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one of these guys has a convincing rap voice and the other has a convincing 'no mom i don't wanna take out the garbage' voice

Sticherbeast — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 21:42:02 -0800

Political Rap Videos, curated by SomethingAwful. (NSFW language)

"I hold it like it's a fancy fist with joy."

LMGM — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:14:40 -0800

Depressed/frightened/disheartened about the GOP primary race? Here's Bad Lip Reading doing Rick Santorum and the rest of the GOP roster: Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Michelle Bachmann, Herman Cain, Rick Perry. Obama doesn't escape the treatment, either. If Bad Lip Reading sounds familiar, it's probably because of "Gang Fight," which was their absurdist dubbing of the already-absurd "Friday" by Rebecca Black.

There's a vicious rumor going around that Mitt Romney passed Universal Health Care

The Whelk — Sun, 01 May 2011 02:40:52 -0800

Mahalo! What A Week: US President Barack Obama at the recent White House Correspondence Dinner (SLYTP - 19 Min)

"Your future is not as a person of letters..."

aught — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:08:27 -0800

In 1982, the young Barack Obama published two poems in a literary magazine while an undergraduate at Occidental College. Many years later, political and literary commentators looking for insight into the leader's inner workings unearthed the poems: The New Yorker gave readers Harold Bloom's mixed reaction, Ian McMillan assessed the juvenile work in The Guardian, the Times (UK) tried to place the poems within the context of American presidents who published poems, and even Huffington Post took a crack at figuring what the poems tell us about the politician. A little later, the Blue Rose Arts Collective used the text of the poem "Underground" in a short video piece. Obama maintains his interest in poetry: also in 2008 the president was photographed holding a copy of Nobel Prize-winning poet Derek Walcott's Collected Poems. (U.S. Presidents and poetry more generally, previously.)

give up that dream

gerryblog — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 18:52:22 -0800

It is not our role to take power. It is our role to make the powerful frightened of us. And that's what we've forgotten. Give up that dream! Chris Hedges talks neoliberalism and neofeudalism, the civil rights movement, Camden, Obama, Clinton, Tea Parties, moral nihilism, inverted totalitarianism and corpocracy, NAFTA, welfare reform, health care, labor, poverty, Yugoslavia, post-industrial capitalism, economic crisis, imperial collapse, socialism, and democracy, among other things. Don't be scared off by the length; the talk itself is only the first 27 minutes of the clip.

No, it's literally raining McCain.

EarBucket — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:57:12 -0800

You've probably seen Hillary4U&Me or Hillary In The House, but you should know that Senator Clinton's supporters don't have a monopoly on awesome/hilarious propaganda. Witness Barack OBollywood and The McCain Girls in "It's Rainin' McCain!"