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But before die-hard Democrats dare to drool -- Obama Girl isn't for real. She's a model. The brainchild of five Obama fans from Philly who hope its helps their candidate.
"The average person can have a huge impact on election beyond just every vote counts. The web changed everything and this is an example of that," said Ben Rellis, video creator.
These five friends say they have no affiliation with the Obama campaign. They spent a few thousand dollars of their own money to produce the video hoping, in part, to help one of their song writing careers.
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We got an email tip from G McCaul pointing out the video and offering some views:
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Some black bloggers have been cheering this video. Do you know who is behind this site? This site and the song has been on all the major news outlets AND the Rush Limbaugh show. If I didn't know better, I would think he is being Harold Ford-ed. Something ain't right about this whole thing. It trivializes his campaign and turns him into an NSYNC/ Backstreet boys candidate . It makes him frivolous and plays on the old fears about black men and white women. I don't do politics on my blog, but I thought this was up y'alls alley. They're trying to turn him into the Justin Timberlake of politics. Doesn't this girl look just like Monica???
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The more I think about this video, the more disturbed I am. That's two disturbing videos this week (including Angelou's Hillary endorsement).
As McCaul says, this trivializes his campaign. I am not amused and find the video too trashy. Politics is increasingly a pop culture / celebrity game, but editing yourself into a photo of a topless Obama is tasteless in my view.
Then there are the racial undertones.
And there is Michelle Obama.
I hope this doesn't represent a new trend of multimedia remixing and (mis)representation.
On the other hand, I may start working on a video about "My Big Gay Crush on Giuliani."
Thisi s not as innocent as it seems and i wouldn't be surprised to find out that his opponents are behind this.
I don't think Obama can do anything about it, but let it play itself out.
I've said from the beginning that his entire campaign is a Racial Rorschach Test, and this is part of it.
Black candidate as Mandigo - come on, you knew it was coming.
But, I don't think it will be as effective as the ' Call Me' Ad.
1. He's married.
2. He's married to a Black woman.
3. He's married to a Black woman who is involved in his campaign, out front and center defending her man.
4. There's never been any 'Bill Clinton-esque' rumors about him.
5. Getting the 'Mandigo' issue out there in June, is better than it being out there in November 2007, going into the primaries.
Race is really what his opponents have; and I've long thought that they will rival D.W. Griffith in their attempts to remind people that HE'S BLACK.
Him being the Black Bogeyman is all that they've come up with, so far.
We better buck up, because we haven't seen anything yet. The more this campaign goes on; the uglier and more racial it will become, IMO.
It's the one characteristic that can't be gotten around; it is what it is, and nobody else will have stuff like this, because they aren't Black.
I don't know how you fight it, except for to point it out when it happens and get it out there.
If the woman had been blond and blue-eyed it would've been even more obvious.
Lee Atwater's ghost, ya know?
Don't be fooled, this was meant to be insulting.
But as a sista who thought about this video, all I can think of is the veiled insult that was sent to Michelle Obama, the message basically saying, "I can take your man, there's nothing you can do about it, because as a white woman, I have that privilage."
If they did a similar video about John Edwards, I wouldn't have to make such a comment, but because we're so polarized in this country, and since it's woefully obvious Obama, triangulating twit or not, is such a dang threat, someone had to knock this brother and his woman back into their places, and let them know, by scaring up the "white devils" who vote, that Harold Ford, Sr., always talked about, Senator and Mrs. Obama's place is not the WHITE HOUSE.
Yeah, we are in the 21st Century. But thanks to those with subliminal Jim Crowism, they are doing their best to keep us stuck in the time prior to Plessy V. Ferguson.
The Harold Ford video had more effect because he's a single man, and it was well-known he preferred milk than bubbling brown sugar, plus it was in Tennessee, of all places. He allowed himself to be set up big time for Corker to go after him and play the race card to scare enough whites, or piss off enough African-Americans to either cast their vote for Corker, or stay the hell home on Voting Day.
It's a high insult because Obama's married, with daughters, and what the hell are they supposed to think; that Daddy's a playa, now?
I think we might need to raise as much hell as we did with that CBC/Fox Noise mess.
Either that, or Michelle Obama needs to go southside Chicago on that skank in the video. You should have heard how Alex Witt of MSNBC was talking about how "adorable" this chick was in interviewing her.
Your "Liberal MSM" at work, yet again.
Do y'all think this video was put out by Clinton supporters with malicious intent? You certainly can't believe that it was put out ny conservative Republicans, given the fact that these people previously put out "My Box In A Box", which featured a young woman with a gift box attached to her crotch. Say what you will about conservatives (and I say all kinds of bad things about them), but I just can't see a group of them doing "My Box In A Box". Does anybody think that this is simply about trying to make money off the perception that a lot of women think Obama is sexy? Now, the effect of the video may not be good, and justifiably criticized, but do we do ourselves a favor by deluding ourselves about the actual intent of the producers of this stupid thing? No offense, but I think that's more than a little paranoid.