow who copies whatever her celebrity friends are doing.
36th!!!! It does not matter what Gwynth does or where she does it from, the problem is telling everyone who to vote for. That is a personal matter. If you want to start a good fight, that is a way to do it. NOW, if you want to tell people on your own, that is your right and choice. ME? OBAMA all the way!!!!!!
no way! mccain will win! america will never ever vote a black president. and i am not a racist. a lot of america is though. and i can bet 1,000 dollars that mccain will win!
no way! mccain will win! america will never ever vote a black president. and i am not a racist. a lot of america is though. and i can bet 1,000 dollars that mccain will win!
Don’t know why so many celebs like to make themselves associated with politics. I ever saw such kind of discuss on a celeb/rich gathering site “AffluentMeet.com” It’s really interesting.
I have a college education. Guess who I will vote for? Obama. 08! Vote Democrat!!!
I bet Gwyneth secretly votes for McCain.
If in doubt of how to vote, ignore the famewhore celeb and read up on the actual issues and visit each candidate’s website.
I’m always amazed at how celebrities actually think we care about what they have to say. They are so out of touch with reality and the American middle class. They don’t have to worry about money or college or finding a home you can afford. Celebrities don’t have the same worries other Americans have. They think because they have all this money and they are famous, they know what is best for our country. These stupid ads treat us like we don’t have the brains to choose our own president. Besides, her husband is the very one who thinks all foreigners should be allowed to vote in OUR elections. Ridiculous.
With all this celebrity support of Obama, he’s sure to lose in November. When will people realize that people don’t look to celebrities for political insight.
I couldn’t care less about her opinion or the opinions of the other actors.
They should stick to acting. Maybe we could get some better movies out there if they did.
at #34 my issue is not with her right to vote. I just think that if she cares so much she should actually live in the country.
Americans should realize why your most educated citizens are voting for Obama, rather than McCain. Its because they’re not stupid. You guys vote in McCain and you will continue to dig yourselves into a bigger hole and the world will continue to laugh at you.
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Exactly! Most thoughtful post of the day. Instead of thinking about the country, we have people who simply want to say “I’m going to do what I want”. It’s great until the economy goes further downhill & they’re the ones out on the street. Sometimes I think people have more pride in “their right” than in the country they claim to love. These celebrities don’t really help though, IMO.
I hate when foreigners post their opinions on American politics. You never read any Americans saying $*&($ about European politics (which sucks too). If you can vote in the United States, you can comment. If you can’t vote here, keep your opinions to yourself and fix the problems in your own country.
I’m proud that she’s active in her support for Obama. This is far more entertaining and news worthy than a 19-page spread of the Pitts and Jolies… *rolling my eyes*
VOTE OBAMA!!!!!
i hate that people who are too good to live in the US still want to make money here and have the right to vote here
I think Obama is going to lose and lose by a fairly large margin. He limped across the finish line in the primaries, his poll numbers continue to shrink even with most of the press in the tank for him, Hillary diehards are not going to vote for him, he has pissed off working class whites and then having rich, elitists in Hollywood supporting you is a recipe for failure. Hollywood is too anti-American and most Americans want a POTUS to love this country and speak well of it. BHO and Hollywood constantly bash America.
#48, don’t be so assuming. Just because people who have the right to vote here decide not to live here does not mean that they think they are “too good.” For all you know, they could be volunteering in another country, traveling, helping refugees, or living there for reasons you can’t imagine. And if they don’t want to live here, so what? That’s their decision and I’m pretty sure that they don’t have to check with people like you. So open your eyes and your ignorant little mind and realize that this is a free country and if they’ve retained their US citizenship, this country means something to them and they have as much the right to vote as morons like you.
I don’t really care about the privileged Gwyneth and I REALLY don’t care about who she votes for, but I do care about the military overseas.
They have been neglected in regards to voting. If Gwyneth actually cared about everyone voting, not just her candidate, she would try to help the military get a chance to vote.
Read this and decide.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Roy Blunt, the House Republican whip, on July 8 introduced a resolution demanding that the Defense Department better enable U.S. military personnel overseas to vote in the November elections. That act was followed by silence. Democrats normally leap on an opportunity to find fault with the Bush Pentagon. But not a single Democrat joined Blunt as a co-sponsor, and an all-Republican proposal cannot pass in the Democratic-controlled House.
Analysis by the federal Election Assistance Commission, rejecting inflated Defense Department voting claims, estimated overseas and absentee military voting for the 2006 midterm elections at a disgracefully low 5.5 percent. The quality of voting statistics is so poor that there is no way to tell how many of the slightly over 330,000 votes actually were sent in by the absentee military voters and their dependents and how many by civilian Americans living abroad — 6 million all total.
Nobody who has studied the question objectively sees any improvement since 2006, and that is a scandal. Retired U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Charles Henry wrote in the July issue of the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings: “While virtually everyone involved … seems to agree that military people deserve at least equal opportunity when it comes to having their votes counted, indications are that in November 2008, many thousands of service members who try to vote will do so in vain.”
So Gwyneth you be sure to vote!
Kathy @ 08/04/2008 at 10:55 am
If in doubt of how to vote, ignore the famewhore celeb and read up on the actual issues and visit each candidate’s website.
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Very nicely put and so true! Everyone should take the time to do their own research and not get caught up in the Hollyweird endorsement train.
typical hollywood elitist liberal propoganda. Why live in another country if you love your own so much??? BTW who needs the europeans and their arrogant opinions…..we dont.
Gwyneth Paltrow and her ilk are the last people in the world who should be telling anyone else who to vote for. Most actors — including Fishsticks, here — have little (if any) higher education, don’t know jack about the issues, and have no clue how 99.9% of the country actually lives (without nannies, personal assistants, stylists, etc.).
Also, in my opinion, the American people deserve better candidates than what we have to choose from. I’m no McCain fan, but I’d rather contract polio than vote for that pretentious, egotistical, lying sack of sh!t Obama.
Those like Gwyneth and her ilk are the last people on earth who should be telling others who to vote for. Most actors — including Gwyneth here — have little or no higher education, know nothing about the issues, and have no idea how 99.9% of the rest of the world lives — without nannies, personal assistants, stylists, chefs, etc. They are overpaid and adulated for their ability to parrot words someone else wrote, and that’s it. It’s disgraceful.
Also, the American people deserve a better choice than the one we have now. I’m no McCain fan, but I’d rather contract polio than vote for that lying, egotistical sack of dung Obama. McCain ‘08, I guess.
Sorry for the double post.
@44
There are many people who fight for the US interests, like Diplomat, or business people, and they can not go home for voting. What shall they do? They live may be the whole years abroad, and the only possibility to vote is by coming to their embassy.
Just because somebody doesn’t live in their country, doesn’t mean that they do not care or love their country. I always think separately between government and my country. Many times, they are simply different entities.
So, Happy Voting Americans!
So you heard people say that they didn’t have the right to vote abroad? All that tells us it that the people you must hand out with abroad are a bunch of freakin idiots. Why are these F%$#S so dang patronizing? And who are they broadcasting this too anyways? Like this spot is going to air in Europe or Asia…? Can you pleeeeease get over yourself? Just because you played a rocket scientist does not you a rocket scientist make. I may vote for McCain now just to contradict these A$$e$.
obama need not your support. stupid fucked *****
bi*ch
My father is a university professor so my family lived abroad twice while he taught on sabbatical while I was growing up. My parents, my sister and I are American citizens who have the right to vote where ever we find ourselves in the world come election time.
As for those saying you have to live in the US all the time to have the right to vote, no. We believe in freedom in this country, including freedom of movement, and as long as you qualify as an American citizen you have the right, you have the responsibility, to vote.
Gwyneth Paltrow splits her time between London and New York. Half the year her family lives stateside, half the time they reside in England. Given that her husband is English this arrangement seems both appropriate and fair to me. If I were her, I’d make certain to have dual citizenship so as to vote in both countries.
Gwyneth is a loser just like Obama. The best thing she ever had going for her was Brad pitt and she screwed that up. Obama is a Muslim with no leadership qualities. I would never vote for this anti-american scam artist. So shut the hell up hollywood!
Obama Sucks! God help us all if he is elected. Gwyneth is a snotty spoiled idiot
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