Video: “Obama Man”
posted at 6:38 pm on May 24, 2009 by Allahpundit
Tips have been trickling in about this one for weeks and now it’s gone full-blown viral with more than a million views. Cute stuff, and I like the bit about Abe Lincoln, but … a million views? Is there some great hidden demand for softball “Candyman” parodies out there that I’m not aware of?
Also, I know we’re supposed to laugh at the lines “Who can take tomorrow / Spend it all today,” but their stark truth gave me chills. Chills, I tell you.
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Who can take an election win, sprinkle it with dew
Cover it with choc’late and a trillion bucks or two
The Obama Man, oh the Obama Man can
The Obama Man can ’cause he mixes it with hope and change and makes the whole thing taste good
Who can get in step with Congress, wrap it all in a sigh
Soak it in the sun and make a groovy economic pie
The Obama Man, the Obama Man can
The Obama Man can ’cause he mixes it with hope and change and makes the whole thing taste good
The Obama Man makes everything he does satisfying and delicious
Now you talk about your childhood wishes, you can even eat his best wishes
Oh, who can take tomorrow, dip it in a dream
Separate the sorrow and collect up all the cream
The Obama Man, oh the Obama Man can
The Obama Man can ’cause he mixes it with hope and change and makes the whole thing taste good
The Obama Man makes everything he does satisfying and delicious
Talk about your childhood wishes, you can even eat his best wishes
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I’m comin to ya on a 1930′s road
I’ll be rulin’ ya’ with a big Keynesian load
And when I spend all the country’s money you’ll really see somethin’
So dont worry cause I’m Obama and I am comin’
Im Obama man
Im Obama man
Listen up subjects!
Im Obama man
Im Obama man
I got what I got the Chicago way
And I’ll take it to Rush and Hannity and Hotair in each and every way
So subjects dont you fret
Cause you’ve hardly even seen me knockin’ that outdated First Amendment yet!
Im Obama man
Im Obama man
Play it Rahm baby!
Im Obama man
Im Obama man
Listen up!
I’m all wrapped up in the Marxist things America needs
I learned how to be an Fabian almost before I could eat
I come from American socialist stock
With me as President for Life things will really rock!
Im Obama man
Im Obama man
Take that you rightwing nuts!
Im Obama man
Im Obama man
I’ll grab your rope and I’ll pull you in
Give you hope and be the whole world’s best friend
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Im Obama man
Im Obama man
Youre an Obama man!
Im Obama man
Im Obama man
MB4 on May 24, 2009 at 6:44 PM
How can one explain the success of this video?
It lacks that repetitive Eyeore, whining quality of AllahPundit posts. By being upbeat and humorous, it makes people want to listen to it.
Right_of_Attila on May 24, 2009 at 6:46 PM
Mostly meh.
Midas on May 24, 2009 at 6:49 PM
Probably not any great demand, hidden or otherwise, but they have been around, in one form or another, since at least as far back as November 17, 2008, I know that much for sure.
MB4 on May 24, 2009 at 6:49 PM
Oh boy,Bob/Tom just bought a one-way ticket
to Public Enemy Number #1,top of the list!
I bet,Team Obama,and the evil NSA are listening in
to this radio station from here on out!Ahem.
canopfor on May 24, 2009 at 6:58 PM
Like I’ve said more than a few times now….
Carter.
Times 100.
Spiritk9 on May 24, 2009 at 6:59 PM
No the demand is for someone (anyone) to goof on the nitwit because “most” comedians don’t consider That One to be funny and won’t do it. Therefore even softball parodies will go viral…
Caper29 on May 24, 2009 at 7:01 PM
This one gets forwarded.
Thanks, AP!
jgapinoy on May 24, 2009 at 7:02 PM
Nice voice , he should’ve put more heart into it.
the_nile on May 24, 2009 at 7:03 PM
Yup.
jgapinoy on May 24, 2009 at 7:03 PM
Obama takes problems and turns them into cream and peaches? I think I heard that right. Haha
Upstater85 on May 24, 2009 at 7:06 PM
So. Awful.
DJ Tablesauce on May 24, 2009 at 7:13 PM
There’s a lot of truth in those lyrics.
I LIKE IT!
Kini on May 24, 2009 at 7:17 PM
Not enough “Look” and “You know”
Ugly on May 24, 2009 at 7:18 PM
I had to bail out at about 30 seconds. So embarrassingly bad. I hate these “safe” morning show bits, they are NEVER good.
thphilli on May 24, 2009 at 7:18 PM
Allah, it’s not that it’s that good . . . IT’S THAT IT’S THE ONLY THING THAT GOES THERE. Mainstream venues that is.
- The Cat
MirCat on May 24, 2009 at 7:28 PM
If only someone, (MB4?), could write some lyrics around this
Kini on May 24, 2009 at 7:32 PM
I saw it last week :) ROFL
It is great as a parody and right on with the comment
maggieo on May 24, 2009 at 7:34 PM
Late to the “Obama Man” party. Schnitt [Tampa radio] did a much better version months ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDPfW6qz01U
AP, you need to update.
toliver on May 24, 2009 at 7:34 PM
On Memorial Day Weekend Obama dissent is so patriotic..and so sweet.
BHO Jonestown on May 24, 2009 at 7:39 PM
funny.
rob verdi on May 24, 2009 at 7:40 PM
My dad has been consistently calling him “the Candy Man” since day one. Can you collect royalties from youtube videos?
Glenn Jericho on May 24, 2009 at 7:42 PM
How can you hate Bob and Tom when they have this, the Toast song, and the single greatest prank call ever.
scrubbiedude on May 24, 2009 at 7:52 PM
Missing too many uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhs, and “like I’ve always said”s. Other than that, it was a decent effort.
I give it a 9 out of 10. Easy to dance to and statistically accurate.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on May 24, 2009 at 8:00 PM
Yup Our Pres. is indeed a joke!
katy on May 24, 2009 at 8:02 PM
Fun. And refreshing to see someone even make softball humor of the President.
Christian Conservative on May 24, 2009 at 8:10 PM
I love listening to (lately, watching) Bob and Tom, but this is really a huge departure from their normal BDS. I like them in spite of their usual leftie views.
James on May 24, 2009 at 8:26 PM
“What’s this?” thought Barack Obama. “I can feel nothing warmer at all! That is terrible. Am I stupid? Am I a flat-earther? Am I a denier? Am I not fit to be President? That would be the most dreadful thing that could happen to me. “Oh, it is very hot!” Obama said aloud. “It has my highest approbation.” And Obama nodded in a contented way, and gazed outside, for he would not say that he felt no Global Warming. The whole entourage that he had with him looked and looked, and felt no warming, any more than the rest; but, like Barack Obama they said, “It is so hot!” and Rahm Emanuel counseled him to always say that he felt hot when he was out in public, even hotter than all the Chicago troubles were making them both feel. “It is warm, hot even!” went from mouth to mouth. On all sides there seemed to be general warming, and Barack Obama gave Al Gore the title of Imperial Master of Global Warming Science.
So Barack Obama went in procession, and every one in the streets said, “How incomparable hot it is! What a hot day it is!” No one would let it be perceived that he could not feel warming, for that would have shown that he was not fit for his office, or was very stupid or a flat-earther or a denier. No day of Barack Obama’s had ever been as hot as this one.
“But I’m freezing my ass off out here!” a little child cried out at last. “Just hear what that innocent says!” said the father: and one whispered to another what the child had said. “But it is cold out here!” said the whole people at length. That touched Barack Obama, for it seemed to him that they were right; but the thought within himself was, “I must go through with feeling all the Global Warming. I do not dare to do otherwise” And so he held himself a little higher, and his aides held on tighter than ever, and proclaimed the Global Warming which did not exist at all.
Al started a hoax. Which started the whole world thinking they were going to be a frying.
But what Al didn’t see was that the joke would be on he.
Oh, no, Al started to cry. Which started the whole world laughing.
Oh, if he’d only seen that the joke would be on he.
Al looked at the skies. Running his hands over his snowed up eyes.
And he fell from his throne. Cracking his head on the ice and choking on things that he’d said.
Till Al’s power finally died. Which started the whole world
livingdrilling.Oh, if he’d only seen that the joke would be on he.
Oh, no, that the joke would be on he.
MB4 on May 24, 2009 at 8:29 PM
Kid in blue looks uncomfortable.
Tzetzes on May 24, 2009 at 8:47 PM
It would be funnier if it wasn’t so devastatingly true.
Chaz706 on May 24, 2009 at 8:58 PM
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.
- Mark Twain
MB4 on May 24, 2009 at 9:08 PM
I think it is clever.
watson007 on May 24, 2009 at 9:15 PM
OH man! I have not enjoyed a parody so much ever! Only a million hits? Well we have some work to do!
Somehow I get the feeling Obama does not like being laughed at. Hope we don’t find this guy at the bottom of some lake.
petunia on May 24, 2009 at 9:21 PM
Here’s another fine Bob & Tom moment, thanks to Heywood Banks.
mikeyboss on May 24, 2009 at 9:38 PM
Wasn’t “Candy Man” originally a metaphor for a drug dealer.
Ironic.
29Victor on May 24, 2009 at 9:46 PM
Yes, Obama is the biggest pusher evah!!!!
izoneguy on May 24, 2009 at 10:56 PM
If you though Todd Schnitt had a big head before, wait till he realizes his little song just went viral…
TampaBayBull on May 24, 2009 at 11:00 PM
I can’t stand the Bob and Tom show, they laugh hysterically at stuff that is only moderately funny. And one of them has a laugh that makes me want to push my thumbs into his eye sockets.
That being said, the video was accurately funny.
rollthedice on May 25, 2009 at 8:10 AM
rollthedice
They have done some very funny stuff on that show, but not enough to merit spending much time listening on the radio (get their CD’s if you want a lot of the filler weeded out). They appear to be generally libertarian media whores who will trash Bush as an idiot to this day. I’m confident that any fun poked at Ogabe will have to come from guest comics like Mr. Morton and not from them. I will be happy to be proven wrong.
SKYFOX on May 25, 2009 at 8:26 AM
Since we can’t mention “What you talkin’ bout Willis?” without Garofolo calling us racists, isn’t this…..
RAAAAAAAACISSSTTTT!
thebrokenrattle on May 25, 2009 at 10:27 AM
Great, and no teleprompter. None of President Obama’s staff or supporters can come up with such humor. Remember, for humor to be funny it has to be based in fact.
That is why Demoncrates are so humorless, they have no truthful facts.
MSGTAS on May 25, 2009 at 10:44 AM
Obama is a Snickers with a razor blade in its nougat.
profitsbeard on May 25, 2009 at 3:28 PM
Once I went to hear him speak at a park outside of town,
I was so surprised, I was hypnotized at the words this cat
put down.
When I saw this young green guy with the world beneath his toes,
Hey I cried so hard cause he took control when they finally reached the polls. Wooh!
Hey y’all, prepare yourself for the rubber band. . . man,
Noone ever changed their mind like the rubber band . . . man,
You’re bound . . . to lose control . . .
Heh! How much of this stuff do he think we can stand?
So much rythm, grace, and debonair from ONE man? Such elasticity of opinion? Holds this way one day, the other the next? That’s the rubber band man, yeah the rubber band man. . .
smellthecoffee on May 25, 2009 at 10:22 PM