Gossip Girl’s Serena Vanderwoodsen Wants to Pick You Up

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In a new pro-Obama commercial from MoveOn.org which plays out like a drug PSA, Gossip Girl Upper East Sider Serena Vanderwoodsen feels so strongly about Obama she says, “if you’re ever out somewhere and considering about voting McCain, just call me. I’ll pick you up. No questions asked.”

While it centers on the not so correct assumption all McCain supporters are old and all Obama supporters are young, it does do an effective job spoofing a genre that has become ingrained in the minds of the younger generation, many of whom would love nothing more than to have Serena not ask any questions while picking them up.

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