NPR: A Video Mrs. Obama Might Not Want to Watch

A Video Mrs. Obama Might Not Want to Watch

Watch Obama Girl insert herself into the Obama campaign.

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The most risque thing I had ever seen in politics -- until today -- was when a candidate for Liberal Party leader in Nova Scotia had a bevy of girls dressed a la Robert Palmer's video for "Addicted to Love" standing behind him, complete with fake guitars, during his speech to the convention. He lost.

But now he's got some competition: Obama Girl, a rather comely young woman singing in this YouTube video about her love for Barack Obama in a way that leaves little about her intentions to the imagination.

If I ever ran for politics and somebody made a video like this about me, I don't think I would ever let my significant other see it.

BarelyPolitical.com also offers some, er, interesting deleted shots from the video. Obama Girl even has her own MySpace page and blog ... of course.

But Obama Girl is just make-believe, a gimmick. ABC News reports that the song was performed by Leah Kauffman, a student at Temple University in Philadelphia, who wrote the lyrics with advertising executive Ben Relles and the music with Rick Friedrich. Actress and model Amber Lee Ettinger lip-synched for the video.

As Frank James observes at The Swamp, just imagine if YouTube had been around in the days of John Kennedy and Bill Clinton's presidencies.

5:20 PM ET | 06-14-2007 | permalink

Comments

Marketers and other ad-men should be rounded up, abducted from their homes in the middle of the night, and executed by beheading in front of their families. That is how bad they are for society.

Sent by Jody Sol | 7:23 PM ET | 06-14-2007

welcome to the twenty first century

Sent by joh | 8:11 PM ET | 06-14-2007

Obviously a financed smear campaign crafted to discredit a definite possible for 08 presidency.

Sent by Ja | 8:36 AM ET | 06-15-2007

Judy-

It is absolutely asinine for you or anyone to suggest that "Marketers and other ad-men should be rounded up, abducted from their homes in the middle of the night, and executed by beheading in front of their families." What do you do? What if I made the same generalization about your field? Congratulations, you've managed to make yourself sound like a jihadist lunatic. I'd like to think NPR listeners have better judgment. And thanks, NPR, I'd like to think you'd have better judgment than to actually post such rubbish. And no, I'm neither a marketer or an ad-man, and I happen to agree that the net effect of such activities is negative for society. Unbelievable.

Sent by Ted Kunkel | 8:41 AM ET | 06-15-2007

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