YouTube and the Election

There are 318,000 videos tagged with the words Barack Obama on YouTube now, and 177,000 tagged with John McCain's name. The question is of course, how many of those are against and how many are for each candidate. Trust me, I'm not going to watch them all just so I can find out. Searching for John McCain on YouTube actually leads you to a link to McCain's website. So maybe he's not so internet dumb after all... but typing in Obama's name gets you to a mini documentary about Phillip J Berg's lawsuit claiming Barack is not a natural born American and thus not entitled to be the president. As a foreigner I am mystified by people who regard the constitution with the same reverence as the bible. It's a wonderful document, but a society is a living, breathing thing and a constitutional statute that was intended to stop popular foreigners (like foreign royalty, for instance) from taking over the US doesn't seem to be very relevant these days. Personally I would love to see Schwarzenegger run for the big office.

But the majority for both seem to be clips and mash-ups from people trying to make their case for or against whichever candidate they love or hate the most, trying to show that whatever they said proves they're a liar. Or whatever. YouTube makes it pretty hard to hide from your mistakes these days.

And amidst all the noise there is the occasional gem.
Full disclosure: the director's a friend of mine, but I wouldn't put it up here if I didn't think it was a nice piece of film making.

Comments

[TRYKER]

Hamilton: "As a foreigner I am mystified by people who regard the constitution with the same reverence as the bible. Its a wonderful document but a society is a living breathing thing and a constitutional statute that was intended to stop popular foreigners (like foreign royalty, for instance) from taking over the US doesn't seem to be very relevant these days."

Ahh, that is why you're mystified....and We're Americans.
First Ahnold and then you perhaps would like a seat at the table?
Hey, its just ONE little office y'all can't take, relax.

I too though, am wondering why the Bible gets as much reverence as The Constitution?
After all, it doesn't say all are created equal, which would be one of the first things a God would know to include.
And the Bible doesn't have a Bill of Rights for EVERYONE...it does "slaves" and murder and mayhem and stoning...ferchirssakes it deserves no reverence that book.
Be grateful you are here now to see a real American, a mixture of us all, rise up to lead this battered nation to a new level.

[demfriend]

Odd that the Constitution which has stood up to the tests of time/wars and the challenges we have faced over time isn't seen for what it is. I believe it is another document like the bible that shows how and provides guidlines that are basic to this country and how we have had a structure that other countries have emulated. I think the reverence we feel is all of that and more as we see how so many years ago men got together and drafted this document that remains as relevant today as ever. How can this be that these men who put together with such forethought that it still is so important to the running of a country over 200 years? I see it as amazing that in all Americans at some level we hold a pride attached to the document not so much as what it has given as a blueprint for all these years and still works!

[carrieanna]

I wonder what Mr. Berg thinks of John McCain's birthplace. According to Wikipedia (which I'm assuming the page on McCain is pretty vetted by now) was born on a naval base in Panama.

[Democrab]

I do believe McCain is capable of designing his financial house around his toilet.

[TRYKER]

LOL That was too good.

[kybo88]

I think the the U.S. Constitution means alot more than that. And people say Americans are arrogant.