Viva Obama, Viva YouTube

I suppose I exhibit some latent ethnocentric insensitivity in finding the following Obama video funny. Obama mariachi style strikes me as just a little cheesy. But it's still a blast to have YouTube to bring us the kinds of videos that would never play on KELO or in the national media. I admire artists who will put on big hats, walk down the street, and sing their political convictions with complete sincerity. And those folks with the signs singing "Viva Obama" -- who says they're cheesy? They look like they mean it. (Steve Sibson and my other conservative friends, feel free to comb the video frame by frame for Che posters):



No time this morning for a dissertation on the New Media, image and substance, and production values. But for those of you looking to do some media critique this lazy Sunday, here's a more well-known musical take on the Obama campaign, the DipDive will.i.am video. Enjoy!



Update 14:25: A reader alerts me to an apparent YouTube outage. Must have been swamped with Madville Times traffic. Sorry about that!