The Best ....And The Worst

The best and worst US political campaign videos.

I Got A Crush ... On Obama

Video features a curvaceous brunette romping through New York City to a R & B ditty, breathlessly singing her love and staunch support for Illinois senator Barack Obama. Watch out for spoofs of celebrities, pop songs and popular TV series.



Vote Different

This is the first viral video ad of the 2008 presidential campaign, spreading through the internet community like wildfire. It smashes up Hillary Clinton's face and voice with Ridley Scott's famous 1984 ad for Apple computers. Clinton is seen as Big Brother, lecturing from a screen to the downtrodden masses.

The screen is eventually smashed and everyone liberated when a lone runner hurls a mallet at it. The ad ends with the caption 'barackobama.com', though his campign had no involvement in the making of the video.



Mccain Sings Streisand

Who knew Republican Senator John McCain could be funny?

In an admirable attempt to woo young voters across the United States, he appeared on Amercian comedy show Saturday Night Live in June last year singing - butchering actually - popular songs by Barbara Streisand.



WORST

Bill and Hillary Soprano

In an official video to launch Hillary's campaign song (You and I by Celine Dion), the clintons spoof of the final scene of popular TV series The Sopranos and is controversial cliffhanger.

Hillary plays mobster Tony Soprano while Bill, who plays her 'wife', appears disappointed to get carrots instead of the scripted onion rings. Both have the acting chops of wooden puppets.

There is a mention of Clínton's daughter Chelsea, who gets jobed for failing to parallel park. But nobody gets whacked in the end.



Rudy Giuliani in Drag With Donald Trump

Former mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani appears in drag in this video, which was originally filmed for a 'roast' - where peers of the press poke fun at a celebrity or politician to honour him - in 2000.

But it is now being used his detractors, notably as publicity for Kevin Keating's documentary Giuliani Time, which The New York Times called 'nothing less than a full frontal assault on the civic deification of Rudolph W Giuliani that occurred in the days after Sept 11, 2001, when much of the news coverage shined a spotlight on his steady hand.




Hillary Clinton Sings National Anthemn

The incredibly off-key singing of Senato Hillary Clinton, wife of former US president Bill Clinton, gets picked up by microphones at an event in Iowa in January this year. Her butchering of the US national anthem garnered comments like 'Tone deaf, but a great first woman president' and 'Tone deaf, even more reasons to hate her.'