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Obama Girl (un)Lights the Way For Earth Hour
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThere is no rest for Obama Girl. After leading the Democrats back into the White House, she's saving the world again. This time, she lends her support to "Earth Hour," asking everyone in the world to turn their lights off for 1 hour at 8:30 tonight.I'm going to do it, if only to see what freaky stuff happens. Will the one d-bag who leaves his lights on get a power surge and pop all of his light bulbs? Will I regret dumping my "Yankee Candle" stock options? Will the computers that control the electrical grid become self-aware and enslave all of humanity? Will Elvis think "it's time" and come ...
Obama Girl: 'I Love Tommy Christopher!'
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyRich Lowry can keep Sarah Palin. Amber Lee Ettinger, aka Obama Girl, has figured out how to make me sit up straight. For more Funny Tech Videos BarelyPolitical.com All I can say is, thanks, and I still want to see other people. She also has excellent taste in political analysis and opinion. For more Funny Tech Videos BarelyPolitical.com Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you, too, Amber, Ben, Mark, Leah, Chicago, and even Rusty. It's been a long, strange trip. See you next year! Tommy on: BlogTalkRadio I Digg! I Facebook I Twitter ...
Bill O'Reilly Attacks Obama Girl
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyI've been meaning to catch up with the folks at BarelyPolitical.com, subjects of my most popular expose´, to see what's next for their hottest sensation, Obama Girl. Apparently, their plans include having her condescended to by Bill O'Reilly.The Fox News pundit interviewed Amber Lee Ettinger, and immediately reduced her performance to "writhing," a description which misses the larger point of Amber's videos. They are, at once, an indictment and a celebration of the cult of personality in modern politics, but Billo sees only "writhing." I also love his accompanying hand gesture, and his ...
Obama Girl, Ralph Nader Officemates
By Liza Porteus Viana - Politics DailyBarelyPolitical has struck again.Their latest spoof video features Obama Girl with consumer advocate Ralph Nader. In these tough financial times, the two apparently need to save money, so they're sharing office space. They fight over whose copy of People Magazine is on each other's side of the desk, and Nader asks her for campaign advice.Nader: "Hey Obama Girl, how do I check out some of your videos?"Obama Girl: "Well, go type in YouTube.com."(Type, type, type - on a typewriter)Obama Girl: "It's not gonna work on that thing."Nader: "Hey, I know that. Who do you think I am, John McCain?"Former ...
Barely Political, Mostly Sober in Denver
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyAs many regular readers are aware, I've maintained an ongoing investigation of Obama Girl (Amber Lee Ettinger) for several months now. She was in Denver, and thanks to Barely Political's Ben Relles, I finally had the chance to meet Miss Ettinger. It was all so simple, really. We scored an invite to the Barely Political party at Spills, on Market Street. Caleb Howe and I would go down there, lull them with his Southern charm and my roguish banter, and BAM! Gotcha questions ensue.Several things conspired against us. First, there was my famously lightweight approach to alcohol. The following ...
Exposing Obama Girl!
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyI've written a few stories involving, either directly or peripherally, the political force of nature that is Obama Girl, yet very little is actually known about her. There are conflicting reports and mixed messages about her true political leanings. One video, in particular, aroused my suspicions. In it, Ron Paul Girl has nightmares about Obama Girl, and at one point, the supposed "Barack Booster" refers to the Illinois Senator as the "Democrat Candidate." This set my tin foil a-tingling, and I knew I had to get to the bottom of it. Luckily, Obama Girl's creator and Founder/Creative Director ...
Videos of the Week - American Dad
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyWelcome to Videos of the Week. It has been a bad week for Hillary Clinton, with the Senator taking a lot of heat over her trip to Bosnia, and an ever-increasing drumbeat of pundits suggesting that she feel the fork and bow out gracefully. As a longtime Hillary Clinton admirer, this puts me in an awkward position, as I don't really want to play you some of these videos again. It just feels like piling on. Here's what I will do instead. At the end of VOTW, I will post a video player with all of the related videos. That way, if you missed them, you can still catch up, and I can still look ...
John McCain: The Audacity of 'Nope!'
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyJohn McCain may be cruising to his inevitable coronation as the Republican Party's Presidential nominee, but already, McCain is running into a formidable adversary. Setting aside the revolt by conservative pundits like Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh, who are always revolting anyway, McCain has had to do battle with another prominent Republican whose rhetoric has been making him look bad. The culprit is, of course, John McCain.McCain's stump speeches have been rife with hope-repudiating ideas like a 100 year continuation of the Iraq War, and the observation that jobs lost overseas are not coming ...
Obama Loses the 'Obama Girl' Vote
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyIn perhaps the most devastating demographic exit polling defeat in this election, if not the history of this great nation, Barack Obama, who enjoyed broad support across most groups, was unable to secure the "Himself"-Girl vote. From The New York Times' City Room:On Tuesday night, City Room ran into Ms. Ettinger ("Obama Girl" Amber Lee) at an election-watching party in Greenwich Village and asked how things went at the polls. "I didn't get a chance to vote today because I'm not registered to vote in New York," she said. Normally, I am the first person to jump all over someone for not voting, ...
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