{"id":1410,"date":"2007-06-14T11:43:36","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T15:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/06\/14\/barack-obama-gets-a-groupie-video\/"},"modified":"2007-06-14T11:43:36","modified_gmt":"2007-06-14T15:43:36","slug":"barack-obama-gets-a-groupie-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/06\/14\/barack-obama-gets-a-groupie-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama gets a groupie video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t post a lot on politics, but <a href=\"http:\/\/one.revver.com\/watch\/298339\">this video<\/a> by someone calling herself &#8220;Obama Girl&#8221; is fantastic &#8212; well done, and hilarious. Apparently put together by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barelypolitical.com\/\">Barely Political<\/a>, there&#8217;s some talk about it at <a href=\"http:\/\/techpresident.com\">TechPresident.com<\/a>, including an excellent post on the whole phenomenon of <a href=\"http:\/\/techpresident.com\/node\/400\">&#8220;voter-generated video&#8221;<\/a> by Micah Sifry (hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robhyndman.com\">Rob Hyndman<\/a> for the link).<\/p>\n<p>As Rachel Sklar of Eat The Press <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2007\/06\/14\/obama-girl-hillary-1984_n_52117.html\">points out<\/a>, the singing in this particular comedic effort comes from Leah Kauffman, who was also involved in another (somewhat adult-themed) popular comedy video last year. Amy Lee Ettinger, an aspiring actress and swimsuit model, plays the role of the woman who is obsessed with Obama. The video has gotten a mention on the New York Times <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/06\/13\/2008-obama-girl-and-more\/\">Caucus blog<\/a>, at <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/story?id=3275802&amp;page=1\">ABC News<\/a> and at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2007\/6\/13\/205929\/312\">Daily Kos blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Is this kind of thing good or bad for the candidate? That can be debated &#8212; and is being debated, as I mention <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/06\/14\/thanks-for-that-question-iloveobama1238\/\">in this blog post<\/a>, including in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/chi-ads15jun15,1,3819633.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed\">Chicago Tribune<\/a> &#8212; but one thing is for sure: it&#8217;s pretty funny. Apparently Saturday Night Live and Jon Stewart don&#8217;t have a monopoly on political humour any more  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flash.revver.com\/player\/1.0\/player.js?mediaId:298339;affiliateId:0;height:392;width:480;\">http:\/\/flash.revver.com\/player\/1.0\/player.js?mediaId:298339;affiliateId:0;height:392;width:480;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t post a lot on politics, but this video by someone calling herself &#8220;Obama Girl&#8221; is fantastic &#8212; well done, and hilarious. Apparently put together by Barely Political, there&#8217;s some talk about it at TechPresident.com, including an excellent post on the whole phenomenon of &#8220;voter-generated video&#8221; by Micah Sifry (hat tip to Rob Hyndman &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/06\/14\/barack-obama-gets-a-groupie-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Barack Obama gets a groupie video&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}