Happy Presidents’ Day

Today on a special Presidential FtY we’re presenting one video you likely haven’t seen, and two you likely have if you’re a regular web surfer.

For years people told me I was experiencing some kind of memory hallucination, when I described this show. (Please remember that the following is fiction. No resemblance to any Presidents or Presidential candidates is intended, with the possible exception of Mike “You Kids Stay Offa My Lawn!” Gravel.)

And, since we’ve got primaries tomorrow in Wisconsin and Hawaii and since I know that at least some people who occasionally visit this sight aren’t exactly regulars on the political blog scene, I’m putting on a couple of hugely popular videos that seem apposite.

First, I’m presenting the famous viral Obama campaign video featuring various mostly younger celebrities and musicians musicalizing the Senator’s speeches. Though I’m an unapologetic Obama booster, I actually have mixed feelings about this pretty widely acclaimed (by pro-Obamans, at least) short film.

Maybe I’m just constitutionally allergic to complete earnestness. if you haven’t seen it for some reasons, it’s well-done and does have its inspiring moments — even if the only people I recognized right away were Laker’s great and jazz fan Karem Abdul-Jabbar, Herbie Hancock, the wheelchair guy from Oz, and actor Eric Balfour, an apparent Buffy regular who was unceremoniously vampirized and staked in the second episode and who is a shoe-in if they ever make The Jack Palance Story. (How the heck did I miss Scarlet Johanson? Must be the pony tail.)

However, I have no mixed feelings whatsoever about this parody video — which has also been all over the ‘net — which explains in images and sounds, better than I ever could, why this election is the Democrats’ to lose.

Happy P-Day.

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