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'Super' Obama Girl Takes Flight

The Illinois senator's biggest supporter is back with superhuman powers and a new video. Watch it here first.

 

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Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's … Super Obama Girl? In a primary campaign that hasn't exactly been wanting for weirdness, Amber Lee Ettinger—Obama Girl to you—is back in all her viral video glory, this time well endowed with superhuman political powers. Ettinger gyrated her way to Web fame last June, lip-syncing "I Got a Crush … on Obama" in the maiden video by Barely Political, a Web site that posts weekly hit-or-miss humor. Obama Girl was an unexpected smash. "Crush" has been viewed more than 5.5 million times on YouTube and was declared one of the top 10 videos of 2007 by YouTube and, ahem, NEWSWEEK.  Four other Obama Girl videos have followed and Ettinger—who has since modeled for Maxim, Playboy (in a bikini) and FHM, among other lad mags—has even been dispatched to cover the New Hampshire primary and the CNN/YouTube debate in South Carolina. "This video has made younger people interested in politics," says Ettinger. "It lets you look at these candidates as real people."

Maybe. It has certainly gotten a lot of young men to look at Sen. Barack Obama's most infamous supporter. (Or is she? In an interview with NEWSWEEK, Ettinger declined to say who she's really planning to vote for.) In the newest video Ettinger has traded her red hot pants for superhero tights. There's also a new song, again sung by vocalist Leah Kauffman, who rhymes wonky with funky. Watch as Super Obama Girl, blasted by the senator's ray of hope, does battle with the "forces of darkness," which apparently include both Chuck Norris and Bill Clinton. We learn that it's because of Super Obama Girl that her man carried Iowa, and that the reason Obama failed to take New Hampshire was that she was trapped by Sen. Hillary Clinton's henchmen, Status and Quo. "A lot of the feedback we were getting was people thinking the ["Crush on Obama"] video could actually help Obama," says Barely Political founder Ben Relles. "This spoofs that idea." It's also enough to make you, regardless of your politics, pray for an Obama victory—and four more years of Ettinger.

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  • Posted By: Newsweek is a joke @ 02/05/2008 8:46:33 PM

    1. Yes - I HATE paying for people's laziness, stupidity, failure to use birth control, etc. I hate it. Get your hands out of my wallet, because I earned every penny that I have. Got it?
    2. I do support the armed forces - that's why I'm a republican
    3. What do highways and fire departments have to do with it? I don't know of any candidate on either side who is planning on ceasing to support infrastructure.
    4. As far as your accusation that I'm a sexist - I'm a woman.....so.....? Why did you assume I was a man? Because I'm not a starry-eyed, cheerleading dim-wit with my head in the clouds like yourself? Because I have a little bit of common sense? There are smart women, honey. You just don't know any.
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  • Posted By: sjpersonal @ 02/04/2008 6:21:55 PM

    lammo1: when and where did Senator Obama state that "he hated his mother's people" Did you get that information the same place that the other idiots got that he is a muslim terrorist? What is wrong with you? The sad thing is that there are other idiots who will believe this nonsense because some other fool (that would be you) put it into print. Why can't we just focus on the candidates position on the issues that concern us instead of spreading idiotic rumors.,

  • Posted By: annevilla @ 02/04/2008 4:16:59 PM

    "OBAMA PORTRAIT MUSIC VIDEO" on Youtube - Don't Miss It!

    For those of you who still have not heard:

    There is a WONDERFUL and INSPIRING music video on Youtube.com entitled "Obama Portrait Music Video by Bjarne O."
    You can use the free downloaded high-quality stereo version from the composer's website in DVD form to show at house parties and fundraisers. Even people who knew nothing at all about Obama have been moved: either a thrilling introduction, or further inspiration for those of us who already know and fight for Obama.
    The music soundtrack, which incorporates excerpts from the famous 2004 speech, can also be downloaded separately in high-quality.

    So please, SPREAD THE WORD!

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=mCPwbozpIzM

    YES WE CAN

    Anne

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