The Blog Formerly Known As Vote '08

It’s the first “YouTube” election, & the candidates are capitalizing big-time on the user-friendly site. We’ll show you how you can access their latest moves on the campaign trail — & show you some - nay, LOTS - of their & their supporters videos — after the jump.

First off, if you want to see commercials & recent clips from the campaign trail strongly recommends bookmarking this page, YouTube’s “YouChoose 08″ channel.

John McCain has spent the weekend out of the camera glare criss-crossing the country raising money for his campaign, so right now his page doesn’t have any clips of him on the trail.

There is this -frankly, somewhat trippy- 2-minute piece featuring clips & quotes from McCain that alternate with images of Winston Churchill, Teddy Roosevelt, and, for some reason, shots from the Hubble telescope:

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Right now the ‘highlighted’ video of Barack Obama’s page features a speech he gave on Wednesday in Illinois, where he received the endorsements of Flag Officers from the Army, Navy and Air Force:

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Over at Hillary’s page, it’s a clip from a recent town hall meeting apparently moderated by actress Mary Steenburgen:

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YouTube, of course, provides a wealth of other, non-serious — who are we kidding, just plain odd — clips.

Here’s McCain singing Streisand (no, really).

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Barack Obama’s supporters have had great success with this video, called “Yes We Can,” but frankly its ubiquitous sappiness & sanctimoniousness makes us want to brush our teeth after viewing it:

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This of course has opened the floodgates of ridicule, of which this 45-second clip is just an example:

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YouTube is user-generated, & Hillary’s supporters have made an impromptu (?) music video of their own:

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But out of all the remaining candidates running nothing can compare, cheese-wise, to this clip, which gives off extremely heavy 1982 vibes:

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“The world is getting hot/but our global warming plan is not”??? What, did a 10-year-old write those lyrics?

Hope you enjoyed. Have a great weekend.

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