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Monday, August 20, 2007

Obama Girl Gets Sister Souljahed

posted by on August 20 at 15:15 PM

Slapped down by the family-values side of the man she loves:

SALEM, N.H. (AP) — Obama girl has upset Obama’s girls.

The Web video of a scantily clad actress pledging her affection for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has been a hit online, but not in his own home. Obama says his 6-year-old daughter Sasha has noticed news coverage of the video.

”Sasha asked Mommy about it,” Obama said Monday in an interview with The Associated Press. ”She said, ‘Daddy already has a wife’ or something like that.”

”I Got A Crush On Obama” stars an aspiring model and actress named Amber Lee Ettinger, aka Obama Girl. Her song, which has lines like ”Universal health care reform, it makes me warm,” has gotten more than 3 million hits and nearly 10,000 comments since being posted two months ago on YouTube, the online video-sharing site.

Sen. Obama, D-Ill., said he knows the video was meant to be lighthearted, but he wasn’t smiling when asked about it in the interview.

”I guess it’s too much to ask, but you do wish people would think about what impact their actions have on kids and families,” Obama said during the interview.

Sorry Obama Girl…

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1

jesus, what a schoolmarm.

you know what? FUCK "the children & families".

Posted by maxsolomon | August 20, 2007 3:20 PM
2

I thought Obama was supposed to have a sense of humor? "...think about what impact there actions have on kids and families"? Puhlease.

Posted by Big Sven | August 20, 2007 3:22 PM
3

People want You Tube to have an effect on politics. Guess what? IT DOES!!!

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger | August 20, 2007 3:28 PM
4

ps- if he thinks he has to protect his wife and children from adoring supporters creating free viral marketing on the internet (his six year old saw it on the news?), how will he react to the predictable shit the Republicans will do (a la Swift Boat), much less the weird crap that racists will haul out? Perhaps he doesn't have the stomach to be the first black major presidential nominee...

Posted by Big Sven | August 20, 2007 3:40 PM
5

Wow. I guess it's not surprising he has no sense of humor, but I am surprised he's poo pooing such great free publicity.

Posted by Matthew | August 20, 2007 3:55 PM
6

Obama Girl RULES.

Posted by Betsy Anne | August 20, 2007 4:05 PM
7

Obama Girl RULES.

Posted by Betsy Anne | August 20, 2007 4:06 PM
8

C'mon. Tits, Daisy Dukes, and high heels.

Can't anyone see why Obama would want to separate himself from something that's close to a BET Uncut video?

The only thing missing is Obama himself pulling up in A Bentley, opening the door, and flashing a smile of gold teeth.

I can fell his reticence to embrace.

Posted by Bauhaus | August 20, 2007 4:47 PM
9

..or feel.

Posted by Bauhaus | August 20, 2007 4:48 PM
10

Why are his kids watching the news?

They have killings on that.

And the same goes for YouTube.

Posted by Will in Seattle | August 20, 2007 5:17 PM
11

The country NEEDS more campaigning like that.

Okay, I need. Still.

Posted by Greg | August 20, 2007 5:19 PM
12

I'm with Bauhaus. Obama Girl is retarded.

Posted by Fnarf | August 20, 2007 5:28 PM
13

First Rudy whines about his family and now Barak.

Geez - I guess its ok for every LGBT family to be pissed on from one coast to the other every time there is an election in the good ole US of A-hole, just don't dare make any smarmy ass (or fucked up) hetero family feel bad...THATS going too far.

I wish Obama girl would have poured a can of peaches over her crack in that video....

Posted by patrick | August 20, 2007 6:56 PM
14

Yes, think of the harm this could cause to his poor daughter. Unlike, say, his choice to run for president, which will have no negative effects on their lives whatsoever.

Posted by wench | August 20, 2007 9:47 PM
15

Yes, @8 is right on the money. Unfortunately, a common smear tactic against strong, black, male leaders is to portray them as oversexed and predatory. See Harold Ford in '06. Obama is shrewd and on the bona fide high ground in distancing himself from this. Even though Obama Girl is hot.

Posted by George | August 20, 2007 11:01 PM
16

Hey....Maybe this is what it takes to get our teenagers interested in learning about politics. However, Mr. Obama needs to screen his childs tv viewing. (She should be playing not watching the NEWS!)

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