Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Obama's Girl

The video all over YouTube for awhile, "I got a crush on Obama," is basically insane.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKsoXHYICqU
The entire thing is essentially the star, Amber Lee Ettinger, showing off her body and singing (or lip-synching) to badly written lyrics. While it at first glance appears to be a political video, it is simply a racy music video to a bad song. What is odd to me is that other media outlets have covered it as a girl endorsing a political candidate. In reality, all she ever says about Barack Obama is that he would be a good president and that she has a crush on him. Now, she pops up at seemingly political and journalistic settings, like the YouTube debates.
http://www.barelypolitical.com/obama-girl-blog/
In her blog, she talks about how excited she is to be at these events and become a star (she was also featured in People magazine).
This, all in all, is taking politics to a whole new, weird, level. The election is about more than which candidate is cuter. However, there has been a large outcry for the youht vote. But when young, uninformed voters get out there like this one, I'm not sure that we're better off.

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