2008 Woodie Awards
A 'voice' for Obama
By: Ryan Sullivan
Issue date: 10/6/08 Section: Campus
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Students who showed up to see "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane thought his speech was freakin' sweet.
The event was part of the Obama campaign's last-minute effort to get people registered to vote before today's voter registration deadline.
Adrianne Palicki, a star of the television show "Friday Night Lights," was also on hand to lend their support to the Obama campaign at a rally that took place on Saturday morning outside of University Hall.
Palicki was the first to speak and discussed the opportunity that most students had because this is their first chance to vote.
During her speech, the Toledo native also talked about the increase in tuition in the past eight years and how Ohio, as a swing state, "has a lot of power and we don't want to be the butt of jokes for the next four years." She said two of Obama's concerns centered around changing higher education and creating more jobs for people with the people receiving them.
MacFarlane was the next to speak and said the election of Ronald Reagan resulted in a three-decade-long dumbing down of America capped off by the Bush administration.
"It's interesting that in 1968 when that generation was 18, they threw their fists in the air and they urged people not to trust anyone over 30," MacFarlane said. "And what happened in 1980? Those same 18-year-olds turned 30 and turned around and elected Reagan president."
He said a recent problem within American politics was the conservative notion that it is wrong to be an educated, smart voter.
"The McCain camp tend to believe, from my perspective, that voters lack intelligence," MacFarlane said. "This is obvious in the way they try to persuade us, not with facts, not with solution or hard judgment but with little tricks like the folksy persona they have coached Palin to present. She winked at the camera so many times during that debate, I was wondering are we all gonna get to make out with her afterwards? It would be an angry, passionate encounter."
MacFarlane said he is not looking for a president who he can have a beer with, but rather someone who can effectively lead this nation.
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posted 10/21/08 @ 6:57 PM EST
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Kevin
posted 10/22/08 @ 12:39 PM EST
I'm sorry to say, but Seth McFarlane has a funny show, but politically he has no clue.
thomas
posted 10/22/08 @ 12:54 PM EST
Everyone loves when geniuses (or is that genii) tell them how stoopid they are for thinking how they think. Way to communicate, dood! Actually, when it's coming from an arrogant twit, it becomes flattering. (Continued…)
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