Comments on: Viral Obama

Viral Obama

billysumday — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:30:58 -0800

John.He.Is turns John McCain quotes into a beautiful song. Two suburban women sit around discussing whether or not America is ready for a smart President. Filmmakers get ready to release Barackula: The Musical. Rap musician BigHitBuda drops Elect Obama.

So here's an effort to nip this in the bud - I'm guessing the mods are getting sick of deleting or thinking about deleting so many Obama posts. Here's a place to dump all of your Obama viral/media links. Now, let's be done with this for awhile.

By: billysumday

billysumday — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:34:47 -0800

Sorry if that last part came out wrong. I don't want to assume how the mods do things around here, or to get a pass by linking some videos and then shutting the door to future posts. I'm just saying, maybe it'd be a good to post all of the Chuck Norris/Obama, funny skits, music videos, etc. that are popping up on the interwebs all in one post. Feel free to delete away or mock relentlessly if this is ill considered.

By: kittens for breakfast

kittens for breakfast — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:39:00 -0800

Seems ill considered. Do we actually do "dump all your links here" posts? I don't remember ever seeing any.

By: srboisvert

srboisvert — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:42:28 -0800

at 2:06 in the ready for a smart President you can see that the creators "rented" one of the women's shoulder bags. That's the kind of fiscal responsibility I want to see!

By: Big_B

Big_B — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:45:06 -0800

Pepsi Black?

By: The Loch Ness Monster

The Loch Ness Monster — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:45:08 -0800

We already have two active Obama threads. I'm a supporter and I have appreciated your comments in the other threads, bullysumday, but every time I see a new Obama post go up I think, jesus, we're going to make everyone sick of this if they're not already. I could do with a moratorium unless something extraordinary comes up.

By: billysumday

billysumday — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:46:38 -0800

Yeah, good points everyone. I think things are getting a little too saturated with Obama, so this was a nip-in-the-bud move, but if it only adds to the saturation then obviously I miscalculated. Apologies y'all.

By: misha

misha — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:48:28 -0800

The John.He.Is. link drove me nuts; I'm sure it is great satire, but the talking-over-each-other was hard to listen to. I enjoyed the "smart president" video, though.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:06:30 -0800

Rest of the web.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:21:31 -0800

Don't forget this Hillary Music Video.

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:33:08 -0800

Don't forget this Hillary Music Video . Oh, that really backfired. I'm so voting for Obama now just to punish the people who made that video.

By: hwickline

hwickline — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:35:28 -0800

Can that Hillary video possibly have been made by people who, you know, want her to win? The dancers, especially, make me suspect parody.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:41:32 -0800

I was just leafing through "obama folk" on youtube last night, casually pondering an fpp. But it was all CRAP! I must be old and cynical. Stay gold, billysumday.

By: Richard Daly

Richard Daly — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:06:15 -0800

Could someone who dosn't support Obama confirm or deny the quality of those probama videos? I think they're great, and I suspect that my critical reasoning may be unduely influenced by my own support of Barack.

By: elwoodwiles

elwoodwiles — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:25:45 -0800

The various Obama videos are all pretty damn slick. I wonder if it's because he attracts the youth vote that he gets some of the more media-savvy people too? Or is it the other way around? But I too am an Obama supporter, so there ya' go....

By: Mr_Zero

Mr_Zero — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:28:51 -0800

is ready for a smart President No. But if this guy ran, I bet he would do really well.

By: kittens for breakfast

kittens for breakfast — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:30:25 -0800

After experiencing the pure, distilled emotions of that simple motivational dirge, "Yes We Can," I didn't think that I could be moved like that again. After all, how many times is a person inspired, truly inspired to non-humps-or-lumps-related action by a Will.i.am song? But I underestimated the rousing power of that particular Black Eyed Pea. He's just a simple man, with a hat and a penchant for rhyming words with themselves, but his words worm their way into your mind, awakening your resolve; his rhymes take root in your heart where they burst into flowers of motivation. After watching Will.i.am's Grammy medley last night, I was inspired to make a change. Basically, if this is considered music, I never want to hear music again--and I will do everything in my power to make it stop.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:42:12 -0800

Okay, okay. Barack to the Future.

By: billysumday

billysumday — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:09:23 -0800

They just keep coming. No you can't!

By: nonmerci

nonmerci — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:23:53 -0800

Yay! One of my best friends is the mixing/sound engineer for Barackula. I can't believe it's being talked about on the internet...

By: smackfu

smackfu — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:59:03 -0800

Will.i.am on the Grammy's last night just destroyed any of the good will he had earned from the Obama video. If there's nothing that rhymes with Grammy, don't force it, man.

By: ook

ook — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:06:17 -0800

I think they're great, and I suspect that my critical reasoning may be unduely influenced by my own support of Barack. I do support Barack, but I find the Yes We Can video annoying as hell: either let Barack speak, or let the singers do it; mixing the two together is grating and atonal. The "We Are The World"-ness of it also makes me kind of itchy. It made the John.He.Is parody possible, though, so that almost justifies it.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:14:39 -0800

mixing the two together is grating and atonal I just thought it was unintelligible. Not stirring.

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:08:19 -0800

Am I the only person let down that Barackula isn't a version of Heart's "Barracuda," altered to be about Scott Backula?

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:08:45 -0800

Bakula, actually.

By: Araucaria

Araucaria — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:42:40 -0800

Mista B Obama, Mista Barack H Obama is what I want to hear ... (a la MistaDobolina by Del tha funky homo sapien)

By: Flunkie

Flunkie — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:05:52 -0800

Cientos años!

By: jonp72

jonp72 — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:28:57 -0800

For the completists, Barack Obama, Nice Nice Baby

By: zardoz

zardoz — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:49:12 -0800

Don't forget this Hillary Music Video . Whew. That took a lot out of me. Worst. Song. Ever. No, really. *deep breath* Ok, I think I'm okay. Feeling better.

By: maryh

maryh — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:09:36 -0800

Okay, and then there's Hillary and the Band, wherein La Clinton is lightheartedly portrayed as a vituoso guitarist who unexpectedly destroys the dreams of her hip young bandmates when her ambitions prove too powerful for her to ignore. Produced by the Clinton campaign, which is hardly ever tone deaf, and is universally beloved by young hipstrs.

By: mumkin

mumkin — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:30:27 -0800

If we're dumping obamanations in here, mike_bling's recently posted project, U Rock Obama, intends to document DIY Obama stuff. It's thin, but I have a feeling that the coming months will see mountains of naïve artifacts of the campaign appear there. Send your crappy Obama stuff his way once this thread closes down.

By: y2karl

y2karl — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:38:46 -0800

Two suburban women sit around discussing whether or not America is ready for a smart President. If she's quick on her feet! Remember: always keep both feet on the ground, make sure that, in terms of reach, you are always one lunge plus one yard away at all times and that there are always two other persons in the room when you see Mr. President. And never forget that when you date the President, you date every other person the President has ever dated.

By: naju

naju — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:50:12 -0800

Between the Hillary Music Video and "Hillary and the Band," I've now seen the two worst youtube videos in existence. Thanks guys!

By: Happy Dave

Happy Dave — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:14:11 -0800

Yes We Can Has. Finally, a meme put to good use.

By: Richard Daly

Richard Daly — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:01:02 -0800

Apparently, that awful Hillary video is real.

By: billysumday

billysumday — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:36:30 -0800

Hillary in Wisconsin.