OlderTue, 14 October 2008 at 10:04 am
Blake Lively & Penn Badgley: Vote Obama!
McCainFreeWhiteHouse.org is a new site that has been launched encouraging young people to warn their parents about John McCain and to persuade them to vote for Barack Obama.
The site just posted a video featuring Gossip Girl stars (and real-life couple) Blake Lively and Penn Badgley. And I’m pretty sure that’s American Teen’s Hannah Bailey! Anybody recognize anyone else? Watch the vid below! The narration goes:
Talk to your parents about John McCain.
For my sake? Please?
Vote for Barack Obama.
Before it’s too late.
The ad, brought to you by MoveOn.org, was helmed by director Doug Liman (Bourne Identity, Mr. and Mrs. Smith).
Blake Lively & Penn Badgley: Vote Obama!
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Dear God. Shut up. Seriously? People are supposed to listen to a couple of nobodies playing spoiled teenagers on Gossip Girl about who they’re going to vote for?
I am so sick of these celebrities thinking that they are so important, that who they are voting for matters to anybody else, and that they have a “duty” to tell everyone else who to vote for. I have done my own research, by going to Obama’s and McCain’s websites, reading the newspapers and watching the news….I don’t need a bunch of self-inflated egos telling me who to vote for. I come to these sights for entertainment….not for political advise!
Couldn’t agree more, Ha! I CAN”T STAND CELEBRITIES TELLING ME WHO TO VOTE FOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHen are they going to get that??????
Frankly, I could NEVER vote for someone who has surrounded himself with the prejudiced white and Jew hating individuals Obama has. And only in office for like 200 days…….I shudder to think of what this man would do…..and OMG, I wish he’d STOP SHOUTING ALL THE TIME. He sounds like the typical preaching Rev. Jackson or Al Sharpton. He needs to GO AWAY!!! SIck of him and his rhetoric. ……just saying what he thinks will get him elected. Sick…..sick…..sick
…..excuse my spelling errors, but I was aggravated when I typed my first comment!
Shouldn’t this be illegal?
Not only is the whole policy of this ad annoying and bordering on childish it’s just plain lame. Talking about voting like it’s sex? Get a grip!
unbelievable. yeah, why do celebrities think we should care who they’re voting for?? seriously, take this video and switch it … warn people about obama!!!
celebs need to STOP endorsing this. just because they want me to vote for obama? ahhahaha why not actually read his policis & see what a wack job he is! obama has been in office for like what. 200 days? & he has like TWO memoirs out?!?!? wtf is in his memoirs??? oh yeah so i woke up this morning & ate cereal… yeah what a good book!!!!!! mccain has experience. he’s been in office. he’s been in the war. he knows what america needs. so no thanks blake & penn. i am NOT going to vote for obama. but you are more than welcome to leave america when mccain wins =]
Why can’t celebrities have the same attitude as Zac Efron?
Zac told us, “I’m registered to vote and I’m gonna encourage voting, but I’m not gonna encourage anyone to vote for a particular candidate.”
THAT, is so much more respectful to us. If anyone thinks to themselves, “Oh, Penn and BLake are voting for Obama, Oh,,,,,I have to too!”, then they are pathetic. People have to truly educate themselves on the candidates and the issues, or they have no business voting AT ALL.
I actually think this is a funny, well done ad. And maria, why don’t you go seclude yourself in some racist, xenophobic bunker where the scary “loud” black men don’t have to bother you? Douchebag.
I guess i’m not the only one who see’s McCain as a grave danger to America. I encourage any and all celebs to voice who they’re voting ESPECIALLY if it sways votes and/or makes people vote. Having McCain as president will so totally f*ck America up!
check out http://www.alllthegossip.blogspot.com
This Democrat is voting MCCAIN in Nov.
I’m not willing to take a CHANCE on this man o’ change. (obot)
adversiting and the media play such a big role in our life.
if we need celebrities to get kids to vote, so i’m all for it. and let’s face it, with obama - america has a chance, with mccain - let’s say goodbye.
If I’m a douchebag for not liking racist people or having people shout rhetoric at me, then I guess I proudly am!! :o)
lol that is a bit much but it is hilarious…
McCain… Marijuana
Palin… Crack
I see all the Republican staffers are out in force whining about
the ad, get over it, they have every right to express their opinion,
just like the hate filled mobs who attend the McCain/Palin rallies.
Most young people will vote for Obama because they know it’s time for an intelligent, articulate and inspiring leader, unlike the same old McCain/Bush and the ignorant, redneck, racist Palin!!!!
This really makes me sad. To think young people out there are TELLING children to go to their parents and question why they would vote for someone is just RIDICULUS!!! Children have a right to know what’s going on and how it will impact them, but to say that my 12 year old should come to me and question my political views based on what some no talent actor on some teeny bopper television show is telling them, is just outright wrong! Blake Lively & Penn Badgley couldn’t tell you one thing about Obama beyond what their script and teleprompter is telling them to say. Voting for someone is not to be “cool” it’s to make an educated decision based on facts and reputation. I’ll stick to reputable news sites and publications for that.
wow this is HOT! i love penn and blake in this vid! :)
All these people who want to keep complaining how celebrities are endorsing certain candidates need to stop logging on to just jared. THIS is a website that follows what celebrities do on a daily basis. If they are actively doing something to encourge people to vote or who to vote, that is their buisness. You can agree or disagree. But you don’t have a right to complain about them for doing so. Why is it okay for YOU to click on here and follow every other part of their lives (pics of them walking down the street, buying groceries, etc.) but when it’s something you don’t approve of, they should shut up or stay out of it?
Maybe you should stay out of their lives.
This is actually one of the few places I get information about who celebrities are endorsing. I think it’s great!!
Right, like I’m going to listen to someone who’s still living off their parents, has never had to pay a mortgage, has no kids, and no bills. Of course kids like Barack Obama. He’s fun, he tells jokes, he’s cool, he’s hip, he likes rap, he promises everyone money if he wins…he’s the New Black. If I were a teenager I’d be telling my parents to vote for him, too.
Geez Joy. Thanks, but your comment is the EXACT reason that celebrity endorsements frighten me. I haven’t decided who I’m going to vote for in November, it will likely be who scares me less going into this downturned economy (btw, increased taxes a la Obama, doesn’t appeal to me). You actively seek who celebrities are endorsing?? God, grow up.
BTW, complaining and talking about what Jared posts here is the POINT of these threads. Just sayin…
Ok . . . like I’m going to take the advice of some one who reads lines for a living. Just the fact that some twenty year olds think they know what’s best for this country is disturbing.
Celebrities need to stop telling people who to vote for. Its almost like infringing on democracy because they have alot of influence, people like to blindly follow whatever they say. Be classy, keep your mouth shut and let people decide for themselves. Im all about freedom of speech but these celebrities are abusing it and abusing their influence to get what they want. And just so you dont think i have an agenda in that comment, i am anti mcain as well. But i made that decision on my own.
if obama wins, i’m looking forward to 4 years of liberals and hollywood shutting the eff up!
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