Iron Man Favreau is down with the Big O?

[tdeverea]

I already loved Jon Fav as an actor and writer but a tidbit of information has made me a fan forever. I was reading an article on Barack Obama's amazing Democratic Presidential Primary run and I'm stopped in my tracks when I read the section below:

Race would re-emerge as the dominant issue in the spring, as videos of sermons about black and white America by Obama's longtime pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, went viral. After initially remaining silent and thinking the story would blow over, Obama called Axelrod late on a Friday night and said he wanted to deliver a speech on race as soon as possible.​

It was scheduled for Tuesday. After a long day of campaigning Saturday, Obama called speechwriter Jon Favreau and, as usual, said he wanted to offer an outline to get him started. But this time Obama dictated a lengthy first draft of the speech off the top of his head. A black-skinned man raised by a white family had spent a lifetime thinking about race relations and had some things to say.​

Favreau made edits to Obama's dictation on Sunday, then the candidate stayed up perfecting the speech until 3 a.m. He went back to it Monday night after a full day of campaigning and e-mailed his final version to Axelrod and Favreau at 2 a.m. Tuesday.​

Damn. How awesome is that? Fav is helping edit speeches for my favorite Presidential candidate? AND he directed Marvel's best feature film to date? I love this guy.

 

[Ironfan72]

Very cool, I'm a Obama supporter here in Ohio and and very happy he's the Demcratic nominee for President.

 

[tdeverea]

I'm happy as well. I think Obama has some great ideas for the country. I admire both of these guys more now that I know they are colleagues. t:

 

[fallenAngel]

Oh I thought this was going to be about how he was interested in making a Big O movie. As in the anime.

 

[kedrell]

I thought it was about Overstock.com

Eh, I still like Favreau even though he's helping Obama, who I can't stand.

 

[tdeverea]

I thought it was about Overstock.com

Eh, I still like Favreau even though he's helping Obama, who I can't stand.

that's unfortunate for you man. he's gonna be your next president.

 

[Tighelander]

He's just doing it so he can get on Oprah!
I'm voting for Obama; I hope I can hold my breath for eight years.

 

[Heretic]

Its a good thing that there's more substance in his movies than in his speeches.

Iron Man 2: Hope For A Change, Because Change Is Good And Brings Hope And We Hope There Can Be Change

 

[kedrell]

that's unfortunate for you man. he's gonna be your next president.

I don't think so, not with 1/3 of hillary supporters saying they'd rather go with McCain. Obama can't win against those odds. At best he would've squeaked by anyway, just like Kennedy in 1960.

 

[kedrell]

He's just doing it so he can get on Oprah!
I'm voting for Obama; I hope I can hold my breath for eight years.

Why would Favreau want to be on Oprah?

 

[Heretic]

And apparently theres this October surprise videotape that shows Michelle Obama speaking at the church that they used to go to and somehow never knew that the preacher was an insane racist and shes ranting and how they are going to rise up against whitey...he'll have to write quite a speech to explain his way out of that one...

 

[kedrell]

He's toast. He'll never recover from the damage Hillary did to him.

 

[TheVileOne]

I was disappointed when I realized this was about Obama and not The Big O anime since Favreau seems to be an anime/manga fan as well.

Is this really the same Jon Favreau?

 

[kedrell]

Actually, nothing in Fav's work shows me he's an anime' fan. I wouldn't mind if he's not cause I can't stomache the stuff myself.

 

[X Knight]

I think this is a different Jon Favreau.

There's another guy with the same name who is a political speechwriter. Here's his wikipedia entry link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Favreau_(speechwriter)

 

[donk70]

 

[TheVileOne]

Actually, nothing in Fav's work shows me he's an anime' fan. I wouldn't mind if he's not cause I can't stomache the stuff myself.

He is an anime fan. When he came onto Iron Man he talked about certain things he was watching and reading to help him work on the movie. He mentioned Appleseed, Ghost In The Shell, and later Neon Genesis Evangelion.

 

[tdeverea]

I think this is a different Jon Favreau.

There's another guy with the same name who is a political speechwriter. Here's his wikipedia entry link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Favreau_(speechwriter)

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!! Holy crap I messed up big time! I should've verified this was the same Jon Favreau... but what are the odds? Ah well, administrators can delete this then.

And Barack Obama will be the Pres. We'll discuss this further in January 2009.

 

[Tighelander]

Two easy ways to win over Hillary's supporters:
Remind them of McCan't's stand on Roe v. Wade
Say you'll back passage of the ERA.

Then he can have Michelle start picking out drapes.