Comments on: Perhaps We Should Rename the Song "George's Monkey"

Perhaps We Should Rename the Song "George's Monkey"

Xurando — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:40:09 -0800

Everybody Dance Now

By: Navelgazer

Navelgazer — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:49:26 -0800

GOB: Everybody dance NOW!

By: tristeza

tristeza — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:54:40 -0800

OMFG I think I need a private moment - I've got the vapors. **swoon**

By: vrakatar

vrakatar — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:06:29 -0800

Was Mcain....sort of....goosesteping?

By: tristeza

tristeza — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:08:07 -0800

Oh, PS, my comment was about Obama, I didn't even scroll down to the others because I had to, uh, go change my underwear. Good lord I want to bone that dude.

By: Mblue

Mblue — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:13:24 -0800

Thankfully I was downing Tennessee whiskey with ~~domestic~~ beer.

By: phrontist

phrontist — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:28:26 -0800

It's incredible how good these are as snapshots of their personalities.

By: maudlin

maudlin — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:29:31 -0800

Obama loosened up a bit after a while but still ... yeah, academic. Clinton was actually endearing in all her tightassedness. I liked her a lot more when she was being gawky and real this year.

By: Slarty Bartfast

Slarty Bartfast — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:40:09 -0800

It is more important than ever now that we elect Obama.

By: Navelgazer

Navelgazer — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:48:46 -0800

Also, how fucking rude is it of Bush to budge in on the hand-drummer like that? I don't give a shit if he's the President. I'd be all, "Shit... dammit... sure, just point the beat at him and hope he can keep a rhythm... smile for the cameras... think of a way to tell the folks back home that we're not getting any rain this year after all..."

By: vrakatar

vrakatar — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:49:50 -0800

Hopefully, he will create a cabinet level department of funk.

By: phrontist

phrontist — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:54:10 -0800

Navelgazer: haaaaaaaaa

By: DU

DU — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:56:38 -0800

I'm glad it wasn't just me in my white, suburban, never-even-danced-in-HS-or-college cluelessness that thought Obama had shmooov moooooves.

By: signal

signal — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:02:16 -0800

I've always wondered at the entirely rythmless folk like GW, can they not hear the music at all?

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:06:34 -0800

Seeing Senator O and Ellen on that stage being so playful and free just made me feel really good, dammit. I feel very American, for this minute or two. Unashamed. And I voted for Senator Clinton!

By: Big_B

Big_B — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:39:58 -0800

Well he is only half black.

By: Kinbote

Kinbote — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:41:05 -0800

Hopefully, he will create a cabinet level department of funk. Magic Basement pretty much ties it all together for us: Chocolate City. 'Coz I love ya, CC.

By: tkchrist

tkchrist — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:45:45 -0800

God damn. Hillary Clinton is such a fake. It makes me cringe with embarrassment for her.

By: mdonley

mdonley — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:51:20 -0800

Barack Obama, Ellen, and Beyonce: now that's a dream ticket.

By: Kinbote

Kinbote — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:53:28 -0800

Forgot to mention: Rev. Ike ≠ Ike Turner, and here's the original Parliament track for those not familiar with it.

By: tristeza

tristeza — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:55:00 -0800

Now that I've recovered from my Obama lust attack.....you know what I liked best about that video? He was HOLDING BACK. Motherfucker can bust a MOVE, but didn't, for propriety's sake or something, and it makes me tremble to think how he'd get his groove on were he not The Nominee. Holy fuck, he'd rip it UP, you KNOW IT.

By: ook

ook — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:55:54 -0800

I've always wondered at the entirely rhythmless folk like GW, can they not hear the music at all? There was this video I saw ages and ages ago of Ronald and Nancy Reagan at some, I don't know what event, anyway there was a marching band or some such thing and everyone was clapping along with the music and Ronald was totally, utterly unable to clap in time with everyone else. He kept staring at Nancy's hands trying to figure it out and she kept trying to coach him along but he just could not for the life of him keep the beat. He looked like a palsy victim. I really wish I remembered where I saw that clip. It's one of those images that just sticks in your brain forever. I'm sure it's on youtube somewhere. And I bet that djembe player died a little inside when GW started whacking on his drum uninvited.

By: facetious

facetious — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:02:16 -0800

i cannot prove this with science, but even having completely refused to watch the bush dancing video i knew in my soul that it would include cloddish stupid bullying behavior. and per Navelgazer it looks like i was right. of course guessing that bush would pull a dick move doesn't make me a soothsayer or sage - to quote obama, "it's a low bar."

By: jedicus

jedicus — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:05:48 -0800

Bush reminds me of Steve Martin's character from The Jerk.

By: ZenMasterThis

ZenMasterThis — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:06:21 -0800

Has anyone else noticed that Obama doesn't look at all Irish?

By: Eekacat

Eekacat — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:10:40 -0800

Hopefully, he will create a cabinet level department of funk. posted by vrakatar at 7:49 PM on June 13 Heh, we won't have a Clinton in the Whitehouse, but we can have a Clinton in the cabinet: George Clinton, and his staff of P-Funk allstars!!!!!!

By: emelenjr

emelenjr — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:14:57 -0800

You forgot ~~Poland~~ Condi.

By: Nathaniel W

Nathaniel W — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:28:52 -0800

Shortly after the first time I saw that video of Bush, I had a nightmare that it was me up there in his place, and while I was trying to fight against it and knew it was wrong, my body moved itself and I felt myself make those same moves. My stomach hurts even remembering it. 2004 was the first presidential election I got to vote in, and I was so hopeful that the country would come to its senses. My stomach felt that same way then too. Good grief am I hoping we'll stop this jerk-ass dancing this time around. And yeah, Navelgazer, that's the first thing I thought of when I saw this post as well.

By: humannaire

humannaire — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:29:14 -0800

Great link: It includes an mp3 of Malcolm McClaren's Double Dutch!

By: Caduceus

Caduceus — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:41:52 -0800

God damn. Hillary Clinton is such a fake. It makes me cringe with embarrassment for her. Really? I thought that little swaying thing she did was about the most honest thing I've ever seen her do. It was almost cute.

By: kldickson

kldickson — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:54:23 -0800

Barack Obama = The Funkmaster In Chief!

By: chococat

chococat — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:01:12 -0800

I kind of love Barack more after seeing this. It's so obvious he was just dying, holding his funk back like that.

By: Ryvar

Ryvar — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:02:15 -0800

I've always wondered at the entirely rhythmless folk like GW, can they not hear the music at all? Uptight white people can hear just fine - it's our souls that are deaf.

By: Fupped Duck

Fupped Duck — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:03:25 -0800

His Saxohone moment

By: Eekacat

Eekacat — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:49:13 -0800

I know most of you are too young to have seen this, but while Jimmy Carter was President, he had Dizzy Gillespie over for a concert on the south lawn, and performed "Salt Peanuts" with him. Now THAT is cool.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:56:04 -0800

Obligatory

By: YoBananaBoy

YoBananaBoy — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:07:49 -0800

Unheeded.

By: maryh

maryh — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:14:30 -0800

You know why McCain is pushing so hard for the town hall meetings, doncha? Because once he busts his signature move in front of a crowd, Obama is going to look like Elaine at an office party.

By: i_am_joe's_spleen

i_am_joe's_spleen — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:37:11 -0800

I believe in among speakers of Wolof, high-ranking men cultivate a clumsy inability to articulate, and employ professionals to speak on their behalf. This disdain for talking demonstrates their status. Likewise, in our society, powerful men do not dance or betray any feeling for rhythm. That is the job of their social inferiors, whom they may graciously deign to admire or occasionally even pay. This is the origin of the stiff white honky. In their dark past, Celts and Teutons and Slavs danced fearful dances deep in the forest and sang. David danced his triumph in the streets. But their descendants who aspire to power clench their buttocks, constrain their hips and leave movement to others, in the same way that they disdain many other manifestations of fun and enjoyment. Ruling is serious business.

By: i_am_joe's_spleen

i_am_joe's_spleen — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:40:26 -0800

PS: can't help but think that the Lincoln-Obama comparisons are helped by a long-leggety frame in a sober black suit.

By: phrontist

phrontist — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:50:18 -0800

One Nation, Under Groove!

By: rkent

rkent — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:41:47 -0800

Humannaire: at first I thought your link would be this, also apropos. Sweet!

By: dminor

dminor — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:10:55 -0800

the bush video is so racist

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:17:47 -0800

By: dawson

dawson — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:36:59 -0800

tristeza I'm a dead ringer for Obama, and boy can I bust some moves, got that pelvis action going on sweetheart. EIP. I jest.

By: painquale

painquale — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:44:42 -0800

Both Obama and Hillary wanted to dance but were holding back. Obama's dance hinted at technical experience, Hillary's hinted at personality. A complete inverse of the primaries.

By: teraflop

teraflop — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:36:24 -0800

Also obligatory.

By: GeckoDundee

GeckoDundee — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:16:16 -0800

Of for the love of all that is holy, CAN WE JUST PUT BARACK IN THE DAMNED WHITE HOUSE ALREADY!?? We all know this election is a pretense. It's a joke. I bet he even knows how to play a fucking saxophone. Enough already. I got a bird in the oven. Let's just skip the next six months of bullshit and put him in the damned oval office. I've had enough of this horse shit. posted by ZachsMind at 5:17 PM on June 14 [+] [!] This is going to be a hard fought campaign and McCain might well win. Painquale makes a very perspicuous point though, as usual. But Hillary seemed to be restraining the real person that we would probably all like a lot more than the over-spun candidate, yet Baz was holding back because he didn't want to show off. (I know; the primaries are over. It's interesting anyway).

By: EarBucket

EarBucket — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:29:41 -0800

It makes me happy to know that, for all my country's problems and flaws, she is still a nation where the black man who is in all probability going to be the next President can dance with an out-of-the-closet lesbian on her nationally broadcast daytime talk show. Viva America.

By: dirtynumbangelboy

dirtynumbangelboy — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:04:07 -0800

Unheeded. posted by YoBananaBoy at 1:07 AM on June 14 [+] [!] CEILINGCAT SAYS UR DOIN IT RONG

By: StickyCarpet

StickyCarpet — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:04:23 -0800

Clinton's got a very pretty profile from that angle, I'm surprised they didn't push that more.

By: The Great Big Mulp

The Great Big Mulp — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:20:51 -0800

Was Clinton drinking a Presidente? OH THE IRONY

By: citron

citron — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:34:16 -0800

Yes, she was drinking a Presidente. I wish Hillary would finish her vacation already, the campaign is kind of boring without her.

By: dawson

dawson — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:39:15 -0800

HRC reminds me of Tip O'Neil. I hope she just remains an iconic and influential senator. And does more public drinking.

By: ook

ook — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:48:11 -0800

Earbucket, that's a really damn good point. Thanks for that.

By: Phalene

Phalene — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:17:39 -0800

@StickyCarpet As a Canadian who's been forced to witness the US elections Clockwork Orange style, I must say I didn't realize Clinton was pretty until that video, and on the other hand, Obama looked less pretty than his pictures. Very odd.

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:41:11 -0800

Phalene-- Very true. But our Hillary ain't no Belinda Stronach--- cuuuute as a button!

By: The Esteemed Doctor Bunsen Honeydew

The Esteemed Doctor Bunsen Honeydew — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:45:27 -0800

I sat here trying to come up with a parliament funkadelic/barack obama joke for like ten minutes. Nothing. It's been a long day.

By: darkstar

darkstar — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:50:54 -0800

Obama's foreign policy: Gonna drop a funk bomb on ya!

By: liza

liza — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:06:46 -0800

Metafilter : Obama's Department of Funk

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 02:54:51 -0800

Funky hip gyrations or terrorist 'fuck you, daytime-TV-watching women' groin thrusts?

By: Mikimi

Mikimi — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:50:52 -0800

Haha that should help everyone decide who to vote for to lead the US

By: nihraguk

nihraguk — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:44:13 -0800

watching Obama dance was awesome. Thanks. :)