Adam’s Favorite YouTube Videos of 08
Inspired by a conversation with friends, here’s a list of my favorite web videos of 2008 (with web video broadly defined to videos I could find on the web).
As you can imagine, given the historic nature of this election, many of these videos were political in nature. The Obama video of BO in the rain in virginia a few days before the election remains my favorite video of the cycle. it was so good that our vols and FO’s in Pennsylvania were fired up and ready to go…to Virginia (whoops).
The best Obama ad came in January before Iowa with “One Voice” with the line “one voice can change a room, and if it can change a room, it can change a city, and if can change a city it can change a state, and if it can change a state it can change a nation, if it can change a nation it can change the world, lets go change the world!”
The best political ad of 2008 was easily Tom Udall’s “Humbled.” But if that was the best then John Cornyn’s “Big John” was simultaneously the worst and most hilarious.
Everyone knows about “Yes.We.Can” but parody “john.he.is” gave us my favorite “make it a hundred (years)” line about staying in Iraq, while the atlanta kids singing “you can vote however you like” is bi-partisan awesome, and “Swing ‘Em Home” mocking Bush giving up golf during the war is priceless. For real-life hilarity, Senator Norm Coleman’s spokesperson refusing to answer questions for five minutes about if someone improperly bought his boss a few suits is hypnotic in its epic flak failing.
The AFL-CIO’s treasurer Richard Trumka, who is white, speaking on Racism and Obama was one of the most powerful discussions on the subject and flew around the internet. But the most powerful discussion of race and politics came from the candidate himself, Barack Obama in his “More Perfect Union” speech. Steve Grove from YouTube told me in October that at 37 minutes long is the most watched video ever uploaded from a presidential campaign.
Moving away from politics, the video of Eric ‘The Eel’ Moussambani’s breaking the Equatorial Guinea record 100m freestyle swimming record was hilarious and everything that the olympics is supposed to be about. Speaking of sports, the Nike commercial of the 2008 USA men’s basketball team practicing set to Marvin Gay’s rendition of the national anthem helped restore my faith in USA men’s basketball (reclaiming the gold helped too). And to bring it back to politics again, Obama shooting hoops with the troops in Kuwait and sinking two three-pointers in a row is just sick.
Feist on Sesame Street makes me smile and “Where the Hell is Matt?” brought joy to many and the song “praan” is haunting and available for purchase off amazon.
The best video featuring me and the award-winning MyDD BTR crew was from the netroots nation pub trivia contest.
And of course, this was, the year of “we’ll do it live!” and the “rick roll.”
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