Well, this was brilliant. Yesterday was the day after the uber-craptacular ABC Clinton v Obama "debate" in Philadelphia where substance reigned a dream and trifling pettiness -- infantile bullshit about nothing, nothing, nothing of any importance -- was trotted out and "debated." Instead of coming out the next day and whining about it, Obama literally brushed it off.
Classy, right? But if you're a member of the 18-35 demographic (or if you're plagued, as I am, with arrested development) you're also likely to recognize this as a distinct nod to your society -- a society you may not have believed anybody knew about outside the shaking windows of your pimped out gangsta Honda CRV. Now, I know that "brush it off" is a well-known turn of phrase, and that's probably why most of the audience responded so well to it. That Jay-Z song, though, turned brushing dirt off your shoulder into a dance move, and anybody who knows the video (and that's a lot of voters) would be tempted to get up and dance with Barack when he did this. You think I'm kidding, don't you. I can tell you think this whole post is about boosting my shtreet cred. Maybe so. But let's take another look at that slo-mo:
To put this in perspective for people my age who actually act like it, Obama's bit of youth pandering was similar to Reagan's failed effort to connect to pop culture by invoking Springsteen's "Born In The USA," except Obama got the context right.
The point of the song is that one should stay cool under pressure. The point of Obama's gesture is that he's smoove like that.
Now, here's another piece of video sponsored by Schoolhouse ROC and the letter O:
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That Obama is SO DOWN!
(Did I git that right?)
More footage from the ABC Presidential debate can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeOrddRaSM8
Rush is totally not heavy metal. But I’ll bet Hillary thinks they are. Can’t you see her at a Wellesley kegger tripping over an Adirondak chair to yell at the DJ, “Rush! Yah! Fuckin’ crank it!” as the opening strains of “Spirit of Radio” drift across the Phi Delta grounds. She’s waving a fist in the air, going “words of the prophets are written on the studio walls. Concert halls!” Stephanopolis should totally have raised this during the debate and sussed out the candidates’ positions but, alas, they only had 90 minutes.
Rhyming "preposterous" with "Stephanopoulos"? GENIUS use of forced-rhyme. It makes me wish I were a literature teacher so I could use this as a classroom example. I love this video.
I like the Dirty Old Bastard guy.
Please post mor butt pichers
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