March 26, 2008
Obama Girl Tells Hillary to Back Off Her Man
Web Sensation Returns With a New Jam
By Tony Seaton
Huntingtonnews.net City Editor
Amber Lee Ettinger, the 20-something young woman known as Obama Girl, who has created an online sensation and gotten herself a guest spot on SNL and the cover of Maxim with a single video, is back with a new pitch: this time she tells Hillary Clinton to "Stop the Attacks" on Barack Obama just as Hillary has attacked anew. This time Clinton's again slamming Obama on his former pastor's comments.
Obama Girl's having none of it and responds thusly:
"I know Obama's gonna win it, but you're sorta kind of stayin' in it. I think sometimes in this campaign, you've got a crush on John McCain.''
"Can't you see its hopeless? It's become an Obama-nation. Is there any chance you'll back off? So he'll get that nomination?''
A creation of the Web-site barelypolitical.com, the first "Obama Girl" video, "I've got a Crush on Obama," made its debut last summer. It has drawn more than seven million viewings on YouTube.
The new video, released just Tuesday: "Hillary, Stop the Attacks" has several hundred thousand hits already and is more polished and in the style of a music video.
Whereas the "Crush" video has an amateurish look, this one is slick, using green screen superimpositions ala Forrest Gump, which allows the producers to place Ettinger between the candidates during debates and in the Speaker of the House seat as "President" Obama speaks and Hillary sits in the Veep seat. It also has her dancing with Obama and Ellen Degeneres and a new original song that you can dance to.
And, oh yes, Bill Clinton makes a cameo appearance, blowing sax in the infamous scene from 1992 on The Arsenio Hall show.
(one minor swear word after main video alert.)
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By Tony Seaton
Huntingtonnews.net City Editor
Amber Lee Ettinger, the 20-something young woman known as Obama Girl, who has created an online sensation and gotten herself a guest spot on SNL and the cover of Maxim with a single video, is back with a new pitch: this time she tells Hillary Clinton to "Stop the Attacks" on Barack Obama just as Hillary has attacked anew. This time Clinton's again slamming Obama on his former pastor's comments.
Obama Girl's having none of it and responds thusly:
"I know Obama's gonna win it, but you're sorta kind of stayin' in it. I think sometimes in this campaign, you've got a crush on John McCain.''
"Can't you see its hopeless? It's become an Obama-nation. Is there any chance you'll back off? So he'll get that nomination?''
A creation of the Web-site barelypolitical.com, the first "Obama Girl" video, "I've got a Crush on Obama," made its debut last summer. It has drawn more than seven million viewings on YouTube.
The new video, released just Tuesday: "Hillary, Stop the Attacks" has several hundred thousand hits already and is more polished and in the style of a music video.
Whereas the "Crush" video has an amateurish look, this one is slick, using green screen superimpositions ala Forrest Gump, which allows the producers to place Ettinger between the candidates during debates and in the Speaker of the House seat as "President" Obama speaks and Hillary sits in the Veep seat. It also has her dancing with Obama and Ellen Degeneres and a new original song that you can dance to.
And, oh yes, Bill Clinton makes a cameo appearance, blowing sax in the infamous scene from 1992 on The Arsenio Hall show.
(one minor swear word after main video alert.)
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