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“Obama That I Used To Know.”

I want you to watch this video (via The Blaze, via AoSHQ Headlines)…

(for those without video: it’s a dang good political parody of Gotye’s Somebody That I Used To Know*)


…and I want you to contemplate this: the people who made that video are neither Republicans nor conservatives (they didn’t like Palin and they don’t like Romney). They are, in fact, criticizing Obama from the Left. And they spent time, resources, and creativity making this video, instead of doing something that might actually get Barack Obama reelected**. This entertains me, because all the creative people on our side are busy doing their best to actually, well, win.

Guess how that kind of creative competition ends? No, go ahead: guess.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

*Great song, by the way. Although I like this version.

**Admittedly, the fact that apparently neither person in the video got around to voting for Obama in 2008 weakens that argument a touch. But only a touch; after all, it just reinforces the point that at this moment in American history the Obama administration has become one of the forces of reaction trying to protect its crumbling place of privilege, or whatever the buzz phrase is that will cause Marxists to develop a sudden case of acute alcoholism.

COMMENTS

  • rickey5825

    4 minutes and 10 seconds I’ll never get back!Your point about their wasted time and resources is true though!

  • elizaliza

    Hmmm, this one is better, musically speaking, and it kind of craftier …
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxch-yi14BE

  • Melody Warbington (rwm52)

    no text

  • earlgrey

    at least one.

  • californiasquish

    This one’s pretty good, too. But only if you’re a nerd like me.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJlbPXZEpRE

  • chbroussard

    they would have been able to see that the Obama they used to know is exactly the same Obama they know today. He was a liar then. He is a liar now.

  • http://travismonitor.blogspot.com Freedoms Truth

    Great parody but when I see creativity from the ‘left’ and makes me wonder why cant our side be more creative?

    Moe’s point is a bit off as the CNN interview managed to expose a few things:
    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/cnn-anchor-oddly-combative-during-interview-with-anti-obama-parody-makers/
    1. CNN shills are in the tank for Obama, even against the disappointed voters.
    2. These young people are undecided in 2012 and didnt vote for him in 2008. Not partisan hardcore, but just part of the Obama wave of ‘hope and change’.

    why cant Team Romney be more creative and hardhitting at exposing Obama?

  • http://google.com JEFFREY HARDIN

    Hello somebody anywhere who thinks they ever knew anything about Obama?
    What is it that they use to know about Obama?
    I Want To Know?
    The World Needs To Know!
    What Did They Know?
    What Did They Love?
    How Come We Didn’t Know It?
    How Come We Still Don’t Know It?
    When Will We Know It?
    It’s A Lie I Tell Ya, Nobody Knows Jack Schitt!

  • http://www4.webng.com/rickbull/lostlucky/ rickbull

    I watched the video anyway. Thank you to you and Melody for at least trying to save me what was probably the most annoying two minutes and forty-three seconds of my life.

    And, elizaliza: If you have any taste at all, it’s all in your mouth.

  • http://www4.webng.com/rickbull/lostlucky/ rickbull

    great video!

  • http://www4.webng.com/rickbull/lostlucky/ rickbull

    ..

  • http://www4.webng.com/rickbull/lostlucky/ rickbull

    Why does he have a SSN from a state he has never lived in (that we know of)?
    Have we seen ten years of his tax returns?
    Why did he get a law degree and never practice law?
    How did he teach Constitutional law when he knows so little about the U.S. Constitution?
    Why does he hate rich people when he IS one?
    How much of the information in his books is true and how much is fiction?

    Because he is the Pied Piper of Hamlin, whom the left have followed because they are enamored with him, but know NOTHING about him. And now that he has been in office for almost four years, and has proven that he is the most skillful liar ever to hold his office, the left are asking questions. They really don’t want any answers.

  • Freiheit (ZachV)

    I loved the version that you posted on your website!