Viral Obama Video: Call Me Maybe
via flickr user jurvetson
My first thought: This video must have taken hours. My second: this is priceless.
A YouTube user named BaracksDubs creates Obama speech mashups to pop songs. In this video, while the president is not actually singing Carly Rae Jepsen’s song Call Me Maybe, it’s close enough to enjoy.
Now every time the catchy tune gets stuck in my head, I’ll be thinking of Obama. Could it be that politicians have tapped into a new form of campaigning?
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