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In stark contrast to the official second-term portrait posted recently on the Whitehouse Flickr page, this video by Jeremy Tubbs – featuring 2,500 photographs of Obama taken every day over the last four years – shows the true toll of office on Obama’s mug.
Full documentation at presidial.org
A compilation of pre-election, officially sanctioned but nonetheless charming clips of Obama doing his charming thing, assembled by White House official videographer Arun ‘the First Cameraman’ Chaudhary.
It is difficult to have a rational conversation about reelecting Barack Obama. The right still likes to believe the left considers him “Obamessiah.” Progressives seem to salivate at how pristinely their principles appear next to his shortcomings. And those young enough to not have experienced the soulf**ker that was Clinton’s second term almost revel in their worldly contempt after seeing their 2008 dreams brought low. Look, ma, I got my political disenchantment badge!
Still, he is a vastly preferable candidate than Mitt Romney, a cipher who calls to mind the venial, sniping entitlement of Frank Burns from M*A*S*H and a Hawkeye quip from early in that series: “Someone ought to tear him down and put up a human being.” Romney’s campaign was an egregious concatenation of lies, and his advisors admitted as much on more than one occasion. He attempted to cravenly bullshit his way to the most powerful job in the world, and he did so with such disdain for voters that he straight-up said, My strategy is to lie to your dumb ass. It worked an awful lot.
This is the creature Barack Obama vaults over—a little bit.
Vote for Obama If You Like Human Beings (Mobutu Sese Seko, Gawker)
For the day that’s in it…
Seamus Hegarty writes:
It made me giggle as I put it together so maybe it’ll bring a smile to some of your faces…
You’ll like this. Ah no, you will.
Danced, directed and edited by Nathan J. Barnett – working it in a silly Obama mask to the sound of “Something Good Can Work” (RAC remix) by Two Door Cinema Club.
Come on now.
Scott Van Duzer, owner of Big Apple Pizza in Florida, was very excited to meet Barack Obama yesterday. Bill Clinton excited.
And so, a sphincter-tightening moment for the Secret Service yields the kind of photo op Mitt Romney can only dream of.
Video here.
An outrageous, conspiracy-theory-heavy anti-Obama ad from apparently well-funded, hatstand birther organisation the Conservative Majority Fund (about which little is known or, hopefully, cared.)
The latest dialogue dub from Fadi Saleh’s BaracksDubs – Obama does One Direction’s ‘What Makes You Beautiful’.
As Saleh explained to the Daily Dot last week, these meticulously synced edits take about three weeks to put together.
Previously: Baracksy And I Know It
The evolution of Romney and Obama’s respective views on same-sex marriage and gay and lesbian rights using selected quotes from 1994 to the present day: an infographic by by the Washington Post.
“I was born, of course, in Hawaii,” President Barack Obama began last night from the stage of the annual piece of dinner theater that is the White House Correspondents Dinner.
Then he winked, bringing down the house.
Here’s the full version from CSPAN.
How Attacks On Obama’s Race And Religion Turned Into Jokes (Buzzfeed Politics)
